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My rendition of that amazing opening paragraph in the letter to Cynthia. It is written in English. Smoke & Mirrors will help
Fruits Of The Deep
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Monday 28 June 2021
Sunday 27 June 2021
Jon Hassell R.I.P.
JULY 26, 2021
Family Statement:
Our beloved Jon M. Hassell - iconic trumpet player, author, and composer - has passed away at the age of 84 years on June 26th 2021. After a little more than a year of fighting through health complications, Jon died peacefully in the early morning hours of natural causes. His final days were surrounded by family and loved ones who celebrated with him the lifetime of contributions he gave to this world– personally and professionally. He cherished life and leaving this world was a struggle as there was much more he wished to share in music, philosophy, and writing.
It was his great joy to be able to compose and produce music until the end. We thank all those who contributed to ensuring that he was able to continue expressing his ideas through his final days and maintain a quality end of life.
Jon Hassell was able to leave behind many gifts. We are excited and committed to sharing those ongoing with his fans across time and support his enduring legacy. All donations to Jon Hassell’s GoFundMe will allow the tremendous personal archive of his music, much unreleased, to be preserved and shared with the world for years to come. We also hope to provide philanthropic gifts of scholarship and contributions to issues close to Jon’s heart, like supporting the working rights of musicians.
As Jon is now free of a constricting body, he is liberated to be in his musical soul and will continue to play in the Fourth World. We hope you find solace in his words and dreams for this earthly place he now leaves behind. We hold him, and you, in this loss and grief.
FOURTH WORLD IS
A KIND OF PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDELINE, A CREATIVE POSTURE, DIRECTED TOWARDS THE CONDITIONS CREATED BY THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY WITH INDIGINOUS MUSIC AND CULTURE.
THE UNDERLYING GOAL IS TO PROVIDE A KIND OF CREATIVE MIDWIFERY TO THE INEVITABLE MERGING OF CULTURES WHILE PROVIDING AN ANTIDOTE TO A GLOBAL "MONOCULTURE" CREATED BY MEDIA COLONIZATION.
THE UNDERLYING PREMISE IS THAT EACH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' MUSIC AND CULTURE - THE RESULT OF THEIR UNIQUE RESPONSE TO THEIR UNIQUE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT - FUNCTIONS IN THE SAME WAY AS, AS AN "ELEMENT" IN THE PERIODIC TABLE OF CHEMISTRY: AS PURE BUILDING BLOCKS FROM WHICH ALL OTHER "CULTURAL COMPOUNDS" WILL ARISE.
IN OTHER WORDS, THESE CULTURES ARE OUR "VOCABULARY" IN TRYING TO THINK ABOUT WAYS TO RESPOND TO OUR PLACE IN THE NEW GEOGRAPHY CREATED BY OUR MEDIA WORLD, AND MUST BE RESPECTED RELATIVE TO THEIR IMPORTANCE TO OUR SURVIVAL.
Jon Hassell
STUPIDITY KILLS
THERE WOULD STOP BEING SO GODDAMN MANY VARIANTS IF PEOPLE HAD JUST FOLLOWED THE GODDAMN RULES. Spread causes replication. Replication causes variants. Stupidity kills.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 26, 2021
Mark Stewart & the Maffia - Live at Kingston Polytechnic (November?/1982)
This was the first time I caught Mark after his Pop Group days apart from a couple of CND rallies in London where he performed Jerusalem accapella and this was certainly also the London debut of the Maffia. This was the Creation Rebel line up of the Maffia with Adrian Sherwood at the mixing desk and it goes without saying that this was Kingston upon Thames as opposed to Kingston JA. I was kindly invited by my friend Richard Thomas (ex Fall manager and current Laugharne Weekend promoter) to the gig, who had given me some time before a Townhouse Studio cassette dubbing of the tracks that would appear on his Jerusalem 12" as well as the New Age Steppers version of High Ideals so I knew what to expect. Not at all sure of the exact date of this but on November 12th 1982 Mark also played at Trinity Hall in Bristol so I'm guessing either side of then. I have never heard that Trinity Hall recording so I would be very grateful if someone has it to share
Saturday 26 June 2021
Ravi Shankar's Dub In The Jungle Riddim Mix
Tracklist:
Intro beats
Dub Syndicate “Ravi Shankar” On The Wire theme (full length from “Bugs On The Wire”, 1987, Leghorn)
Dub Syndicate “Ravi Shankar Pt 1” (from “Tunes From The Missing Channel”, 1985, On-U Sound)
Dub Syndicate / Rootsman “Ravi Shanker” (from “Research & Development”,1996, On-U Sound)
Dub Syndicate / Disciples “Jungle” (from “Research & Development”,1996, On-U Sound)
Dub Syndicate / Disciples “Jungle (Jungle Mix)” (from Jungle / 2003 Struggle 10” Dub Plate Special ON-UDPS38, On-U Sound)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry / Congo Natty “Jungle Youth” (from “Nu Sound And Version”, 2011, On-U Sound)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle” (from “Time Boom X De Devil Dead”, 1987, On-U Sound/Syncopate/EMI)
Adrian Sherwood feat Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry “Animal Magic” (from “Becoming A Cliché”, 2006, Realworld)
Adrian Sherwood “Zoo Time” (from “Dub Cliché”, 2006, Realworld)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Adrian Sherwood “Brazilian Jungle” (from “Dub Setter”, 2009, Beat)
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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry “Queen Elizabeth’s Pum Pum” (from “The Mighty Upsetter”, 2008, Beat)
Adrian Sherwood X Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Time Boom X The Upsetter Dub Sessions excerpt (2019, On-U Sound)
Adrian Sherwood feat Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Emily Sherwood Hyman “Animal Magic” [special reprise: rocks the music, rocks the rhythm]
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle (Disco Plate)” (from “Jungle” 10”, 1987, Syncopate/EMI)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle (Wall Of China)” (from “Jungle” 10”, 1987, Syncopate/EMI)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle (Big Hot Plate)” (from “Jungle” 12”, 1987, Syncopate/EMI)
Leah/Manasseh Riddim Section “I Want To Know/Dub” [special re-edit] (from Singer Blue “Superstar” c/w Leah “Want To Know” 12”, 2009, Roots Youth Records)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in the On The Wire studio (excerpt), 1st March 1987
Dub Syndicate “Ravi Shankar” alternative On The Wire theme mixes [special edit] (1984, unreleased)
Featuring excerpts, samples or overdubs from:
* Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry “Jungle” (from “On The Wire”, 2000, Trojan)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle (Radio Plate)” (from “Jungle” 7”, 1987, Syncopate/EMI)
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle (Urban Breakdown)” (from “Jungle” 10”, 1987, Syncopate/EMI)
Akabu “Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on the wire” backing track vocal cut (unreleased)
Thanks to Steve Barker, Adrian Sherwood and Alun Hughes, and big love to Kishi Yamamoto for her genius keyboard riff that threads through all these versions.
Thursday 24 June 2021
Kevin wins the internet today and it's not even 9AM here in Melbourne
(taps mic)
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 23, 2021
(tugs at collar)
(coughs)
"Y'alltamont"https://t.co/II0VfXqqfV
Wednesday 23 June 2021
Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - Peel Session (4/7/78)
2. Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - Black Man Land
3. Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - No More War
4. Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - The Dream
5. Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - Foggy Road
6. Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - Front Line
Prince Far I (Lead Vocals)
Vernon (Guitar)
Clifton Morrisson (Keyboards)
Clinton Jack (Bass)
Dr. Pablo (Melodica)
Charley (Drums)
A sonic upgrade thanx to Ras Berry
Download at The Swamp
Jesse Rae - Compression 1+3
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