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.

Hemp Story Sessions With DJ Steve Fly Agaric CBDJ

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hempstory-34067592

Radio Free Amsterdam

Steve is a set member of John Sinclair‘s band the Amsterdam Blues Scholars and has also preformed with John Sinclair and the Vipers at the Vipermad parties which are held during the week of the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. For Radio Free Amsterdam Steve records a weekly.

http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/?s=Fly+By+Night

Fly By Night 249: Sitarrtha

...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.

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

Liffissippi River to Joyce's Poundland

...and when the mode of the
music changes
                           the walls of the
                                    city shake

     a perspective from relative place
                  humbled individual to their part
in universe and other

single individuated mind
                                      in time
gathering tales and knick knacks
               of history into a trick bag

do you feel melody and riddim’
in verse
       word sound image sandwiches
attention to source
                   to _____ and just story

word jazz s c r a b l e m and
recontext' of everything
                   in John Coltrane and
James Joyce

              Pound’s eccentricity flows
to American in Europe, Joyce’s concentricity
                                       circulates the planet

two sides of a new shiny coin
                                    ideograms on side a
                         hologrammic prose on the flip

two torrential rivers of ink
                         bleeding shared currents
                                                           liffissippi

Joyce’s Be-Bop and
                             Pound’s symphonic compositions
cut and mixed together

Homeric history and Ulysses
                       in a conch shell sunset
                                  and a Dublin street fight

the inner
Joyce and the
outer
                     Pound dynastic index
                         Irish American tell all tales

The Cantos awake
                         a wake Cantos:
                 a dream/nightmare from
which I am trying to awake
(not)

                sleepwalking giants leave
                       footprints in the mud
trackers reverse the prints
                                      into beasts

explicit Cantos give us facts
              weights and measures, the dates
places, names and flames to wit

                     implicit Finnegan offers us
truer ficts, rubber inches,
           neurological realism and the funnies

...like J.C's Ballads versus
                                                   Stellar Regions
              it’s a whole different thing
                                       consistent in its genius

                  'FW is psycho-archaeology
        Dr Wilson said.
             'no mystery about the Cantos,
Pound said.
                                             they are the tale of
                        the tribe


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cantos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Tribe


--Steve Fly
Amsterdam, 9th June, 2013

DJ FLY AGARIC & JOHN SINCLAIR CELEBRATE JOHN COLTRANE EQUINOX 2009

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

Fly Agaric Studio > Bohemian National Home –
Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 1:00-2:00 am [20-0982]
Amsterdam, NL. > Detroit, US.

This episode is a birthday salute to John Coltrane and a bow to the Vernal Equinox with music by John Coltrane selected by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23 at his Oosterpark studio in Amsterdam and programmed by John Sinclair at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit. As Fly says, “Happy Vernal Equinox, or around about, please enjoy this good energy mix in celebration of the music and birth of John Coltrane. Thanks, John!”

Playlist #282

[01] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Welcome
[02] John Coltrane: Equinox
[03]. John Coltrane: Blues Minor
[04] John Coltrane: Crescent
[05] John Coltrane: All or Nothing at All
[06] Miles Davis: ‘Round About Midnight
[07] John Coltrane: The Drum Thing
[08] John Coltrane: Spiritual

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Music selected in Amsterdam by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23
Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair in Detroit
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden

© 2009 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

JOHN SINCLAIR & SHARING COUNTER-CULTURE

The epic & encyclopedic - back catalogue - of music and writings from John Sinclair, will soon be available for - digital download - and SHARED' availability. Many of his works have been tragically lost, to both personal and national disasters of one kind or another; other works have been miss-placed and kept in storage for a long long time, and, like any other great archeological anthropological discovery from the African heartlands - the opening of the JOHN SINCLAIR archives and vaults provides a rich resource of counter-cultural gems and treasures, useful feedback for all humanity to process.

So, i thought i could contribute a little something in the way of a hyperlinked guide to John Sinclair in cyberspace, and the places and spaces you can find his footprints and fresh air. I will also begin the work on his recommended reading/listening list from the back of GUITAR ARMY.

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/

http://johnsinclair.us/10for2/

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnsinclairtv

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair_(poet)

http://www.luminist.org/archives/marijuana.htm

http://arborwiki.org/city/John_Sinclair

DETROIT LIFE: JOHN SINCLAIR AND HIS MOTOR CITY SCHOLARS.

IT'S ALL GOOD: A JOHN SINCLAIR READER

FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES: DELTA SOUND SUITE. (BOOK)

DON'T START ME TO TALKIN': FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES.

F.F.F.S. REVIEW IN ROLLINGSTONE.

recordings:
Detroit Life with the Motor City Blues Scholars (No Cover Records, 2009)
Tearing Down the Shrine of Truth & Beauty with the Pinkeye Orchestra (LocoGnossis Records, 2008)
Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 3: Don’t Start Me To Talking (Big Chief/Electric Catfish Records, 2008)
crisscross with Mark Ritsema (Big Chief Records, 2006)
Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 2: Country Blues (No Cover Records, 2005)
No Money Down: John Sinclair’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (Big Chief Records, 2004)
Peyote Mind with Monster Island (Book Beat, 2003)
Knock Out with Lange Frans & Baas B (420 Café, 2002)
Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 1: The Delta Sound (Okra-ToneRecords, 2002)
It’s All Good with Fluxedo Junction (Fluxedo, 2000)
Underground Issues (Spy Boy Records, 2000)
White Buffalo Prayer with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Spy Boy, 2000)
Full Circle with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Alive Records, 1997)
thelonious:a book of monk—volume one (New Alliance Records, 1996)
If I Could Be With You—John Sinclair & Ed Moss with the Society Jazz Orchestra (Schoolkids Records,1996)
Full Moon Night—John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars (Total Energy Records, 1995)
“flyright”—a monk suite,with pianist Ed Moss (1991, unissued)
books & publicationsIT’S ALL GOOD: A John Sinclair Reader (Headpress, 2008)
GUITAR ARMY (2nd Edition, Feral House/Process Books, 2007)
GUITAR ARMY (Italian Translation, Stampa Alternativa, 2007)
Va Tutto Bene / It’s All Good (Stampa Alternativa, 2006)i mean you: a book for penny (Palomar Press, 2005)
Peyote Mind & After (Book Beat, 2003)
Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite (Surregional Press, 2002)
Full Circle (Minimal Press,1997)
“flyright”—a monk suite (1991, unpublished)
“We Just Change The Beat”: Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 1988)
thelonious: a book of monk—volume one (1985, unpublished)
GUITAR ARMY: Street Writings/Prison Writings, Douglas/World, 1972Music & Politics (with Robert Levin), Jazz & Pop/World, 1971
Meditations: A Suite For John Coltrane (Artists Workshop Press, 1967)
The Poem For Warner Stringfellow (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)
FIRE MUSIC: a record (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)This Is Our Music (Artists Workshop Press, 1965)

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http://www.headpress.com/JohnSinclair.aspx

"John Sinclair is a huge lover with masses of curly black hair flowing all over his head and shoulders. . . He and his White Panther brothers and sisters from Ann Arbor, Michigan are the most alive force in the whole Midwest. They turn on thousands of kids each week to their own beauty and build them into warriors and artists of the new Nation. . . For this some bald-headed judge named Columbo sentenced John Sinclair to nine-and-a-half to ten years in the penitentiary at Jackson, Michigan."
— Abbie Hoffman
Woodstock Nation (1969)




JAMS (FROM GUITAR ARMY BY John Sinclair)

ROCK AND ROLL

KICK OUT THE JAMS – MC5 (Elektra)
CHEAP THRILLS – Big Brother and Holding Company (Columbia)
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
SMASH HITS – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
FREAK OUT – The Mothers of Invension HIGH TIME – MC5 (Atlantic)
DETROIT – Mitch Rider (Paramount)
OZONE – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Paramount)
STOOGES – stooges (Elektra)
FUN HOUSE – Stooges (Elekra)
GRIS-GRIS – Doctor John (Atco)
BABYLON – Dr. John (Atco)
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
BLONDE ON BLONDE – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
JOHN WESLEY HARDING – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
BEGGARS BANQUET – Rolling Stones (London)
LET IT BLEED – Rolling Stones (London)
STICKY FINGERS – Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
REVOLVER – Beatles (Capitol)
SERGENT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - Beatles (Capitol)
BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT – Canned Heat (Liberty)
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN – Donovan (Epic)
MY GENERATION – Who (Decca)
SAFE AS MILK – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band (Buddha)
THE FUGS (2nd Album) – Fugs (ESP-Disk’)
WHITE HEAT WHITE LIGHT – Velvet Underground (MGM)
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
VOLUNTEERS - Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
THE GRATEFUL DEAD (1st Album) - Grateful Dead (Reprise)
ELECRTIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY - Country Joe & the Fish (Vanguard)
LOVE (1st Album) - Love (Elektra)
DA CAPO - Love (Elekra)
THE DOORS (1st Album) - Doors (Elekra)
FRESH CREAM - Cream (Atco)
WHEELS OF FIRE - Cream (Atco)
BLUESBREAKERS - John Mayall (London)
VINCEBUS ERUPTUM - Blue Cheer (Phillips)
SUNSET - The Rationals (Crewe)
TRAVELLERS TALE - SRC (Capitol)
MONGREL - Bob Seger (Capitol)
SURVIVAL - Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
E PLURIBUS FUNK - Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
BAYOU COUNTRY - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
SANDERS' TRUCK SHOP - Ed Sanders (Warner)
SPIRITS KNOW AND UNKNOWN - Leon Thomas (Flying Dutchman)
EDGAR WINTER'S WHITE TRASH - Edgar Winter (Epic)
LIVE - Johnny Winter and (Columbia)
JOHNNY WINTER (1st Album) - Johnny Winter (Columbia)
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE'S GREATEST HITS - Sly & the Family Stone (Epic)

RHYTHM & BLUES

HISTORY OF RHYTHM & BLUES (Volumes 1-4) - (Atlantic)
PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - (!st Album) - Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW - Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
J. GEILS BAND - (Elekra)
ELMORE JAMES - Elmore James (Bell)
CHUCK BERRY'S GOLDEN DECADE - Chuck Berry (Chess)
16 GREATEST HITS - Bo Diddley (Chess)
THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS - Muddy Waters (Chess)
ELECTRIC MUD - Muddy Waters (Chess)
MOANIN' IN THE MOONLIGHT - Howlin' Wolf (Chess)
THE LONDON SESSIONS - Howlin' Wolf (Chess)
16 GREATEST HITS - B.B King (Crown)
JAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLO (Vol. 1) - James Brown (King)
BOBBY BLUE BLAND'S GREATEST HITS - Bobby Blue Bland (Duke)
HOUSE OF THE BLUES - John Lee Hooker (Checker)
URBAN BLUES -John Lee Hooker (ABC)
SERVE YOU RIGHT TO SUFFER -John Lee Hooker (Impulse)
I'M JIMMY REED - Jimmy Reed (Veejay)
THE JIMMY REED STORY -Jimmy Reed (Atlantic)
OTIS READING IN EUROPE - Otis Reading (Atlantic)
ARETHA'S GOLD - Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
CHICAGO/THE BLUES/TODAY - (3 vOLUMES) - (Vanguard)
DETROIT BLUES - (BLUES CLASSICS)
GOLDEN GOODIES (Volumes 2,3,6,7,12) - (Roulette)
LIGHTIN' IN NEW YORK - Lightning Hopkins (Candid/Barnaby)
WEST SIDE SOUL - Magic Sam (Delmark)
HOODOO MAN BLUES - Junior Wells (Delmark)
OTIS SPAN IS THE BLUES - Otis Span (Candid/Barnaby)
THE BEST OF SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON - Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess)
GREATEST HITS - Little Richard (Speciality)
GREAT JUKEBOX HITS - Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (King)
ALL AROUND THE WORLD - Little Willie John (King)
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Okeh)
THE BEST OF LITTLE WALTER - Little Walter (Chess)
GREATEST HITS FROM THE BEGINNING - The Miracles (Motown)
GREATEST HITS - The Temptations (Motown)
GREATEST HITS - Martha and the Vandellas (Motown)
GREATEST HITS - The Four Tops (Motown)
GREATEST HITS - Elaine Brown (Vault)

SPOKEN

DIG -Eldridge Cleaver
MESSAGE TO THE GRASS ROOTS - Malcolm X (Afro-American Broadcasting Co.)
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY - Malcolm X (Douglas)
THIS IS MADNESS - The Last Poets (Douglas)
THE SICK HUMOR OF LENNY BRUCE - Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
WHAT I WAS ARRESTED FOR - Lenny Bruce (Douglas)
I AM NOT A NUT, ELECT ME - Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
LENNY BRUCE AMERCA - Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)

BERKELEY CONCERT - Lenny Bruce (Straight)
AIN'T NO AMBULANCES FOR NO NIGGUS TONIGHT - Stanley Crouch (Flying Dutchman)
SOUL AND SOLEDAD - Angela Davis (Flying Dutchman)
HOWL & OTHER POEMS -Allen Ginsberg (Fantasy)
A NIGHT IN SANTA RITA - Robert Scheer (Flying Dutchman)
MURDER AT KENT STATE - Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)
LORD BUCKLEY'S HITS - Lord Buckley (Wolrd Pacific)
MASSACRE AT MY LAI - Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)

NEW BLACK MUSIC

NOTHING IS - Sun Ra (ESP-Disk')
THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN RA - Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
THE MAGIC CITY - Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
ATLANTIS - Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
STRANGE STRINGS - Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
A LOVE SUPREME - John Coltrane (Impulse)
LIVE AT BIRDLAND - John Coltrane (Impulse)
MEDITATIONS - John Coltrane (Impulse)
SELFLESSNESS - John Coltrane (Impulse)
KULU SE MAMA - John Coltrane (Impulse)
COSMIC MUSIC - John Coltrane (Impulse)
UNIT STRUCTURES - Cecil Taylor Unit (Blue Note)
INTO THE HOT - Cecil Taylor & Gil Evans (Impulse)
JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA - Jazz Composers Orchestra (JCOA)
TAUHID - Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
KARMA - Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
THEMBI - Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
FIRE MUSIC - Archie Shepp (Impulse)
MAMA TOO TIGHT - Archie Shepp (Impulse)
ORNETTE COLEMAN TOWN HALL CONCERT - Jazz Composers Orchestra (ESP-DISK)
THIS IS OUR MUSIC - Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
ORNETTE ON TENOR - Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS - Ornette Coleman (Flying Dutchman)
BELLS - Albert Ayler (ESP-Disk)
NEW GRASS - Albert Ayler ((Impulse)
THE LACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY - Charles Mingus (Impulse)
MINGUS PRESENTS MINGUS - Charles Mingus (Candid/Barnaby)
EVOLUTION - Grachan Moncur (Blue Note)
LET FREEDOM RING - Jackie McLean (Blue Note)
LIFE TIME - Tony Williams (Blue Note)
OUT TO LUNCH - Eric Dolphy (Blue Note)
OUT THERE - Eric Dolphy (Prestiege)
IRON MAN - Eric Dolphy (Douglas)
LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA - Charlie Haden (Impulse)
THE THIRD WORLD - Gato Barbieri (Flying Dutchman)
THE MARION BROWN QUINTET - Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
SONG FOR - Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
AS IF IT WERE THE SEASONS - Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
SOUND - Roscoe Mitchell (Delmark)
LEVELS & DEGREES OF LIGHT - Richard Abrams (Delmark)
HUMILITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CREATOR - Maurice Mcintyre (Delmark)
NUMBERS 1&2 - Lester Bowie (Nessa)
CONGRIPTIOUS - Roscoe Mitchell (Nessa)
COMPLETE COMMUNION - Don Cherry (Blue Note)
SKETCHES OF SPAIN - Miles Davis (Columbia)
KIND OF BLUE - Miles Davis (Columbia)
MILESTONES - Miles Davis (Columbia)
BITCHES BREW - Miles Davis (Columbia)
MILES DAVIS AT THE FILMORE - Miles Davis (Columbia)
"IS" - Chick Corea (Solid State)
PATTI WATERS SINGS - Patti Waters (ESP-Disk')
BLACK WOMEN - Sonny Sharrock (Embryo)
EVERYWHERE - Roswell Rudd (Impulse)
COMPULSION - Andrew Hill (Blue Note)
FRANK WRIGHT TRIO - Frank Wright (ESP-Disk)
BURTON GREENE QUARTET - Burton Greene (ESP-Disk)
WHY NOT - Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
THE GIANT IS AWAKENED - Horace Tapscott (Flying Dutchman)
QUARTET - John Carter/Bobby Bradfoed (Flying Dutchman)
MULTIDIRECTIONAL - Contemporary Jazz Quintet (Blue Note)

BOOKS

ITS ALL GOOD - John Sinclair (Headpress)
FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES - John Sinclair (Headpress)
GUITAR ARMY - JOHN SINCLAIR (Douglas Book Corporation)
MUSIC AND POLITICS - John Sinclair and Robert Levin
SHOTS - David Fenton
TRIAL - Tom Hayden
WEATHERMAN - edited by Harold Jacobs
GETTING BUSTED - edited by Ross Firestone
THE DRUG BUST - John Dominick
FREE MARIUANA - Michael Aldrich
FIRE! Writings from the Underground Press - Edited by Paul, jon & Carol
THE CONSPIRACY - Chicago 8
WE ARE EVERYWHERE - Jerry Rubin
WOODSTOCK NATION - Abbie Hoffman
REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT - Abbie Hoffman
DO IT! - Jerry Rubin
THE NEW LEFT: A Documentary History - edited by Massimo Teodori
THE MOVEMENT TOWARD A NEW AMERICA - edited by Mitchell Goodman
WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE
PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS - Timothy Leary
JAIL NOTES - Timothy Leary
REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS - Diane Di Prima
HOWL & OTHER POEMS - Allen Ginsberg
PLANET NEWS - Allen Ginsberg
NAKED LUNCH - William S. Burroughs
THE SOFT MACHINE - William S. Burroughs
NOVA EXPRESS - William S. Burroughs
THE JOB - William S. Burroughs
HUMAN UNIVERSE - Charles Olson
MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS - Michael Mclure
DARK BROWN - Michael Mclure
THE MAXIMUS POEMS - Charles Olson
FOR LOVE - Robert Creely
THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY 1945-1960 - Edited by Donald Allen
PEACE EYE - Ed Sanders
REBELLION & REPRESSION - Tom Hayden
POT: A HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA - John Rosevear
ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac
THE DHARMA BUMS - Jack Kerouac
MOUNTAINS & RIVERS WITHOUT END - Gary Snyder
EARTH HOUSE HOLD - Gary Snyder
POISONED WHEAT - Michael Mclure
BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME - Richard Farina
V. - Thomas Pynchon
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA - Richard Brautigan
THE STRANGE ODYSSEY OF HOWARD POW! - Bill Hutton
A HISTORY OF AMERIKA - Bill Hutton
THE SUN - Jim Semark
ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST - Ken Kessey
ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST - Tom Wolfe
REALLY THE BLUES - Mezz Mezzrow
THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE - Henry Miller
THE JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT - Kenneth Patchen
RED FLAG/BLACK FLAG - Patrick Seale & Maureen McConville
SEIZE THE TIME - Bobby Seale
THE GENIUS OF HUEY P. NEWTON
ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE - Huey P. Newton
SOUL ON ICE - Eldridge Cleaver
POST-PRISON WRITINGS AND SPEECHES - Eldridge Cleaver
CONVERSATION WITH ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
PALANTE - Michael Abramson and the Young Lords Party
OUT THING IS DRUM - Kenny Cockrill & Mike Hamlin
THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF JAMES FOREMAN - James Foreman
MALCOLM X SPEAKS
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
DIE NIGGER DIE - H. Rap Brown
STOKELY CARMCIHAEL
SOLEDAD BROTHER - George Jackson
IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING - Angela Davis
THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR - Sam Greenlee
BLUES PEOPLE - LeRoi Jones
BLACK MUSIC - LeRoi Jones
FOUR LIVES IN BEBOP BUSINESS - A. B. Spellman
SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL - Edited By Robin Morgan
THE FEMALE EUNUCH - Germaine Greer
THE DIALECTIC OF SEX - Shulamith Firestone
THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN - V.I Lenin
DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP - Marge Piery
WOMEN IN SEXIST SOCIETY - Edited by Vivian Gornick & Barbara K. Moran
THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH - Frantz Fanon
A DYING COLONIALISM - Frantz Fanon
HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE - Kwame Nkrumah
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG
LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF PEOPLES WAR - Lin Piao
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG (Vol. -4)
ON PRACTICE - Mao Tse-Tung
ON CONTRADICTION - Mao Tse-Tung
MAO TSE-TUNG ON LITERATURE AND ART
ESSENTIAL WORKS OF LENIN - edited by Henry M. Christman
LEFT-WING COMMUNISM AN INFANTILE DISORDER - V.I Lenin
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO - Karl Marx & Frederick Engles.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY & THE STATE - Frederick Engles
RED STAR OVER CHINA - Edgar Snow
HO CHI MINH ON REVOLUTION - Edited by Bernard B. Fall

SRS is for SUN RA SYSTEM

So, i just continued my research and writing about Sun Ra. Found some new sources and resources, and found myself asking more questions...
More mid-week, enjoy.

Love
fly...

Sun Ra Seed Transmissions: Sun Ra and Dr. Timothy Leary are similar cats working in some different mediums, but may have more in common than first meets the mind, the DJ thinks that Sun Ra’s concert for the Comet Kahoutek was another space-time experiment/event (resulting in an audio recording) in synchrony with Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson’s experiences in cosmic telepathy – a recurring theme through Sun Ra’s work too, explicitly and interpreted musically.

I was listening to Sun Ra music when i first encountered Cosmic Trigger around 1996, and even made DJ mixes combining Sun Ra music and Timothy Leary words and gave them strange titles as the magician started experimenting with ideas from the book as interpreted through music. All in my bedroom, reading books only a handful of people had read and making strange experimental music with turntables, a reel to reel tape machine and a microphone.

“END OF THE WAR GAME.” William S. Burroughs. Electronic Revolution. Last words.

“But you got
Any Sun Ra records or DuBois books?
Otherwise
You gon die
With the murderers
& crooks.” Amiri Baraka. ´Words from Sun Ra.

A number of varied tribal cultures throughout human history have composed devices to track the Sun, Moon, and other celestial phenomena. Some mapped the seasonal changes, calculated calendars and some recorded solar and lunar eclipses, asteroid and meteorite showers. Many, structures on planet earth such as the Egyptian and Mayan pyramids show evidence of intelligent design and precise alignments to cosmological processes: sunrises, Solstices, moonrises, Equinoxes, moon sets, comet cycles etc. But what of the ancient languages of chanting, singing, dancing and spoken word used within ritual spaces opened up by shamans and wizards of harmony? When I wonder about a cosmological and/or celestial music i find the work of Sun Ra and his arkestra "key" to non-simultaneously apprehending the BIG question's about spacetime "outer-space vs. Inner-space" and the difficulties to communicating sensible messages about these things - things way out there - beyond language, pushing at the furry edge of the infinite donut omni-verse like a pair of puckered lips anticipating their double.

The Music, myth and magic of Sun Ra has enriched humanity with a cornucopia of experimental research data and psycho-archeological investigations into the social, psychological conditions and spaces we inhabit. I gravitate towards my ideal Sun Ra system - or network of ideas, as a sort of planet, or cluster of planets and gasses representing my thoughts and experiences, fly agaric 23 from another star system, this is how i would like to view the life and music of Sun Ra, by joining his cosmic-philosophy and ritual musical experiments together and looking at the from an outer-space view.

I first encountered Sun Ra as a curious disk jockey - having spent thirteen years coordinating sections of SUN RA music into some of my DJ sets and musical recipes. I give credit to both Kevin Gator and Keith Hopewell (Part2) for igniting my initial interest in Sunny, Afro-cosmic jazz and Black music culture in my early 20's. For me a combination of RAMMELLZEE’s Iconic Treatise on Afro-Futurism mixed with Kodwo Eshun’s book “More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Black Sonic Fiction” plus the electronic induced revolution taking root in the 1990's around the UK., spearheaded by many African-English DJ’s, producers, artists and some live musicians during the 90’s and into the new millennium, mostly from low income areas of urban Britain, this electronic revolution - sparked off by both drugs and computers in the hands of the a few creative people who used them to manufacture their own music, culture and scene, independent of the major labels and trappings of the vulture capitalist entertainment industry, making independent record labels, and locally supported enterprises.

And although the music hardly resembles anything SUN RA produced, the cultural activities surrounding the underground UK rave scene of the 1990's and the SUN RA SYSTEM meet, in me, and the memes oozing out from both of these musical phenomena have many criss-crossings that, in the UK - writers such as Kodwo and Simon Reynolds have documented. In the swirling blackness of audio SPACE the wisdom of SUN RA can reignite the humanistic and scholarly traits to SUN RA SYSTEM, and cascade into a new musical congress: musical beings and walking encyclopedia's of the cosmic wisdom of the spheres.

"To the makers of music — all worlds, all times" Engraved upon the Gold Disk bolted onto Voyager 1, now estimated to be over fourteen billion miles away.

As DJ Fly Agaric 23, i have my own biases and favourite myth stories - i guess a combination of the kind of Directed Panspermia theory devised by Sir Francis Crick with the Cosmic Schmuck principle of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, inspired, in a musical and aesthetic sense, by SUN RA, whom i consider a balanced mixture between mask and anti-mask, self and anti-self, mythical being and historical personae. As a DJ it seems somewhat easier to escape into a cosmic pseudonym of galactic proportions, a great name, simply spinning joyful space noise from magical disks. Without theoretical explanations or historical context in the literary sense, it is easy to get lost in space, but SUN RA shows how to bind timespace and to bind space-time and make sense of them with new maps as recordings and performaces as metaphors.

As Acrylic Figa - another alter-ego of DJ Fly Agaric 23, i began to write and conduct literary based research into language and poetry, pursuing a 5 year long study of another SYSTEM of information called Maybe logic, as defined and described by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, whom in my estimation voices the scientific philosophical counter-melody to the Joyful Sun Ra sounds and loads the Kosmic Trigger Figures and fires the fugues in/out of the heed.

I guess it would be through the trans-humanist and trans-personal psychology, and through the exo-psychology, exo-biology and cyberpunk ontology language of Dr. Timothy Leary that reads and feels to me, like the experience of listening and watching SUN RA and his Arkestra at play/work. Tim also had a cosmological/neurological "spacetime" philosophy including an exit strategy and space migration SYSTEM including relativity, in effect translating fields of scientific and humanitarian study into new languages, condensed and indexed exo-philosophy and trans-humanism, in accord with the new data, the research from outer space exploration and inner neuron-space exploration in 2009.

The equation “Space Migration plus intelligence squared equals life extension”, developed and intuited by Dr. Leary could be a helpful gloss or another lens through which to view the Sun Ra Myth Science SYSTEM and other cosmological attenuated music such as that of John and Alice Coltrane, and the modern, free and "out" jazz explorations that bloomed throughout the explorative 60's parallel with the NASA space programe.

“Maybe it's nothing
Aaah
Maybe it's nothing
What? What? Oh” -- Sun Ra. Revolution 9.

A SYSTEM to mean a system internetwork of interacting sub/disciplines, a nodal cluster of disciplines from across a broad range of cultural spaces and epochs, in Sun Ra, Leary and Wilson we might highlight the following recognized academic spheres of scholarship and the ability to connect historical individual and communal experience together, in TIME. History; cultural studies and gender studies; philosophy, aesthetics and semiotics; ethnology and cultural anthropology; archeology and prehistory; psychology and sociology; physiology and neuroscience; acoustics and psycho acoustics; computer/information sciences, theology, trans humanism, space migration, intelligence increase.

Add together the encyclopedic genius of John Sinclair, Amiri Baraka and other living cultural critics and collaborators of RA and you have a tidal force for cultural change crashing down and around you from all quarters, sweeping you up off your feet into the neurological torrent of myth/music and healing tones for motherfuckers too busy talkin shit on telephones to hear the future.

“The aim of this project is to build up a language in which certain falsifications inherit in all existing western languages will be made incapable of formulation. The follow-falsifications to be deleted from the proposed language." William S. Burroughs. The Electronic Revolution. P. 33.

Reshaping and juxtaposing 10001 songs/texts/memes together into the SYSTEM, radiating an original and coherent unity, like that of a whirling galaxy or human cell cluster whose branches of multiple meaning are a function of the experimental formulae and Futurist, Dada surprise donut coating.

Remy De Gourmont the great French spaceman and in particular his principle of the “disassociation of ideas”, seems to describe the peculiar perception of no normal sequence of events in SUN RA´s musical journey. Light and dark, tonal and atonal, asymmetrical orchestrations mixed, photons and electrons dancing - the push and pull of TIME - sucked through and spat out into acoustic spaces of euphony. Yes. The name game turns and the BE Bop Kabbalah begins, cypher sounds flowing like electricity, exploring the infinite combinations and ways to say something, life, love, melody, memory, yes.

The Tale of the Tribe might hint at A Tale of an Ethnic Group, as Ethnic Group and Tribe are somewhat interchangeable terms, in which case we have a complete system of tribal wisdom wrapped up in SUN RA and his Joyful Noise. A perfected model and SYSTEM of language, musical mappings, ritual dance, piercing poetry, sincere scholarship and heart stopping humour with which to compare and analyse other ART, from other cultures and regions of the planet earth, and to consider the limited resources and challenges overcome by the great Black American pioneers of this music and language the world has come to realize, was some of the gretest musical expressions of human life and the bombardment of information, light and sound that we all encounter and filter through our brain-body systems, ever created, in my humble opinion.

In his books “Sacred Drift” and “Irish Soma”, Peter Lamborn Wilson has extended the rather deserted landscape of intelligent Afro/Celtic historical, ethnographical research and brings a basis for further mythological, folkloric and ceremonial research into these furtive areas of post colonial humanities. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - who listened to Louis Armstrong and loved Blues and Jazz music - provided another literary parallel to the SUN RA experience. History, etymology, cosmology, enthnocentricity, eccentricity, humour, counterpoint, numerology, alienation, escape from the socially sactioned norms' are the major points of intersection i perceive between RA and Joyce and Joyous Noyse. Cheryl Herr, of the University of Iowa writes...

“As First in America and then across the water, an affiliation between Irishness and blackness was honed in the Afro-Hibernian crucible of the minstrel show where Paddy and Sambo interchanged roles, created a matrix of longing that encompassed both the Irish lament and the Delta blues ("Irish Mornings" J.J, F.W.p50-53).

John Sinclair forwarded the memes of cultural transformation through unity of music and poetry and joyful noise, and has remained a literay and poetic gauge by which to help measure music, musicians and the cultural impact of music in the west, in particular the Black American heritage of Blues and Jazz in all it's varied forms. With the violence, tragedy and struggle woven in and detailed along with the triumph, epiphany and beauty of this musical revolution.

John Sinclair, Amiri Baraka and a frightfully small handful of other music writers and musicological poets and artists continue the current of balanced social feedback based upon extensive experience and practice in-the field working with the Sun RA family and band, for over 40 years in John´s unique case. 40 years yo!

Fela Kuti, John Coltrane, James Brown, Sun Ra, Robert Johnson, Theolonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, these Jazz and Bluesmen re-plastered the face of modern culture, but have been almost whitewashed from censored history, i think, when viewed in comparison with other great American hero's, honoured with institutes, statues, foundations and schools of music.

But difference between music for social change, equality, intelligence and community cohesion compared with modern POP music - that manufactured mush of low information - for the most part another commodity for financial profit, titillation, celebrity kicks, extortion, sedation, cultural manipulation and enthnocentric racial and sexually exploitative purposes. The message becomes clearer now thanks to a few underground writers and critics still able to improvise their own thoughts and actions in a free way, breaking rules with a disciplined spirit of experimentation and knowledge and challenge the orthodox opinions about culture, heritage and humanity. Like that which Sun Ra radiated, the search for knowledge, trying new things and seeing the world through new eyes - questioning everything, especially authority.

“Now whatever you may be you are not an “animal”, you are not a “body”, because these are verbal labels. The IS of identity always carries the assignment of permanent condition. To stay that way. All name calling presupposes the IS of identity. This concept is unnecessary in a hieroglyphic language like ancient Egyptian and in fact frequently omitted. No need to say the sun IS in the sky, sun in sky suffices. .” William S. Burroughs. The Electronic Revolution. P. 33.

I would like to raise some questions in conjunction with SUN RA that i feel may lead to a better cohesive strategy within the new emerging global tribal communities, both the community in and around Birmingham, England - where i grew up - and the communities i lived and worked amidst in America and in Europe, and towards a new global cultural meeting including everybody to attempt something approaching the best face we can put on the notion of democracy.

• * 1. Identity and the Individual relationship with the state. Who and where are you?
• * 2. The language of class warfare? Class and language and the relationships to culture?
  
• * 3. Mythological Archetypes and Cultural Memes, define yours.
• * 4. Race, sex, ethnicity and history in whose language, script and code?
  
• * 5. Tribal bonds, ceremonies, rituals and group communication activities, defined?
• * 6. Who owns and who issues the means to distribution of cultural language and information?
• * 7. How do cultural identities become so, the individual and state entity, and the alien?
• * 8. What is your tale of the tribe, can you describe another?
• * 9. How does joyful noise and music help communicate the tale of the ethnic group´s?

A few minutes spent reading into the life of Sonny Blount, and his transformation into Sun Ra will inform the reader about the social struggles, trials and ordeals he endured both physiological and psychological, that so many African American Jazzmen encountered, being on the front line of the violent and brutal assault on culture during the Nazi like medieval methods for social correction incorporating inhumane' punishment throughout the birthing of Jazz and Blues i n the United States. The openly racist targeting of Black artists, especially of the jazz persuasion outlines one of the unbearable pressures looming over many of these musical geniuses and cultural iconoclasts - some drugs, poverty, family, health, geographical locale', finances etc. It is against this backdrop of a Tsarist like tyranny and oppression of the creative and free individualism that defines ART in human beings, and against the constant struggle to get out from under the boot of ignorant authority that SUN RA bursts onto the world scene, and considering the racist historical period that he lived through he achieves a remarkable and exemplary transformation of the negative forces of hatred, intolerance, bitterness and perpetual warfare he witnessed - into a joyful noise of forgiveness - wisdom poetry and a new language of new beginnings, and moving on into the future - the creation of a musical ark upon which humanity can break free from any shackles and re-balance the equation once more, taking into consideration the other planets and dark star clusters, the great cosmos and outer galaxies, the void, the gas.

But there is no escape from himself, Sun Ra confronts the daily myth with the openness and sincerity of a Zen Monk, with adequate humour, repose, performance prowess - blurring the line between how your living and how your performing - making joyful noise and music his life blood and soul food - total communication and total immersion within the sound-scape realities and so becoming, overtime, through consistency of freedom: the physical embodiment of the sound, the poly-rhythm and melody. Reverse the process and you listen back to the music of Sun Ra and he lives within the music in a special and unique kind of way, the sound of disembodied shadows of a former world. Right there! in those spaces, yes.

“With regard to jazz, the l.p brought many changes, such as the cult of “real cool drool,” because greatly increased length of a single side of a disk meant that the jazz band could really have a long and casual chat among its instruments. – Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media. P.282.

Sun Ra represented a 21st century being, living his life as though in far in the future, like in the world of Castalia created by Herman Hesse in the classic book Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game, where a kind of musical Chess language is performed as art over long periods of time, long enough to begin registering the movements of the cosmos. Sunny was not only living this way, but all the time composing, arranging, writing, radiating his swinging rhythm, melody, syncopation for the black nation.

Crafting tools for humanity to steer themselves and spaceship earth through the unknown black mass of probabilities ahead of us, swirling about us in all directions like helium, bringing a mischievious smile to every face connected to ears that can listen to the creeping wonder and mystical surprise of cheeky chops, menacing changes, violent waves of percussion, battering of drum heads all pouring out into space - all-at-once - intertwined and entangled bits of the totality, bits probably caught in your ear for a split second a split quarter note lingers, but TIME takes its course and winds down to a pulse, a base, a foundation.The Base, yes.

“This language will be a tonal language like Chinese, it will also have a hieroglyphic script as pictorial as possible without being to cumbersome or difficult to write. This language will give one option of silence. When not talking, the user of this language can take in the silent images of the written, pictorial and symbol languages.” W.S.B. TER. P 35.

Some sources and resources:

“Sun Ra visits planet Earth” John Sinclair. Its All Good. A John Sinclair Reader. Headpress 2008

Cyberpunks and Cyberfreedom. Dr. Timothy Leary. Ronin.

Word From Sun Ra. Amiri Baraka. Blacklistedjournalist. 2001.

The Illuminati Papers. Dr. Robert Anton Wilson. Ronin Press.

Understanding Media. Marshall McLuhan. University of Toronto Press.

Blue Notes, from Joyce to Jarman. Cheryl Herr. University of Iowa.

Ploughing the Clouds. The Search for Irish Soma. Peter Lamborn Wilson. Citylights Books.

Sacred Drift. Essays are the margin of Islam. Peter Lamborn Wilson. Citylights Books.
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Rémy de Gourmont (1858-1915). French essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.

“More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Black Sonic Fiction”. Kodwo Eshun. Quartet Books.

Time Munching And The Ear Doctor Sessions.

TIMUCIN SAHIN: Fretloze Gitaren, Compositions. http://www.timucinsahin.com/home.html
TYSHAWN SOREY: Drums, water, brushes.
JOHN O'GALLAGHER: Alto Sax.
THOMAS MORGAN: Bas
BIMHUIS. PIET HEINKADE 3. AMSTERDAM. http://www.bimhuis.com/
Timucin Sahin, Kai Eckhardt, AND Owen Hart JR. Grew me a nice new set of ears at the Badcuyp, Amsterdam in 2007. So i returned to witness the spacetime technician's once more, this time at the Bimhuis with his new line up. Out the gate, out the traps, launch, go, straight off i felt i was in the right place for the evening, Timucin weaving his subtle cosmic tones and background radiation with a truly awesome flurry of fingered equations, while Tyshawn instantly abducted my ears to at least 9 simultaneous rhythm patterns, fluxt timespace signatures and all the accent and groove-feel to pull out the lilt and swing of the different junctions, at the phalanx of - intersection points - in the Plutonium jazzy-gass, splitting ears and brain-body barriers with the aroma of no-time, new time. All punching time on the chin. In a nutshell, i felt abducted by the soundscape, and the grooves satisfied by own personal glittered-jazz, drum and bass/jungle tinged taste buds like a well aged Sativa. Mwah! The show in 07 was a trio of sonic magicians, and so Timucin had all the upper register and midrange amidst Owen's intelligent drum orbits, last night however John O'Gallagher was very much with Timucin - up there - and for me pulled out, and defined like a sharp pencil line; the intricate and beatiful pan-modal Astro-neuro attainments being shared, freely with the Audience. Thomas Morgan moved with the flow and ebb of the swirling vortex, his bass talking the talk and walking up the stairs to Jupiter, Saturn and other planets that seem under investigation by the tribe of timespice engineers and sonic-fiction poets. The undertones and light whispering voices emanating from Time-munchin's calculations continue to crop up in all the right places for me, the quantum jumping compositions unveiling layer after layer of timespace, like an audio fabrige egg, with each new layer and complete new groove, feel and seemingly mode, to my ears. Now on fire, little flames symboling the tiny hairs in my ears, travelling and movement, verbs and echoes of just past places, remixed live, and brought back again, back to front, in the flickr of an eye or two. And when you think your used to the jumping around and technicolor sheets of sound, Tyshawn introduces another hot pepper, BANG BOOM,


Slamming, out of nowhere, then caress, then hyperbolic jungle-jazz-swing, then a stunning trip hop flex, all comfortable and innovative at each turn, playing snare with a bottle of water, rolling it across the snare getting the plastic crackle and fizz, then twizzling the bottled water through the space just above his set, between the two overhead mics, creating further mysterious sounding artcore entertainment, symbolic gesture, in short, Tyshawn owned everything he touched, my ears and everyone else's. Abducted by 10'000 variations on the 8 or 9 breakbeats i danced and lost my mind to in the dancehalls of Britain many years ago, which left a trace, picked up again tonight in the hardcore Drum and Bass and Sax and Guitar wisdom language. Like some of the writing of James Joyce, or Finnegans Wake, by the end of the show the 4 had put the Universe back together again, but in a whole different way using music and human ears and brains to their maximal potential, follow this! You dig! Now the street traffic sounds different to me after the show, percussive shards and trace fragments follow me out the Bimhius and down the Damrak, and the clatter of the trams is building something, i am waiting for the next launch date of Timucin (time-munching) to help me put the Universe together again and witness the tearing down, reconstructing and rebuilding of the life of the mind, or the life of the mind as i see it in 2008, fragmented times, bits and pieces and all culture and languages sirred up, whisked and baked into things, soundbites of the 21st century and all those bits and Bobs that have come before, and, i might add, the sense of the things of the future, included. In the sense of spaceways to other worlds, in the sense that vibration and Astro-Neuro attenuation through cosmic tones for cosmic culture, is out there for your to be a part of, if you can listen and trane your earwiggs. The snowballing angular turns and switching sequence puzzles ride. Together on the crest of the wave of expanding Universes, musical red shifting, and counterpointing, intersecting and jump-back assaulting of the equation. The collective whirring and mixing of pattern, rhythm, and polytonal, multiphonics flashes through the sounds spectrum in dashes and stoccato flashes, bewildering pace, slow and fast and everytime inbetween, always inbetween. Through and beyond my own comprehension, and then once more, your abducted again, sucked through a Noh-Wave Wormhole and brought home to your seat, at the show, clapping but keeping very still, but inside your wanting to dive off the roof into the cold Dutch waters below, something, to exstinguish the fires and flares started in my ears by these cats.
I hope you get to hear this group soon, too. Get some new ears for the holiday season. New music and new ways of hearing it, Timucin and his band of spacetime explorers, gathering the limbs and languages of outer-planetary entities, i like to think. How else can i put it, i was moved in new ways.

--Fly Agaric 23.

JO is for JAZZ OCTAVE: poem. 2005 SAN FRANCISCO.

Blue thunder thumbs half notes, Weeping willows look all Wes Montgomery. Art Blakey's drums of experience, Stix glossinging to Animal skinheads. Like a Taoist typesetter Theolonious fingers -Do the talking. Hornet Coletrane Ellington Fitzgerald Pharaoh New jazzeraAnnalivia Elvin Jones AfroJazz machine setter Smiling physicist Unified field theory or just sheetsOf sound?John Coltrane = physicist. Alice Coltrane - timetraveling Mother Harpist, Mythological scholar goddess. Kept Reel McCoy - Ravi Pharoah Moffet Harland - theology goods. Inside the wheels of funk -Sissy strutin spun Clockwork -Meters reformation. ESP direct sustained Magus Miles ahead Above, and beyonder. Potting string theory quilted with Jolly Grant Green Fields og gold. Charlie Bird, Donald Byrd Playing babyskyblue spells, Birds flew far and...

Fly Agaric 23. September 2005.
San Francisco.

PANNONICA - John Sinclair and his Amsterdam Blues Scholars by flyagaric23

TY is for TRANE YOURSELF. Nov. 2003

TRANE YOURSELF.
By Fly Agaric 23.


The Great hall of records getting
Looted, Dear Lord.
The gods I wonder?

Eye dreamt about a blue one legged
Thunder bolt
Containing one hundred and eight
Coltrane tomes

Ascending through time from
1967!
June
1967!
Six days war and plunder.

Sun Ra.
You fuel my Aiwass Ka.
Son of a Knew Biz dressed in
Afro Blue honey beads you color
Mental tapestry with
Sound.

Razor prose days from the Crescent city
Fill me with joy.
Especially after the rain falls
Because
I can hear the
Future.

In a sentimental moog
I rolled up glyphs into cryptic splyffs
Spark up the golden lamp love.

O Sir, is O’Sirius important?
Ayahuasca
Many strange questions in my dreams about
Cosmic Serpents.
If we are nature’s boy

Then get your evangelical hands off
Our mother’s tomb
Crusader raider.

Carefully
Place the eye of Horus on the Rekkid.
Nod your Nut.

Cut and Scratch the imagination
With A new configuration, like,
Blowing over the whirled
Inside a Syrian ruebot constructed
Sepharic
Light particles.

Sing 13 Moon invitations
to my Sun sister and heal yourself.
S/he runs between the legs of Nuit to the beat
Of acknowledgement.

Like a sun star satellite you shine on
All Nuit.
Sun of RAMMZISS, awaken.

Blowing Stellar regions through your Reedles
Onto stylus psalm needles.
Sun star groove rider.
A Passion flower-powered Goddess
Of balance.

Precession-guided weapons of love
Dissolve any empire of terror.
Pharomba
Made of a substance beyond a dream
Shimmer you and who’s army?
Onward
to the end of the beginning.

Lift the curse from your pursuance with
Ancient sounds.
Hey Wallis Budge over let Jimmy
Take over with,
Acid jewels of love juice.

Gods and dogs talk of
Emerald bullets of pure love.
My tongue spits spackled round Jazz speak like
Cool Daddy cool.
Rewind for the unwind

Love Supreme Council of
Infinity listen up!
Cosmic ambient sounds
Are sacred sentences miles beyond this one.

Trane Your Self.
Re-aim yourself
For the Tranesition.

Hawass KA A.A!
Indialivia Elvin Joanzing
Elevation.

Pyramids capped as we approach the
Witching hour
Of Transformation.

United we can Break
Any calendrical spell.
Dreamcasting wisdom through music

The traveler in soundspirit.
Escape the ape body
And head for the stars.
Where Jukeboxes play
Many of Sun-Ras
Tunes
Rejoice.
(Whispering)

Drink IZIPHO ZAM!
Awakening! Hey sweet mama
I hear a new World Coming
From a far off land.

In the Beginning was the Bird of the Nile,
And the Bird was made Flesh.

The Western Lands…
And takes off skyward.
Ascending.
Geometric forms crafted by the wind
Of Reedles in Orphic Horns.

Sonic army’s of moonchild Arkestra’s
Spill out from Jupiter’s moon like gods
On a safari.
Soar upon wings of Kamapa

Jam spore.
The spore of the words.
Folded and imploded
Gusts of Trane
Wrecking havoc.
Shredding time like Dali’
Compassionately
Weaving Illbient Jungle through
A space-time plug whole
The size of Monk’s dream.

Baby oil exchanged for stocks in
Baby flesh.
Pound for Pound.
“Yes the price, the price, we think is worth it.”
Preaches Mad Lynne Allbright.

Tiny lotus sky church gods
Speak to me in
Enochian Jabberwocky.

Next year on April 10th you will see
The Trilogy.
The Bird-headed flaming one
A Dark Star Maker
It’s just a remix of the RAW.

Severn by Severn
Saxophonic ships
Set sale toward
Sextet isles of
Aum.

Simple soul boats carry the feather
Of an
Ostrich

Get the Zero Pints? Across the hole Galaxy,
Dee
N Eye N
A
Commuted faster than Light.
Frozen spirit of Pan,
Sonic Sperm Seed

Wee
Are Astral traveling
With a prayer before dawn.

Oh Pharoah
Speak to us from beyond
Stargates.
Beyond memories of J.C.
Beyond the red black and green
Sand Castles are
Mansion worlds

Pharoah communicates
The entire legend.
The creator has a master plan!
Our Symbolic Sibilant’s have born word
unto the world.

Cosmic musical meditations mark
A Transition for mankind
Toward Interstellar space.
Oh Lord let me do
No wrong this Equinox

Speak low with triangles
And Tinkle bells.
I invoke thee,
Coltrane

The Terrible and Invisible dog,
Who dwellest in the void place
Place of the spirit

Together we can chant down Babylon
With music.
Sweet sweet music.


FLY GARCIA FLY. FLY AGARIC. CALIF GRAY.
New Orleans. 30th November. 2003.

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Edited and reset Amsterdam December 3rd 2008.

R is for RAWrientalism

RAWriental

RAWrientalism.

RAW: Robert Anton Wilson

rientalism: Orientalism.

 "The two philosophers most frequently mentioned in Finnegans Wake, Nicholas of Cusa and Bruno of Nola, taught a dialectic of resolution of opposites. Joseph Needham in his monumental Science and Civilization in China, repeatedly mentions both Bruno and Nicholas as the only two Occidental philosophers before Liebnitz to have a basically Taoist outlook" --RAW

  I've been reading and studying many texts and ideas put together by RAW over the last 10 years with a more intense and deep tissue study over approx. the last 6 years that have included remarkable meetings with RAW and some equally remarkable internet classes with him and other bright and RAWfull minds at the Maybelogic Academy from 2004-2007. Around the period that RAW went passing through the Lower lights and bardo states into that great Gig in the numberless skies i was rather frantically writing notes, going back and forth through my notes of other notes to try to represent RAW, to pay tribute to him his many lives and ideas. One year later, after many inspiring and ground breaking multimedia tributes around the world to RAW, and a re-reading of some of his texts, i feel like i have my title and my contribution, or a part of it: RAWrientalism.

"This book intends to change your way of percieving/conceiving the world, without drugs or drums or voodoo, simply by using words in certain special ways." --RAW, E-mail to the Universe.

RAW's condensed experience montage or "coex system" of communication, those certain special and cheeky ways of using words and language to the delight of his readers seem to have a distinctive "Oriental" flavor to them, if you open your taste buds up. Rawrietalism is related to the spatialized conceptions of time in themes of Chinese poetry. Ezra Pound and James Joyce are two  giants of western culture, and used effectively as investigative glosses and filters and encyclopedias to help finnish off' a Rawriental Canvas at the exhibit of Oriental Coex Systems: Taoism and Quantum Mechanics. RAW's first published article called "The Tao of Joyce. (Realist 1959)" makes clear that RAW was passionately involved with Orientalist poetic studies for over fifty years.

"Taoists were familiar with these relativistic considerations long before Einstein." he writes. 

"The Tao is in the dung," said Chuang Chou.

 IMHO RAW's prose and mixture of iconographic images from the rag bag History of the world, equal and surpass some goals and conditions set out by the likes of Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Marshall McLuhan, Timothy Leary. By just using special words in a special order. Just words, and more than words. A limitless imagination and optimism and compassion to share these experiences. To help calibrate and sensitize the neural mechanisms of perception, to help us "see" better. See more clearly, with more good data.To attain Relaxation, insights and an increased sense of the contents of one's memories.

"Peace comes of Communication" --Ezra Pound

          Maybe RAW's technical and practical skills as a satirist and writer are equalled elsewhere in the dungeons of the literary world but it was the content, both the quality of the subjective content and the "time-space-binded"  multi-cultural content of RAW's writing that set him apart from everybody else. The despicable terrors, the Taboo secrets, the stuff that nobody else dare write about, the ......... hidden things RAW applied his Genius and methodological "process" too, highlighting them and so freeing the reader in some way of the fear and Terror that hold so many of us down as secrets and taboos. All writers and artists do this to some degree, excorcising demons. A rare American, an Irishman unafraid to follow his own way to resolving the most difficult andcomplex equations. Always questioning everything wherever it takes the mind, but holding onto structures and mathematically precise models at the same time. A balanced "center" or balanced "Stereo" mixture of perception, mixing between left and right brain characteristics.

 Lightbrain Rawriental Daoism.

   

Ideogramic Method.

          RAW distilled "ideogramic Method" through the lens of Ezra Pound as a kind of RAWriental perceptional device, an operating window of visual manipulation and extended meaning with an equal and opposite persuasive power as a linguistic sequence. "ideogramic Method" makes sense to me now as a typical Rawriental journey beyond language, beyond beyond where alphabet, predicate and subject vanish, crumble and turn to gas. Synthesis and resurrection take place giving birth to a knu picture-word. A Magik sigil, with the dormant charge of "epiphany"  coiled in  the minds vine. A constant questioning and fresh establishment of free-space for free "mind" to add its own subjective meaning and playful free commentary. Like the "space" a legendary Jazz master might create seemingly out of nothing, invisible. Space. Woid. Once again the fullness of emptiness; expansion and contraction, appearance and disappearance, the  non-location of the Tao in Raw's writs. And the UNKLE Bob' principle.  

          My tribute to RAW, his lives and ideas for the most part relates to the peace that comes from balanced communication, his Taoist, Zen Buddhist qualities as a wise man of the West and his continued influence on cultural relations. Spreading Oriental intelligence of a beneficial nature to all-sentient beings.

"As is well known, the events of the Wake occur "at no spatial time" and cannot be sharply defined because "every parson, place and thing in the chaosmos anywhere at all connected with it was moving and changing all the time" (page 118). In short, we are within the Einsteinian universe; and Joyce realizes, as did Alfred Korzybski, that the aristotelian "laws of thought" cannot hold in such a universe: "The sword of certainty which would identified the body never falls" Robert Anton Wilson, (page 51). Coincidance

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Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille @ Bimhuis

Halloween 2007.
Amsterdam. Bimhuis with Astro Tempunauts:
Oliver Lake (sx) Reggie Workman (bs) Andrew Cyrille (ds)
American Free-jazz in Europe.
Messages from other galaxies and starbursts.
Gravitationally bound systems of fate
Dragged me to the gig like bossy Angels.
I soon lost myself to the music though...

Steaming passions, omni-directional forces
Multi layered timbre, time, freedom freedom
Star clusters, and various interstellar clouds
How to bring it back? it back again?

Dark Strumming from Workman,
Blowing of shaman pipes, Tibetan sounding bells and
His bow, sawing at the wound strings of his Double Bass.
Searching, always looking,
The Trio Trio Trio questioning everything
Peculiar galaxies, unknown species,
Starbursts, dark matter matters.

The spirit of American music, peering into the void,
Pop was excommunicated this Halloween in Europe.
3 peacemakers of American Jazz, peacemakers for
American Freedom, democracy, information technology,
Philosophy, Science, more than mere music i say.
These are active galactic nuclei from distant galaxies.
Gathered on samhain between nothingness & eternity.
Transformed into 3 Wizards constructing
nNon-Euclidean Jazz Magic, Mystery, ambiguity,
An awakening, masterfully crafted.
Perfect.

Saxes are hurtling into way way deep into Milky space,
Oliver Lake, with the figure of a mighty Morpheus
He serves up Red Pill after Red Pill into strange nebulae
Journey after Journey, painting the Matrix Ultra violet
A precise hurricane, rapid fire scatting Knu new new
Anti-jazz language, as Dolphy, Trane, Ornette, Sonny, Pharoah.
Popping Valve sounds like Dolphin chatter, water tight.
Then a Jungle of tone erupts, hundreds of new tone-species
Chattering,. spirits on the side of samhain
All clambering to get in on this Jam.

Andy Cyrille drums form a sound/light-house
Past Alpha proxima, towards a ring galaxy,
Seemingly able to jump quarter/half/ and full bars
Ahead or behind the isolated pulse, in an instant.
Then as if the spirits had conversed long enough
Wrestled long enough and become restless and slipped
Into hypertravel.

On the side, an Anthem of Zigzag'd melody
Accompanied by a seductive Swing, juicy roasting
Roller coaster swing, syrup sprinkled with interstellar dust,
Snap! Purrrrl purrrrl Snapta ta tata purrrrl.
Snap! One massive cracking hit! Snap! once more.
One Louder than the millions of shuffling feet of the beats
Held with Andy's left hand wand alone, his right meanwhile
Poking spells and open clusters into the alloyed cymbal
With a big "K" on it. A significant Free-jazz Doppler shift swing.

I experienced many moments of Epiphany during the show
Shattered thoughts coming together personal stuff
Getting worked out by these Chirping shaman-doctors
With the sonic Andromedae ambrosia i love so much.
Seeing their most Humble and graceful postures,
Hearing very few WORDS, and those that came were almost
A whisper. Humble. Concise. Humble Informational.

I had much gratitude for the players,
American Peacemakers, real American peacemakers
Here in Europe and roaming the transtemporal Omniverse.
Here now to save the Universe again, and tonight
Here in Amsterdam on samhain, again and again.
They did more than that though,
The Trio transfigured time/space for all of us.
There was JuJu spirit in the air, impressions of cyclic minds
Workman's hands of plasma tonight, over the Big wooden
Clef leaving no note left behind like an Octopus.
Composure of an Aura murmur.

A Super Nova birth, slapping, thumping Post Drum 'N Bass
Post all and nothing, this Trio Trio Trio questioning every
Beat, Fast forwarding language computers,
Under masterful control controlling toms.
Everywitch way, every side, globular cluster jazz.
Free. Anti-Pop. Wordless. Epic. And all that.

Andy switches to brushes., suddenly everybody rushes
And rushes and keeps streaming for some future destination
Divisions and divisions, sub divisions, crushing music theory
Smashing every genre, busting walls of sound, and re-building
From a subterranean dreamscape somewhere in Asia Major,

Palaces of fuzzy delicate crystal sculptures,
Creatures chirp from inside them just hatching in proto-song.
Breathing pulses, spinning off like asteroids after a collision
Now a Zoo, different animals calling, insects, mammals,
Strange fish and of course, birds.

Talking, talking in varied angular velocities
Getting through, like a fax machine signal, or a kind of rolling codex, Sheets of sound, phase shifts, whispering ghosts
Building sonic keys signitures with Layers of rhythm,
Layers of timbre, propagation pattern. Pattern,
Turning transparent like giant molecular clouds of Tao.
You build the melody now.
You do it!

The Trio of spacemen, all artificer, mechanic, craftsman,
True American peacemakers , afro-black Futurist Tempunauts,
Carrying the Legacy of the mighty Atom Smasher himself
Workman alone played with Art Blakey, Kenny Burrel
Roy Ayers, Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy
Herbie Mann (R.I.P) Yusef Lateef, Alice and John
Coltrane. The Masters of the Masters of Jazz
Anywhere and Everywhere, and forever.

And so i sing lofty praise in eleven sharps
Love's still alive and with us, the music lives and loves.
And these cats play their music wherever it takes them
Still today, innovating, improvising, everywitch way,
This jazz moves to a place of chaos until the love
Deep Within the music, deep within outer space suddenly
Brings us back to the earth again, Big bang!
And some healing ritualistic
Post-Bop starts up. Hear! Calls! Everywhair!

Waltz on the surface, dark undercurrents, tension-filled
Cluster fucks of jamming snake rattle jazz,
Soaring high movements of proto-galactic sax compositions,
Entire tunes in several seconds, scales, keys,
Rhythms, poked and screwed and pampered and peppered
A Frenzy of light and dark forces battling
A supercluster scale death match march at mach 4.
Ping Ting of Alloy hats to deep Bass Bass Burrr.
Tap Dancing polyrhythms, self replicating phrases
With rapidly descending intervals between phrases
Phase shifts, sonic booms, scrapping phrases
Scratching, hooting,
Pitter patter, hair whisper, blow, pop.

Wood, steel, brass, reed, through air meeting
Bio-electric interacting humans conduits into space
Mmuscles, tendons, Lungs, lips, fingers, feet:
Code breaking reality, trcik after trick aftrer trick
After treat after treat after beat.
At least temporarily, off off into deep space/time,
And back.