Sunday, 9 September 2012

The Wild One Meets Number Twos

Everybody

458 John Peel Shows from 1967-2004

John Peel's Record Archive

(Thanx Martin!)

Parliament Funkadelic - Funkentelechy (Houston 1978)

Solos by bassist Rodney "Skeet" Curtis and guitarist Michael Hampton

The Visitor

Shaky Kane (NME 16/10/82)
(Thanx Matthew!)

Prog rock Sunday here at Exile Towers

Saturday, 8 September 2012

SunnO))) - Power of the Riff (Brooklyn 2/9/12)

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Photo by Greg Cristman
Pity that Sunno))) won't be making it to Melbourne next month...

David Byrne and St Vincent: 'People assume this is an art project'

Byrne/Clark head MONA FOMA

David Byrne & St. Vincent: 'Love This Giant'(Albumstream)

Truth

Rushing to legislate in the wake of a terrorist atrocity is often a mistake...we compound the problem of terrorism if we use it to erode the freedom of us all.

Former head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller
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A woman's place is in the home?

June 1942. Engine inspector for North American Aviation at Long Beach, California. 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.

June 1942. Inglewood, California. “Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation.” 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

September 1942. Inglewood, California. Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 heavy transport at North American Aviation. “The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action.” 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

October 1942. Riveter at work on a bomber at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth. 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem.

October 1942. “American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front.” 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
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Space Is The Place (1974)

In 1971 American producer Jim Newman appproached John Coney, a producer/director at a public television station KQED in San Francisco with a proposal for a thirty minute performance documentary on the Sun Ra Arkestra. Sun Ra immediately saw the film as an opportunity to make a statement about the conditions of black people on planet earth - and as a powerful medium for his music as a vehicle for lifting them out of their collective misery.
Production began in 1972 with filming and recording the Arkestra, a spaceship landing, a visit to an Egytptian tomb and the creation of a mythic celestial planet derived from Ra's interpretation of passages from "The Book Of Urantia" (The Urantia Book a strange proto-New Age cosmological tract originated in Chicago, Illinois, sometime between 1924 and 1955. Its authorship remains a matter of speculation) as realised in Golden Gate Park. After many months of editing, screen writer Joshua Smith was hired to work on the story line and turn the project into a coherent narrative film
http://www.outerspacewaysinc.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Is_The_Place
Bonus:
Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise(1980)

Parking Ticket Blues: Joseph Arthur Retrieves Tour Van, in Odd Saga...

The Black Dog: Live at Berghain

Recorded: October 2011
The Black Dog: "We'd been booked to play with Xhin and Surgeon, so we knew it would be a great night of full-on spectrum techno. We actually went to Berghain in the day to fine tune our set and to hear our new tracks on their system, the sound guy helped us tune up certain parts of the tracks so they'd sound better on the system. We just practiced until it was time to open as we knew it would be another six months before we had a chance to spend hours playing on a system like that
"Berghain is always good for us, we never had a bad reception there and even when we've tried new things out the crowd have followed us, which is a beautiful thing. The venue has such a good crew, sound system and knowledgable crowd that you couldn't ask for more really.
"We love Berghain because of the scale and the brutal design, it's very Sheffield and feels like home to us but we also love lot of other places as well, we celebrate difference. It does have the same aesthetic as many of the buildings in Sheffield, we played at Park Hill flats recently with Richard H Kirk and Sandwell District, that definitely had the "Berghain" vibe! The reason ours remain empty is it's too difficult to start something here, Bergahin may be having problems with GEMA but we bet that's way easier than dealing with our council and police force."
Tracklist:
01. Silent Escape
02. Bird Siren
03. Eden 353
04. Bass Mantra
05. Greedy Gutter Guru
06. Only Concrete & Steel
07. Black Chamber Order
08. Single Light Focus
09. Beauty In The Fear (The Black Dog's DOP Mix for Luke Slater)
10. Distant Kick
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