John Sinclair And Steve Fly - Mohawk

 https://johnsinclair.bandcamp.com/album/mohawk

Twenty poems planted firmly in a single-shot session, and carefully trimmed down to ten exhibits for this album. Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflections of the Be-Bop jazz persuasion, all flowering together.

Cosmic Trigger NinjaJamm - Demo's

These 3 Cosmic Trigger themed, Ninjajamm packs are an example of what NinjaJamm can do, or what you can do with NinjaJamm. After carefully cutting up the samples, anybody with enough time on their hands, and will, can use the NinjaJamm framework to produce a unique tune pack. You can download the app free for both IOS and Android devices, here: www.ninjajamm.net

Special thanks to Tom Grashion for help programming the packs, and to Matt B, Alex, and Aneek at Ninjajamm.

--Steve Fly


Kick Out The Jamms - NinjaJamm Demo #1



 Fly Raw - Ninjajamm Demo #1

Fly Walk -

NinjaJamm Demo #01



Kick Out The Jamms - Ninjajamm Demo #2

RAW DJVJ

Robert Anton Wilson and the DJVJ Revolution.

"enter the mix"--Ninjajamm.

Friday, March 19, 2010. (edited 01/03/2017)

I dedicate this writing to Ken Campbell and the Science Fiction Theater of Liverpool, and to creative artists who use music, theater, and multimedia to inspire others and spread the wisdom across all corners of the metaphorical toast.

Approx. three years ago (now 10!) Matt Black, Ken Campbell, Alan Moore and Mixmaster Morris spearheaded a multimedia tribute to Robert Anton Wilson, held at the Royal Queen Elizabeth Festival Hall in London. This mindwarping event was at the vanguard of (2007) technology, directed toward expanding consciousness and connecting the emergent networks of raw-heads with wicked edutainment.

I helped connect Matt B with Deepleaf productions and the Maybelogic Movie/Academy, to record some of the exquisite video material used in the 2.5 hour extravaganza. With some help, I also managed to find an independent host for the entire show (sadly no longer) and have been ruthlessly promoting the event since March 2007, together with other works of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson

On the 31st of August 2008 the great British writer, comedian, actor Ken Campbell passed. He was the comic-glue who pulled the whole QEII tribute event together, as the raging ring master. Ken preserved the biting wit and information rich satire that I find budding within RAW. and that seems to me desperately missing from the the popular pop conspiracy movement. There have been a number of fitting tributes to the life of Ken Campbell and I hope that someday, somebody will produce an equally stunning multimedia tribute to Ken, like that which was made for Bob. (this has now been done)

I can also trace most of my reasoning for being here to Jung’s dream (Page 223 of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections) situated in Liverpool, a dream that inspired the creation of the science fiction theatre Liverpool. The theater that the science fiction drama group inhabited, first opened on the day that C.G Jung died (6th June, 1961) and is just down the road from where John Lennon and the Beatles first sang Yellow submarine, you can read about this on page 223 of Cosmic Trigger.

The fact that Jung called Liverpool the ‘pool’ of life is due to this dream he had. I find particular interest in the fact that the dream concerns the discovery of a swimming pool. More than half of the dreams i remember are in pools. I first came across the works of Robert Anton Wilson in the mid 1990’s while living in the UK, and the sources of my discovery lead me to deduct that Bill Drummond and the KLF, who were carrying the money burning flame of discord in the UK at that time, probably led to my coming across Cosmic Trigger. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty were there, back in 1976 when Bill was working briefly alongside Ken Campbell, and Jimmy came to see the show. In the RAW tribute video Bill describes how he first came across the book Illuminatus Trilogy!

Bill spoke of his new seventeen project and ‘no music day’ that also came up on radio show (2009) on the 'late late breakfast show' that also featured my friend John Sinclair, who admires 'Wild' Bill Drummond, which brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to the JAMS!

RAW attracted me to the United States in 2000 A.D and led me on a five year journey acriss-cross the United States and back to Europe (2005). The day after the Royal Tribute to RAW I flew out from London to Amsterdam and have lived here since then. I once caught up with Matt Black and Mike Ladd at a Coldcut gig when they played the 'Paradiso' club in 2008. (Breaking: Coldcut just released a new album together with On-U sound: https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/

Since the London performance Coldcut and the constellation of artists that appear under that umbrella have produced countless ‘live’ shows, recorded and released ‘tracks’ ‘albums’ and even a conscious social green movement called of energyunion, continuing they're trajectory into the uncharted territory of multimedia manipulation and networked sound artivism.

As some of the first visual jockeys (VJ's) and inventors of the first VJ software that I am aware of: VJAMM’ Coldcut and by extension Ninjatune have been the mainstay of tech innovation. I was first attracted to Ninjatune by way of the Jazz Breaks series around 1994 and some of the early releases from Journey's by DJ’s, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, Amon Tobin and Funki Porcini. This new sound, to me, together with the emerging Bristol bass music scene, some Drum and Bass brewing in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and the sounds of James Lavelle's Mo-Wax, oozed with dubbed out blunted beats. These sounds more or less shaped my musical cultural leanings for a while, and inspired me to acquire turntables, a mixer, and learn the arts of the DJ.

One sure fire sign that Ninjatune, or somebody at Ninjatune had a respect for RAW came when they released NINJASKINS: Ninjatune signature rolling papers. They came with a wonderfully intelligent fold out package describing various terms and phrases of Ninjatune philosophy, with RAW undertones. In collaboration with UK graffiti artist and music producer PART2 we made a tune that was released on Ninjatune’s sister label ‘Big Dada records’ in 1999. The track was called Quantum Mechanix’ from the album Equalibrium by New Flesh For Old Featuring DJ Weston. I carried the album to the US wishing to turn Bob onto Big Dada and Ninjatune.

After spending some time with RAW at the Prophets Conference Palm Springs and in San Francisco, I was invited to his home to conduct an interview on September 10th 2002. It was here he told me about a movie project he was working on with some locals tentatively called Maybelogic, and so i got in contact with 'Deepleaf productions' and quickly turned them onto Ninjatune, and some other musical entities I thought had an affinity with RAW, like cosmic-jazz cats 'Kosmic Renaissance' (The Supplicants). For this linking I was generously given associate producer credits on the finished movie, plus my mash-up from the DVD menu music, featuring Garaj Mahal bassist Kai Eckhardt. A movie all about RAW with a soundtrack including The Cinematic Orchestra, Amon Tobin, Boards Of Canada, Funki Porcini, and others, what?

I had done nothing more than send an email, but for me, after this spree of fortune i would tireless promote this movie and of the Maybelogic Academy (which sprung up in 2004 to provide online classes led by RAW) and of Ninjatune, playing many releases for over sixteen years (now 23) I credit Ninja with inspiring me to experiment with DJ sets and mixing techniques. Since moving to Amsterdam my musical diet changed once again, in favor of live music and writing projects influenced by my encounter with the giant of music, poetry, and activism, John Sinclair

"Although the circumstances for this event were somewhat rare and the resources to reproduce such an event based on donations for the most part, I still feel it stands as an testimony to Multimedia edutainment at its most terse and best, almost fully formed in its experimental launch that night the video teaches by example how educational lectures may look and sound like over the new decade.--Matt Black."

Although the show is 3 (10) years old, it has not picked up dust only moonlight, and it seems more relevant each day that passes, it stands as a great experimental interface between cinema, music, theater, comedy that I feel culturally binds America, Britain and the rest of Europe, and the entire world. All schools, colleges and University programs would benefit from such an interactive DJ VJ interfacing class.

For me Alan Moore produces consistent work that secures his place as the greatest living Englishman. A well rounded genius, and widely celebrated as such, he exhibits a creative interpretation of 'art and reality engineering', buttered up with RAW recipes. To see and hear Alan reading from ‘Masks of the Illuminati’ together with his wonderfully bright ‘eulogy’ for RAW (Featured in my Ninjajamm Pack above) was a heart thumping highlight of the evening in London, his accent made me feel personally at home. His first words from Masks included “A watchmaker in Amsterdam...” The following morning i flew to Amsterdam to attend the 'Jam in the Dam' festival and meet with the band Galactic, from New Orleans.

I have a long list of thanks and wish to add some extra names to those on the E-flyer’ Matt Black, Lance Boucher, Nigel Blunt, Nick Larson, Part2, Ninjatune office staff, Juice Aleem, John Sinclair, Galactic, Mixmaster Morris, Mike Ladd, Propanon, Toby Philpott.

"Ken Campbell: We did it in Liverpool because Peter O'Hallaghan had come across a dream in Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections. The dream changed Jung's life, persuaded him to buckle down to the unconscious for the rest of his life. Anyway, on page 223 he says something like: I was in a dark and grimy city. It was clearly Liverpool. It goes on . . . And this began to obsess Peter who was a proud Liverpoolophile. http://www.frogboy.freeuk.com/ken.html

“At O'Halligan's venue, known as the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun, artists became immersed in readings, performances and bizarre experiments. "It was the inspirational talking shop, where dole-queue dreamers developed their big ideas," Bill Drummond says. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2007/feb/21/europeancapitalofculture2008.liverpool

NinjaJamm - The final chapter (2017)

In 2012 a team of coders and developers came together to build a new audio remixing app called Ninjajamm. Spearheaded by Matt Black of Coldcut, the project became an instant success, winning the support of many NinjaTune artists, app reviewers and users.

Due to the unique share and remix attitude of Matt, NinjaJamm stands out as yet another example of innovative decentralized technology that encourages play, discovery and community, ninja jamming. Culture jamming and hacking are similar activities, re-purposed technology, crafty new tools. With literally hundreds of remixes of any given NJ release, everybody who has a device can download the app free! and begin remixing. Each downloadable ‘Tune Pack’ is like any other digital mp3 release, but with the major difference of being handed over as individual stems, to rearrange. This design intervention intervenes in the major record company world, by giving you and everybody else the means to make your own remix, share it, jam with others.

With a little effort and concentration it's now possible to create and upload your own Tune Packs, made with your own samples, and so tool-up creative audio outlaws, for little or no cost, and begin jamming. I recently made 3 Robert Anton Wilson inspired Tune Packs: ‘Kick Out The Jamms’  ‘Fly Raw’ (See Above), and ‘Fly Walk’ (watch this space)

Special thanks to Tom Grashion, who actually programmed the pack, and to  Alex, Aneek, Matt B and all Ninja's at www.ninjajamm.net

MaybeLogic Dome.

Find The Others festival was a three day confestival of discordia and high weirdness in Liverpool, November 2014. I organized the 'Maybe Logic dome' exhibition, which was a series of films made for projecting inside an 8 ft. inflatable dome (provided by Mario of immersive theaters). Although i didn't end up getting all the video together and rendered correctly for the show, the list of contributors helps to define my on-going vision for a touring Maybe Logic dome, or mobile pop-up Academy. I see the Dome projections as a new intermediary between virtual reality and augmented reality. You are sharing a 360 experience together, rather than in your own goggle world. Treats from David McConvile (BFI) Bobby Campbell, Youth, Coldcut, Alan Moore, Maybe Logic Academy Faculty, and Morley Markson. Plus DJ Food.

In the summer of 2014 it was announced that Daisy Campbell would produce a stage adaptation of 'Cosmic Trigger I" by Robert Anton Wilson. The Cosmic Trigger Play was like an ultrasonic magnet to me, and i made the trip to meet the producers and landed the role of musical director. Over the next 5 months i worked my balls off on recording, arranging, writing, and producing music for the play (with much help from the legendary Tim Egmond in Amsterdam) most of which was not used due to a late decision to have me playing 'live' drums. Some of the recordings went into a Ninjajamm pack called Fly Raw.

My original idea was to cut a vinyl record full of sounds and samples to be played during the performance, but a combination of factors, lack of funds and lack of time led to this idea being shelved. However, for the purposes of this article i think that there are certainly openings for turntables and theater to combine forces, Kid Koala Q-Bert, DJ Food, and DJ Spooky are already experimenting in this area. (See my published novel 'Sixty' and 'Open Source History' due for release later this year)

DJ Greg Wilson and Super Weird Substance are about to perform together with Alan Moore and full gang of RAW heads in Liverpool, April 1st. Celebrating the Mandrillifesto of Alan Moore, and the music dance entertainments of Super Weird Substance.

The KLF have announced a new album in 2017 and the release of a science fiction trilogy. The justified ancients of mumu seem very much alive and kicking. The DJ/VJ revolution continues to move minds and bodies across the planet, thanks to all those keeping it epic and encyclopedic, global and local. Peace.

--Steve Fly, Amsterdam 01/03/2017

FLY BY NIGHT 186

Steve The Fly is spotlighting the new vinyl release of John Sinclair’s Beatnik Youth album from IronMan Records in England, produced by Youth and featuring the late great Howard Marks on the opening cut, plus sides by Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, the Miles Davis Sextet, Eddie Jefferson, Selah Ragab, and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, and a closing cut from Sinclair’s Mohawk album in honor of the late great Lee Bridges—The Cannabis Poet.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
BEATNIK YOUTH
FLY BY NIGHT 186
Steve The Fly, Sarwar Studios, Cross Keys, Wales, November 20, 2016 [SFBN-0186]

[01] John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: War On Drugs featuring Howard Marks
[02] Sonny Rollins: Til There Was You
[03] Sun Ra: The Other Side Of Time
[04] John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Sitarrtha
[05] Miles Davis: Blue In Green
[06] John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Do It
[07] Eddie Jefferson: Come Along With Me
[08] John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Brilliant Corners
[09] Selah Ragab: Naveen
[10] Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson: Gangster of Love
[11] John Sinclair: relaxin’ with lee

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Produced by Steve “The Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
Special thanks to Sarwar and to Mark Sampson for the Beatnik Youth vinyl

© 2016 Steve Pratt. Used with permission.

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-beatnik-youth/

Launching The John Sinclair Foundation

BEATNIK YOUTH ambient - 12" Vinyl

https://soundcloud.com/ironmanrecords/sets/john-sinclair-beatnik-youth-1

T4QS present SODCAST 002

John Sinclair: 'Bloomdido' and 'An Oscar For Treadwell' at the Cosmic Trigger Launch Party

Recorded, Edited and Uploaded by Complexity LTD. Cheers Nic.

Fly on Soundcloud

...on music and poetry and poetry and music on...

...on music and poetry and poetry and music on...

by Steve Fly

Sounds Fly: Music Writing 

Link: http://a.co/6YdXrkt

"Omniverse / Is / The totality / Of / All the universes / And you / Are welcome / To / Be citizens / Of / The Omniverse--Sun Ra, Omniverse.

"Rhythm...is the first formal esthetic relation of any part to part in any esthetic whole or of an esthetic whole to its part or parts or of any part to the esthetic whole of which it is a part.--James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

"It is time we picked the fruits of the experiments of Cummings, Pound, Williams, each of whom has, after his way, already used the machine as a scoring to his composing, as a script to its vocalization. It is now only a matter of the recognition of the conventions of composition by field for us to bring into being an open verse as formal as the closed, with all its traditional advantages.--Charles Olson, Projective Verse. .

"Both poems offer instruction on humankind's place in the non-human world, availing themselves of pedagogical methods that best suit their theories. For Fuller, this is the didactic and linear narrative keyed to the tenets of progress and development. For Olson, it is non-linear ideogram that best replicates his understanding of post-humanist immanence--Mark Byers, Environmental Pedagogues. Charles Olson and R. Buckminster Fuller.

"The poetry I wasn’t to write is oral by tradition, mass aimed as its fundamental function motive. Black poetry, in its mainstream is oracular, sermonic, it incorporates the screams and shouts and moans and wails of the people inside and outside of the churches. The whispers and thunder vibrato and staccato of the inside and outside of the people themselves and it wants to be as real as anything else and as accessible as a song – a song about a real world, full of good and evil.--Amiri Baraka, New Music New Poetry, 1982,

"I think of the chords at times, i think of meditations at times, and rhythms at times, and--i don't know what else--John Coltrane, Tokyo, July 9, 1966.

Amiri Baraka, "Charles Olson and Sun Ra." Fourth Annual Charles Olson Memorial Lecture. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA. 19 October 2013.


Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen: Charlie Parker

The Fugs live on Sweedish TV. 1966



Ed Sanders 75th Birthday Party
 

Ezra Pound reading Canto LXXXI

John Sinclair: the 'Mohawk' Interview 2014

Eddie Jefferson: Ornithology
 

"Poetry lies not only in the spoken or written word. The poetry of facts is stronger still. Objects which signify something and which are arranged with talent and with tact create a poetic fact.--Corbusier, 1923.

Television Blues with John Sinclair

Television Blues Episode One June 2014 from Start Productions on Vimeo.

Television Blues episode 1, with features & music from Trampolene, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, Alan McGee, Nev Cottee & John Sinclair.

Thanks to Tony Linkin, Matt Lockett at shacknet.co.uk, John Read & Matt Bristow at Cherry Red, Sean Newsham, Mark Sampson at Iron Man Records, Chu, Jon Mojo Mills & The Briton's Protection pub in Manchester.
John Sinclair 360 degree artwork c/o Chu at schudio.co.uk/blog.

For more information & news please go to televisionblues.com

Please listen and share my album together with John Sinclair: Mohawk.

John Sinclair – “Mohawk” cd
Released Monday 24th March 2014 by Iron Man Records

John Sinclair, the renegade poet, scholar and cultural revolutionary releases his new album on Monday 24th March 2014. John, has been described as an Archetype of the 1960's art, music and literary synthesis, and who today, is still kicking with both feet on his trajectory for cultural transformation. His new record features ten tracks from his book of verse: always know: a book of monk. Twenty poems planted firmly in a single-shot session, and carefully trimmed down to ten exhibits for this album. Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflections of the Be-Bop jazz persuasion, all flowering together.

First conceived of in Detroit City, spring 1982, and developed throughout the 1980s with streaks of fresh edits leading right up to the session itself, John navigates some of these texts for the first time in over twenty years, free-styling his energized sincerity and attention to every word, transforming the text on the page into his unique unmistakable spoken word.

The music was written and arranged by Steve Fly who mirrored John’s poems in the music by initially combing the tempo of the original songs recorded by John ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie, Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker and Thelonious Monk.

Steve The Fly is a native of Stourbridge UK, now an Amsterdam resident who plays drums, spins vinyl, writes novels and literary and cultural commentary. He also maintains a flock of websites and works in various other art forms without visible restraint. His other music projects have included New Flesh, Garaj Mahal, Temple Dragon band, of course he is now full time with John Sinclair.

These songs are further utilized by John’s poetic method so that each title and the rhythm of his poetry can piggy-back upon the same song title, and rhythm, of an original composition set in history, for extra rooting. Steve put down drums, turntables, cello-bass, flute, and glockenspiel, shooting to play around the vocal lead lines and diverse expressions from John.

“to take the hair off
the sides of the head

& leave just a strip
along the top,
scalping pretense
for the baldness of statement

building a new music
on the bones of the old”

— John Sinclair from the title track “Mohawk”

The album was recorded diligently by Tim Egmond at Ei Studios, Amsterdam and passed along to Simon Reeves at Framework Studios, Birmingham for mastering.

Tim Egmond is a music producer, engineer and studio whizz, based in Amsterdam, who has worked with scores of international and locally based artists on a wide variety of projects.

Simon Reeves has completed many projects for Iron Man Records already and he has been described as one of Birmingham’s finest independent studio engineers who has worked with bands from Napalm Death to Police Bastard, and a host of other brutal metal and punk bands.

All artwork was cradled and visualized by the post-industrial imagination of CHU; The Black Country, tech savvy, rule-breaking, progressive wordsmith and thinker – an ardent advocate of aerosol painting and its vanguard for over 30 years with global public works and murals, 3D perspective illusions and many group shows, under his Walsall leather belt. CHU’s work has included projects with Banksy and Jamie Hewlett among many others, and he has been described as the ‘Escher of UK street art’ and founder of Graffiti Bastards.

The album is to be released by Birmingham based Iron Man Records whose releases have included The Nightingales, Howard Marks, P.A.I.N (Propaganda And Information Network), and Police Bastard, amongst others.

The album will be beautifully packaged in a double gatefold cd wallet with artwork by CHU in full colour and a ten page booklet. John Sinclair will be appearing in November through to March to promote the new album. Mohawk illustrates the kind of care and attention a John Sinclair record deserves. After all, he kinda helped start this underground art explosion.

All Press Enquiries Sean Newsham: sean@mutante-inc.demon.co.ukJohn Sinclair – Mohawk CD released on Iron Man Records 24th March 2014

Watch the short film: WHITE PANTHER: A Legacy Interview with John Sinclair
http://ironmanrecords.net/2013/10/white-panther-a-legacy-interview-with-john-sinclair/

ARTIST:  John Sinclair
TITLE:   Mohawk
LABEL:   Iron Man Records
FORMAT:   CD  Double Gatefold Sleeve / Digital Release to follow
RELEASE DATE:  24th March 2014
FILE UNDER:   Rock
Cat No:  IMB6022

MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA

Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats.--John Sinclair.

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/

Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats. - See more at: http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/#sthash.6iPrfemY.dpuf

Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 04

Posted in: Fly By Night, Radio Free Amsterdam, Steve Fly

The Fly is finishing up the night at the Café Belgique with music by Art Blakey, Otis Rush, Tribe, Shuggie Otis, Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood, Slayer, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Miles Davis, John Sinclair & Ed Moss, Magic Sam, and Brother Jack McDuff.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

FLY BY NIGHT WITH STEVE THE FLY 04
Café Belgique, Amsterdam, January 20, 2012 [FA-0004]
[01] Art Blakey: Oscalypso
[02] Otis Rush: Working Man
[03] Tribe: A New Day
[04] Shuggie Otis: Freedom Flight
[05] Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood: Wake Up Call
[06] Slayer: Reigning Blood
[07] Junior Wells: Early In The Morning
[08] Otis Rush: All Your Love
[09] Miles Davis: Excerpt
[10] John Sinclair with Ed Moss & the Society Jazz Orchestra: Steps > Spectrum > LUYAH! The Glorious Step
[12] Magic Sam: Everything Gonna Be Alright
[13] Closing Music: Brother Jack McDuff: Goodnight, It’s Time To Go
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
Edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
© 2012 Steve Pratt & The John Sinclair Foundation

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-04/

Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

Posted in: Fly By Night, Radio Free Amsterdam

DJ Fly Agaric 23 with music by Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Larks, Lowell Fulson, Magic Sam, Shuggie Otis, Horace Andy, Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood, The Mad Professor, Thelonious Monk, Tribe, James Brown, and The Meters

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
FLY BY NIGHT WITH STEVE THE FLY 01
Café Belgique, Amsterdam, January 20, 2012 [FA-0001]
DJ Steve The Fly spinning at the Café Belgique in Amsterdam on the night of January 20, 2012…Part One.

FLY BY NIGHT 01
[01] Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program > Old Fashioned Disc Jockey
[02] Junior Wells: Snatch It Back & Hold It
[03] Otis Rush: Can’t Wait No Longer
[04] Sonny Boy Williamson: Keep It To Yourself
[05] The Larks: Fattening Frogs For Snakes
[06] Lowell Fulson: You Got To Do Me Right
[07] Magic Sam: Same Old Blues
[08] Junior Wells: Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man
[09] Sonny Boy Williamson: Don’t Lose Your Eye
[10] Shuggie Otis: One Day At A Time
[11] Horace Andy: Angel Dub
[12] Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood: Yellow Fever
[13] Mad Professor:
[14] Thelonious Monk Quartet: Rhythm-A-Ning
[15] Tribe: Beneficient
[16] James Brown: Man In The Mirror
[17] Tribe: Space II
[18] The Meters: Just Kissed My Baby
[19] Closing Music: Tribe: Son Of Tribe

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Produced & recorded by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
Edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
© 2012 Steve Pratt. Used with oermission.

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-01/

Nutty Logic with Steve Fly

Posted in: Radio Free Amsterdam, Steve Fly

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

NUTTY LOGIC WITH STEVE FLY
Cafe The Zen, Amsterdam, January 11, 2012 [SFNL-0001]

Steve Fly created this salute to Robert Anton Wilson and put it together with John Sinclair at Cafe The Zen in Amsterdam Oost last night and we’re rushing it onto the Radio Free Amsterdam airwaves today, with musical selections from Alice Coltrane, John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth, Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall, Dr. John & The Lower 911, Ed Sanders, the Miles Davis Sextet, Louis Armstrong, Eddie Jefferson, and John Coltrane & Duke Ellington, with several contributions from Robert Anton Wilson himself.

NUTTY LOGIC PLAYLIST

[01] Alice Coltrane: Journey to Satchidananda
[02] Robert Anton Wilson: New Tsarism
[03] John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Brilliant Corners
[04] Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane: Nutty
[05] Dr. John & The Lower 911: Black Gold
[06] Robert Anton Wilson; Maybe Logic
[07] Ed Sanders: What If William Blake Had Gone To New Orleans?
[08] Miles Davis Sextet: So What
[09] Louis Armstrong: Black and Blue
[10] Robert Anton Wilson: TSOG Rising
[11] Eddie Jefferson: Parker’s Mood
[12] John Coltrane & Duke Ellington: In a Sentimental Mood

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Produced by Steve Fly
Edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Leslie Lopez
Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
(c) 2012 The John Sinclair Foundation
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Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

Posted in: Vintage Radio Vault

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 61

Steve Fly’s Saturnalia
Fly Agaric Studio, Amsterdam, December 23, 2009 [VV-0061]
The last few weeks I’ve witnessed John Sinclair programming spontaneous radio shows across the table from me. John made a number of shows that knocked me off my stool so I figured it was my duty as DJ Fly Agaric to respond with a festive selection of tunes. The tracks were selected from my LP collection, recorded Wednesday 22nd December 2009 on a H4 Zoom Recorder.

PLAYLIST 61
[00] Baba Israel > Detroit Life Radio ID
[01] Darlene Love: Marshmallow World
[02] Channel One Studio: Ballistic Affair version
[03] Miles Davis: Round About Midnight
[04] Bobby Lester & the Moonglows: Hey Santa Claus
[05] Clark-Boland Big Band: Sakara
[06] Fel Kuti: Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
[07] The Larks: I Ain’t Fattening No Frogs For Snakes
[08] The Ronettes: Sleigh Ride
[09] Jimmy Reed: Rockin’ with Reed
[10] Marcus Belgrave: Glue Finger (Part 2)
[11] James Brown: Don’t Tell a Lie about Me
[12] Bob Marley: No Water
[13] Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
[14] Baba Israel > Detroit Life Radio ID

Produced, edited & assembled by DJ Fly Agaric 23
Vinyl spun on two Vestax turntables & recorded on Zoom H4 recorder
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
Special thanks to Steve “Fly” Agaric & a Merry Xmas to all.
© 2009, 2011 The John Sinclair Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
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NAUGHTIES DECADE 2001-2011

DECADE 2001-2011

Table of Contents

DECADE 2001-2011

INTRODUCTION

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2011

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INTRODUCTION

Hi I finally got around to posting this, it's been hanging around for a while. I hope you'll forgive my errors, any feedback will be well received.

So friends...which events seem important to you? Which would you choose to define any given period of time? How do you make sense of them, what conditions nurtured them, which human interventions and which natural disasters led to the events you pick?

If we are to make sense and meaning of history, and sanity--a risky endeavour in these times of global Internet but one which any poet worth the name might pursue--then a 'poem including history' of the last decade seems a good place to start to me. (after writing this introduction I learned that Mark Zukenburg and facebook plan to release a ‘timeline' application that allows for a similar chronological study of events. However History also moves in cycles, and non-chronological spirals, it is of my opinion.

The launch of Wikipedia in February of 2001 has impacted this writing a great deal due to the simple list of some events deemed worthy of inclusion by the Wikipedia commons group, that are made available for all to see and make sense of at your own risk. The risk seems to me to be somewhat reduced when attention is paid to the subjective nature of perception, and to methods such as ‘operational language used by some-but-not-all scientists and ‘E-prime’ and its variants, used by some-but-not-all linguists.

When put Into chronological order it becomes increasingly difficult for me to avoid drawing conclusions based on the ordering, one thing leads to another, or so it seems to a linear oriented mind set. The question remains: which ‘events’ should become pivotal ones and which shall be relegated to the footnotes or relegated all together? How did the author or protagonist come to choose such events based on which values and principle, what ordering system, what right knowledge? How many are justified by later events and how many need revision, considering, let’s say; the Wikileaks exposures of the period 2007-2010, or the News Corp. phone hacking racket?

Maybe you'll have a crack at this process, outside of facebook, of putting the last ten years (or any period of time) into textual form. Music, painting, dance, sculpture, textiles and other art based activities also help communicate this information.

In mixing private events with those events deemed as Historical in the broader sense, I hope to take the edge off of history a little bit, I mean to say balance what we perceive as ‘historical’ with our personal infinite flux of perception—at the moment these events are perceived to be taking place. Unless you happen to be fortunate and in the physical location of such an ‘historical event’ then rather you may not view it as ‘historical’ at all, by your own standards, yet another fleeting moment on planet earth.

The questions: where were you, what were you doing and why were you doing it?, introduces ‘subjective context’ into the thinking process encircling the question of History. I repeat, I have taken great liberty through a poetic licence to inject my own value system upon the last ten years. Forgive my ego-centric perception and decadence, I will be editing and updating this work towards 2012, keep in touch friends, love--steve.

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2001

Jan. 1st:
fly over Golden
Gate bridge to S. F. early
new yrs. Day in love.

Jan 20th:
Dumb G. W Bush succeeds
Wild Bill Clinton after
Flor. Re-count.

Feb. 24th:
Claude Shannon dies:
Information theory creeps
Doctor Wilson shares TSOG.

DJ with Garaj Mahal
at the last day saloon
San Francisco

July 23rd:
G8 Protest Italy
Carlo Giuliani shot
dead: police.

Sept. 11th:
Surprise Attack in U.S
Sep. 12th:
Israel op’ in Jericho.
Oct. 7th:
Afghan war game

Oct. 26th:
U.S Patriot Act
passed by Bush.
I Fly to S.F to DJ.

2002

Jan. 29th:
Antarctic Larson ice
shelf crumbles, my
RAW Entview

March 1st.
Invasion of Afghanistan
begins with Op’
Anaconda: a large snake

High Sierra Music Fest.
w/ Garaj and
7/7 No Parking
jams.

Burningman Fest
DJ, fresh fruit piss clear
leave no trace
gifting culture.

Sep. 10th:
RAW intview S. Cruz
muffin coffee M. Logic
kind wise teacher Bob

July 21st:
Worldcom file for
Chap. 11
Bankruptcy.

Oct. 25th:
Paul Wellstone his
family and most of his staff
killed in plane crash.

Nov. 18th:
Hans Blix arrives
in Iraq looking
for weapons of
mass distraction

Nov. 25th:
GWB passes The
United states Homeland
Security Act.

GM
at DNA lounge
with Mahavishnu's
Jerry Goodman

2003

Feb 15th.
Mass worldwide protests
against war in Iraq.
shouting ‘what WMD’s?

Release of ‘As if true’
in a collection of
shroom’ tales by Paul
Krassner.

April 14th:
Human Genome Project
complete, over
99% sequenced.

May 1st: GWB sez...
‘mission accomplished’
from Aircraft carrier

May 1st:
New Orleans Jazz Fest'
Mama’s Blues DJ
Crescent city life

Pharmageddon Arkestra
formed in New Orleans
Chris, Quinn, fly and friends

July 23rd:
Maybe Logic Movie premiere
S. Cruz, the last time
I saw Bob.

Sep 4th:
Bullring shopping
centre open’s in
Birmingham UK.

Alan Hertz and Friends
tour West coast
California

Oct 31st:
Halloween launch
Mondo Garaj album
Avalon Ballroom fly

2004

Feb 4:
Facebook founded
Feb 12th:
Mardi Gras New Orleans.
March 25th:
T. Blair meets Col. Gaddafi

April:
Ideogrammic Method and
Illuminatus classes
with RAW

June 16th:
911 commission report
release on
Bloomsday

July 1st:
Cassini-huygens craft
meets Saturn
Vatican joins the
U.N. ship.

July 28th:
Rocks off Cruise
NYC, my poem skirts Hudson
from pier 23

Aug 29th:
RNC, GWB and Dick
Chenney
renominated

I carry a coffin up sixth
av', Illuminatus!
in hand.

Dec 21st:
Maybelogic Quarterly
Issue 1 Winter Solstice
2004

Dec 25th:
Record ‘Bicycling in Bombay’
for Garaj Mahal's
Blueberry Cave

Dec 26th:
The Indonesian earthquake
2004 claims
230’000 victims.

2005

Jan 14th:
Huygens robot
lands on Titan one of
Saturn's moon,
near Xanadu

Jan 20th:
GWB inaugarated
for second term.
Garaj Mahal tour.

July 2nd:
High Sierra Music Festival
ft. Garaj
Mahal
& No-Parking

July 6th:
Olympic Games Handed
to London in IOC.

July 7th:
London attacks
and security analysis
failure

Aug 29th:
1900 killed
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans flood

Oct 8th:
Kashmir earthquake
kills over 80’000

Oct 30th:
Chet Helms tribute
concert Golden Gate
park.

Dec. 23rd:
MaybeLogic UK Premier
at Birch Tree Pub
Amblecote

Dec 31st:
Brierley Hill Baths
protest, steel fence, police
pulled the plug, no news story

2006

April:
Week trip to Amsterdam
start collected writings
World Piss.

June:
Audio Remixing: RAW
meets Garaj Mahal
Bar work at Windmill Pub
in lye town.

MLA meet in Milton
Keynes, Mushrooms
Temples, swimming and
good friends

Howordz Way
poem for MQ

I discovered
‘Stourbridge’ in Cantos
LXVI by Ezra Pound

Sep 11th:
Stourbridge busking
to raise money for Pope
Bob and his medical
bills

Pulled Shop' trolley
from River Stour
Captured by S’bridge news
fisherman

Dec:
Refused entry to USA
at Atlanta airport

Dec 24th:
Dressed as Santa
‘Shroom ‘Claus
I roamed the streets of Stourbridge

2007

11/1
Robert Anton Wilson
passes on.

12th, Alice Coltrane.
joins him.

February 17th:
RAW tribute
Stourbridge Skate Park
shut down

March 18th:
Coldcut RAW tribute
Alan Moore, Ken Campbell
VJ DJ dream wake

21st: March.
‘Jam in The Dam’ festival.
I arrive and setlle
in Amsterdam
Dish washing

MLA in Belgium and Ams’
Lasagna catapult in
Dutch Lake

Life in Amsterdam
audio remixing
and writing:
Coffee-shop

Meet John Sinclair,
Be-bop Jazz, blues and
New Orleans
tales shared

2008

Feb:
Western Esoterica
vinyl sigil, step-sign
word turntable

July 23rd:
MLA in Paris:
The great Gherkin
experiment special
friends

Oct 3rd:
Global Market crash crisis
of imagination strikes
bankers

Nov. 1st:
I start my ‘first Novel:
Open Source History:
a tale of the tribe

Dec 24th:
arrested for Graffiti
on bank “in banks we trust”
DNA cells

2009

Jan. 4th:
John Sinclair, Vicente Pino
Fly record: Amsterdam
blues scholars

Crazy Wisdom of PKD
with Erik Davis
MAYBELOGIC ACADEMY

after a strange dream I met
Dutch Royal Family outside
the Trope Museum.

July 26th:
Longest solar eclipse
of 21c: 6 min 38 sec.
MLA in Berlin

The Birth of Doctor
Marshmallow Cubicle
siblings: Pino and Pratt

Treaty of Lisbon
becomes law
I Visit Norway, shrooms, trees
and teas

14th Aug:
John Sinclair performs
poetry at Bonded Warehouse
Stourbridge UK

High life in Amsterdam Oost
with sweet Janne
John Sinclair and
John Coltrane

Evolver Dream Spore
Save Coseley Baths
campaign

Nov. 20th:
LHC restarted at CERN.

2010

Wikileaks release
Collateral Murder.

April 20th:
fly at Café Belgique
420 Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill

July 25th:
Wikileaks release
Afghan war diaries

Sun Ra: Essays and
Interviews released.
Started new novel: ‘Sixty’

MLA go to Oxford
James Brown on Organ
ghost tour, inception.
Stour clean up

Album: Let’s Go
Get Em’ Sinclair’s
blues scholars
Art by Frenchy n; Chu

Sep 23rd:
Out of East
Hangai in Park,
Dogon and
Francis Huxley in my book.

Sep 28th:
Email to The Tribe:
six wk/ web class
Bruno, Vico, Joyce, Pound
Shannon

Nov. 26th:
John Sinclair and
Amsterdam blues scholars
at the 420 cafe

Nov. 28th:
More Wikileaks
cables push for
no more secrets

John Sinclair and the
Beatnik Youth ensemble
& i record in big smoke

Start my Novel SIXTY
First full lunar eclipse
on Winter Solstice

2011

Global Media Village
MLA class
with Bobby Campbell

Arab spring couch
Surfing, blog fatter
Tsunami
Marshy Chu Queegsday

June
Mirror in the Buurvrouw
wall painting delight
aerosol by CHU

July 23rd:
Barcelantis underwater
test video in BCN
Spain

Aug 8th:
London Riots
Sod the rich,
phone hack scandel
Marshy album

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