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

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Make it new: Panorawma and the tale of the tribe

MAKE IT NEW (Originally Panorawma & The tale of the tribe (July 2011)

Over the last ten years together with a sleepless band of independent researchers, the author has been tuned into “The Tale Of The Tribe” (TTOTT), developed exclusively by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)

At RAW360 we embark on a whole new way of communicating some parts of TTOTT, introducing new ways of seeing and navigating information. New spaces that reflect primary innovations of key historical figures who deeply inspired RAW and his works.

The multi-sensory experience of interacting with the new ‘info-process tools’ and embedded media, ploughs the language for the appropriate new message. I walk in the footsteps of those writers whom wish to show delight in the limitations and boundaries of the textual art form. Visit any major writers website and be confronted with audio, video, texts and hyperlinks, the sum total of which, I feel, often overshadows the individual textual medium by which we show up here.

A new synthesis has emerged amidst the convergence of information technology, social networking and the will to share, and what we aspire to with RAW360 includes making a new synthesis explicit and demonstrable by example. Look and see, click and watch, read, listen process. What better place to build a comprehensive foundation than something rooted in RAW?

Together the ‘programming’ (that maybe defined as the principles and methodologies distilled from the works of RAW) and the ‘programmers’ (in this special case scenario the dozen or so characters from RAWs TTOTT) produce a remarkable comprehensive super-computer: an operating system. A mixture of innovations plucked from best minds of our age, a new global epic including history with innovative poetics. Singing matter, shouting matter, dancing matter.

RAWs TTOTT condenses a lifetime study into what I, and many other scholar activists consider the most important and critical ‘information skills’ to help world-around humanity ‘make it together’ and stop fighting each other and go explore mind, earth, space (inner/outer) and each other in harmony, and with laughter and smiles.

Dr. Wilson read and processed each of the characters in his tale of the tribe over a period of approx’ sixty years. Over half a century developing a taoist modernist method of processing these characters and their works, and hundreds more, with a balanced suspended judgement, multi-valued logic, poetic surprise and mathematical terrorism.

RAW exhibited a sizzling 21st century ‘programme’ of humanitarian mind-aid, with a witty creative edge that helped define ‘comprehensive thinking’ with Bucky Fuller, and ‘the eight circuit model of consciousness’ with Dr. Timothy Leary. Tooling up the reader for swimming in 21st century chaos.

I think that the least we can do might consist of correlating some of his favorite innovators and humanitarian artists into a RAW universe, (PANORAWMA: a place that reflects RAW through the people he expressly named running together in a sleepless krewe consisting of magicians, historians, writers, poets, film makers, linguists, media theorists, design scientists, comedians, heretics, all engineered into cyberspace by the great visionary artists actively building the PANORAMA: RAW360.

The new 360 spaces bring in a new opportunity for synthesis between the characters from RAWs TToTT, the innovations and principles they contributed to the collective human knowledge base (2011).

The precise and equalibrius writing of RAW naturally provides such a synthesis, and his books and articles remain testament to this comprehensive holism deployed through the medium of literature. RAW360.net reflects the process of making a movie in comparrison with writing a book. We are building an interactive Universe where activities and events take place through multi-media synthesis: video, image, text, audio, game play.

In my opinion the key to building a harmonious Universe lies in the inter-connectivity between all of its parts, and the tale of the tribe by RAW seems to have been developed to exploit this inter-connectivity, where any of the charcters can be processed and permutated with any other to produce meaningful and complimentary mixtures. The art of mixing and of juxtaposition, however, often requires a very special touch, a rhythm and timing and sense for improvisation, to then travel the posible pathways, the choices, and analyse the path of least resistance, or that which resolves the immediate sense of opposing forces. Enter the poet, enter the painter, enter the photographer, enter the programmer, creating together to balance the equation: language vs. The equation.

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

'Mirror in De Buurvrouw' by CHU

My good friend CHU came to Amsterdam and decorated the wall of a local bar very close to Dam square in the center, called De Buurvrouw. The decorations work on many levels and from many different perspectives, not least the name 'Mirror in De Buurvrouw' being a riff on the lyric and title of the Ska revival tune by The Beat (Mirror in the Bathroom).

Please go to the link and view the post images and video. Then have a look around the website and take in the vast amount of visual eye candy by master CHU

http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2011/mirror-in-de-buurvrouw/

G is for GODISTURBER. (CHU & FLY)

One purpose of this web site is to build up a database of work from both CHU and FLY that approximates a guide to new audio technologies through the lens of our different artistic goggles.