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Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959. The sessions featured Davis's ensemble sextet, which consisted of pianist Bill Evans (Wynton Kelly on one track), drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.
After the entry of Bill Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal experimentations of Milestones (1958) and 1958 Miles (1958) by basing the album entirely on modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz. Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has been described by many music writers not only as Davis's best-selling album, but as the best-selling jazz record of all time. On October 7, 2008, it was certified quadruple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis's masterpiece.
The album's influence on music, including jazz, rock, and classical music, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums ever made. In 2002, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Accolades
Kind of Blue has been cited by writers and music critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and has been ranked at or near the top of numerous "best album" lists in disparate genres. In 2002, Kind of Blue was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.In selecting the album as number 12 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, Rolling Stone magazine stated "This painterly masterpiece is one of the most important, influential and popular albums in jazz". On December 16, 2009, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Kind of Blue and "reaffirming jazz as a national treasure". It is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, described by reviewer Seth Jacobson as "a genre-defining moment in twentieth-century music, period."
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Miles Davis except where noted (see content section for more information). Only six complete takes of the five songs on the album exist:.
No. Title Length
1. "So What" 9:22
2. "Freddie Freeloader" 9:46
3. "Blue in Green" (Miles Davis and Bill Evans) 5:37
4. "All Blues" 11:33
5. "Flamenco Sketches" (Miles Davis and Bill Evans) 9:26
Reissue bonus track
No. Title Length
6. "Flamenco Sketches (Alternate take)" 9:32
Tracks 1, 2 and 3 (side one on the original vinyl release) recorded March 2, 1959; tracks 4 and 5 (side two) recorded April 22, 1959. All tracks recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City.
Personnel

Musicians
Miles Davis -- trumpet, band leader
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley -- alto saxophone, except on "Blue in Green"
Paul Chambers -- double bass
Jimmy Cobb -- drums
John Coltrane -- tenor saxophone
Bill Evans -- piano (except "Freddie Freeloader"), liner notes
Wynton Kelly -- piano on "Freddie Freeloader"
Teo Macero -- production

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Islington Town Hall, London September 13th 2012. Film soon

Neil Young on PONO

This will have the Flac's better than mp3 brigade creaming their jeans. Dig the Koori tee!
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Portugal: File Sharing For Personal Use Is Legal

In a move that should remind you of Spain's ruling that personal file-sharing was legal, before America's entertainment industry helpfully wrote the Spanish people a new law (wait...what!!?!?), file-sharing for personal use has been declared legal in Portugal. How could something so monumental happen, you wonder? Well, funny story: the entertainment industry made it happen.

The tale goes something like this. An anti-piracy group sponsored by the entertainment industry called ACAPOR got all uppity about Portuguese filesharing a year ago and decided to helpfully deliver boxes (yes, physical boxes) of IP addresses suspected of filesharing infringing files to Portugal's Attorney General's office. They did this while wearing shirts that proclaimed "Piracy is illegal" in case anyone thought they were there for a cause that is actually useful and/or interesting.

“We are doing anything we can to alert the government to the very serious situation in the entertainment industry,” ACAPOR commented at the time, adding that “1000 complaints a month should be enough to embarrass the judiciary system.”

Secure in their knowledge that justice would be done, ACAPOR's minions then went home and did whatever it is these kinds of people do when they aren't making fantastic amounts of noise and generally making fools of themselves...
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FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 - Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London (October 27th, 2012)

This event honours The Final Academy which took place in London 30 years ago this October, and which featured William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, 23 Skidoo, and Psychic TV.
Organised by Joe Ambrose, FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 will feature :
-The movie Words of Advice; On the Road with William Burroughs
-Language Virus by Raymond Salvatore Harmon with music by Philipe Petite,
-William Burroughs, 1914-1997 by Gerard Malanga
- Spoken word performance by Scanner and others.
FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 will be marked by the pubication of Academy 23, an anthology edited by Matthew Levi Stevens featuring Jack Sargeant, Joe Ambrose, Gerard Malanga, Emma Doeve, Paul Green, and John Balance (Coil).
Soundtrack for the event provided by Testing Vault, Plague Doctors featuring DJ Mix by DJ Raoul, Islamic Digger No1. One Way, Alma featuring Joe Ambrose.
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Words of Advice ( Dir. Lars Movin, Steen Møller Rasmussen) features previously unseen footage of Burroughs on tour in the late 80s, plus rare home movies of Burroughs in Kansas towards the end of his life. Contributors include Patti Smith John Giorno, Islamic Diggers, and Bill Laswell.
Scanner is one of the leading electronic musicians of his generation. In 2004 he was commissioned by Tate Modern to create thir first sonic art work. He is a contributing editor to kultureflash.net
Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a distinguished American graffiti atist, painter, and filmmaker. Utilizing new media, urban art, and interactive architecture in coordination with public performance, graffiti style ad bombing, and web based social engineering Harmon's work has carved out an over arching form of contemporary media insurgency.
Gerard Malanga was, according to the New York Times "Warhol's most important associate." A poet and photographer, Malanga's best known photographs feature his friends Iggy Pop, William Burroughs, and Bob Dylan.
Joe Ambrose directed the movie Destroy All Rational Thought featuring William Burroughs and co-prodced the album 10% featuring Marianne Faithfull, John Cale, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Scanner.

Images: Matthew Levi Stevens

The Origin of the Psychic Cross

The psychic cross was designed roughly by me. Dan Landin helped today up the ruff edges. (aka Stan Bingo). The proportions are supposed to be 2 to 3.i.e. Say the vertical is 3 inches long. Then the two larger crossing lines at top and bottom are 2 inches long and the centre smaller crossing line is two thirds of 2 inches. (too tired to work that out). It contains the Christian cross, the so-called inverted “satanic cross” by being superimposed they symbolize the nullification of that whole judeo-xtian totalitarian disaster that has left millions dead over 2000 years and still counting. The logo for Zyklon B gas used in death camps during Hitler’s maniacal decade of irrational mass tyranny was three horizontal lines through a vertical line BUT the centre line was longer than the other two. By reducing the large centre line to a short one it symbolizes the reverse of POISON and mutates it to PURITY, There is a pattern you can create, a grid of crosses that reveals the negative spaces between all the solid P. crosses becomes swastikas. My lifelong connection with Tibet and its Buddhism has reminded me that Asia, and in fact most cultures have used the “sun wheel” motif in design and spiritual belief systems for literally thousands of years. The empty space represents that swastika as the symbol forever associated with Hitler’s insanity, a dark shadow, its potential for harm held back by the communal positivity of the Psychic Cross. The One True TOPI TRibe and all those who use it as a symbol of their personal quest for wisdom and positive, compassionate change are able to recognize like-minded individuals in a non-verbal reaction that bypassing imposed, suppressive cultural filters and block of conditioning allows more readily for positive contact with their ad hoc “tribe”. Burroughs and Gysin did a lot of research into heiroglyphics and concluded the collect and process information directly in the entire nervous system. There is no translation into formal, linear language. Magic is believed to “work” by passing a clear focused desire directly into a deep consciousness that enables our mind to be re-programmed for behavioral change. And until root redundant negative behavior, knee jerk fears, prejudices, self sabotage and other issues exploited by those who would maintain power and control over us, the human species will continue its ever more destructive loops and EVOLUTION will be left on hold. The Psychic cross, and this part is rickety due to our unfamiliarity with Japanese and Chinese (Gysin studied Japanese, Burroughs Mayan codices and Egyptian Hieroglyphs). We have been told by people with these 2 oriental languages as their first language that, if you remove the bottom horizontal it means honorable warrior in Japanese, in another variation it means connection to nature. We registered the Psychic Cross as our international trademark to have the option to prevent dishonorable or destructive, or meaningless profiteering. Once a group put a big P Cross on a CD release without asking permission knowing they would sell extra copies to the TOPI Tribe as they’d assume it WAS part of their gradually growing and precious TOPI cultural experiment
- Geneis Breyer P'Orridge

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