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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 17 Dezember 1999 (23.00 - 00.07)
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| Cut | Artist |
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| The Pendulum Swinging Wreck Jingle #01.23.wtm.96a | |
| Spectral Reach | si-{cut}.db vs Scanner [1] |
| + Under Ben Bulben (exc) | Richard Harris (William Butler Yeats) [2] |
| Black Dawn (Psychonavigation) | Bill Laswell vs Peter Namlook |
| + Various scatting tidbits | Lord Buckley [3] |
| Litany of the Dead | Mikhail Horowitz [4] |
| Soho Blue | Williams Traffic (Jack Kerouac) [5] |
| Clandestine | J. Berger [6] |
| + Vermeer | Ann Waldman [7] |
| + Poem to Jack Kerouac | Harold Norse [8] |
| Saxaphone Factory | Steve Dalachinsky [9] |
| Layin' Low | Drunken Hoodlumz [6] |
| + Lake Isle of Innisfree | William Butler Yeats [2] |
| Subway | Mikhail Horowitz [4] |
| Pome on Dr Sax | Anna Domino [10] |
| Beat Girl Blues | John Barry [11] |
| You Know | Jayne Cortez [11a] |
| An Irish Airman Foresees His Death | Shane McGowan & the Cafe Orchestra [2] |
| Politics | Karl Wallinger [2] |
| Greensleeves | John Coltrane [12] |
| + Anna Livia Plurabelle (from Finnegans Wake) | James Joyce [13] |
| Nicholas | Kenneth Rexroth [14] |
| As I Open The Window | Kenneth Patchen with the Allen Neil Quartet [15] |
| Anarchy Reggae | Anne Waldman [7] |
| Blues & Haikus (exc) | Jack Kerouac [16] |
| [1] "Behind You" is si-{cut}.db's 2nd cd. This one is an email collaboration with noise-Bedouin and sonic-voyeur, Scanner. http://home.arthlink.net/~efrans/benford Making jazz with drum & bass is a tricky affair but here he adds lush atmospheres to fill out the spindly D&B to schizo sub-genre, a music racing but hoping to slow down and contemplate at the same time. | |
| [2] "Now & In Time To Be: A Tribute to W.B. Yeats" www.grapevine-label.co.uk includes a mixed bunch of rogues. Some interesting but ultimately a lot of it is just not up to snuff as it skids into pure kitschy sentiment but Shane McGowan is excellent as is Van Morrison and the Cranberries. tops are Yeats reading "Innisfree" (a cliche he even admits that he was required to do at every reading) and Richard Harris. Yeats resources: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/2467/Yeats.html Seamus Heaney writes: 'Already, at the age of thirty-six, Yeats was something of a legend. In his day-to-day life he presented a very deliberately composed profile to the world; in the course of his writing he equally deliberately re-presented himself. In the first schoolboy letter collected in the first volume of his correspondence he told about his efforts to walk on stilts (and provided a sketch of himself doing so), and from that point onward, right down to his final, valedictory poem, "Under Ben Bulben," in which he put himself into the third person and into history as "Yeats," the compulsion was always the same -- to raise himself to a new plane and a new power. His affectations, in other words, were just one consequence of his egregious need to manifest the artistic temperament. He famously declared ,"that the man who sat down to breakfast was a bundle of accident and incoherence, whereas the man reborn in a poem was "intended" and "complete"; one way to see his life's work is as a pursuit of that "intention of completeness. A writer's style, Yeats believed, is the equivalent of self-conquest, and he always envisaged his art as the reward of labor.' From a 1997 Atlantic Monthly. | |
| [3] Lord Buckley is Ubu Roi as a jive-talking rhapsodizere and rapper nonpareil. Gene Sculatti: "Richard "Lord" Buckley (1906-60) is the embodiment of life lived coolly. If the coolest one can be is fashioning an accurate expression of what's inside, then Buckley was easily, to borrow a phrase from him, one of "the wildest, grooviest, hippest, swingin'-est, double-frantic, maddest, most exquisite" cats that ever breathed. It also helps if what's inside is good to start with. Like maybe a huge heart. Tons of compassion. A mind that spontaneously generates material to entertain itself even when there are no audiences around. Or a conviction that language itself is the headiest brew and that staying drunk is divine." More at http://www.industrialhaiku.com/LBO/LBOPages/Welcome.html | |
| [4] "The Blues of the Birth" on Sundazed tim@sundazed.com is an excellent extrapolator and educator in the further extensions and uses of hip and how the post-argot of Lord Buckley and wise-assity of Lenny Bruce can help us find the right words to criticize straight society's insanities. Historic without sounding dated. Produced by Bob Irwin and Artie Traum. Peter Schickele says of Horowitx: "Horowitz does with the English language what Jim Carrey does with his face. His stuff is not only funny, it's bracingly pungent, surprising, ear-opening, and is guaranteed to cleanse your mind of cobwebs." | |
| [5] "Williams Traffic" on Catalog. Very intriguing series of discs with very little info especially the source of the texts and/or sampled texts. There is an excellent piece by James Earl Jones and someone here reading I swear a piece of Kerouac's. | |
| [6] "Liquid Sky Music: This is Home Entertainment volume 2" 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 DJ Wally, Dj Spooky, We, I-Cue, Drunk Hoodlumz, Flüssige Luft, and others... Great psycho-active mind tappings of escape as a noble gesture. | |
| [7] "Anne Waldman Recorded Live in Amsterdam 6.2.91" Staalplaat. Recorded in Zaal 100. Staalplaat/Soyo Publishing. A nice book + cd package. Gifted poetess, one of the few women Beats to break out and become more than a mere other-sexed accessory. | |
| [8] "Harold Norse of Course" on Ins & Outs Press as masterminded by the ever active Eddie Woods, American ex-pat in Amsterdam 20+ years. It shows the vitality of the scene at that time as Woods made sure with his astute and prescient hyper-documentation. But this is how alternatives to official history arise via the prescient people who save enough of the otherwise-buried/forgotten past to post the alternate vision of what happened. For more info on the fine series of cassettes write Eddie at jenwood@internet-today.co.uk. Ginsberg wrote: "He helped continue to forge that necessary and dynamic link between aesthetics and politics that so often seems to be missing at this late date in the millennium. Brief bio of Norse: http://www.beatmuseum.org/norse/haroldnorse.html Harold Norse: born 1916, New York City. B.A., Brooklyn College 1938; M.A., New York University 1951. At age 22 in 1939 he became a member of W. H. Auden's inner circle, cited by scholar/critic Nicholas Jenkins in The New Yorker, April 1, 1996. William Carlos Williams called him "the best poet of your generation". The 10-yearmcorrespondence between Norse and Williams (1951-1961) was published by Bright Tyger, San Francisco 1990. Williams wrote the Preface to Norse's translations of G. G. Belli, the 19th-century Roman dialect poet, published by Jargon Books, 1960; then by Villiers Ltd. London, 1974 and a second US edition Perivale Press 1974. That year City Lights published Norse's Hotel Nirvana: Selected Poems, establishing him among the leading Beat poets. He was nominated for the 1974 National Book Award. Norse lived in the "Beat Hotel" in Paris, 1960-63, with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. There he wrote his experimental cut-upmnovel, Beat Hotel, published in German by Maro Verlag, Augsburg 1973, now in its 30th printing; Atticus, San Diego, Cal. 1983, and in Italian, Caneggio, 1985." | |
| [9] Steve Dalachinsky's "Incomplete Directions" on Knitting Factory www.knittingfactory.com is an interesting if sometimes creaking with that age-old problem of spoken word - it always sounds like a parody of itself as the shadow of beat and jazz poetry cadence, inflection and subject matter mires it in cliche and simulacrums of boehemian themeparks and signposts. This is sometimes what happens here but at other times I hear the clear voice of someone trying to do other things with words. Part of the good meets the bad is the accompaniment by jazz musicians. It sounds rich and soulful but it also sounds like a simulation of something you heard kerouac do 30 years earlier. But this poem with accomapniment by William Parker on upright bass is a poem dedicated to Ben Webster. Also accompanied by Thurston Moore and Vernon Reid and Matthew Shipp and various other NY jazz men. | |
| [10] "Kerouac-Kicks Joy Darkness" a tribute album with a generally good selection of work and eclectic bunch from Johnny Depp to Burroughs, from Morphine to Matt Dillon, Kerouac remixed by Joe Strummer, John Cale, Jim Carroll, Patti Smith... http://www.kerouac.com/ lively and unpredictable. Juliana Hatfield perfectly represents the goofy side of kerouac. And Domino presents an excellent take on that strangest of Kerouac novels, the boyhood gothic story of dreams and nightmares, "Dr. Sax." | |
| [11] "Beat Girl" A schlocky movie done by the astute emotion-meister of soundtracks. Famous for James Bond theme music as well as Midnight Cowboy. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~cm1jwb/barry.htm "John Barry Prendergast (to give him his correct title) was born in York, England on 3 November 1933. Initially, Barry followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a projectionist at his local cinema. However, after a spell in the army, he entered the musical world in 1955, forming the renowned jazz group The John Barry Seven. A many successful years and many hits with the Seven, Barry was eventually assigned his first music scoring jobs in 1960 - for the Richard Todd/Peter Sellers crime thriller 'Never Let Go', and the baudy British comedy 'Beat Girl'. The big break came two years later, when he composed one of the most famous movie melodies of all time - for James Bond 007 in the film Dr. No. Barry quickly rose to be one of the most sought after film music composers in Hollywood..." | |
| [11a] Cortez is a smart and ahead-of-her-time visionary and socially conscious feminist poetess, mistress of the spoken word from whom many of the pseudo spoken word mavens and rap-about-nothing-and then what rappers could really learn from this lady. She was married to Ornette Coleman. | |
| [12] "Africa/Brass Vol. 1 & 2" The John coltrane Quartet on Impulse/GRP recorded in 1961 with, among others, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, McCoy tyner and Elvin Jones. | |
| [13] "Luna Park 010" features an incredible collection of word mangling heavyweights protonouveau nonsensesound poetry. Highly recommended. With Apollinaire, Mayakovski, Joyce, Artaud, Tzara, Duchamp, e.e. cummings, gysin and others. words have never seemed so alien and other and have never served so little purpose while seeming to mean so much without knowing quite why. www.subrosa.net | |
| [14] " Kenneth Rexroth was not a member of the Beat Generation. Before this phrase was coined by Huncke, then immortalized by Kerouac, he was already a well-known poet and essayist. Rexroth was born in 1905, in South Bend, Indiana, and died in 1982, in Montecito, California. In 1940, he called for freedom from traditional styles in poetry, which he considers artificial. This attitude caused many critics to call him one of the forerunners of the Beat movement. In the 1950s , he served as a mentor of sorts to the entire Beat scene happening in San Francisco. In 1952, he published the book length story poem, The Dragon and the Unicorn that explores the nature of love.In Defense of the Earth, published in 1956 contains love poetry, poems directed toward young people, and translations of Japanese poetry. He was the organizer of the 1955 historical poetry reading at the Six Gallery, where the little-known poet, Allen Ginsberg read the groundbreaking "Howl" for the first time. Rexroth was also an accomplished painter, and translated poetry from Japanese, Chinese, Greek and Latin. He should be remembered as much for his writing as for his influence in puting the spotlight on the Beat Generation writers.For a more comprehensive look at Rexroth: http://www.txt.de/spress/beatland/homes_of/the_beat/margin/rexroth/info.htm | |
| [15] For a catalog of this proto-beat radical's list of recordings: http://www.si.edu/folkways/artist2.htm. A Kenneth Patchen Home Page, by Marcus Williamson http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Patchen/ | |