Monday, December 29, 2008
My Dopesmoker, Sort Of.....
Here's a time-stretched, delayed-to-heck and psychedelically reversed hour-long reworking of my psych-folk cover of "Black is the Color", which I had titled "Maple St. Rag", and which, in the spirit of 70's Miles, I retitled "gar ts elpam". I've been influenced, mood-wise, by Runes Order, Expo 70, newer Earth, and Bohren & der Club of Gore, along with Circle, and Black Magus. Repetition and heavy effects processing are the name of the game, although I've been thinking about doing a big Rose Hips kick (my relatively unprocessed guitar improv project), as I've also been revisiting Derek Bailey and James "Blood" Ulmer of late, so who knows....
http://www.mediafire.com/?dm5x2iymnyt
Gar Ts Elpam
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Cultra Rare Video!
I got this awesome link for a psychotronic video site with zillions of downloadable movies from WFMU's Beware of the Blog.
Eaten Alive (1977) | the Tobe Hooper forgotten exploitation flick
Eaten Alive (1977) | the Tobe Hooper forgotten exploitation flick
Monday, December 22, 2008
Holy Shit!
Doomed To Be Stoned In A Sludge Swamp
My buddy Dave and I had the exact same idea two years ago, but we failed to act on it. We were going to have song titles like "Simplicity is a Blessing", and "Cromwellian Pride" and have stage patter like: "I'll thank thee to speak thy papist blasphemies elsewhere". Oh well, the moral of the tale is this: he who hesitates is lost.
The Puritan Experience: Making of a New World (clip)
My buddy Dave and I had the exact same idea two years ago, but we failed to act on it. We were going to have song titles like "Simplicity is a Blessing", and "Cromwellian Pride" and have stage patter like: "I'll thank thee to speak thy papist blasphemies elsewhere". Oh well, the moral of the tale is this: he who hesitates is lost.
The Puritan Experience: Making of a New World (clip)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Winter Solstice 2008
Happy Solstice, Everyone!!!!
The Dark Days are beginning to give way to the Sun!
Nurse With Wound, Espers, John Jacob Niles, Patty Waters, Nina Simone, Joan Baez, and.....Arha
Here's a cover of "Black is the Color of My True Loves Hair"
http://www.mediafire.com/?kmywildnmxy
Maple St. Rag
Arthur always comes through!
MAGPIE - Arthur Magazine Blog
Maya Deren At Land Pt.2
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON Maya Deren (clip) cinema16.org
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Maya Deren Pt 1 of 6
Maya Deren
Black Dice - Roll Up, Live in Session for BBC Collective
Meg Baird and Sharron Kraus - Barbara Allen (traditional)
Peter Brotzmann + Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino Allnighter
Brightblack Morning Light - Everybody Daylight
Noise with John Cage (1966)
JOHN CAGE SPEECH RADIO5
Maya Deren At Land Pt.2
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON Maya Deren (clip) cinema16.org
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Maya Deren Pt 1 of 6
Maya Deren
Black Dice - Roll Up, Live in Session for BBC Collective
Meg Baird and Sharron Kraus - Barbara Allen (traditional)
Peter Brotzmann + Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino Allnighter
Brightblack Morning Light - Everybody Daylight
Noise with John Cage (1966)
JOHN CAGE SPEECH RADIO5
Call For Collaboration!
I'm looking for a visual artist, along with other musicians to collaborate with. I'd like to create an installation, performance piece, with video, live and recorded music, and lighting, at a specific location (hopefully either a Revolutionary War era fort in Maine, or a 19th century mill building here in town. I'm hoping for a Fluxus/Cabaret Voltaire/MEV-AMM/Amon Duul/Mills College/John Cage/Terry Riley.... sort of vibe. Thanks in advance! Please send all video/picture/music files to my gmail account (jeffrybeard@gmail.com)
Circle
Cool montage of performance and "backstage" stuff of this awesome band from Finland
Bone Awl Videos
Raw Punk/Black Metal from California. I love this band right now, and am blasting them 24/7.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Neu Arha Drone, Doom, Noise, Psych, Shite!
Goofer Dust
http://www.mediafire.com/?wai1yiniikv
The Stars Are Out And Shining
http://www.mediafire.com/?mrdzkitb0xz
A Gash In The Universe (For Poppy Z. Brite)
http://www.mediafire.com/?mrdzkitb0xz
The Veil of Maya Descends Again
http://www.mediafire.com/?mrdzkitb0xz
The Veil Between Worlds Grows Thinner Each Second
http://www.mediafire.com/?mrdzkitb0xz
I recently read the excellent story, "Calcutta, Mother of Nerves", by Poppy Z. Brite, in the fantastic zombie fiction anthology, The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams, and published by nightshade books. I was so struck by the imagery of decay, rebirth, and cosmic eternity contrasted with debased, massed humanity. I was inspired to record three zombie related tunes: Goofer Dust, which is a dark ambient piece, based on processed vocals and nylon-string Spanish guitar (Goofer Dust is dedicated to Zora Neale Hurston, and "goofer dust" is the expression used by voodoo practitioners to refer to grave dust. It was believed that grave dust had magical properties, including the ability to restore a murder victim to life for long enough to avenge their deaths by horribly slaughtering their killer. The other two pieces are "A Gash In The Universe", which is a funeral doom/noise piece, which is dedicated to Poppy Z. Brite, and by extension, Mother Kali, and "The Stars Are Out and Shining", which is an ambient/noise piece. I started out with heavily treated and effected voice and guitar samples from other pieces, then mixed them down and treated them with echo, reverb, and drenched them in delay. The resulting piece sounds a little like a field recording. I love sound manipulation......
Psych-Folk Like You Wouldn't Believe
This blog has goodies from the Espers constellation, Marissa Nadler rarities, and "new weird america" galore. Solitary Eve also posts on other blogs, mostly psychedelic ambient, and her taste is impeccable!
http://shadedmoontide.blogspot.com/
Monday, December 15, 2008
New Guitar Improv. from Rose Hips and Beneath Addendum
I have just put up some improv. pieces for treated guitar, along with some fake Magma (or Ruins without either bass or drums). I've been listening to a lot of Fred Frith and Area lately, but this doesn't really sound like either. I also tacked on Catacombs, from Beneath, my Arha drone/doom recording. It didn't get included with the zip that I posted of Beneath.
http://www.mediafire.com/?km31uzxtyny
Rose Hips Guitar Improvisations
http://www.mediafire.com/?j1tryyt2yzn
Arha Catacombs
http://www.mediafire.com/?jnumixtgkzz
Arha Walpurgisnacht
Sunday, December 7, 2008
New Blackened Drone Doom From Arha!
Beneath is the new recording from Arha. From Intro, which is a Tangerine Dream/Neptune Towers style electronic piece, the recording goes into Catacombs and As It Is Above, So Shall It Be Below which are Drone Doom pieces, with pendulum picking and other Black Metal touches. There is a short electronic interlude, and then the recording closes with Grey Sky, which is a dark ambient murk-fest, with processed voices and bursts of guitar and sine noise interspersed here and there. Enjoy? Is that an appropriate word to use with this type of cathartic, repetitive sludge? Do what thou wilt, that is the whole of the Law......
http://www.mediafire.com/?yzrmc3ufejq
Arha Beneath
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