b/art's Playlist for Maandag 22 November 1999 (17.30- 19.00)
Bowles RIP #2 / JFK 36 years later / Etc.

------ "...noise, then celestial vengeance is approaching ..." Paul Bowles
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Wreck This Mess Story (vocals only) #v03.o1299
Phauss Hafiz Phauss [1]
Angel's Pin Number Zoviet France [2]
A Distant Episode Paul Bowles [3]
+ Carbon Zoviet France [2]
+ Amber Zoviet France [2]
The Simorgh Sleeps on Velvet Tongues Robert Rich [4]
"When a man has been there and undergone the baptism of solitude ... while existing in the presence of the absolute."

- Paul Bowles

 
Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record)
Assimilation Bit Tonic [5]
Infectious Dream DJ Wally [6]
Al Andalus (Dub #2) Rootsman [7]
Enter the Chuzzler Dub Funk Association [8]
Burning Sun The Illuminators [9]
Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record)
 
Tulips From Amsterdam Mantovani
+ They Saved Hitler's Brain b/art Endlezz Cazzette
Senator Kennedy possibly shot in the head / GET THE GUN Eyewitness News
Report of RFK assassination
+ Random Attractor Terre Thaemlitz [10]
+ Remix of a 1987 Broadcast "Kennedy Assassination 22.11.87" WFMU Show #55 [10]
Among others in this sound bite montage:
"Predictable Sounds of S[h]ooting Radio More Profound Than Sleepysleep" Mom of b/art
And the Motorcade Sped On Steinski & The Mass Media
The Day John Kennedy Died Lou Reed
That Was The President Phil Ochs
"She jumped and shouted 'Oh no!'" UPI Radio Transmission 22.11.63
"It's hard to tell what's really going on; people with dazed looks on their faces" AP Radio Transmission 22.11.63
Mark Lane Interviews many many eye witnesses, many of whom will latermysteriously die unnatural deaths
Other conspiracy details / Magic Bullet Theory
+ A Random Tractor Terre Thaemlitz [11]
Where the Void is Known Jeffrey Rodin [12]
Saraba We [6]
[1] "Arcana Celestia" on Multimood/Staalplaat www.algonet.se/~harakiri
[2] "Digilogue" on Soleilmoon. Their music never seems to diminish in power and enchantment
[3] "Paul Bowles Reads ..." on Spoken Arts Inc. box 289, New Rochelle, NY 10801 a 1983 reading of 2 works: The Delicate Prey & A Distant Episode. He just died a week ago at age 88 and is perhaps one of the giants of 2oth Century literature if only in the way that he sharpened his calm rational eye for the irrational and sinister in the human soul. In the way that he chose solitude over media hype. Avoiding the public eye and despite that choice (and also becausse of it) becoming renowned for his work. Born in 1910 on Long Island, dropping out of college, he began to wander to look for where he belonged. He studied music with Aaron Copland but remained restless. He took the advice of Gertrude Stein, and went to Morocco. He became over time totally absorbed by the existential and simple brutal beauty of the place. This affected his writing no doubt as all his fiction has this brutal view of human nature. People faced with life and death decisions. He roamed Morocco after making it his home making field rcordings for his own reference and fascination but also traditional music for the Library of Congress. On short and infrequent troips back to the states he wrote scores for such works as Tnennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie and Suddenly Last Summer, Watch on the Rhine. Bowles always remained the other, outside the hub bub that accompanied the rise, redux and retailing of the Beats all of whom made their pilgrimages there. He remained on the outskirts, maintaining the status as a guru, someone that people sought out. He developed friendships with burroughs and Gysin who were also greatly influenced by Arabic culture. In fact, it is this region, Tanger, as an international port, a free city, that served as geographical reference and inspiration for the Interzone imaginal geography in Naked Lunch. At his death he had lived some 50 years in Tangier at the Imeuble Itesa. Listening to him read or reading his works yourself you partake of that baptism of solitude that he took. Solitude and the stark landscape, the few people who inhabit this land left their marks on him and all of us. One of the century's greats is gone but cannot be forgotten. His writing is always the perfect antidote to all the poseurs, the hyper-active muddled behemoths of sophisticated urban writing. Manners, gestures, word play, the rarefied notions of urbanity all get carved away by the sharp blades that affixed to every edge and side of every word. There is no way to avoid getting cut when you read Bowles. He marks you. I highly recommend his collection of very short tales called Points in Time.
[4] "The Throne of Drones" on Asphodel www.asphodel.com number 2 in a series of drones that enter the marrow of the bone. Soul chill-out.
[5] This piece by Bit Tonic or Iris Garrelfs co-organizer of Sprawl, the London label which insists on exploration via electronics. Resident DJ at the Sprawl Club and various other great places in London. This is one of the beautiful pieces that I find myself putting on cd repeatrepeatrepeat... Will be performing as part of the Triple X Festival here in Amsterdam on the evening of 26.11 at the Westergasfabriek. MORE INFO: www.triplex.nl
[6] "Liquid Sky Music: This is Home Entertainment volume 3" on Home Entertainment / Caroline marketing@caroline.com is a very intriguing collection of musical glitches (made to groove) intercepted from the furthest reaches of space. Includes Lux, Recloos, DJ Wally, The Bronx Warrior. Dj Spooky, the Alien Mind, We and others...
[7] "Versions of the Unseen" on BSI info@bsi-records.com is remixes of Rootsman's "Realms of the Unseen" by BSI sound jockey Landau, Didier B or Ras Boras of the excellent French post-punk-gone-dub-band, Treponem Pal, and the Rootsman himself. The Rootsman's work lilts and thunders, beautiful yet dynamic. This grows denser and less temporal, it grooves deep.
[8] "Sound of the Heavyweight" by the Dub Funk Association http://www.tantyrecord.com Imagine my utter surprise when I beheld a dinosaur bone in the shape of an actual 45. The cognitive dissonance was only exacerbated when I put this pressed petroleum on a turntable. It is a seamless root-to-treetop, gut-to-cerebrum appropriation of easy beat grooves and dub as it churns and shimmies in the grooves anxious to take flight. Guaranteed to get people at a party asking: what is this!?
[9] "Beyond Planet Dub" on Planet Dog www.ultimate-records.co.uk is a good series of CDs which fuses the logical sonic connections between Dub, ambience, and "ethnic" musics that transport listeners to other states of mind. A mixed bag here including such stellar stalwarts as Silicon Drum, Zion Train, the Woodshed, the Mad Professor and, of course, the Rootsman, a former Leeds dj who somehow manages to creative a sensitive music that does not go soggy into the night. He utilizes world ambiences without letting them sound derivative or plunderous.
[10] "Kennedy: Conspiracy Beyond Coincidence" by bart plantenga in LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR [1989]: The Warren Commission, the official body entrusted to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, set out to prove their own pre-conceived conclusion: that Lee Harvey was the lone crazed gunman. The Commission felt, perhaps, that the notion of conspiracy would have been too cataclysmic for America to weather. Thus, somewhat unwittingly, they played into the hands of the conspirators. In its quest to drain the event of hysteria and political paranoia, the Commission was forced to overlook and distort valuable evidence. This led to the formulation of the desperately absurd Single bullet Theory.

Oswald , [purportedly] positioned behind and above the motorcade in the [Dallas] book depository, could only have fired and hit the motorcade twice in the documented elapsed time [1.8 secs.] Thus the Commission had [to have] one bullet passing through the bones and flesh of Kennedy and Texas Governor Connally 5 times without suffering any distortion itself. This was the same bullet that mad a mid-air 90-degree turn before entering the body of Connally. The 'magic' bullet stands at the crux of the absurdity between the convoluted official explanation and the contrariness of the facts.

  • Fact: was a very poor shot, and was using and old and inaccurate rifle with a scope that didn't work.
  • Fact: Ballistics and acoustics experts discerned 3 to 4 shots.
  • Fact: Marksmen with the best rifles could not duplicate Oswald's 'performance' in re-enactments - even with the target standing still!
  • Fact: The Zapruder film corroborates countless eyewitness' testimony that JFK's brains were blown out the BACK of his head. That's why a motorcycle policeman following the motorcade was splattered with brain matter, which logically implied a gunman positioned to the front of the motorcade. The 'magic' bullet was meant to counteract the devastating and disturbing facts that strongly implied conspiracy, a conspiracy that could have severely undermined the people's perception of their own government's conduct.
  • Fact: Unauthorized surgery was performed on the corpse of JFK n route from Dallas to ?Washington which is why the Washington autopsy differs so greatly from the Dallas autopsy. Bullet trajectories were altered and exit wounds became entrance wounds. This enabled the plotters to hood wink the Commission (who saw only SKETCHES of the wounds - NO PHOTOS!) and make the Single Bullet Theory feasible. This surgery also enabled attention to be deflected fro the grassy knoll gunmen to that of the book depository scenario. Despite the fact that the grassy knoll, to the right and front of the motorcade at the moment of the shots, is where over 50 witnesses (all but ignored by the Commission) saw or heard evidence of shots. 18 of these contradictory witnesses died with several years of the assassination - 12 violently. The statistical probability of this happening was estimated at well over a TRILLION to one!

A major ploy of those actually responsible was to associate with Russia, leftist groups, and Cuba. [Recent information reveals that Castro offered to cooperate with lie detector tests and other help but was ignored]. There was Oswald's well-documented 'defection' to Russia and the well-published altered photos of him toting his rifle and radical literature in some backyard. Then there is were his documented protests on behalf of a pro-Cuban group which had the same New Orleans address as Mob-CIA operatives who were plotting to re-invade Cuba. Some of these highly visible ploys failed. Both Russia and Cuba denied him permanent residency.

All this evidence was tailored to fit the leftist-commie-Cuban gunman scenario which was employed in an attempt to topple the Castro government via a wave of Anti-Cuban sentiment and collective American patriotic rage. When, in a post-assassination press conference the Dallas District Attorney implied that right wing extremists might be involved he was quickly "corrected" by one Jack Ruby, posing as a reporter. But this POLITICAL scenario failed to coalesce when the commission went for the more innocuous crazed lone gunman package. The conspirators DID manage to deflect the heat by providing the commission with the neatly packaged solution. And when began to sing his 'patsy' tun, he got his from Jack Ruby, strip joint owner and host to many Mobsters, Teamsters and Dallas cops. With the designated fall guy silenced, the mob quickly offered to defend Ruby.

Who stood to gain from Kennedy's death? The Mob, the CIA, the FBI, the Teamsters, Army Intelligence and Anti-Castroite leftovers from the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco. Each had their gripes and motivations. Each, in their own way, needed to avenge and the heat JFK and RFK were applying, forcing each group into desperate corners. Each of these interest groups was seeking to recoup monetary losses, their power and secrecy that the Kennedy brothers were intent on controlling. The Mob wanted their lucrative casinos in Cuba back. The CIA, in a fit of twisted patriotism, wanted to avenge the Bay of Pigs failure and reassert its influence over foreign policy. The invasion was being orchestrated by none other than future Nixon 'plumber' E. Howard Hunt, a virulent Kennedy-hater.

But this was not to be: More and more it seemed that the Kennedy brothers were intent on running contrary to the interests of the aforementioned potential conspirators, all of whom could have been involved in the assassination through a complex network of overlapping and mutually beneficial motives.

Kennedy had riled them all by singing a tune of conciliation and peace with both Russia and Cuba. He reviled the CIA for their continued misinformation while continuing their attempts to poison Castro. He also criticized the CIA for assassinating President Diem in South Vietnam behind his back. He fired CIA head Dulles and called for restrictions on CIA activity and also urged for accountability of FBI activities. This led J. Edgar Hoover to vindictively undo JFK's efforts.

JFK met with French President DeGaulle to discuss backing out of Vietnam. Peace there threatened all the principle potential conspirators. involved. No more Southeast Asian heroin dollars for the CIA-Mob-Army. No hope for Mob casinos in Cuba. JFK & RFK were also hotly pursuing investigations that would establish that the Mob controlled the Teamsters Union and was busy siphoning off millions of dollars of Teamster pension funds into their own accounts. Mobsters glibly and boldly called for Kennedy's murder. Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa [who mysteriously disappeared some 15 years later in a murder that has never been solved] was indicted 3 times during the Kennedy administration war on organized crime and was all set to go to trial, as were several Cuban-involved Mobsters just before the time of the assassination.

After JFK's death, pursuit of organized crime and CIA/FBI accountability dramatically all but disappeared. In 1972, Richard Nixon pardoned jailbird Hoffa who had finally been held accountable for his organized crime ties and was serving time in prison. In exchange for Teamster fund contributions to the Nixon re-election campaign. . In 1973, E. Howard Hunt was caught up in the Watergate scandal and threatened to blow Nixon's cover if he didn't get an adequate fund and alibi. Hunt declared: "The Watergate bugging is only one of a number of highly illegal conspiracies engaged in by one or more of the defendants at the request of the White House officials. These undisclosed crimes can be proved." Nixon nervously warned advisors John Dean and John Haldeman that Hunt "might blow the whistle." Ad Infinauseum. For more info check out THEY'VE KILLED THE PRESIDENT by Robert Sam Anson. SEE Also APPENDIX [13] below.

[11] "Ambient System II" on Instinct features 2 pieces by the excellent Terre Thaemlitz.
[12] Jeffrey Roden jgroden@earthlink.net on Big Tree. Beauty broods across these tracks like a contemplative mendicant. Not only hints at Zoviet France, those eerie moments where silence requires reflection but also endeavors to fuse jazz with ambience. Do I hear both Vinnie Riley AND Wes Montgomery?

[13] APPENDIX
Random Notes from: THE SEARCH FOR LEE HARVEY by Robert Groden. this is a very convincing photo narrative. With photo captions such as: "hundreds of witnesses chase an assassin up the grassy knoll..."

Other photos reveal Jack Ruby on grassy knoll in with crowd of witnesses. a number of people who knew Ruby feel strongly that this is him (on grassy knoll). An intriguing book that asks questions like why was jack ruby in the Texas theatre when they caught.

A morgue photo reveals the Police brutality that was inflicted upon. wow does he have an amazing black eye and other bruises.

The interrogation of for 12 hours is one of most amazing details ever into the investigation of the assassination: there was no steno no tape recorder no notes just some vague recollections of what was supposed to have said.

on JFK "My wife and I like the president's family. They are interesting people. I have my own views on the president's National policy. I have a right to express my views...I am not a malcontent; nothing irritated me about the president."

300 plus witnesses of the shooting on November 22, 1963 have died. many of them violently and or otherwise mysteriously or unnaturally ...

in press conference jack ruby, strip club manager and murderer of, is present at everything to do with and is friends with mob, FBI, cops and press because he used to supply girls to many of them corrects the DA when the DA stated that lee had been member of the Free Cuba Committee. Ruby called out the correct name, Fair Play for Cuba Committee (which was located in New Orleans in same building housing CIA anti-Castroites...)

ruby was friends with many mobsters inc. Paul "needle nose" labriola!!!!! but also went to Cuba at behest of Giancana, Trafficante and Marcello to help destabilize Castro!!!! and retake the casinos from that Castro swine! he also worked as a courier for the mob WHILE being in the employ of the FBI!!!! this guy liked the excitement I guess. of course he was heavily in debt business wise so he was easily swayed to rat on whomever.

Giancana was shot to death, Johnny Roselli who was going to sing for assassinations committee was found dismembered in an oil drum!!!

at 4am Nov. 24 ruby and 2 others take a Polaroid of a billboard that says SAVE OUR REPUBLIC / IMPEACH EARL WARREN...

at 11 am Nov. 24 ruby is allowed to use back exit to get into police HQ

when is being led past ruby he makes eye contact with him. his stare is fixed on ruby. of course they had been seen together in carousel club and other places prior to this. one stripper was introduced to by ruby.

phone records discovered by phone comp. people show many calls between the two.

after murder detectives find $2000 on ruby and $10,000 in trunk of his car. bank records show no transactions

but most interesting is ruby in prison: "is there any way to get me to Washington?...I would like to request that I go to wash. and you take all the lie detector tests that I have to take. it is very important (e. warren disagrees) I want to tell the truth and I can't tell it here (prison). ... my life is in danger here... there is a john birch society right now in activity and major general Edwin Walker (right wing nut fired by JFK by the way for screwing up the bay of pigs) (and who was accused of trying to kill in the rifle attack) is one of top men of this organization...

"Johnny Roselli told jack Anderson that ruby was just the kind of foot soldier the mob could call on at the spur of the moment to silence a witness...there is every indication that ruby stalked and assassinated lee to silence him, and that he acted on behalf of those above him in the mob."

Senator Hale Boggs (died in plane crash) "Hoover lied his eyes out on, on Ruby, on their friends, you name it."

"Oswald's statement "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir" has been tested by Psychological Stress Evaluators and Voice Stress Analyzers which are lie detectors for recorded statements. His statements have passed the tests as truthful every time."


Wreck This Mess 10 years in the air/area = Amsterdam. Paris. NY. thanx Black Sifichi
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