tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67499616656522267382024-03-13T15:09:27.020-07:00NO PART OF ITArvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-20660713165777934172021-11-22T04:10:00.001-08:002021-11-22T04:10:00.155-08:00Hiatus<p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4y7P4ZZ-08E/YZeTjJcadjI/AAAAAAAAGA4/LPOpT5ZOxV8chr7vvq7jMps5cDgaJoNCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/a0391470968_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4y7P4ZZ-08E/YZeTjJcadjI/AAAAAAAAGA4/LPOpT5ZOxV8chr7vvq7jMps5cDgaJoNCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/a0391470968_10.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">NO PART OF IT won't be operating with this dumb blogger interface anymore. In the last couple of years, it has become impossible to format text or embed media, among other things. The label itself is also on hiatus, to some degree. There is a co-release of the collaboration between <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-safety-zev" target="_blank">Illusion of Safety & Z'ev</a> still coming. It's been batted around for over a year now, but I'm told it is in production. There are a couple of relatively new lathes available<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/"> at bandcamp</a>, but otherwise, the label is dormant. This <a href="https://linktr.ee/nopartofit" target="_blank">link</a> will help people keep abreast of any developments from Arvo outside of the label as well as in, but otherwise, the label is more or less indefinitely on hiatus. I can't say there won't be extremely limited things made available if the spirit moves me, but I can't promise those things either. The world is constantly shifting, and a foundation good enough to keep a label running is hard to come by. Also, the interview series is now over, with 33 interviews posted since March of 2019. Because of the aforementioned counterintuitive formatting headaches that blogger has recently implemented, the most recent two interviews from the series have been expedited to <a href="https://arvozylo.medium.com/interview-series-33-brandon-davis-1ac73323160d?sk=15db7784e1237b41de96b7f6580508f4" target="_blank">A</a></span></span><a href="https://arvozylo.medium.com/interview-series-33-brandon-davis-1ac73323160d?sk=15db7784e1237b41de96b7f6580508f4" target="_blank">rvo's medium site</a>. Thanks to all who supported!</p>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-13943302959226802292021-11-13T05:44:00.002-08:002021-11-19T03:50:02.882-08:00Interview Series #33: Brandon Davis<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GeYQvId5P2U/X70TRho_XJI/AAAAAAAAFiU/LXhqmACO1gcWWRxJ-KyNrPg8VEvVInnrACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/brandon%2Bdavis.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GeYQvId5P2U/X70TRho_XJI/AAAAAAAAFiU/LXhqmACO1gcWWRxJ-KyNrPg8VEvVInnrACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/brandon%2Bdavis.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Each individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed at a bar. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I think I met Brandon Davis when his Electric Set project was doing noise, and I'd been on the bill in some way. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He'd lived above the Reversible Eye venue, which I frequented often, and prior to that, was involved with Indian Jewelry. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">At one point, he'd curated a 26 piece ensemble that I took part in. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Since then, he has spent time living in Germany, Copenhagen, and Spain, where he is now managing some sort of collective that involves healing, at a community center that seems to be pretty well isolated. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He currently has a project with Marie Mark Anderson called </span></span><a href="https://freakslabel.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-not-enough" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Actual Figures</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; vertical-align: inherit;">1. What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</span></span></span></b></span></p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Comics, economics and Arrington De Dionyso</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">2. What do you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I do it as a way of life and if anyone were to ever ask me, the way is the art.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> 3. How would you describe what you do? </span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I live to serve. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I make other people's things happen.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the early days I was interested in the spectacle and the value of objects. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Then I decided that objects didn't matter and it was all about the living thing. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Nowadays I think that a lot of things don't even need to happen.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> 5. How would you describe your philosophy?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The world is the way that you say that it is and you make it that way when you say that it is.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If not, what is your favorite conspiracy theory?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I believe this things are real in the material sense where each thing in itself is represented by 360 degrees of subjective possibility. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I think the very large notion of "super-natural" events, includes some very real phenomenon. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Some of our attempts to explain that which we experience produces these conspiracy theories that are so wild that I can't help but love them. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I love the spirit of the flat earth movement because they simply reject everything with a simple, "nope." </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I like the ease with which people who believe in the Mandela Effect can imagine the instantaneous creation of an entire universe that only exists to satisfy their ego.</span></span></div><span></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> 7. What would you say was your most definitive experience?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I was lucky enough to watch Christoph Schlingensief put together his last work, “Via Intoleranza.” </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He was dying of cancer and putting every last bit of life he had into this opera. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I was coming off of a tour where I got very sick and we got robbed of all our gear. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The robbery happened at the beginning of the tour and all the money was at the end of the tour so we had to borrow random instruments every night and do what we could do. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Most of the time I was so sick that I could only lie in the back of our van coughing up blood until it was time to play. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">That was when I became firmly rooted in the notion of the NEVERSTOP way of life.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If not, what is something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone would ever ask?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I spent the last two years living isolated in the country. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I worked in a garden and observed natural processes that eroded a lot of the programmed errata from a life time of city living. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There is so much that goes into keeping us alive and our consumerist lifestyle is a large part of what keeps us fighting amongst ourselves. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If anyone is interested in going through this process at our place, they should get in touch with me. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The quarantine fucked up our residency schedule so we are in a position to imagine a new way forward. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">We are looking for the right kind of people, it could be you.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> 9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? </span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; vertical-align: inherit;">If I was stranded on a desert island I'd probably want to listen to the Cramps, "Bad Music for Bad People." </span></span></span></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; vertical-align: inherit;">10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can recall? </span></span></span></b></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Sitting in a high-chair, it was a birthday party and there was cake and candles. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I didn't know what was going on.</span></span></span></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">11. Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">To what extent?</span></span></span></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I wish I was but I am not. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I just try to not know anything about people anymore. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Anytime I have met people I idolize, they were in the same fucked up place I was. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Poor them. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Poor all of us.</span></span></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">12. Do you have any heroes or heroines? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Who are they?</span></span></b></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, writer and professor among so much more. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">His work around Team Human serves as a connecting point for all the solutions we are looking for to save the world.</span></span></div><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">13. What would you like to have on your epitaph? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Or what is your favorite quote?</span></span></b>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Be Kind</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-36307788496635154872021-10-13T02:47:00.146-07:002021-11-12T05:00:17.726-08:00Interview Series #32: Hawthonn<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed at a bar. In this particular case, we decided to continue the series after 30 has been scheduled. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pfrRgkwnr0w/YBeZEBVNfCI/AAAAAAAAFt4/xj9OY7fC-PEo4G7EcmbNwpHFMx3lUkoXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1184/At_Wharf_Chambers-Briony_Charvas.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="1184" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pfrRgkwnr0w/YBeZEBVNfCI/AAAAAAAAFt4/xj9OY7fC-PEo4G7EcmbNwpHFMx3lUkoXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/At_Wharf_Chambers-Briony_Charvas.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">At_Wharf_Chambers, photo by Briony Charvas</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif"><div style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif"><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://xetb.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Hawthonn</a> is the duo of Layla and <a href="https://scarletimprint.com/phil-legard" target="_blank">Phil Legard</a>. They both take on an aura of serious, scholarly occult study, and it comes through in their audio work. Phil Legard is a writer, teacher, lecturer, and academic, generally surrounding matters of the occult and underground music. I have corresponded with Layla Legard a bit, but have not pryed into any other work on the side (outside of music projects) that she may be doing. I do know, through her facebook page, that there can be some magnificent fog where they live, and being from America, the area seems to be drenched in mysticism to me. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif"><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> I think I first discovered their album <a href="https://xetb.bandcamp.com/album/red-goddess-of-this-men-shall-know-nothing" target="_blank">Red Goddess (of this men shall know nothing)</a> on Spotify, as it was recommended to me after listening to <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Omala-Germ/master/82281" target="_blank">Omala</a>. Both projects I'd eventually recommend to anyone who was asking for artists who can approximate the particular drive and energy put forward by the legendary, metaphysically-driven experimental band <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010412185741/http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/coil/coil.html" target="_blank">COIL</a>. Incidentally, <a href="https://xetb.bandcamp.com/album/hawthonn" target="_blank">Hawthonn's self-titled release</a> is inspired by and dedicated to the late Jhonn Balance of COIL. Not limited to one-dimensional posturing and homages, Hawthonn (and the duo's related output in general), tend to create their tracks to be unmistakably imbued with symbolism. It's not necessary to know what exactly is going on, the presence of intricate stratification can be felt more than understood within many of Hawthonn's sound-structures. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif"><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">While their project's popularity has risen to levels of being included in Netflix's "New Pope" series featuring John Malkovich, and great press in general, the Legards are still releasing physical media (as well as digital only releases) that comes in burlap sacks, CDRs with ornate booklets, and limited lathe cuts that come with "unique toad charm, two badges, and photograph". Their concept of experimental folk music infused with refined, yet studiously unusual electronics, is unparalleled. Their presentation of occult concepts is as transparent as it is carefully obscured, and their balance between sophistication and raw intuition, at least to me, is truly remarkable. </i></span></p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" id="m_7349020821795392429gmail-docs-internal-guid-30839e7f-7fff-ae07-4eb7-e7ac61a77816" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span class="im"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Deserted medieval villages! We like having a focus for our projects - somewhere to repeatedly explore. With lockdown limiting our prospects for travel, it was good that there are lots of these sites fairly local to us. They’re unassuming - lumps and bumps in the ground - genuinely esoteric landscape features, and there’s a lot of scope for pushing your own narrative or interpretation: from visualising what it once was, to looking at the hard archaeology. The subtle features are so compelling, the absence of anything much drives you to try and see them by some other means. I think my attraction was due to the current plague-times. People imagine medieval villages becoming deserted due to plague, but researching more if seems like it is often due to the land-owners fucking over the lower classes: clearing the villages for sheep grazing and so on… this goes one well into the industrial revolution, when enclosure acts expel the final tenant-farmers and push everyone toward the cities. There’s a medieval chapel at Lead, sitting in a sheep field which would once have been a busy manorial village… we’ve been recording some vocals for our new album there. Also we’ve started learning Welsh.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: I don’t identify with either of those words. I certainly wouldn’t say I do it for fun… it’s stressful at times, but often cathartic and essential.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: How do you distinguish between an artist and hobbyist? Is it about remuneration? Time spent on work? Self-identification? Drive? Unsuitability to do anything else? On the underground, most people have other jobs since experimental music rarely sells out arenas, and the only alternative - just constantly touring and sleeping on floors most of the year - isn’t too healthy. Artists are everywhere: I like the example of Philip Glass, who was a plumber and a taxi driver when not touring with his ensemble. Did he suddenly become an ‘artist’ when the bucks started rolling in?</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. How would you describe what you do?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I dunno. Fleetwood Mac plays Coil? We usually concentrate on trying to make music or sounds that are fairly unique, and we use a lot of imaginative approaches to music - walking landscapes, visualisations, the occasional ritual. We don’t think much about music in terms of sounding like some established genre, or using well-trodden chord progressions etc. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: A lot of what I do that seems to be most productive is dreaming - the last album, Red Goddess, has a lot of references to mugwort because we were experimenting with dream enhancement and I do have a lot of vivid dreams that seem to hold synchronicities or relevance to work we are doing. My unconscious self has a lot of good ideas and strong images - I like that the dream world is where we can communicate freely with the dead too - during working on the first album which was a tribute to Gef/Jhonn I had so many dreams of meeting with him and talking to him, it felt like we were genuinely communicating with him on some level and all of those dreams fed into the lyrical and musical process. This time round for the new album we have done some ritual visionary work based around moon cycles and some of the tracks have come from those experiences of altered states. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: Layla did actually suggest that ‘dream pop’ was maybe the closest genre bracket… although we never use pop structures, the ‘dream’ part is certainly accurate.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: For a long time I didn’t feel comfortable just sitting down and directly ‘making some music’, or referring to myself a musician at all. I have always had obsessional interests in places and pilgrimage and music is the ideal way for me to distill that thought and activity into creative process but I suffer from “imposter syndrome” and discomfort with identifying with that label. I needed a lot of abstraction and process to feel at ease with what I’m doing musically, as well as it being a necessary outlet for the things that I’m interested in. I’ve gotten a lot better at just going straight into creating lyrics, sounds and melody over the last couple of years but Hawthonn is always going to be much more than that. I like the process too, even though it means writing new music takes a long time. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I think things have come a long way since the first Hawthonn album, particularly in terms of the complexity and quality of our productions - and playing live over 2018-19 also really helped push Layla’s voice into new levels of clarity and confidence. It was also good for me: I absolutely loathed playing shows when I had a solo project, so it has been great to play gigs and find that so many people appreciate what we are doing - we’ve had some real highs particularly supporting Gwenno, who is so immersed in lore, poetry, and language that it is humbling, and playing Listen to the Voice of Fire in Aberystwyth and getting to listen to a rare performance by our hero, Johann W. Light. I’m pretty sure that our new album is going to be a huge improvement on Red Goddess, in terms of performance, production, and everything else.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. How would you describe your philosophy?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: I don’t subscribe to any particular philosophy…</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I’m vaguely existentialist or Foucauldian. Depends how I feel that morning.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If not, what is your favorite conspiracy theory? </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Well, our first album was a sincere attempt to engage in some sort of communication with the dead… whatever that might mean. You can’t be academic about these things: if something happens or manifests, and you can interact with it, then it is a reality. I have had lots of uncanny, wyrd experiences, manifestations of ghosts, demons, gods, whatever they may be - I like to keep an open mind.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I’m pretty fond of the idea of the ‘imaginal’ - but in the sense that we have inner experiences that are powerful and more than ‘mere’ daydream: those profound visions, or vivid images which shock you out of your stupor. I can’t say I believe they reflect any sort spiritual reality (- I am a vocal anti-essentialist and anti-transcendentalist despite my interest in the occult -), but their pursuit is something we’re always interested in, and we often use some ‘magical’ techniques such as herbal brews, guided meditations, and scrying to gain access to these states. As for conspiracy theories - most of them are junk and fundamentally serve oppressive power structures and help them to demonise their others. But I do remember a time in the 90s when it was all considered wacky counter-cultural fun...</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. What would you say was your most definitive experience?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Visiting the Druid’s Circle at Penmaenmawr in my early teens… it gave me a sense of the importance of pilgrimage and place. I don’t know how to describe it - every time you visit you are enriched by these places. Reading the Modern Antiquarian by Julian Cope sparked me starting to visit places of power again in my early 20s, and then getting to work on Almias in 2010 (a project with Phil), which helped me to articulate those feelings musically.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I’ve talked a lot in older interviews about my own encounter with the holed stone at Men-an-Tol, which seemed to trigger some sort of mystical state, and made me obsess over a landscape which seemed completely enchanted. Although I connect that encounter with becoming a more ‘serious’ musician, I can also think of lots of other moments in the past which led me to that point, particularly as a child: seeing a stunted and wind-blasted hawthorn at Troller’s Gill whose spirit I felt was haunting me, seeing Almscliffe Crag silhouetted against a brooding sky in the back of my mother’s car, and so on, all seemed to foreshadow that experience and the full-tilt obsession with the affective power of landscape.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone would ever ask?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laya: Sulis Noctis, with our darling friend (and mastering engineer) Gregg Hermetech, which is dark folk music - a lot straighter than Hawthonn. I’m doing vocals on a few other collaborative projects, but can’t say much at the moment!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: It’s not musical, but Scarlet Imprint recently published ‘An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke’, co-written with Al Cummins. It transcribes and provides commentary on the demonic magical workings of the brutal Elizabethan bastard Sir Humphrey Gilbert, it was quite a lengthy project, begun in around 2011, so good to see it finally out there! We’ve also been working with a site called the Old Corpse Way, with our friend Graham (who has a project called Bore Hole). We’ve put out a few tracks recorded there as part of commissions (from The Quietus/Aerial Festival and one from Goldsmith Uni’s Fringe and Underground Music Group). Hopefully we might bring all our work together to do some sort of split release in the future.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Coil’s Astral Disaster - that’s a perfect record. The Duellists’ English Hurdy Gurdy Music, and maybe throw in some 1970s tapes of Gaelic psalmody.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: Although I have lots of records, this kind of question just makes my mind go blank… I guess if I was on a desert island, and I happened to also have a record player, I’d choose something that would keep my spirits up. Maybe I’d listen to Pere Ubu’s Modern Dance, while haplessly trying to catch fish and suffering from heatstroke...</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can recall?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Being pushed in a pram down Balaam’s Lane, Mossgate, to look at the horses, and my mum showing me catkins in the hedges, and around the same age collecting frogspawn to put in our pond.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: Looking out at the fields that were behind my parents’ house, watching a tractor milling about. It’s a housing estate now, but I like that I can legitimately wax lyrical about “when it were all fields, lad”.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: It depends on the person, the flaws, and also whether the art is worth validating those flaws or shortcomings for. I don’t really have any energy or time for domestic abusers, misogynists or fascists. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I think it helps if people aren’t bellends to begin with. There’s nothing more annoying than having ‘that friend’ who makes you wince every time they open their mouth because you know they are about to say something meaninglessly ‘provocative’. I’d really had enough of that schtick by the early 2000s - who wants to share a platform with their bitter, racist, emotional button-pushing uncle? Sorry for stereotyping the uncles out there, hah! Fortunately we know enough decent people now that it’s rarely an issue...</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12. Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Neil Campbell - he’s lovely, and incredibly productive - while maintaining a high level of quality in his work. Everything he puts out is gold!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: John Godbert - such a character, and a great artist… the ideal role-model for my own later years. I also mentioned Johann Wlight, who makes the most sublime music - even though it disappears the moment you take your attention off it. And do we even have to mention another John, or should I say Jhonn?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: Oh of course, Jhonn and Peter! Hildegard von Bingen too - fellow migraineur. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: Laurie Spiegel, too. Beyond her music, I love her writing, and how introspective she can be about music and technology.</span></p><span class="im"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. What would you like to have on your epitaph? Or what is your favorite quote? </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layla: I visited Highgate Cemetery years ago and saw Patrick Caulfield’s grave, which has DEAD written in negative space which was delightful. I thought it was a spectacular monument to death-positivity and acceptance. I love the pre-Victorian trends for memento mori funereal art - particularly in Scottish kirkyards where they have rows of carved skulls and bones decorating the gravestones and the more honest epitaphs - I was what you were, you will be what I am. I think culturally we have become detached from the realities of death and mourning is often far removed, sanitised and euphemistic - “fell asleep” instead of dead. Seeing the crises around the world in death care related to Covid though - we are seeing our mortality more clearly now. The corpses piling up do not lie. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil: I’m not ready to accept my mortality… Hmm, I think that’s what I’d have written on my epitaph.</span></p></span><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 2px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: center; width: 22px;"></div>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-22700771866302894562021-09-13T00:00:00.001-07:002021-09-13T21:47:01.720-07:00Interview #31: Ralph Gean<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-awBL6spVI2U/YF7OWVJj-EI/AAAAAAAAF00/1TsnViM-YDEJrVMAN9T3EW-k-jJaQgvYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/1990s4gregory%2Bego.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-awBL6spVI2U/YF7OWVJj-EI/AAAAAAAAF00/1TsnViM-YDEJrVMAN9T3EW-k-jJaQgvYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1990s4gregory%2Bego.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo by Gregory Ego, 1990s Courtesy of RalphGean.com</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>When I started this interview series, <a href="http://ralphgean.com" target="_blank">Ralph</a> was one of the first people I asked about. It turned out that it would go back and forth between myself and Little Fyodor how best we could make this happen, being that Ralph Gean is not too keen on the internet. I first saw Ralph in 2011 or so, and his performance was magical. An analog film projector was dying as he was performing, and what was being projected seemed to be melted film for a lot of the time. That gave Gean's performance an added strangeness, and an altogether epic feel, as if we were all part of an historical moment. Even without that added effect, Ralph was no less than captivating, just himself with an acoustic guitar. Little Fyodor took me to have "fish n' chips" at a place in Denver when I was there (there were no potato chips involved, which boggled my midwestern mind). Ralph described the affect that rock n' roll had on him when it first came out, and how it sort of obliterated what came before, and took everyone by surprise. Thankfully, eventually, <a href="http://littlefyodor.com" target="_blank">Little Fyodor</a> was able to transcribe an interview from my questions, and so thanks go out to both Ralph Gean and Little Fyodor for making this happen! -AZ</i></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Hi, I’m Little Fyodor, friend of
Ralph Gean. Ralph seemed to have quite a block when it came to
answering Arvo’s questions in his own writing, procrastinating over
it for years, but he’s a very chatty fellow, so when we started
talking about it over the phone, I put him on speaker and started
transcribing as quickly as I could! I’ve edited it since, but it
still contains some of the original conversational qualities, and you
know how conversations go, they’re not always linear, plus
sometimes I missed stuff so the gaps in the train of thought may be
mine and not always Ralph’s, but I did my best to get it all down,
and you’ll see some of my own comments in the brackets to help out
too, so anyway, here goes….</i></p>
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<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;">What
kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: normal;"><br />Sometimes
when I ride with my buddy I hear the J. Geils Band, they did Love
Stinks! I really should sing Angel In the Centerfold cause I have a
daughter named Angel, and she’s really beautiful, but all the kids
would tease her about that song when she was growing up, about being
the angel in the centerfold, and I can understand why they’d tease
her. [I brought up Elvis because I know Ralph’s a big Elvis fan
and likes to show off his original copy of “That’s All Right
Mama” and watch an obscure Elvis biopic that he taped off TV years
ago.] Elvis is still the unchallenged leader of rock ‘n’ roll
and always will be. Johnny Cash, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Little
Richard, Ronnie Hawkins, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Fats
Domino, Ray Charles, Bobby Knox, Ricky Nelson, these people all
influenced me. It took me a little while to understand Elvis, but
once I grasped it, I realized he was more consistent, more powerful.
It took me a few years running into it. I put together a book about
my encounters with all these other celebrities and how they played a
part in making me do the kind of things I want to do. It has
pictures of myself and all these celebri†ies, including the ones in
Denver, Colorado like you [Little Fyodor] and Boyd [Rice] and Gregory
Ego. I consider them all friends, some from a distance and some
closer. You take Wyatt Erp, great lawman and gunfighter of the Old
West. He was a great guy on his own, a well intended lawman, but he
was a human being and had flaws. Wyatt Erp connected up and knew all
the other gunfighters, it was like the six degrees they talk about.
It’s like me connecting with so many people in the music business.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />2.
</span><b>What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If
you don't like that question, what do you have to say about true art
(vs. "entertainment")? </b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">It’s
not a hobby, it’s always been because I love the music. I’ve
always tried to be as good an artist as I can, recording or
performing, I tried to be the best I could be because of these other
artists that inspired me but I just came into this world born loving
music and with or without influence I would have loved music for what
it is, but I think the inspiration by these other stars pushed me
along and gave me a reason to pursue it.<br /><br />3. </span><b>How would
you describe what you do?</b><br /></span></span></span><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: normal;">Here’s
what I think, I’m glad you asked me that question. The people down
at the Lions Lair where we’ve played so many times, they react well
to my music and get something out of it. Since I play the guitar
solo and don’t have a band backing me up, and I’ve had bands in
the past, Big Bang and the Boulders in the 1980’s, and Ralph Gean
and His Blue Jeans in 1997 and 1998 with Kurt Ohlen. It was like
Scotty and Bill [Scotty Moore and Bill Black backed up Elvis], only
it was Kurt and this other guitar player, I can’t remember his
name. There’s a picture of Ralph Gean and His Blue Jeans on the
internet, the three of us playing shows. But at the Lions Lair I
usually don’t play with bands, I do my songs and cover songs, I
play the guitar backing myself up as if I’m hearing a whole band
behind me, I’m playing the song as if there’s a band backing me
up even though there is no band and I think that’s why people like
it. There are people who get up and play their guitar and sing but
they’re not playing with the gusto of a band backing them up, but I
play with the gusto as if there’s a band backing me up and I think
that’s why people like it, and maybe they like the songs, too.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />4.
</span><b>How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a
brief synopsis?</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
like to think there’s a progression to it. Starting out back in
Texas the gold standard was to put out records. I played shows as a
guest star or guest potential star with bands backing me up, though I
didn’t have my own band. Back in 1968 I was in a big Broadway
musical called Kiss Me Kate and I played a gangster and I was backed
up by a forty piece band, a whole orchestra, singing a song called
Brush Up Your Shakespeare. We did four shows in Rexburg, Idaho and
then five shows in Salt Lake City at the Valley Music Hall and two
more shows in Idaho Falls, Idaho. So that was different. And then I
was a street performer for a year and a half, and that was different,
too! That prepared me for playing the Lions Lair. In 1980, I had my
pockets bulging with money, it kept me eatin’. And then I went to
singing lead for Big Bang and the Boulders in Salt Lake City and the
surrounding area, as far west as Elko, Nevada and as far east as
Heber City, Utah. As far south as Spanish Fork. And all the way up
north to Carter, Wyoming. There’s one place in Salt Lake I played
about 70 times, backed up by bands. When that was over I got a six
month hiatus and then I had a series of country bands. Big Bang was
more hard rock country, very powerful. The country bands were a
little looser, it was fun to do more of a country scene in ’84 to
’86. Then I moved to Denver in 1987. Just before I moved I got
involved in a movie, they wanted me to write some killer songs, it
was a comedy about a would-be killer who was too inept, he wants to
be a killer, but it’s all in his mind, he can never pull it off,
he’s too inept. It was to be called The Nuthouse. That’s why I
wrote It’s Hard to Be a Killer and a few others. The whole thing
fell through because of funding, they couldn’t raise the money they
needed, this was a bunch of college kids who wanted to make their
mark. But they really liked the songs, the killer songs! And when I
played them for Shannon [Ezra Dickey, who managed Ralph for some
years in Denver], I found they liked the killer songs!<br /><br />5. </span><b>
How would you describe your philosophy?</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">[I
mentioned that I knew Ralph to be a fundamentalist Mormon.] I have
been a Mormon, but I’m not now. As far as the teachings, the
gospel, I still believe in the plurality of wives when it’s God
directed, but it has to be something that God is directing people to
do to be involved in it, it’s something very sacred. I was
involved in it in the 70’s but my family broke up due to
complications from it. And that’s when I became a street singer,
about 1980. But I still believe in the teachings, it’s just that I
am not practicing them now like I was in the 70’s. But as far as
philosophy goes, there’s six things in life that nobody has any
control over. Getting older is inevitable, you can’t stop that
from happening. Another thing is no matter how nice you are, some
people will never like you. Life is not always fair and life is a
constant struggle. You can’t change other people. Things are
bound to change. That’s six things in life nobody can do anything
about. I would call that a philosophy! But it’s pretty much
true!<br /><br />6. </span><b>Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or
gods? If no, then maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy
theory (whether you believe it or not). </b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
believe in God. I’ll just put that out. I believe He’s the
Father of my spirit. And I believe He was also involved with my
parents as far as creating my physical body. But the only begotten
Son of God according to the Bible was Jesus, He was special, it was a
virgin birth. Magic, I don’t know, if it’s done by men it’s
probably trick stuff, and if it’s not trick stuff, well Satan has a
lot of power, but God’s power is greater than Satan’s power.
There is an evil power that comes from Satan, but God has greater
power than that evil power. I believe in the Holy Ghost. My
favorite conspiracy theory? That would be The Elvis Conspiracy, that
Elvis is still alive. Colonel Parker told Elvis that if he ever got
to the point where he’d had enough he should come and talk to him.
And if anyone had a plan that Elvis could retire but not be bothered,
I think that Colonel Parker would have been the one to figure that
out. I think it’s probable that Elvis died, but I know that
Colonel Parker had a plan and they may have carried it out.<br /><br />7.
</span><b>What would you say was your most definitive experience?</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There’s
so many. When I was eight years old, the doctor said I had
osteomyelitis, a crippling disease, I had a high fever, 103 or 104,
both my legs were in pain, as a kid I couldn’t run or play and if
anyone sat on the bed I would scream out in pain. The doctor wanted
to bring back another doctor the next day to confirm what he thought.
My mother had been talked to by the missionaries in the Mormon
Church, and they told her that when someone was sick, if the
missionaries would anoint the person with oil and say a prayer over
them and ask God to heal the person from what was making them sick,
God’s power is through the priesthood that He established. When
Jesus Christ chose his 12 apostles, it says He said, I have chosen
you and ordained you, and people know about the first part but don’t
always know about the second part, but it meant He had given them the
power of the priesthood. And so my mother called the missionaries
and told them about me being sick and they laid their hands on me and
anointed me with oil and said a prayer over me and then they said a
second part of the prayer for me to be healed using the power of the
priesthood like Jesus would have done. So they did that and in the
middle of the night after they came, I woke up at something like two
or three in the morning in a sweat and I discovered that I could move
my legs and wasn’t in pain and so I called out to my parents and
they came back to see what was going on and they could see that I was
in a sweat meaning my fever had broken and I was able to move my legs
and so I had been healed by the power of the priesthood. I believed
that then and I believe that now. So when the doctor came back the
next day with the consulting doctor, my parents were in disarray
trying to figure out what to tell them. The doctor who had been
taking care of me since I was a child was a Jewish doctor and they
were afraid he wouldn’t believe them that I was healed by the power
of the priesthood. The doctor said that had I not been healed I
would have gotten an operation that would have crippled me for the
rest of my life. But I was able to play like any other child. That
was a very horrible [humbling? I’m not sure what Ralph said]
experience. That was in 1951 when I was eight years old. That for
me was a very defining experience. Musically I’ll tell you what
else was defining. When I did that show back in Houston, TX at the
Houston Coliseum, February 17, 1963. There were thousands of people.
Weeping Willow Tree backed with Experimental Love, that was my first
record I had ever released. It was in the process of coming out. I
had been asked to play with the Jades backing me up and I opened the
show for the big star of the day which of course was Roy Orbison.
There were a lot of other stars there, Duane Eddy and the Rebels were
there, the Beach Boys were there though I didn’t know a lot about
them, Paul and Paula were there. We were practicing to back up Paul
and Paula in case their band didn’t make it in time. There were
people there like Tommy Roe, Bobby Dee, and Skeeter Davis who sang
the End Of The World, there were country stars and rock stars, but
Roy Orbison was the big star of the show. And I did my bit, and it
wasn’t just opening the show that day, and I found out by going to
the library every day [more recently] what the date was and I also
realized that it wasn’t just the show that day, while looking at
the information, I didn’t just open the show for him, I was opening
a thirty city tour he was about to make. Maybe the other stars were
going too, I don’t know. That makes it all the more special for
me, that I was opening for his tour. After this was over with,
Orbison was getting ready to go on last, and I was walking around
backstage and I saw him standing by himself and I walked up to him
and I introduced myself to him and told him I was a big fan of his,
he had already had a number of hits and we talked for a while and
while we were talking one of the guards asked us to leave the
building because there was a bomb scare. So Roy Orbison and all the
others went out the back door where they bring in all the equipment
and the audience was cleared out of the front. Roy Orbison and I
waited out in the back and it turned out to be a crank call, there
was no bomb. Roy Orbison finally did his part of the show. My
manager Charlie Booth already knew Roy Orbison and Orbison was
waiting around after the show waiting for a ride to take him to the
next stop on his tour. Charlie told me to wait right here by this
railing, I’ll see if I can get Roy Orbison to hear some of your
songs, which shook me up, I thought Roy Orbison is going to listen to
me?? But Charlie did it, he rounded him up, and it was just the
three of us. I took my guitar and I had written four rock songs, and
I played Teenage Woman, Pretty Blonde, Electricity, Closer to Me [it
was important to Ralph that he played them in that order]. Roy
Orbison leaned back and listened closely and Roy Orbison said he had
a lot of weird stuff in the can but he wasn’t in the market for
rock songs but he’d keep them in mind. I didn’t know anything
would come of it or anything. Over the years I pretty much forgot
about it, but the second one, Oh Pretty Blonde, and Electricity is
about meeting a girl out in the street. So the next year, during
1964, Roy Orbison comes out with Oh, Pretty Woman [Ralph sings the
guitar changes to Electricity and Oh, Pretty Woman and I can hear the
similarities]. Well the thing is I love Oh, Pretty Woman, and I’ll
put it this way, I might have given him the idea for this great hit.
Both songs are about meeting a girl out in the street, and if Orbison
got the idea from me, and the words match up and the chords go like
this [sings]. And maybe he couldn’t remember the chords of
Electricity so he came up with something different. And I’m not
trying to claim the song, I want to make that clear and Roy Orbison
worked very hard on the song and he put his heart and soul into it,
but I may have given him the idea. Years later Big Bang and the
Boulders wanted me to sing Oh, Pretty Woman because Van Halen did it
and I thought well I know it from Roy Orbison and then later the
movie came out. And I never thought about it when I was doing it
until I finally found out about the date in the library [which meant
this Coliseum show happened before Oh, Pretty Woman came out]. And
someone asked Roy Orbison why he decided to do a rock song and he
said well somebody told me I needed a rock song. Maybe Charlie and
I. That also has other significance, in March 11, 1963, United
Record Distributing Company had my song Weeping Willow Tree on a list
of best selling singles, next to people like the Drifters “On
Broadway”, Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, Ricky Nelson, Mickey Gilley, who
played piano on Weeping Willow Tree. All these people, a whole list
of well known stars you’d recognize. They had my single pretty
close up to the top. That was about a month after I did the Coliseum
show. One more little thing about the show, I heard talk while I was
around Orbison, he either had gone to Europe or was about to, I found
out that starting May-something to June 9 that Orbison had gone over
to Europe and guess who was working under him, the Beatles! I felt
like I was caught between one of the founders of rock n roll and
where the music was going. That’s why I’m saying it was a very
meaningful experience to me musically. Number one, here’s the
thing about the song and associating with someone who’s one of the
stars that came out of Sun Records along with Johhnny Cash, and Elvis
and Carl Perkins. And then Orbison went over and hooked up with the
Beatles who were about to come over and storm America. Put all that
together and that was a very meaningful time! I went through most of
my life not realizing what had happened, until I found out [by
piecing together the dates from what he read in the library].<br /><br />8.
</span><b>Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
anyone would ever ask?</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Music,
the Old West, religion – and paleontology, the evolutionary story,
I’ve been into that about as much as anything else I’ve been
into. Right now just like everyone else I’m just trying to
survive. I’ve gotten both of my Covid-19 shots and I’m just
trying to stay healthy at age 79.<br /><br />9. </span><b>Would you care to
name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least
releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? </b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
like just about anything by Eddie Cochran, he had some really good
rockers. Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochrane, Buddy Holly, the Everly
Brothers, they really influenced my guitar changes.<br /><br />10.
</span><b>What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to)
recall? </b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Having
an operation in the hospital, having my tonsils out, they covered my
face with a green ether mask. Another memory was when my parents
were working and they hired a black lady and she was trying to put me
down for a nap and I didn’t want to take a nap and I was running
through the hedges because I didn’t want to take a nap!<br /><br />11.
</span><b>Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what
extent? <br /></b></span></span></span><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Well
yeah, I have to do that because we’re all human beings. Elvis may
have been the greatest singer who ever lived, in fact he </span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span>was</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
the greatest singer, but he had his problems and his flaws as a human
being, and I’m not going to turn against his music because he had
some flaws in his life that caused him to take too many prescription
drugs, and Bob Dylan may have done some things that I would not want
to do myself, but I still like his music. I really do appreciate the
creative work that other people do, I really appreciate this<a href="https://atributetoralphgean.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"> tribute album</a> [Hard to Be A Killer: A Tribute to Ralph Gean, released in 2020
by Hypnotic Turtle Records] and people really put their heart and
soul into it. And when I hear those songs I really appreciate how
much they’re into it and I like them more every time I hear them.
I really appreciate Arvo Zylo’s doing of Hey Doctor Casey and I
want to thank him and if he ever comes over to Denver he’s invited
to go get something to eat! After listening to it a number of times,
I’ve become so accustomed to those great recordings that I miss
them when I’m not listening to them. Everyone was so great on it.
I think it’s so good it could be turned into a rock musical.
Someone should come up with a script!</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />12.
</span><b>Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel
free to add anything that makes them stand out.</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Just
to make it very clear to anyone listening, I don’t have any
heroin!! [Laughs!] I’d say the greatest hero that any of us have
is our savior, Jesus Christ Himself, if He did what the Bible says He
did, to save all mankind from eternal obliterations, that would make
Him the greatest hero. I have a lot of musical heroes and a lot of
heroes of the Old West, like Wild Bill Hickok who could kill someone
in 18/100’s of a second, draw aim and shoot. While the other guy
was standing there thinking about it, Wild Bill already had his gun
out shooting him!<br /><br />13. </span><b>What would you like to have on
your epitaph? Or what is your favorite quote? </b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: normal;">I
don’t know if I’ll be buried or cremated, I’m not sure. I’ll
have to think about that. My favorite line from a song is, “If we
never meet again this side of heaven, I’ll meet you on that
beautiful shore.”</span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: normal;">One
more story as a footnote, relating to Elvis. Back in 1967 when my
wife and I were a young couple we were babysitting some of my
sister’s kids, I had been watching Elvis’s movies and I got this
idea in my head to send a petition to Graceland and tell him what I
think and make a couple of suggestions and get everyone to sign it,
and what I told him to do was, he hadn’t come out with certain
songs that hadn’t come out on an album yet, like Flaming Star, he
needed to put that on an album. From the movie Viva Las Vegas there
was Yellow Rose of Texas and the Eyes of Texas. I ended the petition
saying what you oughtta do is you need to come out with a rocker
that’ll knock their socks off and knock everybody dead, something
that they’ve never heard you do before. Well I didn’t realize
this until later, I think that suggestion got to Elvis cause on his
album that came out in 1969 called Elvis sings Flaming Star and
Others that had the Texas stuff, and the very last song on side two
was his version that no one had ever heard before of Tiger Man. In
2000 I wrote the I’m Bad Tiger Man song, a different song that
connects up with the Tiger Man thing. I got my sister to sign it, my
wife, my sister’s kids, I got as many signatures as I could and lo
and behold he came out with that album. I think I wasn’t in rock
‘n’ roll just to do music, I think I was also blessed to be in
position to maybe have a little bit of influence. I mean I can’t
prove it, I can’t prove everything I say is the way it is, but it
feels like everything’s connected.</span></span></span></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Thanks Ralph!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span>Little Fyodor<br /></span><br />
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</p>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-70010877908802036722021-08-13T04:47:00.003-07:002021-08-20T19:31:31.634-07:00Interview Series #30: Marlo Eggplant<div> The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </div>
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1. What types of things have you been getting into lately?</div>
mostly
baking. field recordings, decolonization of the arts and language. the
color yellow. unprocessed vocals. digestive health. activism. feminist
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when my father got refused service at a mcdonald’s when i was a kid because of his Filipino appearance and his ‘accent’.<br /><blockquote type="cite">
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Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
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not
really. you and i are super close. most ppl know my schtick that i make
responsive abstracted art and academic stuff due to my political
disenchantment with the world. i am really emotional and attached to
friends and causes. i like the domestic arts a lot. ironically despite
all that i am actually not very social and happily a hermit in my
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Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at
least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
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experimental film:
yoko ono fly (1971) , album: free kitten - nice ass (1994), book:
grapefruit - yoko ono, graphic novel: potential, poem: maya angelou -
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looking
straight up the kitchen counter to the underside of a turquoise plate
of cookies and wishing i could reach it, while listening to american
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Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
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unless i have a visceral response to their social harm. then i just
can’t. but i believe in context and individuality and effect/affect. so
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lately it is this: <span face="arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: bold;">Cornel West</span><span face="arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"> — 'I cannot be an optimist but I am a </span><span face="arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: bold;">prisoner of hope</span><span face="arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">.’</span></div>
Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-23196344940763102852021-07-13T04:34:00.001-07:002021-07-13T04:34:00.214-07:00Interview Series #29: Edgar Amaya<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </p></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"> Scheduled March 2019</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><br /></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"> <a href="https://edgar-amaya.com/blog/">Edgar</a> is a very good friend of mine. I originally met him when he was a member of a fledgling group called The Electric Set, which was formed by a semi active/former member/Texas transplant to Chicago in the band Indian Jewelry. He then formed a duo called <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/les-fleurs-du-mal">EaViL</a>, with his then partner N. Vilches. These projects were a very noisey, messy, and freeform approach to pop music in a myriad of ways, but also sometimes they were just pure noise with a certain flair for poetry in the place where power electronics may have come in. Amaya also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Diving-Deep-Shells-Stella-Castellucci/dp/1943483035">co-wrote a book with harp player Stella Castellucc</a>i, based on his ongoing obsession with a rare Peggy Lee album. Somewhere in there, he moved to Spain and got married; became the catsitter and personal archivist of Lydia Lunch, of whom he is a long-standing fan. For a time, my radio show, <a href="http://thedeliriousinsomniac.blogspot.com/">The Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show</a> (2007-2014) ran something after hours called "Delirious Sunrise" wherein Edgar was a regular host, and his taste, while not exactly in the "deliberately obscure" vein that many freeform DJs would be, still reflected a peculiar and focused taste for intensity. Edgar is a rather private person, but he has traveled a lot of the world now and lived one of the more full lives I've known of an ostensibly shy person, including seeing Prince regularly at private shows in his Paisley Park home studio, and embracing Judaism enough to visit Israel. If there really is some mythical place in Japan where reclusive types can find some success as creatives without being overtly self-promotional, he and I should surely go there! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">1.
What types of things have you been getting into lately?</span></b></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">I’ve
been caught up in </span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>Unsolved
Mysteries</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"> (The
Robert Stack episodes). The theme song unsettled me as a child when
it first aired, but I still chose to watch it. Back then I didn’t
understand what I was watching. Terror Vision has released a vinyl
using many of the themes Gary Malkin composed for the segments. I had
no idea until I saw it on display at a record fair. Seeing and
hearing it all these years later makes it seem like a new series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">Birds
fascinate me completely. I’ve been into bird watching. I admire
their intelligence, instincts, beauty, and serenity. I’m dreaming
and scheming of ways to spend time with penguins. My husband and I
went to the penguin “experience” offered by the Shedd Aquarium.
It was supposed to offer a chance to hang out with one. Her name was
Charlotte (we added the last name Sometimes). She is a beautiful
African penguin with lots of personality. We barely had the chance to
touch or be closer to this fascinating creature. We did get to pose
for a picture with her, although not expecting that her handler would
be in it as well. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">Genealogy
– I love that there is technology to explain what we are made of.
Origins can be undisputed and suspicions can be confirmed. Within one
body can lie nations that warred with and conquered each other. Many
of the places that made me changed borders and names several times
over. Finding the village where it all began on a map is a
revelation. It’s also made a great purpose for some future travels
and exploration. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">2.
What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">It
is done the only way that I know how. I was condemned to write when
my father named me. Hearing the music he played or made growing up
was a strong influence. I didn’t realize there was a choice in
creating things. It’s an obsession that drives other obsessions. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">3.
How would you describe what you do?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">Everything
centers on trying to figure something out. That is usually why I find
it deeply personal. I usually have to be obsessed with an idea or
concept that I can’t shake. That’s when I know it’s time to
dive in and make something. A continental drift occurs mentally where
I end up on one side or the other. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">4.
How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a
brief synopsis?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">For
a long time I was so driven by my own conflicts and disturbances. Now
there’s a purification process into doing something. It does help
to have a large body of water near. Now there is space to do it
mentally and physically without clutter. All the things that are not
washed away are the ones that will matter. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">5.
How would you describe your philosophy?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">There’s
a lot of revision, renewal, and reinvention. If there isn’t a “re”
area in my brain somewhere, I’m bound to stagnate and lose meaning.
My grandma often said, “Shit or get off the pot.” I learned to
follow words with actions and not waste time from her. I learned
about strength and determination from my mom. I think we can be a
mixed media masterpiece, using the best influence of the people we
know and love best. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">6.
Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then maybe
you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you believe it
or not). </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">I
believe in all those things. I think our minds are too
underdeveloped. I’ve always wanted to see a ghost, but haven’t
had the chance. I’ll continue haunting places they are known to be.
</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">7.
What would you say was your most definitive experience?</span></b></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">Moving
to Barcelona. I was fully charged, in love, and dreaming. Even my
crashes and confusion didn’t have the same impact or hurt they have
had elsewhere. It was when I finally started saying yes to myself and
became less afraid. I really appreciate the two-way culture shock of
going there and coming back. It’s really broken through so many
things that were in the way. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">8.
Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
anyone would ever ask?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">I’ve
worked on some new concepts and ideas for music, but it doesn’t
have a name yet. It’s got a lot of blank spaces. I’m still
figuring it out. I think it’s going to start to see the light of
day after relocating.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">9.
Would you care to name any theoretical “Desert Island” records,
or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
"perfect"? </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>Lovesexy</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">
perfectly captures everything that Prince was and stood for. It will
always be my favorite album of all time. It’s so dense, funky,
confusing and positively beautiful. I can’t help but feel great
each time I hear it. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>In Limbo</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">
was Lydia Lunch’s attempt to make the slowest album she could. It
was a godsend when I was pinned to the floor staring at nothing in
my youth. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>Cuatricromía</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">
by Fangoria sent me on an upward spiral of happiness. I played it
while Turkey Crossing into Barcelona. Seeing “Cuatro Colores”
live literally moved me to tears. They became my Spanish teachers
and I had the chance to thank them for that. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">Peggy Lee’s vocals are
flawless on </span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>Black
Coffee</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">. Her amazing
group accompanies her on one of the highlights of all her
recordings. She was newly divorced and delivered these sultry
selections on the throes and throws of love. The album was further
improved by the addition of Stella Castellucci’s harp on the added
songs. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">The Creatures’ </span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>Eraser
Cut</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"> is a four-song
feast that is so varied and brilliant. Siouxsie’s vocals and
Budgie’s drums always move me. This sent me over the edge in
appreciating their work as Creatures and Banshees. The Creatures
have the edge for me because of their sensuality and
experimentation. I was too young to enter the first time I saw The
Creatures at The Metro, so my dad accompanied me. I had met them at
their signing in Tower Records earlier that day. I professed my love
for the song “Pinned Down.” During the concert, Siouxsie
approached me from the stage. She sang that song just inches from my
face. </span>
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What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to)
recall? </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">I left Mexico for the final
time when I was two years old. For some reason all of the memories
are very blue-hued. It was like it was always dusk or the blue hour.
I must have been nocturnal. I’m sitting on the floor in a huge room
and plants surround me. I hadn’t been back for a visit until 2015.
I now know it was the porch where my </span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;"><i>abuela</i></span><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">
keeps her plants. It’s so much smaller to me now. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">11.
Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">Yes,
definitely. Prince is a great example. I know he was complicated and
hard to get close to. He really created important work for me as
someone who always felt “different.” Alfred Hitchcock had some
issues that informed his art. He funneled his fears and anxieties
into his work. It’s a kind of alchemy. I used to be an avid fan of
memoirs and classic Hollywood biographies. I think the more I learned
about some people, the more difficult it got to like or admire them.
I know there are troublesome men for different reasons. Directors
like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. I do appreciate some of their
work and view it outside of its creator.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">12.
Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel free to add
anything that makes them stand out. </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">I
am a Lydia Lunch lover for life. I feel so fortunate that I’ve had
the chance to evolve from fan to friend. The times we were working
through her archives provided many perfect moments. It’s incredible
any one being can do what she does and maintain their sanity. She
carves out a big space for pleasure and happiness. She is 100% DIY
and loving it, a globe trekking seduction.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">My
grandma Eleanor gave me lots of love when there wasn’t enough to go
around. She made things happen in difficult situations. It’s a
miracle that she wasn’t a bitter or sad person considering all that
she went through. She lived life with gutsy gusto and was a lot of
fun.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">13.
What would you like to have on your epitaph? Or what is your favorite
quote?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "applesystemuifont" , serif;">I
would like it to say: Married 11/15/14. I feel like I’ve been born
and died so many times. I had never been witness to a healthy
marriage or relationship. I was really scared to make such an
important decision. It ended up being one of the best things. It
provided another necessary restart that would move my life forward. I
spend days and nights with my favorite person in the world. </span>
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Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-66727035983380323982021-06-13T03:29:00.002-07:002021-06-13T03:29:00.216-07:00Interview Series #28: Alain Neffe
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </p></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Alain Neffe has been active since the 70s, including his massively influential label Insane Music, and his various projects: I Scream, Pseudo Code, BeNe GeSSeRiT, Subject, and Human Flesh, to name a few. His series Insane Music for Insane people was dominant within distribution circles from 1980s cassette culture, releasing compilations that featured precarious and precocious acts of an often home-recorded variety. Some of the earliest entries by The Legendary Pink Dots, Colin Potter, Portion Control, Merzbow, Algebra Suicide, Maybe Mental, and many others appeared on these comps. Currently the Belgian artist's work is regarded as pioneering and pivotal in some Minimal Wave circles, as well as the history of experimental music and noise at large, and has been continuously reissued for as long as I have been paying attention. Another artist/label that I discovered while digging through original editions of these cassettes at WZRD, including the first I Scream tape from the 70s! </span><b><span lang="en-US"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="en-US"> 1. What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="en-US">1 Actually, i am
mixing (and remixing) music by BeNe GeSSeRiT and HUMAN FLESH in order
to build programs for some lps…. I recently mastered music from
SUBJECT for an lp on MINIMAL WAVE and for BeNe GeSSeRiT (the vinyl
reissue of “postcards from Arrakis” with some unreleased bonus
tracks from the same period)</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b> 2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If you don't like that question, what do you have to say about true art (vs. "entertainment")? </b><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">2 For most of my
life, I had a “day job” to earn a living, and I made music after
hours, but it was not at all a hobby, it was something necessary for
my mental balance, my mental health ; a sort of free therapy , I
guess (without the risk of being mentally disturbed by some shrink)
….”entertainment” is a word I never use….</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>3. How would you describe what you do? </b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">3 Emotional, out of
fashion, honest and highly selfish</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis? </b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">4 Progression...
well, I would talk about change …. In the 70 and 80 ‘s I had more
contact with instruments, so I could handle them in a better way,
spontaneously and fluently ; the fact that I ceased playing with real
groups and stopped playing live changed my way of handling music :
using a multitracks recorder made me stronger in arrangements and
mixing ; actually, I am more and more attentive to details and sound
frequencies ; I also often remix old tracks in order to get them
better</span></div>
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<b><span lang="en-US"> 5. How would you describe your philosophy?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="en-US">5
no real philosophy , just some ways of being ,for example “protect
yourself (and your beloved ones)” and “avoid losing time with
toxic people”</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you believe it or not). </b><br /> </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">6 no, no god,
hopefully…. My conspiracy theory … well I strongly believe that ,
in mid and southern Europe ,our leaders are trying to make the
population extremely stupid (reality shows, sport, radio and
T.V.advertising etc ) in order to prevent us from thinking, so they
can steal, cheat, lie without any reaction from the average citizen…I
also believe that ancient Egyptians were Aliens</span></div>
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<b><span lang="en-US">7. What would you say was your most definitive experience?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="en-US">7 When I was 13 , I
discovered Science Fiction literature and never stopped …I have
always been a fan of Philippe Curval and his extraordinary universe,
full of strangeness, humor and cynicism…. A French label asked us
(BeNe GeSSeRiT) to make a song about a Curval novel for a compilation
+ book ; I guess they were glad with the result because they asked us
to make a concert in Nantes to launch the book ; so we prepared a
special set about it …. When we arrived in Nantes, we met the
author… I was quite impressed … In the conversation, I had an
idea : since he was attempting to the whole festival, I asked him if
he would read his novel with Nadine, while I would improvise some
minimal music and mix… And he agreed, so we did it instead of the
BG concert …. A great moment for me, playing with one of my (few)
heroes !!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b> 8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone would ever ask?</b><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">8 In the 70’s I
was playing bass (on synth) and wrote angry minimal lyrics for a
punk band named SIC (incidentally, an lp has been released on
BELGIAN WAFFLES last year)</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b> 9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? </b><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">9 “Mercator
Projected” by EAST OF EDEN , “ The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn “
by PINK FLOYD “Fly” by YOKO ONO , “We’re Only In It For The
Money “ by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION, “The Musician” by JENNIFER
TERRAN, any TORI AMOS live set (alone with her piano) “This Was”
by JETHRO TULL, “Camembert Electrique “ by GONG, most of the NICO
records and lots of others …</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><br /><b>10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to) recall? </b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">10 strange question
…the way a surgeon put me to sleep before a throat operation, with
chloroform ; it was frightening, but maybe it made me reluctant about
of drugs and alcohol effects</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><br /><b>11. Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </b><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">11 I am rather
artistically hard to please ; the work must be sincere, honest,
without any compromise and well-conceived ; I always try to “feel”
it and not to “understand” it ….but musically, I am unable to
be tolerant with loud disco-techno-electro shit with ridiculously
loud bass drums , and I cannot dig racist arrogant sexist rap or any
other music or noise that insult my moral or intelligence</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><br /><b>12. Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel free to add anything that makes them stand out. </b><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">12 Benazir Bhutto
who was a beautiful young woman leading Pakhistan ; Frank Zappa who
was a musical genius , Daevid Allen , Peter Hammill , Syd Barrett and
Ian Anderson for what they brought to our culture ; Curzio Malaparte
; Philippe Curval and hundreds of Sci-Fi writers who made me read
books ; all the unknown “working class heroes” who cure and
protect us in our daily life</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">13 memento mori</span></div>
Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-18342568931977133272021-05-13T03:17:00.001-07:002021-05-13T03:17:00.216-07:00Interview Series #27: Kimberly Montiel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: left;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
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<i>Scheduled March 2019</i><br />
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<a href="http://sacredflamewithin.tumblr.com/">Kimberly</a> has quietly posted a rigorous amount of art on her facebook page, never to be seen in a gallery. I vaguely remember her saying that she didn't think her work would be suitable in a gallery, in so many words, yet she has gathered a bountiful wealth in a body of work. Her creations are like dollhouses gone tropical and psychedelic, or a nativity scene from a model train set where the alien inhabitants are off in their spaceship collecting trinkets. Always neon in effect, Montiel lives out a sort of image that is an extension of her work. She was once mentioned <a href="https://design.newcity.com/2012/05/22/chicago-looks-more-is-more/">in NewCity magazine </a>for her concept of maximalism: "More is more". <br />
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peruvian retablos<span class="im"><br /></span><br />
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What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If you don't
like that question, what do you have to say about true art (vs.
"entertainment")? </b></div>
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</span>I paint and create as an artist and extensions of myself<span class="im"><br /><div>
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</span>What I do is intimate. secretive. idiosyncratic. solitary. intuitive. I prefer working on a small scale.<span class="im"><br /><div>
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</span>Maybe who I really am began to truly emerge at the age of 19...and from that point on it's been a work in progress<span class="im"><br /><div>
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</span>I'm still trying to figure it out.<span class="im"><br /><div>
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Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then maybe
you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you believe it or
not). </b></div>
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I want to believe.</div>
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<b>7. What would you say was your most definitive experience?</b><br />
<span class="im"><br /></span>My most definitive experience hasn't happened yet. Or maybe it's just a fading memory now.<span class="im"><br /></span><br />
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Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
anyone would ever ask?</b></div>
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No Comment.</div>
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<b>9. Would you care to name any theoretical
"desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are
approaching your concept of "perfect"? </b><br />
<span class="im"><br /></span>cocteau twins' 'Treasure' album, various classical music pieces, Księżyc's self titled album and their Rabbit Eclipse album<span class="im"><br /></span><br />
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Picking overgrown flowers from alley ways with my Grandmother.<span class="im"><br /></span><br />
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Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </b></div>
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No comment.</div>
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<b>12. Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel free to add anything that makes them stand out. </b><br />
<span class="im"><b> </b></span>Anyone
truly fighting for the environment and its conservation. The guards
that protect endangered animals in protected lands from piece-of-shit,
bloodthirsty poachers. wildlife rescue workers and rehabilitators <br />
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I don't know about my epitaph. I have a favorite poem rather than a quote, and it's William Blake's "The Sick Rose"Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-40886379027550035292021-04-13T06:28:00.003-07:002021-05-06T19:26:27.610-07:00Interview Series #26: Hans Grüsel<div style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </span></p></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.hansgrusel.net/">Hans Grüsel</a>, the illustrious and mysterious! Head of his Krankenkabinet, may or may not be a German synthesizer wizard from the 70s having haphazardly immersed himself into the neon cardboard scene of San Francisco, armed with psychedelic gingerbread costumes and lots of different kinds of wood-grain. Rumored to be a co-conspirator of the excellent freak label <a href="https://www.resipiscent.com/">Resipiscent,</a> Grüsel's work is a perfect wash of psychedelic synthesizer squalling with unpredictable perversions, such as a cover of bygone standards "Tea for Two" or "Me and My Shadow", an alternate soundtrack to a silent film version of Alice In Wonderland, or just new directions in globular synthesis in general. Grusel was kind enough to rework material for no part of it's <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/333redux">333REDUX</a> release.<br />
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What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b></span><span></span></span></div>
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Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then maybe
you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you believe it or
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the supernatural is a giant part of my being. I prefer psychics, magic, ghosts to gods.</span></div>
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are the most tangible of the collection. </span></div>
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Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
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would ever ask?</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at
least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
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Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </b></span></span></span></div>
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Ross? </span></div>
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an epitaph but a composition:</span></div>
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Piece". My second vocational aspiration is</span><span><br />
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of a mortician, thanks to an interest in the mortuary sciences (my</span><br />
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that of a butcher, given my love of meat). The Embalmers Piece is</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a scheme of modified soundparts that can be inserted in to a corpse</span><br />
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burial. </span></span></span></div>
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soundparts emanate in one of two (or more) fashions:</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a) Underground for a traditional burial (turn it up loud)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">b) Aboveground in a crypt or vault style entombment (a more</span><br />
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art gallery wafting)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">I can imagine a cemetery full of these graves. Each a different voice,</span><br />
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with the unity of a chorus. I plan to have my body prepared for</span><br />
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the first tome. </span></span></div>
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Mortuary Scientists out their willing to collaborate with me on this?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">If
so please contact me at </span><a href="mailto:hans@hansgrusel.net" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">hans@hansgrusel.net</span></a></span>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-91134780355774748312021-03-13T06:02:00.004-08:002021-03-15T12:51:05.596-07:00Interview Series #25: Christopher Sienko<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Museum of Inconvenient Formats</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>Scheduled March 2019</i><br />
Chris is a gift to noise culture. I'm not sure if there is anyone else who writes at his caliber on behalf of the primitives. Most might know him as one half responsible for the massive AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE magazine (considering its relatively massive presentation, it is hard to simply call it a magazine), but he has been writing for a number of sites, especially Gaper's Block in Chicago for a number of years. "ALAP" has apparently shut down operations for its next issue, which was more than five years in the making at least, but some of those articles, I'm told, will resurface eventually (perhaps by the time this interview surfaces in two years). At this moment (March 2019) Sienko's writing can be found in the fledgling Indiana zine "<a href="https://vulcherfanzine.bigcartel.com/">Vulcher</a>". When coming up with this interview series, Chris was one of the first people that I thought of, because while he is not a noise artist (and it's rare that people participate so intensely without being one), I'm quite sure, based on his writing that he perfectly navigates that line between having an objective view and having the experience of getting knee deep in the trenches. Being reviewed by Chris must be like being picked up out of the gutter by a guy who specialized in rare flowers that only grow in gutters. </span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>What
kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>This
might be a lame answer, but jigsaw puzzles. Last summer, I bought a
jigsaw puzzle of a Jackson Pollack painting (“Convergence”) at a
garage sale. I haven’t done puzzles since I was a kid, but the
absurdity of a jigsaw puzzle of something so thoroughly
non-representational really sung to me. When we had the epic cold in
Chicago this winter and were stuck at home, out came this puzzle from
the back of the closet. It turned out not just to be a thing to pass
the time while the outside world was uninhabitable for humans, but a
real exercise in deep visual concentration. I’ve seen a few of
Pollack’s paintings in the museum, but I’ve never stared as
deeply at a Pollack as I did over those two and a half weeks. More
than just trying to find that one piece that fits, I really found
myself just obsessively staring at these criss-cross patterns and
filigrees, imagining the physical arm and hand gestures that could
bring on these patterns, seeing them turn into almost
representational forms, and then back into abstractions, back and
forth. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>Having
completed that, we’ve now moved onto a puzzle of Hieronymous
Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” It’s fun in a
completely different way, as strange little tortured (or ecstatic)
faces and buttocks pop out at you from the tiny pieces. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>Other
than that, I’ve been getting into tracking down the locations of
long-gone bookstores in Chicago, working on improvements to my new
house (my wife and I bought a bungalow in 2018), going to the Chicago
Film Society (located a 15 minute walk from my front door on the NEIU
campus), and trying to write material without any expectation of
whether it’ll be published or not.</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>2.
What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If
you don't like that question, what do you have to say about true art
(vs. "entertainment")? </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>I
don’t think about it in that way, artist or hobbyist. I just do
what I do. It’s a hobby in the sense that I rarely if ever get paid
money for it, I guess. It’s not a hobby in that I want to spend the
rest of my life doing it. Though people also have the same hobbies
their entire life! I am currently trying to work on some new ideas
that will possibly be closer to “art” (or at least abstraction)
while still operating as someone who writes stories about
almost-forgotten noise artists. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I
guess this maybe fits with the question of what I’ve been getting
into lately, but I’ve realized in the last few years that the type
of sound art that really excites me would be roughly described as
“quasi-academic nonsense.” Things like the Gregory Whitehead
“Vicekopf” 7-inch that RRR put out. Maybe there’s truth to it,
but the Hafler Trio’s “Three Ways of Saying Two” is like a
thrilling adventure movie about a scientist/philosopher who may be
completely fictional. Any time where a piece of work (music, film,
fiction) is setting itself up as a source of information but clearly
devolves into half-truths and outright fabrication is becoming more
thrilling to me, possibly as a controlled version of the world
itself, where definitive truths about anything become increasingly
difficult to determine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>Anyway,
true art vs. entertainment is a hard one to officiate. One of the
things that makes me laugh the most about noise is that it has these
two seemingly opposite poles implanted into it, with reasonable
adherents on both sides. For some, noise is good when it’s
exhausting, and it’s bad when it’s fun. Other folks would like to
“rage out” to some cool noise, and would rather not be in the
presence of something that makes you bored or exhausted. I kind of
like that side one of the Observation Clinique LP gives me a stress
headache, so I guess that makes me on the “Music Should Hurt”
side. But I also shook my head vigorously and with joy seeing
Incapacitants play in New York 10 years ago. Is stuff that’s hard
to endure “art” while stuff that makes you pump your fist
“entertainment”? To 99.9% of the world, it’s all garbage, so
please yourself. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Using
the dichotomy of art vs. entertainment automatically puts art on a
higher plane, and by extension, creates a Canon of True Art that was
done almost as a refutation of entertainment. Did you feel terrible
after that Tarkovsky movie was done? Good, that’s art. But for a
good chunk of human history, art was something that was made freely
and with/for enjoyment. There’s lots of art that’s art but is
also commerce (handmade jewelry, driftwood sculpture). Noise as an
enterprise is kind of like driftwood sculpture. Everyone who makes it
has a slightly different take on it, there’s only a handful of
people who are into buying it, and the sale of it usually nets about
enough money to buy a case of beer on the weekend. It’s a cottage
industry of people with specialized tastes for people with
specialized tastes. But it’s still art.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">So
what about the notion of art being something that brings our mind
into a higher state vs. entertainment which keeps our minds off of
our troubles? Maybe that’s a good definition. Sorry, I’ve
completely worried this question into five paragraphs and still have
no answer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br />3.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>How
would you describe what you do?</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>I
buy a ton of records, listen to them every chance I can, scribble
notes, and hope that my thoughts on the records and what they do
inside my head semi-accurately translates to the page. Noise (and
most non-musical sound creation in general) sounds to me like a new
language being written every day. All of these distinct sounds and
structures and gestures that noise performers create out of thin air
sound like phonemes used in new ways of conveying thoughts or
experiences. If the deep melancholy I felt halfway into the track
“Queer Patrol” on Richard Ramirez’s </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Start
Again</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>
CD can be brought into words, the writing goes beyond being a
consumer guide and into a shared understanding about what chaotic,
semi-organized sound can bring out into the air and, by extension,
why we stand around in unheated basements watching people shake metal
and turn knobs. I’m trying to figure out what I (we) get out of all
this, and how these weird sounds and gestures can mimic some aspect
of our joy and anger and melancholy that high-flung “art” and
music can’t. Similarly, reading other peoples’ writings about
noise and music gives me almost as much pleasure as listening to the
stuff, because it connects all of us as being excited about this
thing that we don’t quite understand.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>4.
How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a
brief synopsis?</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>I
used to spend a lot more time trying to pick the catchiest, flashiest
words to describe sounds in specific moments. Since I’ve never had
a noise project myself, I can’t explain things in terms of flanger
abuse or filter sweeps or whatever with any credibility, so I’d go
out of my way to use the purplest prose possible to describe the
tape, moment by moment. Endless paragraphs about electric-blue lava
flows and psychic whipcracks and cascading sheets of rats covered
with nails raining down on you. Stuff like that. I still do that, of
course, but now I spend more time trying to call up the experience
the sounds creates in my head, the atmosphere and intangible,
time-stopping moment of perfection. Also, because I’ve listened to
thousands of noise records over the years at this point, I spend a
lot more time focusing on what a release is doing that I haven’t
heard before, and how an artist keeps advancing in what they do,
which is why so many of my reviews will cover 3 or more records by
the same person. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>5.
How would you describe your philosophy?</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It
needn’t be huge, but find some way to bring some new thing into the
world that wasn’t there before you arrived – a new type of
thought, sound, word, kindness, food, laughter, something. And if you
can’t always improve the world, at least do what you can not to
bring a lot of needless suffering into it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>6.
Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then
maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you
believe it or not). </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I
believe in people who believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, and gods.
Let’s say that. I haven’t experienced much of it myself, but I’ve
seen great art that’s influenced by these things and had great
experiences in the presence of people who believe in them. Like
strong drink or drugs or arcane philosophies, the stuff you list
above reacts in interesting ways with the chemistry of certain people
and drives them to do, think, or create things larger than they could
otherwise. Good enough for me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>By
comparison, people who are really into conspiracy theories give me
stress. When I hear someone giving an incredibly convoluted story
about how this or that mass shooting is a false flag deliberately
staged to take away our guns, it just drains the life out of me. On
the one hand, a good chunk of conspiracy theories can be Occam’s
Razor’d into dismissal – the earth isn’t flat, dipshit! – but
the notion of having to gather up that mountain of evidence that
would refute this stuff seems like a long march to nowhere. Here are
the ten ways we can tell the earth is round. “Well, but what about
this one photo taken on this one day 60 years ago where the shadow
breaks the other way?” By comparison, people who believe in psychic
powers will tell you the reason why is because they’ve felt them in
their lives, not because they’ve been scraping up covert,
suppressed photos of Tower Seven from a different angle, etc. Jesus,
this answer is making me exhausted just typing it. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>All
that being said, look up Preston Nichols’ theory about the 1975
disco hit “Sky High,” recorded by the band Jigsaw. Nichols
contends that, because of an experience he had in 1983 where he
bought multiple copies of the single, all of them unplayable, the
song had been trapped in a closed-down time loop and sent back into
time to 1975, unavailable to the world but still remembered. That one
is at least interesting and doesn’t end with people running up and
yelling gibberish the faces of grieving parents. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>7.
What would you say was your most definitive experience?</b></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">If
you mean what is an experience where I acted most definitively and
did what I was meant to do, then helping write the first issue of As
Loud As Possible fits the bill. That was the most sustained bit of
writing I did that actually translated into a worthwhile finished
project. There was also a certainty of intent at that time that I
never felt before or since.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>8.
Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
anyone would ever ask?</b></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I’ve
written over 300 long-form book reviews over at Goodreads. In
particular, from 2013 through 2016, I had a long, multi-bus commute
to and from work, and I took the time to get into reading, especially
fiction. At my peak, I read 85 books in one year. At a time when I
was feeling like my writing structures post-ALAP were getting stale
and repetitive, writing about plots and characters and ideas and the
magical alchemy these things can do in your brain livened up my
writing in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Not just the sheer amount of
writing I did, but making myself review everything with no
expectations of what the “scene” would think of my reviews, gave
me this open space to figure out how to write. Some of those reviews,
in my opinion, are some of the finest writing I’ve done, and
believe me, it’s rare to hear me actually praise any of my own
writing. Around 2017, the spell was kind of broken, I started reading
a lot less again, and my policy of reviewing everything has starkly
fallen off, so maybe it was just a moment in time that can’t come
back.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>9.
Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island"
records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your
concept of "perfect"? </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>I
could (and probably will) spend the rest of my life enjoying and
trying to decipher Robert Ashley’s </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Perfect
Lives</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>.
As for noise records, I never tire of Emil Beaulieau’s
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Anti-Performance</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>
cassette. You can hear it on youtube if you can’t find a copy. It’s
still the default sound I think of when I think of Harsh Noise. The
Shadow Ring’s three records on Swill Radio (</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Lighthouse</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>,
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Lindus</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>,
and </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>I’m
Some Songs</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>)
are empirically perfect as well. I can’t think of a thing you could
do to improve any of those. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>My
notion of “perfect records” or “desert island picks” are also
records I don’t listen to regularly. The idea of taking records
I’ve heard a million times (Pink Floyd’s </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Animals</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>,
The Beatles </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>White
Album</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>,
The Residents’ </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Commercial
Album</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>,
Neil Young’s </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><i>Tonight’s
the Night</i></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>,
everything by the Firesign Theatre) onto a desert island seems odd to
me. I can recreate those albums in my head, almost note by note, word
by word. A desert island disc is something I can’t make head or
tail of now, and with any luck, still won’t understand in 30 years
when I’ve finally died of eating irradiated shrimp coming in off
the mainland.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>10.
What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to)
recall? </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The
most sustained memory I have as a young child was probably around
ages 3 to 5. It was something my dad and I did regularly, a game we
played. There was this cardboard box that had a small, rectangular
hole in the bottom. You would lay on the ground, put the box over
your face, so it would be completely dark except for this small
rectangle of light over your face. I remember we had these small
ceramic Sesame Street Christmas ornaments, and whomever wasn’t in
the box would take one of the figures (always one at a time), put it
in view of the little window, and talk to the person in the box. I
don’t know how we came up with this game, but I loved it. It was
always a weird little one-on-one conversation between me and Bert, or
my dad and Oscar the Grouch, or whatever. It wasn’t elaborate
stories or adventures. I just remember it being a dialogue. I have
several photos of this happening, so I know it’s not just something
I imagined.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>11.
Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what
extent? </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>It
really varies on how much I love the art, how much tolerance (or not)
I have for the flaw, how much I empathize with the person, or, maybe
most importantly, whether the flaw in question colors the art. I
balance the equation differently with each case. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Also,
any time I find out that so-and-so who I liked is actually a skeevy
sexual predator or whatever, it always strikes me as an awesome
opportunity to check out some new artists who, I don’t know…might
not be skeevy sexual predators. I don’t like the way the argument
has been framed as two sides – do you cast them out into the
wilderness, or do you clutch them to your breast in defiance of the
world’s evolving sense of appropriate conduct? If a large number of
people who I once admired turn out to be scumbags or psychopaths, my
first thought is not whether to protect them or reject them, but to
learn about what else is going on out there in the world that I might
not have noticed? Tom Ellard of Severed Heads said he used to delete
his sample bank every few years so he didn’t get too comfortable
using the same old sounds over and over. I still have a fair number
of scumbags in my collection (and in my head), and they probably
won’t be driven out into the desert any time soon. But I also
evolve and find other types of people interesting over time, people
who don’t treat women like garbage or play grab-ass with Nazi
symbology in the interest of “embracing the dark side.” A lot of
what I thought was cool and profound at age 20 sounds vapid and
childish 25 years later. But if it still works, whatever that means
at the moment, then in it stays. But finding out someone I liked was
a creep is usually an opportunity to expand my world, not contract
it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>12.
Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel
free to add anything that makes them stand out. </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>Honestly,
Robert Ashley is a big one. Not only do I love his language, his word
choices, his humor and his reproductions of human behavior, I also
admire that he was from a family where hard daily work was accepted
as a fact of life, no matter the profession. He came from a farming
background, and moving to the city to study music (let alone
avant-garde composition) was an uncommon life choice. The fact that
he told himself, deliberately, that if he was going to be a composer,
he had to work hard on it every single day, ten to twelve hours a day
or more like a job, just deepened my admiration for him. I don’t
put in the work like he did, but I really do have a voice in my head
reminding me that if I’m going to do this, I need to commit fully
to it every single day. I also admire Franz Kafka for making his
masterpieces while holding down a day job and laughing at the things
that were breaking him down, Thomas Pynchon for creating his stories
on enormous canvasses over very long periods of time, and Jane Bowles
for, as her husband Paul put it, being unwilling to buy store-bought
nails or tools in creating her works, but smelting every nail and
every tool by hand, even if it meant only writing one short story
every couple of years. I admire David Cronenberg and Don Delillo and
Charles Portis for really only having a few obsessions that they just
keep re-working until they refine them to perfection. I admire Robert
Downey Sr.’s personal use of language without regard for whether it
makes sense to anyone else. I admire Flannery O’Connor’s use of
unpretentious language in a way that conjures weird, bleak magic. I
think I admire people who are slow and methodical in the way they
approach their obsessions and present them to the world, mostly
because I aspire to be that way. I admire way too many people,
honestly. This could be a huge list. Maybe I’d get more work done
if I wasn’t so busy admiring people. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span><b>13.
What would you like to have on your epitaph? Or what is your
favorite quote? </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">“<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span>Whatever
you are meant to do in life, do it now. The conditions are always
impossible.” – Doris Lessing</span></span></span></div>
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Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-15069014042738231442021-02-13T04:52:00.003-08:002021-02-14T19:34:05.144-08:00Interview Series #24: Michaella Babbitt<div>
<br />
<b> </b>The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UtLZ63kktyo/YCnMmIXc-VI/AAAAAAAAFvs/1zANZHIAOsQLPTKDlRGdrIx_ekVAKVmfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s750/150069425_484721832529681_1595300159609914534_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="750" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UtLZ63kktyo/YCnMmIXc-VI/AAAAAAAAFvs/1zANZHIAOsQLPTKDlRGdrIx_ekVAKVmfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/150069425_484721832529681_1595300159609914534_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Michaella is one half of the synth pop project <a href="https://waxfruit.bandcamp.com/track/nightmares-become-real">WAX FRUIT</a>, and I like the directions they have been taking. I've been aware of their work since they had a name that offended people unreasonably so, and it's probably been active for around 10 years. I like that the lyrics have more of an overt purpose than a lot of derivative work in this vein, and the melodies have their own force, to my ears, irrespective of their notch in history. Their recent tape (I <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in" target="_blank">reissued it </a>since this post was scheduled in March 2019) also has some experimental directions to it, thanks in part to the fact that the other half, Dom Dufner, has a long-running noise project called Sigulda, and as a whole it runs like a carefully crafted lo-fi gem of the cassette culture underground's bygone "glory" days. Well anyhow, having toured St. Louis more than thrice, I've done shows with these folks and slept on their couch. Michaella took me to a record store that she used to work at, which is more like a library than a little boutique shop, and we have in general spent a fair amount of time talking about music. As a DJ, I'm quite sure she is STL's greatest kept secret and although I have not attended, I understand she has a Synth Fest that is going strong for a while now. </b><br />
<br />
<b>1. What types of things have you been getting into lately?</b></div>
<div>
The
same types of things I have always been into, just in different modes.
That's the thing about being an artist- you never truly master
everything. You master modes and move on to new modes, but it's all same
desire to create and expand your skill sets. A never ending search for
one upping yourself is kinda fun, you know? </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
If
you want specifics- writing fully actualized compositions on my MC505,
record collecting (as always), and a vast variety of arts and crafts.
Learning to cope with my mortality and "reality" and making art from the
subsequent feelings and thoughts. </div>
<div>
<br />
<b>2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? </b></div>
<div>
I
kinda feel like you only earn the moniker "artist" when you monetize
your output. And as a woman, most art created by us is considered
"craft" or hobby art, so from an outward perspective what I do is craft,
or hobby. But I consider it art because I consider most everything art.
If you created it with your hands from your thoughts- it's art. So,
technically, both.</div>
<div>
<br />
<br />
<b>3. How would you describe what you do?</b></div>
<div>
I
have many, many, MANY ways that I harness my creativity. I try to do it
every moment. In expressions, the words I choose, the way I use
gestures and move my body. The "main" outlet observed by my conscious
mind is musically for my band, wax fruit. Sometimes on the edge of
falling asleep my brain is just pumping away playing me a synth pop
symphony. I write songs about things that I think about... and obsess
about. I'm obsessed with the future, specifically the dystopia we're
setting ourselves up for. I love to think about AI, and how mankind is
so dismissive of machines evolving to have machinations of feeling.
Obsession seems to be a trend with me. I get obsessed and enamored with
things, use synthesis to absorb the feelings and then move on to new
things and experiences. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis?</b></div>
<div>
Generally,
ideas morph and change over time anyway, so my creative process is as
varied as there are problems to solve, or not solve. I always hated the
manufactured finiteness of fine art and how pieces I would work on never
truly felt finished, even when I would have to force myself to stop
working on something to keep from completely "ruining" it. It is
endlessly frustrating to never feel satisfied by things you're creating.
I also think that when you're making "art" you are more apt to
scrutinize your output through a lens of what you think "art" should
be... When I was a student, I would seek out incompatible materials to
watch the decay process and to ensure that my projects would not survive
very long because I want my art to die. I want it to decay. There won't
be any left past my lifetime.My art serves as a living artifact to me.
and that's pretty much it. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
That's why I like
to write music. Some songs write themselves and are set in stone, but
some songs in our repertoire have been evolving for years, and sound
completely different from where they started. Sometimes you just don't
feel that way anymore and it's totally ok to change your art to
accommodate that changing and evolving. Sometimes we just stop playing a
song because I just don't feel that way anymore, so it feels weird to
go through the motions of the feelings I had. Generally, when that
happens the songs get renewed or updated in some way, because I don't
want to scrap something that has potential. I just want to bring it back
to relevance in my life. </div>
<div>
<br />
<b>5. How would you describe your philosophy?</b></div>
<div>
I
would say my main philosophy for making is that of the Hegelian, or
triad approach- thesis, antithesis, synthesis- and has been for a long
time. It's why I end up with a lot of triptychs. I am always drawn to
the number three. And witchcraft (rule of threes). I have a lot of
philosophies, but my main squeezes are "don't be an asshole" and "be a
dick and get be'd a dick to".</div>
<div>
<br />
<br />
<b>6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? </b></div>
<div>
I
believe in magic to a certain degree, psychic energies and ghosts, but
not gods. Gods are created by man, obviously, so I guess you could
believe in Gods if you believe in certain feelings being so strong that
they make manifest incarnate, but I prefer to not give any man that much
power. I prefer to believe in magic or ghosts because they are
specifically tied to the inclinations of the willpower of people. I
practice divination regularly, and am always so impressed at my
subconscious ability to manifest the answers to my inquiries. I produce
the answer by pumping energy into an inanimate thing. And often it's an
answer I don't want to hear, but that's the beauty of divination. It's
just honest. If it tells you something good, and it makes you happy it
was all you. And if it tells you something bad and it makes you unhappy,
you're just not ready to accept the truth and need to sit with your
discomfort. </div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<b>7. What would you say was your most definitive experience? </b></div>
<div>
I
have many, many MANY definitive experiences. So many that I find it
hard to pin point one. I think there's a most definitive experience,
then another experience comes along and proves more definitive. One of
the most definitive experiences of my life was having a 20 lb ovary
surgically removed at 22. It's was a good thing that it happened, but it
was traumatic in the worst kinds of ways. Another definitive experience
was this last years synthfestl, which was just a fantastic time from
beginning to end. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of?</b></div>
<div>
I
have all irons in the fire at all times. The nice thing about Saint
Louis is that much of the scene is just a blank canvas waiting for the
freaks to be free.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>what is something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone would ever ask? </b>I am a huge bore.</div>
<div>
<br />
<b>9.
Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at
least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
"perfect"? </b></div>
<div>
<b> </b>Yaz- Upstairs at Eric's comes to mind. It's an album that
i've played dozens of times and it's good all the way through. Every
time. After years of replaying. Also, Roxy Music's first record. Erykah
Badu - Worldwide Underground is also up there. Patti Smith's Horses.
Thee Satisfaction- Awe Naturale.<br />
<br />
<b>10. What is the earliest
childhood memory you can (or are willing to) recall? </b></div>
<div>
I remember meeting
my first step dad when I was maybe 3? I was terrified of him, and would
be proven correct in that assumption time and again.<br />
<br />
<b>11. Are
you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of their
personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? </b></div>
<div>
Of course, because I can still
listen to David Bowie understanding what came to light. </div>
<div>
To
what extent? Well, everyone does mental gymnastics to like what they
like, or they just own up to liking it regardless of what that person
did. People just love a scandal, and to simultaneously infantilize and
sexualize women. So, you know, you just differentiate the person from
the process, and take the art at face value instead of this persons
philosophy. That goes a long way.<br />
<br />
<b>12. Do you have any heroes or heroines?</b></div>
<div>
It's wrong to idolize humans because they will almost always let you down.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Who are they? if I had to pick one.... I don't know.... Tina Turner... No, no, Aretha Franklin. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b> Feel free to add anything that makes them stand out. </b></div>
<div>
Both are incredible performers who overcame adversity in many forms. Aretha, especially because of her humanitarian efforts. </div>
<div>
<br />
<b>13. What would you like to have on your epitaph? </b></div>
<div>
"damn could she cook a steak" </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<b>Or
what is your favorite quote?</b><br />
"if only they had one neck and that my
hands were upon it"- karl panzram talking about people who were trying
to get him released from prison. Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-76717602236598033402021-01-13T05:38:00.037-08:002021-01-13T05:38:00.818-08:00Interview Series 23: Heather Smyth Hanan<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </p>
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Heather Smyth Hanan is an artist and a psychic. In fact, she taught at a school for psychics in Berkeley for several years. I like her paintings a lot, because they share the sense of an abstract landscape, while to me, they also have a depth to them that still suggests to me that it is a portrait or a character study just the same. Heather wrote her (unfinished) responses in time for a deadline while recovering from cancer. EDIT: Heather passed on in August of 2020. </i><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br /><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">12. Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they?</span><br />
<div>
Reality
Winner and Chelsea Manning are my heroes, women who gave up everything
to help steer the country they love towards greater transparency in its
governance. </div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">11. Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </span></div>
<div>
artists and flaws and
appreciating their work. Oh, after reading that fat book about picasso
by arianna huffington back in the early nineties, it depends on what
stupid thing(s) they did.</div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can recall? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div>
My first memory is at
eight months up at the sheep ranch in Montana, they were butchering
chickens and showed me one running around after its head got cut off,
but somehow the mists of time have erased any and all bloodiness. They
put me up on a horse. The black iron cauldron had a fire under it, this
is where they threw the chickens to boil off their feathers, I quess,
in hindsight.<br /><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? </span><br /><div>
there are many perfect albums. so many.
heart, little queen. always skip the first song, baracuda, too
thunderous to start with so fuck it.</div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone would ever ask?</span></div>
<div>
that side
project is making and taking rso (rick simpson oil) to cure some
cancer. The thc triggers the individual cancerous cells to turn their
apotosis ability back on. the cdb helps you sleep deeply, which you
must do to heal. I highly recommend everyone grow different varieties
of their own cannabis.</div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">7. What would you say was your most definitive experience?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div>
<div>
most definitive. so
far, during these last 68 years there has been a goodly number of
those. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. My favorites have always
been when everybody wins, everyone feels good and magical and seen.
this question makes me want to answer a different question for myself:
what failures of mine have made me a better person.</div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If not, what is your favorite conspiracy theory? </span></div>
<div>
do
you believe in? jeez. if i experience it, it is real to me. I am a
psychic. I had to get training before it killed me, I was taking on
other people's diseases. </div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">5. How would you describe your philosophy?</span></div>
<div>
philosophy, I
like to pretend that I am the dancer lover of the poet li po. yeah,
that's my philosophy: why not? btw, mostly he only pretended he was
drunk. don't fix it if it ain't broke works too. somehow I might be
missing the point of what philosophy is, ya think?</div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis?</span></div>
<div>
Dance.
more dance. local theater. draw costumes . draw draw inks colored
pencils chalks and then finally money and time to paint!!! yay!!! I
was forty years old. more dance. I'm interested in how casual can i be
about painting, about composition,about colors, about brush strokes and
yet have it all pull together with dynamic tension.</div>
<div>
<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">3. How would you describe what you do?</span></div>
describing
what i do: I pay attention to the needs of the moment. there is a
cycle to creativity that includes down time, stupid time, fallow time,
nothin happening time. if you cannot handle that with some grace,
chances are good it will be difficult to explore anything new.
Sometimes I meet young artists and they think they are all depressed and
need pharmaceuticals. nah. go watch a funny movie, they are good for
you, enjoy yer down time, it's there to keep you humble. Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-15951276006632177582021-01-03T04:24:00.172-08:002021-01-03T09:17:14.625-08:00December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tDNcu9GNkhI/X-cxa7zPiRI/AAAAAAAAFpU/aq6S9UXY24YZDZQHhZZ2yOzmj0UCA3ttQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2Bphinney%2BCOVER2%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tDNcu9GNkhI/X-cxa7zPiRI/AAAAAAAAFpU/aq6S9UXY24YZDZQHhZZ2yOzmj0UCA3ttQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2Bphinney%2BCOVER2%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="tralbumData tralbum-about" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Chris Phinney has been active within the realm of experimental music since 1982. Whether it has been his main recording project, Mental Anguish, or his label, Harsh Reality, Chris' involvement with the development of 1980s cassette culture and beyond, is immeasurable.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">More info here: <a href="http://www.haltapes.com/harsh-reality-music.html" rel="nofollow ugc" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">www.haltapes.com/harsh-reality-music.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In late 2019, Chris was hit by an uninsured driver. The collision compounded previous injuries, and found him in a wheelchair unable to work. Phinney is the father of four children, three of which were still dependents at the time of the incident. To top it off, the accident occurred not long after a divorce, the untimely passing of a new life partner, and the death of Phinney's mother. The aftermath of this incident involved multiple surgeries, as well as a month in the hospital with head trauma, hip trauma, and numerous fractured bones.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">There has been a gofundme page for Chris Phinney, but it occurred to us here at NO PART OF IT HQ that maybe this message is not reaching enough people within the realm of underground/experimental/noise/music scenes as much as it could.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">This compilation was put together as a benefit for Chris to help offset some expenses. It is a multinational collection of work spanning four decades, and was created in the spirit of early<span class="bcTruncateMore"> cassette culture compilations, with a mind for freeform college radio as well. Compiled by Arvo Zylo, "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney" target="_blank">Modus Vivendi</a>" features some artists who've worked with Chris Phinney in the past, as well as standout artists he's likely never heard of.</span></div><span class="bcTruncateMore"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Every penny in profit for this release goes to Chris Phinney. Or, if one is so inclined, they can donate directly here:</div><div style="cursor: pointer; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-memphis-musician-father-amp-friend-chris" rel="nofollow ugc" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="bcTruncateMore"></span></a><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-memphis-musician-father-amp-friend-chris" rel="nofollow ugc" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">www.gofundme.com/f/help-memphis-musician-father-amp-friend-chris</a> </div></span></span></div><h3 class="credits-label" style="left: -10000px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: -10000px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">credits</span></h3><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The compilation features tracks by:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">AARON DILLOWAY</div><div style="text-align: center;">THEATRE OF ICE</div><div style="text-align: center;">PBK</div><div style="text-align: center;">MINOY</div><div style="text-align: center;">GITANE DEMONE (Ex-Christian Death)</div><div style="text-align: center;">PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE</div><div style="text-align: center;">ATTRITION</div><div style="text-align: center;">TEMPLE OV SATURN</div><div style="text-align: center;">RISARIPA (Gallhammer)</div><div style="text-align: center;">GAS MASK HORSE</div><div style="text-align: center;">FECALOVE</div><div style="text-align: center;">CEPHALIC INDEX</div><div style="text-align: center;">LUER (M. Taggart AKA PCRV)</div><div style="text-align: center;">ONO</div><div style="text-align: center;">DIETER MUH</div><div style="text-align: center;">CONTENT NULLITY</div><div style="text-align: center;">LITTLE FYODOR</div><div style="text-align: center;">ARVO ZYLO & CHRIS PHINNEY</div><div style="text-align: center;">*Plus a bonus track for the digital download by Modelbau (Frans de Waard)</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">There will be two different versions of the cover art by Bradley Kokay (Whose <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">benefit comp is still available</a>, by the way). There will be a "red edition" and a regular edition of the layout. Collect 'em all! </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">PRE ORDER HERE</span></a></div></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/al</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">bum/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wdjR2qf8MiY/X-cxABcxCRI/AAAAAAAAFpM/5bhUGSfN1qwH9dN7mkyWDmaZFl3Q88XXACLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BSASHA%2BALTERNATE%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wdjR2qf8MiY/X-cxABcxCRI/AAAAAAAAFpM/5bhUGSfN1qwH9dN7mkyWDmaZFl3Q88XXACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BSASHA%2BALTERNATE%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_dj" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pingvinia" target="_blank">Sashash Ulz</a> was a somewhat short-lived project out of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, an area of Russia bordering Finland. Headed by Sasha Mishkin, and heavily active in the first half of the 2010s, I first heard of Sashash Ulz through a tape on Minnesota's Lighten Up Sounds. The tape was a marvelous example of lo-fi tape-looping and layering, where cheap keyboards and percussion loops just galloped in and out of a marvelous, mangled headspace. I enjoyed it, but I eventually came to find out that this one-man outfit has much more to offer, and a diverse array of approaches within the realms of experimental music. Some of it is quite musical, with a great sense of melody, and a lot of Sashash Ulz material has that great, haunted, lo-fi feeling that, to me, helps the emotional effect of the music sometimes. I will say that I use the word "haunted" in the most optimistic sense. Some of these tracks have a peculiar, but strong air of positivity. This coupled with the often crude double exposures that come with most of Sashash Ulz's releases helps to create an overall atmosphere like that of another world altogether.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I am not certain if some of this music is rooted in traditional folk, or if it is simply an outsider level of song-writing, but it can be interspersed with memorable sound collages, eloquent ambient passages, compelling guitar noise, and apparently tape loops of field recordings with animals/insects/strange creatures. At times, there is a genuine curiosity as to whether or not a real church organ is being recorded with a tape recorder, or if a cheap keyboard is being augmented with cleverly primed effects... through a tape recorder. I was given permission to create a compilation of favorite material from this now defunct project, and I naturally focused on the strikingly odd ambient, atmospheric, and raw elements that were on offer. Sasha Mishkin is still active, operating with more current production values, and the Sashash Ulz name has been put to rest since 2015. We here at NO PART OF IT are thankful to be able to illuminate some snippets from the past that deserve more attention.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pingvinia?fbclid=IwAR3DZEq0sQWeHVKkpK4Fq2TdMGOicloZ1-6NnEtDKh_hloBHaFF_sKu5E4M" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank"> </a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank">Pattern Recognition</a> comp was reviewed by </span>Jerry Kranitz<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of the book Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and The Creative Spirit In The Pre-Internet Age! </span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Various Artists – Pattern Recognition (A Benefit Compilation for Artist <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/bradley.kokay?__cft__[0]=AZVMe80gbwY8DLnf7P96dCnepA215rQGsSIXsbUb9DWpVobE8g2_W1myvSu79lElMVslQPc-A89AwvFJjFQI63KyvvMw6Yg4ym-_EeSBmN3vXOjhOfqixhKqK4WjwHdC0cPT0k9GNWAKFsuKP7IYGr3k5aFQOIqJlKgGeXclHTSZM2jF-MVUoL0pSKoztDyVFC8&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Bradley Kokay</div></a>)</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">"The fires in California and Oregon have been devastating. Among the unlucky was Oregon based artist Bradley Kokay, who lost his studio along with it over 20 years of his work and personal belongings. In an effort to raise funds for Kokay to rebuild, No Part Of It label honcho Arvo Zylo has gathered members of the experimental/noise community to put together this nifty compilation. The 13 tracks on the Bandcamp page include a mixture of experimental scene veterans and artists that are new to me.</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Lots of great variety here. GX Jupitter-Larsen serves up rolling waves of ambient clatter noise, shepherded along by gentle orchestral music. Modelbau contributes a far too short bit of spectral space. Mama Baer combines doomy string strums and plucks plus German language spoken word. (Marking down Mama Baer as someone to look into further.) Howard Steltzer (with assistance from Arvo) transitions from noise rocking, to tension, and on to clatterous, aquatic textures. I like Justice Yeldham’s blend of acid noise and what could be a mad laughing elephant. Illusion of Safety create the sensation of being inside a wildly reverberating drainpipe. irr.app.(ext) lays down an ambient combination of playful toy instrument (sounds like a marimba) and percussion. Hal McGee and Jeff Central team up for a mesmerizing yet spooky journey into space. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Eric Lanzillotta contributes some of the most quietly ambient music of the set, sounding like a low-key electronic chamber ensemble in space. Mental Anguish (Chris Phinney) creates a glacially symphonic and highly tense audio experience. Sharlyn Evertsz and Arvo Zylo team up for some droney/staticy soundscapes that roll bumpily over some other worldly landscape. Over 10 minutes it builds up to ear splitting levels of intensity. Novasak comes roaring in for less than two minutes of quirky, wildly frenetic noise assault. And Torturing Nurse seems to pick up where Novasak left off, blasting away with 10 minutes of batter, clang, and squall that creates a pleasant rhythmic flow. Excellent compilation!</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Stream/download and CD purchase available here. The download includes bonus tracks."</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-agpoDLiS0d4/X-cySr7OKWI/AAAAAAAAFpg/P4yvC0gEXC8ewAzrD1QaKaOh5t6fhryzACLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BTROU%2BCOVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-agpoDLiS0d4/X-cySr7OKWI/AAAAAAAAFpg/P4yvC0gEXC8ewAzrD1QaKaOh5t6fhryzACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BTROU%2BCOVER.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Review by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InfernoSoundDiaries/?__cft__[0]=AZVnR_xUtPuyylGZCv-JyUXkfPSX6NWmJr_FDnZ2Obxf4wO4wh8H4ccwI5Q14nnjQdnRc_ET39yVzhdwxdCVyGAF5zcKHJY7W40tWfw5Qp2pPYTdL0nWV_W0Vc-5Jl9lcZVpXP9a_gXFYmxZ9kcYwHlHkR4zvr8LorZWdQ7k43NsZmv8BNyVGGFocxye4nbDj0VQ8gu8Q_CrHz1BZ83Ll2InqvWH-Z1WxsH8ARk8FA05jjDX3XJ2bE9RFi5jzWsFDl52AcRs3JXS0MVp22xaKt56&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R" target="_blank">Side-Line</a></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Trou – <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr" target="_blank">Grjòthaugr</a> (Album – No part of it)</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Format: Digital, CDR. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Background/Info: The album “Grjòthaugr” from the French project Trou was originally self-released on cassette format in 2017. The American label No Part Of It has now re-released the three original songs of the album. Trou has released an impressive number of productions, but this work was a rather unknown production from the Frenchman. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Content: Trou totally fits to the approach of No Part Of It. The tracks are bringing elements of Noise and Dark-Ambient together, resulting in a kind of Abstract work. Endless loops are taking you away for a trance sensation created by sonic effects and loops from field recordings and other noise sources. The tracks are pretty extended, like there’s no end. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+ + + : “Grjòthaugr” is the kind of production that will please a very restricted number of people, but they must be for sure absolute fans. It’s an extreme sensation, but there’s something to say about the ‘controlled’ Noise approach of Trou. You don’t exactly get the feeling being exposed to a sonic wall; there’s also a part of Ambient running through the composition. I personally prefer the shortest cut, which will however take you away for a deadly sonic assault from over the 15 minutes (!). </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">- - - : The tracks are repetitive and when it all looks like it becomes endless –the last track going over the 34 minutes, I think a little bit more diversity would be a welcome gift. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Conclusion: Trou can be translated as ‘hole’ or ‘void’ and the work of this artist literally suck you away in a dark and unknown hole. This sound is brain damaging!</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Best songs: “Herbspalast”. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Rate: (6). </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fbo1kEq5Oc4/X-cy8GA_FzI/AAAAAAAAFpo/kDccy8k2gfMLCaRtzJX3i3Tf30LiloXRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/zerrissenheit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fbo1kEq5Oc4/X-cy8GA_FzI/AAAAAAAAFpo/kDccy8k2gfMLCaRtzJX3i3Tf30LiloXRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/zerrissenheit.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Review by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InfernoSoundDiaries/?__cft__[0]=AZX0m8stIIm9kBRgwh6baXlyINC6iXDEQPisfN6etxUZQndGipyWcdqFXFJdhZxJ2r6Qssit0PJ-CJXy_dAPzl3P7JCXP4NLEHscQKytDZ6WqfUgFjQZwUImMrZXzNevEilfy6OUHbVa3uleYpZhL0KNZai_tPakZflNNfJ_wxNIlkKUcD2S6_Uh_yV89jhv14phayA9arbQ2uLjwQdfXRwW6iSqBSXIY7VbpsX6wCHAmZ1qYSfplRB5jr9gQr4WhKgNHHT1PqQZPpTRYEkP_WMk&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R" target="_blank">Side-Line</a></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Blood Rhythms – <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/zerrissenheit" target="_blank">Zerrissenheit</a> (Album – No part of it)</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient, Abstract. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Format: Digital, CDR. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Background/Info: Arvo Zylo is running No Part Of It where he releases most of his works. The American noise operator now strikes back (again) under the Blood Rhythms moniker. The specificity of this work is that Arvo Zylo played on John Cage's first prepared piano! He also got a helping hand from Dave Phillips, Bruce Lamont and Blake DeGraw (The Colour Out Of Space).</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Content: You easily can recognize Blood Rhythms by the use of repetitive loops, which are mixing elements of Noise. Some of the tracks are pretty long and not really into variation or progression, but it creates a dark and tormented work. Some passages have something Cinematographic like while the saxophone played by Bruce Lamont has something alien-like. You clearly can hear the piano –especially at the fourth track, which has been transposed into a loop as well. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+ + + : What I like the most at the work of this artist is the diversity of the influences although the sound procedure is quite similar the entire album long. Everything has been put into loops, creating an endless sensation. Different kinds of sonic manipulations have been used; from field recordings to the use of saxophone, which isn’t exactly an element I expected, but it’s an original approach of experimenting with Noise. My favorite track is the last one, which creates a horror-like sphere as if announcing a nearby disaster. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">- - - : As I already mentioned for some previous releases, this work is meant to please a very restricted number of music lovers; for so far we can consider Blood Rhythms as ‘music’ in the classical sense of the meaning. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Conclusion: Blood Rhythms is not exactly the kind of project that has been set up to make people happy after a stressed day; this is a perverted sonic exposure, which gets my support!</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Best songs: “Zerrissenheit 7”, “Zerrissenheit 3”, “Zerrissenheit 5”.</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Rate: (7).</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5UyNyXV2T6Q/X-c0Pb1HoUI/AAAAAAAAFp0/a28ugF39XDQAWkiomjjfw4KQSKLjU29vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BBUDDHIST%2BCOVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5UyNyXV2T6Q/X-c0Pb1HoUI/AAAAAAAAFp0/a28ugF39XDQAWkiomjjfw4KQSKLjU29vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BBUDDHIST%2BCOVER.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">REVIEW</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Credo In Deum – <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/blood-soaked-sand" target="_blank">Blood Soaked Sand </a>(Album – no part of it)</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Format: Digital, CDR. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Background/Info: Credo In Deum is a new project driven by Robert LaBarge. This American artist got some recognition with Buddhist On Fire, but got involved with multiple other projects. This is his debut work under the Credo In Deum moniker. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Content: The album clearly sounds like it’s into Experimental music, but reveals a diversified approach. Buzzing sound waves supported with manipulated vocal (sampled) parts, noises like hail, diversified field recordings, ghost-like passages and a final track turning into pure Noise are the essence of this sonic voyage. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+ + + : I like the work’s diversity and especially some of the Ambient parts have something pretty visual like. I was impressed with the heavy, monstrous sound treatment at “Path Of The Fierce Beast” and the overwhelming sounds mixed with field recordings at “Sodomized With Spikes”. “Blood Soaked Sand” is one of the most varied releases from the No Part Of It label, like taking some distance with the familiar, endless looping sequences from most productions. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">- - - : Even if the album is more diversified, it however remains a very extreme sound experience, which will appeal for a restricted number of fans. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Conclusion: “Blood Soaked Sand” is a work that caught my attention for its accessible experimental format characterized by some great sound treatments. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Best songs: “Sodomized With Spikes”, “Battered Wife Syndrome”. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Rate: (7).</span></i></div></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFoWnXdRZCE/X-c1RGJcuAI/AAAAAAAAFqA/j0FZHAvOUIIrL8awe529jveteu_vcUHVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFoWnXdRZCE/X-c1RGJcuAI/AAAAAAAAFqA/j0FZHAvOUIIrL8awe529jveteu_vcUHVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/an-accidental-exorcism" target="_blank">156 (<div class="nc684nl6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">Adel Souto</div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial; text-align: inherit; touch-action: manipulation;">)</span></a> was aired on <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbksound.net%2F2020%2F12%2Fmutation-theory-playlist-episode-eleven.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3Y_uGUoKTPfGJ2Bt0c-qDfFzdZTP6qLCWMHmIgZXFtB4zzG0yqAOHJnkQ&h=AT336ZoxHNaJUYVoDHAbQ8dboqlvtrekcaYr8w2Wid6qwOAv6EuEkDJGmEAMTmvKIU6nX69lDFKty_wsG_0_bEEQpSCPDtUYqnZuBEzHb6o7DKYz2p8AfpIC6WzTZJwQGcGS&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT3PCH3V4De5189GGBESCNMv436nDu0ZmZclV4p4zihOJK3fESF1YyFQbnzj8NN8Q7WRJ9N--GS8kBEXYTG7OjaQ6Lrc4-AGif_CNuVTIWbI6MLH4tG7zhq7On2_UroYkRYNVZvia1XV-ptXQbu2jiey5dzNmhqfGUFcIAgLchd6mpS_xkFISU79ZFw_uQDcdYu32F4vOyqB-ueWSDSYFg" target="_blank">Phillip B. Klingler 's Mutation Theory program</a>, along with <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/chris.phinney.3705?__cft__[0]=AZVC7lMxMvTkNLcRJlz7pqovHlfqT_DKVhxCRSIMfvY9gVmF_bcfBeNT7pCMqiEXdb7hpGV6g8oyMrl-o-M-KY4uReuzxrdJnWmQBmgAkqNVVv8GoiJMuzazaY3oJ4IPjP7tlUhk6SX1hsFSBmgOsc9towIw7my5HGNctdmq9QaweY1B4rVp0YuiXCnXAuz79nA&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Chris Phinney</div></a> & Ed Drury, Crawl Unit (Joe Colley), Architects Office (Joel Heartling), John Oswald, Samuel Goff & Mariam Rezaei, and Oren Ambarchi, among others! 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This work features seven new tracks for which Arvo Zylo got the help from a few contributors. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Content: Blood Rhythms in a way is the ambassador of the label, the sound being characterized by endless, harsh noise-driven loops, but still featuring other influences such as Ambient, Industrial and Experimental. This is exactly what this opus brings to the listener. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">From disturbing sound atmospheres to heavier Noise outbursts, the tracks are mainly long duration –even moving over 20 minutes, like bringing the fans into a state of trance. I also noticed a short track, which sounds like an intro for the cut coming next. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+ + + : The way of composing the sound remains similar to other releases; there always is this taste of using similar sequences, but the diversity of the influences make the work always interesting. I especially like the tormenting and monotone sound waves running through “Nookleptia” and “Subterranean Holiness”. I however have to admit the harder “Flaming Wound” is my favorite one for the total climax in the final part of the cut. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">- - - : Why must some tracks be that long when there’s less diversity? I have to admit I’m often losing the focus when a work is repetitive and getting you this endless feeling. “Wheel Of Anguish” is the perfect illustration of this sonic monotony. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Conclusion: Even if Blood Rhythms is sometimes too recurring it always creates some commotion during the listening. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Best songs: “Flaming Wound”, “Nookleptia”, “Subterranean Holiness”.</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Rate: (7).</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fUoQ6bKgwKk/X-c4VHI-AQI/AAAAAAAAFqs/Usvic8F4fMMRfr9ZtfO_-AbqzCiAo3NuQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BWAX%2BFRUIT%2BCOVER.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fUoQ6bKgwKk/X-c4VHI-AQI/AAAAAAAAFqs/Usvic8F4fMMRfr9ZtfO_-AbqzCiAo3NuQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BWAX%2BFRUIT%2BCOVER.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div></div></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">REVIEW by <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/InfernoSoundDiaries/?__cft__[0]=AZVCMHix0Br31jLkaObcb87mq7r5QWC-Apxh3ERWx2UACE4RMOpO25MSPqruhJsjEkPlTmI18KA14rVkxIrmj7OL3Nl-S8rCRGhkf25VYHeVMZAlSay7qigrwsKKxmvyRCjW5sftWGZtB1XPOMX96t1h3JU-1Nl-ZveZwOyOthjI9MsC67AxfOT35KTqADPnAaY&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Side-Line Reviews</div></a>!</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">WAX FRUIT – <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in" target="_blank">Drowned by The World We Live In</a> (Album – No part of it)</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Format: Digital, CDR. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Background/Info: Michaella and Dom are hailing from St. Louis (USA). They were previously active under another name and are now active under Wax Fruit moniker for a couple of years. Several digital singles were released and they this year joined hands together with No Part Of It to unleash their debut album featuring seven songs (which seems the fetish number of the label). </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Content: The album features several previously released singles. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The sound of this band is clearly inspired by 80s Electro-Wave/Pop music. The songs feature typical analogue sound treatments and effects, but it’s the entire spirit hanging over this work that smells like the good-old 80s spirit. There are several instrumental songs featured, but still a few tracks with vocals. The songs are pretty short, which is another link with the 80s. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+ + + : I was positively surprised discovering <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/WAXFRUITSTL/?__cft__[0]=AZVCMHix0Br31jLkaObcb87mq7r5QWC-Apxh3ERWx2UACE4RMOpO25MSPqruhJsjEkPlTmI18KA14rVkxIrmj7OL3Nl-S8rCRGhkf25VYHeVMZAlSay7qigrwsKKxmvyRCjW5sftWGZtB1XPOMX96t1h3JU-1Nl-ZveZwOyOthjI9MsC67AxfOT35KTqADPnAaY&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">WAX FRUIT</div></a>, which sound-wise has nothing in common with the other label bands –mainly dealing with Industrial/Noise/Ambient/Experimental music. This album brings the 80s alive and especially the magic of the analogue sound treatments and sweeping effects are pure nostalgia to me. Every single piece has something thrilling and there’s no real song to throw away. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">- - - : I regret the album is only featuring 7 short songs. There are 3 instrumental songs featured, which are fine, but a little bit more vocals could be a bonus. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Conclusion: Wax Fruit is a cool surprise if you like vintage electronic music connected with Electro-Wave/Pop music. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Best songs: “Synthetic Reality”, “Nightmares (Become Real)”, “Done Before”, “Julien & Juliet”. </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Rate: (7½). </span></i></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jkera7bJl3A/X-c5od7cp3I/AAAAAAAAFq8/P7aWobCnuq4QePNXAUqPEIv4A9IY-tdwACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/brood%2Blhythms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1514" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jkera7bJl3A/X-c5od7cp3I/AAAAAAAAFq8/P7aWobCnuq4QePNXAUqPEIv4A9IY-tdwACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/brood%2Blhythms.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2020/07/blood-rhythms-heuristics-c69-personal.html" target="_blank">review at Cassette Gods</a>! I think there might be copies left at </span><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/personalarchivestapes/?__cft__[0]=AZWDnTHVhrxxSdiJLcVN6zciLeXtSfZ_9B88P1Kr5Y7C8s6xurzXDTNqeZOXyzDGzZZNqiAjTicVhI4HTDkLXksHHkmCCGKKB0ZomR3LeFvWSrJcL9URVRKPPR-IN4df9nbKDjGIJw3NSLo7sXbKHbw33BRYXu31C6wq7qBkH-cW9xSmownjujtA9DxEcAUa-6M&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Personal Archives</div></a></span><span style="text-align: start;">. If not,<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/heuristics" target="_blank"> I have a couple </a>stashed. Thanks to Jacob An Kittenplan!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1041592861_16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="374" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1041592861_16.jpg" width="374" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">Arvo contributed a track to this </span><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/CINYF/?__cft__[0]=AZXkzP04f7SQp3HXPpN3TzZHOvwjON2QARw1mbjNdc8gB5RF-EAjPXewS3HDEyK6O-71mhMGYQ_uyfrl8101upx9q78qZvorEgN8SLPd5Sk2BNCwS6NhvWWkXlbgvEr-c4rmg4mtxMIaV3_oPvIuB74p0dnCG8byZWnnnYzn7TytDPp_-iBhddlgV5tml5ouSdc&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Culture Is Not Your Friend</div></a></span><span style="text-align: start;"> <a href="https://christmasisnotyourfriend.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-is-not-your-friend-volume-nine" target="_blank">compilation</a>, which also features tracks by </span><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/Pigswill-278293022855792/?__cft__[0]=AZXkzP04f7SQp3HXPpN3TzZHOvwjON2QARw1mbjNdc8gB5RF-EAjPXewS3HDEyK6O-71mhMGYQ_uyfrl8101upx9q78qZvorEgN8SLPd5Sk2BNCwS6NhvWWkXlbgvEr-c4rmg4mtxMIaV3_oPvIuB74p0dnCG8byZWnnnYzn7TytDPp_-iBhddlgV5tml5ouSdc&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">hypnoskull</div></a></span><span style="text-align: start;">, <a href="http://www.thisquietarmy.com/" target="_blank">thisquietarmy</a>, <a href="http://insectark.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Insect Ark</a>, and more.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ceot-jiIan0" width="320" youtube-src-id="ceot-jiIan0"></iframe></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">An <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Blood-Rhythms-Untitled/release/10298641" target="_blank">out-of-print Blood Rhythms cassette</a> was uploaded to youtube by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceot-jiIan0" target="_blank">Watchtower Archives</a>. It is an untitled collaboration between Arvo Zylo & <a href="https://www.instagram.com/christopher_ilth/" target="_blank">Christopher Ilth</a>, created with no computers, and released only through xerox newsletters/money orders during NO PART OF IT's "no net label" phase. It was dubbed on a dying cassette deck, and apparently transferred at a lower volume, so sound quality is pretty quiet. All audio was recorded direct to 4-track in an old warehouse. Hand-numbered, hand-stamped, hand-made covers in an edition of 44, released in 2014. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RXaByl1jSGg/X-oyXOtuxPI/AAAAAAAAFrg/CaO4qSYTPpkJku3WSSUPi4O2UifkQTH0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/Blood%2Brhythms%2BUntitled%2Bcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RXaByl1jSGg/X-oyXOtuxPI/AAAAAAAAFrg/CaO4qSYTPpkJku3WSSUPi4O2UifkQTH0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Blood%2Brhythms%2BUntitled%2Bcover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">18 minutes from the master tape is available for subscribers <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/untitled" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; 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font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white;">Thirteen Hurts' <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/threshold" target="_blank">Threshold</a> was reviewed at<a href="https://spidey.kfjc.org/40841/thirteen-hurts-threshold-no-part-of-it/" target="_blank"> KFJC</a>:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="Catamaran, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><i>pedal noise project of Richard Adams aka The One Eyed Zatoichi for some odd reason, a veteran of the Norcal and Denver Noisefest circuits, apparently been making sounds since 1977. burbling gurgling harsh noise textures: overpowering megatons of aqueous feedback and swirl. this is a rerelease of a 2011 CD it seems, part 2 of a pair on Arvo Zylo’s No Part of It label. got some sonic treats with impressive dynamic shapes and studio tricks like stereo panning and soundscape layering. this aint no run of the mill HNW record, plenty of surprises to jump sizzle and scare.</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white;"><i style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney" target="_blank">Various Artists – Modus Vivendi: A Benefit Compilation for Chris Phinney</a> reviewed by Jerry Kranitz! Thanks Jerry!<br /><br />2020 has certainly been difficult for everyone but it’s all been multiplied for Chris Phinney. The incident that prompted music citizen extraordinaire Arvo Zylo to organize this benefit compilation was Chris being hit by an uninsured driver late last year while walking across the street, leading to a string of surgeries and medical bills. I talk to Chris regularly and have insight into the challenges he has faced.<br /><br />However, whether you know Chris or not doesn’t have to matter, because this is a killer compilation of 19 experimental music and avant-psychedelic artists, including some impressive luminaries from the homemade music underground.<br /><br />Among the heavyweights is the late great Minóy, with an eerily deep space excursion. Attrition contribute a beautifully somber piece from the spectral Gothic beyond. PBK (Phillip B. Klingler) creates noisy, edgy, droney, creepy space wave layers and pulses. Cephalic Index (Mike Jackson) conjures up a bit of good fun collage craftsmanship. Aaron Dilloway contributes a quirky and strangely but awesomely rhythmic sound construction. Arvo and Chris team up for a blend of noisy wind tunnel and disorienting pulsations. Little Fyodor delights with 30 seconds of wigged out organ grinder lunacy. And I’m tickled to see Plastic Crimewave included with a totally trippy guitar piece.<br /><br />There are also lots of artists that are new to me. I won’t step through all of them, but among the ones that got my attention was Content Nullity, who crank out some Goth infused noise-rock. Cool stuff, I’ll have to check out more from them. Theater Of Ice’s tune sounds like The Residents gone totally drugged psychedelic. Need to hear more from these folks too. risaripa brings to mind something along the lines of The Residents/Snakefinger’s Satisfaction. Really freaked out, love it! Lots of interesting noise and spaced out artists too.<br /><br />GREAT compilation, you can’t go wrong, AND it’s for a good cause! Purchase CD or download from <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney" target="_blank">the No Part Of It label Bandcamp site</a>…</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_1X9MQQLCLU/X_D7lNdmiHI/AAAAAAAAFsg/OV8AbLhoKL4njz7K2z5vd-xpEeqZNUipgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/134918083_152136706427265_3313144360261928754_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_1X9MQQLCLU/X_D7lNdmiHI/AAAAAAAAFsg/OV8AbLhoKL4njz7K2z5vd-xpEeqZNUipgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/134918083_152136706427265_3313144360261928754_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank">Pattern Recognition: A Benefit Compilation for Bradley Kokay</a> was reviewed in <a href="https://www.thewire.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Wire</a>!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0WkdboD1xbI/X_H6lslkosI/AAAAAAAAFs0/QyVsC69f3tkX1s5IfwA-XwMhhEgN3rbfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BSASHA%2BALTERNATE%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0WkdboD1xbI/X_H6lslkosI/AAAAAAAAFs0/QyVsC69f3tkX1s5IfwA-XwMhhEgN3rbfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BSASHA%2BALTERNATE%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pingvinia" target="_blank">Sashash Ulz</a>, as well as two tracks from the <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/modus-vivendi-a-benefit-compilation-for-chris-phinney" target="_blank">Benefit Compilation for Chris Phinney</a>, were aired on The <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-1221/" target="_blank">Institute of Spectra-sonic Sound</a>, alongside tracks including Brent Gutzeit, Rovellasca, Nihil Impvlse, and Hecker. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The aforementioned Side-Line Reviews have been migrated from facebook to their website.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; 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Bob Bucko Jr, or "BBJR" for short, seems to have an endless amount of time for creative activities, one top of at least two jobs. He's constantly running his label <a href="https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/">Personal Archives</a>, dealing with side projects and one-off collaborations, tours, and writing for the online zine, <a href="http://ruixzine.com/category/reviews/">RUIX</a>. His work either solo or with the outfit Sex Funeral has a "home taped" feeling most of the time, and other than that it varies from instrumental music leaning heavily on ambient themes to singer/songwriter mannerisms, to creations for electronic percussion to expert sax skronk to Hendrix style guitarscapes, or just in general busy-bodied home recordings on a four-track recorder. <br />
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</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">How
would you describe what you do?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">I
let my eyes roll back in my head and give in to whatever’s coming
out.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">How
would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a
brief synopsis?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">I
severed all the tendons in my left hand on January 30, 2012. Then I
began to really understand how to play instruments.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">How
would you describe your philosophy?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Let
there be mystery.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Do
you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">If
no, then maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether
you believe it or not).</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></b>
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Let
there be mystery.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">What
would you say was your most definitive experience?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Losing
a loved one, 030408.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b>
</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>
</b>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Do
you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think
anyone would ever ask?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">I
recorded for years as Assumed Names Workshop, but only three people
know that (or did until now, anyway.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>
</b>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Would
you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records,
or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
"perfect"?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Imperfect”
albums are more interesting to me, usually. The perfect band,
however, is Dead Moon. The ultimate distillation of what they
professed to be.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">What
is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to) recall?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I
about 3 or 4 years old, new to the neighborhood. Kid knocked on the
screen door, asking to play.</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I
opened it and bopped him in the nose.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Are
you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">To
what extent?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></b>
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">While
“to what extent” covers factors like severity of action/flaw and
whether the person can financially benefit from my appreciation, I
will also admit that is likely an ever-changing goalpost based on my
levee of admiration for the work.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b>
</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>
</b>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Do
you have any heroes or heroines?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Who
are they?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Feel
free to add anything that makes them stand out.</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></b>
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: black; color: white;">All
my heroes/heroines are (considered) peers. I look to a lot of people
I respect to help understand how to navigate this odd lifestyle, but
I try not to idolize anyone. See question #7.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">13.
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">What
would you like to have on your epitaph?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Or
what is your favorite quote?</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>
</b>
</span><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I
did what I could with what I had.”</span></span></span></span></div>
Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-49559016996349891522020-11-30T06:08:00.147-08:002020-11-30T06:08:00.177-08:00November<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-svn-vr2a974/X70cjbOfX0I/AAAAAAAAFig/81Mv604dzRYkjgpt-dI5PElJunk4-413QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BROTE%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-svn-vr2a974/X70cjbOfX0I/AAAAAAAAFig/81Mv604dzRYkjgpt-dI5PElJunk4-413QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BROTE%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">New Release: BLOOD RHYTHMS - <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/rote" target="_blank">ROTE</a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><div class="tralbumData tralbum-about" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">During quarantine, Arvo Zylo spent a fair amount of time "microdosing" psychedelic mushrooms, and in that process, occasionally found a happy medium within the balance of functional creativity and intuition under that influence. In his constant quest to understand this strange concept of "minimalism" within his chaotic and hopelessly "maximalist" brain, it became relevant to explore areas that have been touched on in the past, but not fully realized, and to revisit some unreleased material from 2005 and modify it, as it seems part of a current "industrial drone zeitgeist" of sorts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">What we have here are further explorations in repetition and drone aesthetics, but the results are never truly minimal. Instead, there are often mountains of layers and loops, fused into something that might serve as heavy meditation music, for those few who are initiated enough to sit and ingest it without having an anxiety attack. One might call it "ecstatic drone", as it was a joy to create, and it was certainly not meant to promote restfulness exactly.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;">In some cases, there are samples of factory machines juxtaposed in a way that is effectively comparable to tribal drumming, while in other cases, there are several disparate sounds combined through space and time until it sounded like there was someone screaming in<span class="bcTruncateMore"> the mix somewhere; A sound of different source materials battling for dominance over one another. There are also plenty of parts here that could border on "harsh noise wall", but more in the application of layered sounds than layers of distortion, although there is plenty of that to be had as well.</span></div><span class="bcTruncateMore"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Shifting tectonic plates of sound grind themselves into dust and are forgotten.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="bcTruncateMore">PLAY LOUD!</span> </div></span></span></div><h3 class="credits-label" style="left: -10000px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: -10000px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">credits</span></h3><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: black;">Cover art for "ROTE" is by Bradley Kokay. "Seven Stairs" features synthesizers by Daniel Burke.</span></span></div></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rA73z6oYlfU/X74eiTpC34I/AAAAAAAAFl0/AUbczl2SP3Q7BWepgGEOOS1rZbSANieRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1329/ScreenHunter%2B844.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1329" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rA73z6oYlfU/X74eiTpC34I/AAAAAAAAFl0/AUbczl2SP3Q7BWepgGEOOS1rZbSANieRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ScreenHunter%2B844.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Daniiel Burke (<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/surrender" target="_blank">Illusion of Safety</a>) was featured on Modulisme, a site focused on modular synths. Exclusive recordings and a very rare interview can be had at <a href="https://modulisme.info/session/31" target="_blank">this link</a>. </span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WTX2JKyGLvo/X70pd6aN-DI/AAAAAAAAFkY/_aPC61F6RmIJnrx_N6S0DIEiY8XvEptsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s428/124200361_1014575182353156_2442202709903852969_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="417" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WTX2JKyGLvo/X70pd6aN-DI/AAAAAAAAFkY/_aPC61F6RmIJnrx_N6S0DIEiY8XvEptsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/124200361_1014575182353156_2442202709903852969_n.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; 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border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>Austin Rich</span></div></a></span><span style="white-space: normal;">/ </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/MidValleyMutations/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>Mid-Valley Mutations</span></div></a></span><span style="white-space: normal;"> and </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/klfmradio/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>KLFM</span></div></a></span><span style="white-space: normal;">!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">KLFM was the radio station in Croatia that syndicated my radio shows while I was at WLUW, and so it's great to dip my toe in those waters again!</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center;"><span>For this appearance, I decided to touch on some noteworthy discoveries I've made over the past year, as well as return to some older favorites that I have never properly played on the radio. It has been over 3 years since I've been at WZRD, so there was a lot of ground to cover, and plenty more that could have been covered, but I played some tracks by </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/hawthonn/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Hawthonn</div></a></span><span>, </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100045377091477&__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=-]K*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">J. G. Thirlwell</div></a></span><span>/ Simon Steensland, organ works by John Zorn, more organ works from </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/sarahdavachimusic/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Sarah Davachi</div></a></span><span>, music from one of my favorite experimental filmmakers Frans Zwartjes, a new music project featuring </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/TymbalTapes/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Tymbal Tapes</div></a></span><span> label head </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/scottscholz?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=-]K*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Scott Scholz</div></a></span><span>, a newer tape by </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/dario.puga.75?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=-]K*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Dario Puga</div></a></span><span> (Blood of Chhinnamastika), an excerpt from the 1971 surreal film Pink Narcissus, a track from a tribute to </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/ralph.gean/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Ralph Gean</div></a></span><span>, City Pop from </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/Mariya-takeuchi-125985920791133/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Mariya takeuchi</div></a></span><span> and Yuji Toriyama, a track from a noise tribute to </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/Charles-Manson-325195124479931/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Charles Manson</div></a></span><span>, a track from a lesser known LP by robotic puppeteer </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/frank.garvey.3?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=-]K*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Frank Garvey</div></a></span><span>, a track from </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/lanadelrey/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Lana Del Rey</div></a></span><span>'s new spoken word/poetry album, a newer release by Compest on </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/OxidationLabel/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Oxidation</div></a></span><span>, the late Damian Bisciglia's (Points of Friction) AGOG project, the beautiful and melancholic voice of </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/rose.mcdowall.73?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=-]K*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Rose McDowall</div></a></span><span> (Sorrow), some favorite things recorded at </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/abbeyroad/?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=kK*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Abbey Road Studios</div></a></span><span> that ain't The Beatles, and more!</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">Dig it!</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center;"><span>Thanks also to </span><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/james.keeler.5895?__cft__[0]=AZX8EwJ9fzWY_HtlhCqh-hw8Yi3fRAyxl_A0teZ3DtA6N0fnsKqHbTYJryy-m6G6MdnIptpkbCywH5i6KQloPBCinbXm62O0W7qWYLDxUVGI8ngWKXuihT3yju1OQAuLl8CZPHdoh0GDXdMKZmQ4xrbQ&__tn__=-]K*F" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">TROU was aired on this excellent<a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-102420/"> Oregon Radio Program</a>!!! Thanks! </span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PqIpGSCMoSQ/X70fKfpm17I/AAAAAAAAFjA/2YGP7kKcb40mwxFw63akUNpgU8-qNGXigCLcBGAsYHQ/s838/ScreenHunter%2B842.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="838" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PqIpGSCMoSQ/X70fKfpm17I/AAAAAAAAFjA/2YGP7kKcb40mwxFw63akUNpgU8-qNGXigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ScreenHunter%2B842.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">156 (Adel Souto) did <a href="https://youtu.be/arBbadwu168" target="_blank">a video</a> for one of the tracks on "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/an-accidental-exorcism" target="_blank">An Accidental Exorcism</a>". It's a good one! Check it out if you haven't already. </span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mmEAedVPtuA/X70hTXhqKqI/AAAAAAAAFjM/2uqDO_64LFki0KeSOVk-wleftGw7_Sj9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BWAX%2BFRUIT%2BCOVER.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mmEAedVPtuA/X70hTXhqKqI/AAAAAAAAFjM/2uqDO_64LFki0KeSOVk-wleftGw7_Sj9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BWAX%2BFRUIT%2BCOVER.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>WAX FRUIT</span></div></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> was <a href="https://criticalmassesmedia1.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/wax-fruit-drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in/" target="_blank">reviewed by</a> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/TheCriticalMasses/?__cft__[0]=AZX-IoRg2J_XuQNYhNK-gYoqRk3flh4DB5qVa_gMrnFs9EM5HE_yz-94JWIqaxqFOcpEap8mMKdi88jhb2Ft_7GNJrM-Eqpv7VXU4-eq_tVAP_kKroYlCl_ds7if6XFN3BjVsUsyI6aWp7K0kZ3MyaSi8Ohb2v6pww-2JTog2YsUSRQ5iGL92HvH7oSXFmTI0ymV3XtMnRTAB1ldW9JeTnQqWroCacQ_3Dpfn-Uih8KSTOX-PjLonw7hmJ0QVSI_LM6KZd1vdeA6XHM25jk-tl31&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>The Critical Masses</span></div></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">! Thaanks! </span></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-skEW5MFpjEU/X70icBTrezI/AAAAAAAAFjY/-QXTzGS9JzQIWPK0pYEYBGe4CFrBuQSzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/a0897892026_16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-skEW5MFpjEU/X70icBTrezI/AAAAAAAAFjY/-QXTzGS9JzQIWPK0pYEYBGe4CFrBuQSzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/a0897892026_16.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">The various artists compilation of cat sounds, "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in" target="_blank">Pussification</a>" was aired on <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwfmu.org%2Fplaylists%2Fshows%2F96723%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0UWmyAM3SL8kpJ0ogHALqgHAHQMtslwrNfuQpbUk-dcKMvdf0N245x_fQ&h=AT1WZ7txETvCAuVJAd5nAYku5cxmc2qlDjW3MKAOuk2PzzwZmhWEJbPB4WnBl0NlSjgf1IhK-BnjMNAW-WklclPfhg_7X43TOjojNy5bs0sH53DEXULLGQRTcMcoLanqDlt3&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT3Ut3kr56r0RhYvdBL7MhHRZmnjtxML68WGIwXozXv-xP6qIoInSL0ZKqfcrvwgWTjBIsg6GdbVn83CmNojUwLJpnVlPyixfw-qx-Kl8sUMZvafY5goszVB9_CmJ16M3xxtGLE1mrREZkgONn-pFA1EC7mB37E4UIcBpF_7aLIKZBHZuxxZoMp7Vkzjigo4bq5Zrr6XVl9e0f3pjQWMJA" target="_blank">WFMU</a>. Anla Courtis' track appeared in the midst of Sarah Davachi, Jimi Hendrix, Bryan Ferry, and more. The common appearance of comments about listeners observing their cats' reactions is also present.</span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2020/10/nital-etch-simulacrum.html?fbclid=IwAR1GfLDwqGlEmQPWOyus2zBQJvvRRsgflrDTv6Cn_ee_WH6jQYLgzOru5ek" target="_blank">Excellent review</a> of <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum" target="_blank">Nital Etch</a>, from </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/lostinaseaofsound/?__cft__[0]=AZXAd8HmjcfXRnGYWXeQMnZiymNcN3xIG3__dZg0g-uMe5UX7IYDKVNmX_09j4d_9XHu7P5nrMqcotU0wYoV-tkV99T0N7SHMGH9jD1MUBlRgK2B8urcd5YJv6nFJFWmJTVzMqSpYCfsXizewwatrcqPkWftcP6HRRT4E08W3qNTaRhF9srAyrNDFlAkR3lN4qc&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>Lost In A Sea Of Sound</span></div></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">! Thanks!</span></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Thoughts becoming solidified in a world of dying life. Depth of distance now blanketed and vibrantly prominent. The settling low cover drones across the horizon, a misty layer holding turbulent energy above. Compared to a crisp blue sky with puffy white cumulus towers, the overcast usually carries the perception of being dreary. Sounds are very much like atmospheric conditions. General attitudes holding the same values, droning music dimly flickering with tones in the minor scale, sad and somber. This is like the heavy sky being considered wearisome. As with all things though, beauty is only a condition of the emotions of the participant. Simulacrum is a gorgeous dark ambient composition, but will only appear so when the listener is aptly tuned. </span></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Nital Etch is a project of Kevin Lewis. Thirteen tracks under the weight of societal pressures. The constant forces of emptiness created by indifference, oozing in to sonic form. These selections are far from harsh though, they hold the sorrow of love and the fading energy of disintegrating beauty. A true lesson of how consciousnesses connect through aural substances, sharing perceptions of the sublime spirit. As in Kevin's project name Nital Etch, the sonic spectrum has been etched, revealing the detailed construct of feelings and emotions creating this somber energy. His album named Simulacrum is the picture of a world within all of us. Fortunately Kevin has processed this with more beauty than most are able to. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Released on No Part Of It in compact disc form. The collage art was created by Bradley Kokay and everything else by Arvo Zylo. Simulacrum has been out for a few months and this looks like the debut for Nital Etch. There is a note on the <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">bandcamp page</a> stating these tracks are highlights from a collection of earlier recordings. None of these have been released until No Part Of It helped put everything together. Amazing these are highlights since Simulacrum is a brilliant composition on its own. Nital Etch will be definitely on the radar for future compositions. </span></i></div></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTCaeGz523g/X70k0V5W65I/AAAAAAAAFjk/vR07rmMy-REhBzMZySvXiw9Z_urYg7p0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s639/IMG_7644.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="639" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTCaeGz523g/X70k0V5W65I/AAAAAAAAFjk/vR07rmMy-REhBzMZySvXiw9Z_urYg7p0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_7644.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/blood-soaked-sand" target="_blank">Credo In Deum</a> reviewed by </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/lostinaseaofsound/?__cft__[0]=AZXmnPCpSrTCGhaOcPH6rLFFoNKaRNYMqSWhZ4CWagnNRXGFXCaGZFRiIgbvg0XmUE-UXW4BPSTDRczmiDa_PwmZRdHWwj6EWJwrNJlyWZZNDQ9QyC5A3TlW6BFdKGVpExLGQahFUM8pWL4jK8bvsgFrn83bqCv3pH4HvkMNMvPQTA5TKKeA6I5udi5jAI7LWSw&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>Lost In A Sea Of Sound</span></div></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">! Thanks!</span></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><i style="background-color: black;">Blood Soaked Sand takes listeners through a nexus of sonic shrapnel. Exploding sound fragments finding arrangements like stones across a river, then disappearing into the turbulent medium. Starting withing a broken glass covered threshold on the first track titled Battered Wife Syndrome, listeners are then treated to the most rhythmic selection on the composition titled Jetavana. The Accuser is like a vacuum, creating sounds as they are pulled from the living, leaving a mysterious sadness of nothingness. These sounds are somewhere in the between world, skirting the rim of the unexplored depths below while tethered to what we still know. The forth track titled Path of The Fierce Beast, is the growing rumbling din of the turbid energy below. This is the prologue to the final three tracks, a dark and tumultuous experience of what death could possibly be like. </i></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div><div class="tralbumData tralbum-credits" style="margin-top: 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><div style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Arvo Zylo - "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/333" target="_blank">333</a>"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtcSiZ_j2Jo/X70lzT9uQkI/AAAAAAAAFjw/ogN9cAccCVMtopM4hHqzkX7xZkIaOFxngCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/a0332179036_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtcSiZ_j2Jo/X70lzT9uQkI/AAAAAAAAFjw/ogN9cAccCVMtopM4hHqzkX7xZkIaOFxngCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/a0332179036_10.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Released in 2010</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Available on <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/333" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">"...this recording feels like it had to be made, and it transcends its limited equipment resources as if the music couldn't be stopped..."</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">"....Arvo Zylo's work is often the product of literal years of toil, the potent result of countless hours refining, perfecting, and focusing wild energies. Projects like his "333" and "Assembly" feel more like they've been finished in a metal refinery than a mastering house, their labyrinthine vertical layers chosen and fixed in place with firm force."</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Scott Scholz/Words on Sound/KZUM's "Other Music Radio Show"</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">"First, I was really focused on the intensely constructed sequenced structure - then, today, I was struck by the more organic components that seem to grow around the more rigid parts. It is an intense listen, for sure. "</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, Anatomy of Habit, Intrinsic Action)</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">"A technicolor nightmare..." "...A cyber punk thrill ride" "...totally assaulting music without actually relinquishing the conventional rules of what music should be."</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Drew Dahle/Auxiliary Out</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTpRkR7YOnw/X70mSlfofvI/AAAAAAAAFj4/ppK9vPO2PfU7KlN8tqzDu3HpKhRMj7e9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/zerrissenheit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTpRkR7YOnw/X70mSlfofvI/AAAAAAAAFj4/ppK9vPO2PfU7KlN8tqzDu3HpKhRMj7e9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/zerrissenheit.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Blood Rhythms' "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/zerrissenheit" target="_blank">Zerrissenheit</a>" was <a href="https://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/blood-rhythms-%e2%80%8e-zerrissenheit/" target="_blank">reviewed by</a> <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/Noise-Receptor-154015661424872/?__cft__[0]=AZWH2uSFM1l994IK8_oti5ih9Vclefrl5HwAJvYCSJWsvgH68OqcWYPqHpLpxU8EfKXo19PeazjRU3005SMo922Rj1Lp1yOz71cnH5TbSYcX2B1rkH6TGD8RQFTTSSw0Gio-sspzaU_ptoxJI8odh2hKvRDHWjn9Bk2BabUg4VoXhqRPAHKie2VYTg1vo8YbnYA&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Noise Receptor</div></a>! </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: normal;">If </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Zerrissenheit</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: normal;"> does anything, it is a clear statement that Blood Rhythms are intent on ignoring all typical genre confines, and are willing to purse and sound which charts the artistically experimental world as much as it does the post-industrial underground.</span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxjckVDa2i4/X70nK3_QKeI/AAAAAAAAFkE/jTjCwHx2QLEqDxerVljYwQg2nyq9opGGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/a3090634182_16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxjckVDa2i4/X70nK3_QKeI/AAAAAAAAFkE/jTjCwHx2QLEqDxerVljYwQg2nyq9opGGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/a3090634182_16.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">For bandcamp Friday, we have added a live radio performance by <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/surrender" target="_blank">Illusion of Safety</a> on WLUW from 2013 as a bonus track. Downloads also come with a 23 minute video by Daniel Burke, as well as other bonus tracks. Reduced price for a limited time. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-safety-zev" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: black; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-safety-zev</a></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">"Somewhere, an old T-shirt from Illusion Of Safety exists (the last we saw was affixed to Sigtryggur from Stillupsteypa some 10 years ago) with a deadpan/ironic catch-phrase "Illusion Of Safety gives you that soaring feeling" next to an image of a man tumbling headfirst out of a skyscraper window. Such a calculated juxtaposition of word and image was emblematic of the '80s art world (e.g. Barbara Kruger), often speaking to the underbelly of callousness, cruelty, violence and general amorality within consumerist society.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Outside of this bold piece of iconography, Illusion Of Safety has operated within a more liminal state of mysteriousness through signifier and meaning. Even in their most placid albums of soft-focus ambience, the specter of some unknowable threat lurks in the background.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">More common in the Illusion Of Safety catalogue is an iron-fisted grasp of that sense of foreboding and dread through psychologically tense sound design. Over three decades in existence, this Chicago based project has been whittled down to its core member Dan Burke - with a few comrades-in-arms joining him occasionally - and is probably the longest running American industrial project, having produced a very impressive body of work.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">The 2014 album Surrender fits comfortably next to some of the masterpieces of the IOS back catalogue (e.g. Cancer, In Session, Historical, etc.) through the trademarked juxtaposition of noxious frequencies snaking in and out of harmonic phase patterns only to snap out of existence with a razor-cut edit into an electrical burst of tesla coil noise (for example). Disjointed rhythms, mediated collages, decontextualized field recordings, and psychoacoustic phrases map this album with incredible control and precision. Illusion Of Safety proves once again that they are one of the greats of industrial culture. Grab this album before it disappears...."</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"> - Aquarius Records</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjF_sY_cQBg/X70nrVjQtfI/AAAAAAAAFkM/QC_bJU-gC5wwR0qpgRfTnCdUJLP39O8-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s470/0021729803_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="470" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjF_sY_cQBg/X70nrVjQtfI/AAAAAAAAFkM/QC_bJU-gC5wwR0qpgRfTnCdUJLP39O8-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/0021729803_10.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="border-color: initial; 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border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">The Critical Masses</div></a>!</span></div></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxSAOfRRr6g/X70qlSIWfYI/AAAAAAAAFkk/zGRA9lNDppoLgPOu4SvJ4c04otGibq_6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2018-04-14%2B01.49.31%2B1%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1066" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxSAOfRRr6g/X70qlSIWfYI/AAAAAAAAFkk/zGRA9lNDppoLgPOu4SvJ4c04otGibq_6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2018-04-14%2B01.49.31%2B1%2B%25281%2529.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">This month's edition of <a href="https://nopartofit.blogspot.com/2020/11/interview-series-21-hailey-magdeleno.html" target="_blank">the NO PART OF IT Interview series features Hailey Magdaleno</a> of <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/RITUALCHAIR/?__cft__[0]=AZUUqlAIzECThYLXD69fE-a86eSZ3RJhbulF_1c_Sh7yLw-Be7ih9Tj4_N_MTwEMWcaxlOZn7LkG3IqZJ1JWKSG7XxjGhc1bJZccQrg-TI8kZGV68ElX3qVrMNoNGyd8IMlSdabuINvAJSwYsx7d0PBsATmw8w8o3TzGsfN4XafUwv50R6kIBzpfjKYOESrfFUo&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="text-align: start;">Two tracks on the <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank">Pattern Recognition</a> benefit compilation (by </span><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/Illusion-Of-Safety-296599093160/?__cft__[0]=AZWQfvvNN7zI0-EWctjbit35JEXgpn-IXkOE4B17ZsFsiiVa2noo20HhrhLFREjaz5K7ZtRQo5eAAm4sDkhqENRpYIhQAJPs0GYn4G0bZXPyStpnrPbaAi1HP41Y4nNOz6rs3CRSvhihVYaU02m0hP_MZjKJXiuprP1C-ZepHYPqxhmS6OooX1-UXCvdLauIpeU&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>Bradley Kokay</span></div></a></span><span style="text-align: start;"> were aired on <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-111420/" target="_blank">The Institute of Spectra-Sonic Sound</a> alongside the likes of Francis Dhomont, Phillippe Petit, Russell Haswell, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, and more. Thank you!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zkmleHLyJm8/X70sUJjbPtI/AAAAAAAAFk4/ZZadATdlbX0PcprYLPAueCj9U2XAt8CxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2Bspider%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zkmleHLyJm8/X70sUJjbPtI/AAAAAAAAFk4/ZZadATdlbX0PcprYLPAueCj9U2XAt8CxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2Bspider%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_ad" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">BLOOD RHYTHMS was <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitalweekly.net%2F1257.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1hGR7hGTlcJps6C6JL7SV549VUWk72BSE5yoyWIjFnXdvAQBgpmc6PnYQ&h=AT3jDZnnplqjozuc_7kTyjwWhuz9n_Ts_ZFvkG9pNVg9uECOSslfIpN6gk9jiKl-t7Q6aUbooOd-UDFFFQ9blP3DAaH4lUJ1tjvlkR1XNy__h5kqQ12S1wCSqP-fODLGHKbY&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT3wUIk3HbzqEHCML-u4EIA4c04XHjOvJTjz8h5Ob5cbFH07wI26J1-QM7YlW0bJ64VP_eUJLB3t8L6NFIqeDXT5Ac_NYOTz3PwE9iAY53cidRkhyQYbiSkq03MOnldq-qcer4DKVBuH94AlIYPG7__HAKKjqgqKDtYHzjXqJ4qBq0bdUoJ7AB1flfg91b6SBfm0oX20gfiUEwPqytN_zA" target="_blank">reviewed by good 'ol jliat at Vital Weekly</a>! Thanks!</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">BLOOD RHYTHMS - <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels" target="_blank">THE UNIVERSE SPILLING OUT OF A SPIDER'S BOWELS</a> (CDR by No Part Of It)</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Very much 'a work in progress' Blood Rhythms' is a project of Arvo Zylo's which here further explores his interest in drones manufactured by fairly industrial repetitions. An interesting if difficult landscape juxtaposing the drone with a more obvious mechanical repetition. The difficulty being in the nature of a drone, a fairly continuous sound, and the nature of any repetition where there is a join. Here the tape loop and sampler loop were notorious for introducing an artefact, glitch or click at the loop point running counter to the idea of the continuous universe of the drone. At a deeper level there are the rival cosmologies of circle and straight line. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">These being millennia old, a life is a line or a circle. And at the point of repetition, if it has a trace, an event. To pursue this dilemma further resolutions can be found in the exotics of topology, the Kline bottle, or more well known Möbius Strip. In some tracks the drone dominates the repetition / loop, such as 'Nookleptia', 'Subterranean Holiness', if 'dominate' is the correct term, whilst in others such as 'Wheel of Anguish' the repetition dominates to the extent of rhythm and beat. You can hear for yourself <span color="var(--primary-text)">Tracks 5-7 seem parts of one piece... which adds to my opening comment on this very much being a work in progress. Only I'm uncertain that this process will turn out to be linear, teleological even, or a great circle. To accomplish both is metaphorically possible in topologies such as the Möbius Strip, but musicological or in noise such an accomplishment might be impossible or difficult, one would suspect by abandoning the topologies of musical media, the disc or the tape, for something new and extraordinary this just might be possible. (jliat)</span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fiPDg9z4NW4/X70swyspcII/AAAAAAAAFlA/KgCVoBsCRsgP_eSLNaV2pyU3IFJ2QyqJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BPATTERN%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fiPDg9z4NW4/X70swyspcII/AAAAAAAAFlA/KgCVoBsCRsgP_eSLNaV2pyU3IFJ2QyqJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BPATTERN%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span color="var(--primary-text)"><div style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">The recent benefit compilation for Bradley Kokay was reviewed by Nick Roseblade at <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/Vital-Weekly-1839327522874779/?__cft__[0]=AZXqvCC5YAiVZiVWIKoyhPwr5N94qm3NGz3B2Figau1iwYLr31GJgjNJebwUgpN9vnwuTMudb0A98M4sFxFC3XufJC7k0QS42yN3xei-1ygwo7j6dAOccbvrKP4kjygyJHTmQop0Rkjt6VEErFolDJAhcR3N2COahJp9Pgsv8LyeSnyFONM1kMmZqAbx5bRhTb_C9QgmU-OFuiH16-4RE75q&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Vital Weekly</div></a></span>! Thanks!</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank">PATTERN RECOGNITION</a> (A BENEFIT FOR COLLAGE ARTIST BRADLEY KOKAY) (CDR by No Part Of It)</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">When compiling a compilation there is a rule of thumb that says you open with the strongest track. One reason for doing this is that it immediately grabs the listener and makes them not want to turn it off until the end, especially if it’s a first listen. This also works in films. The Coen Brother’s classic ‘No Country for Old Men’ opens with one of if not the, most brutal scenes in the whole film. It makes you sit up. Take notice and not even think about turning it off as you NEED to know how it ends. The latest compilation from NO PART OF IT, ‘Pattern Recognition (A Benefit for Collage Artist Bradley Kokay)’, works the same way.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"> The opening track is ‘Fire Anthem 2’ by GX Jupitter-Larsen. As the title suggests the sound of fire is present. Effectively it is 10-minutes of a fire raging, but it is so much more than that. Throughout its duration, it works as both a love letter to watching things burn and also a cautionary tale to the all-consuming power of fire. The song is both vitriolic and incredibly tender. At times it is the most vicious track on the album. It sets up a question in your mind “If this is what they open with, where the hell can they go next?” The answer is very simple. Anywhere they feel. The song also has a deeper meaning. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">The proceeds from the compilation will go toward collage artist Bradley Kokay. In September, his studio was lost to a large-scale fire that devastated five towns in Oregon. Kokay lost 20+ years of work and irreplaceable material for future work. Opening with the sounds of fire seems not only fitting but a poignant way the album could have started.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"> What ‘Pattern Recognition (A Benefit for Collage Artist Bradley Kokay)’ does really well is to recreate pieces of music that feel like Kokay’s collages. Throughout the album, it feels like the artists are borrowing sections from other sources and combining them to create something new and exciting. It could be using contrasting sounds to create something unsettling. Mama Baer expertly atonal vocals and juxtapose incoordinate tones to create something truly harrowing, but also tinged with beauty. Much like one of Kokay’s works of art. Illusion of Safety uses manipulated vocal samples, along with the sounds of distressed machinery, to deliver a xxx on the album. It reminds me of looking at Kokay’s ‘Melt City’ for too long. </span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Everything is slightly warped, but you understand completely how that city works and feels. The album closes with ‘Isolation’ by Torturing Nurse. As with ‘Fire Anthem 2’ the title foreshadows what is to come. What it doesn’t foreshadow is how brutal it will be. From the opening salvo, we are presented with the noise of someone playing squash and searing white noise. It is one of the standard out moment on the album and ends it as it started. With a crushing feeling of vitriolic power but with hints of tenderness. Which is much like Kokay’s work and make this a fitting tribute, and benefit, to an important artist. 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="white-space: normal;">A short review from </span><a href="https://powderrecordings.bandcamp.com" style="white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Powder Recordings</a><span style="white-space: normal;">! Thank you!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">--</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: normal;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center;">Sterile Garden - <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/acidosis" target="_blank">Acidosis</a> (no part of it)</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;">I was quite a bit taken aback when I saw the artworks for acidosis, and taken aback even more partway into this disc.. Jacob has always had the eerie atmosphere, but this thing brings the darkest skin graft records to mind.....</span></i></div><span style="white-space: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;">I’ve never heard Sterile Garden this sinister, disturbed, putrid.</span></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="white-space: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>A mendicant in a gutter sweating on a bloodstained mattress two days since his last dose.</span></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="white-space: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>The back ground noise in the mind of the most disturbed butcher in Kowloons sketchiest meat market.</span></i></div></span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7kewoBPRn6g/X70uSXM-41I/AAAAAAAAFlU/rmrhPDyEs-8hQTXnmkz0FAYxrK1O9srBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BPATTERN%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7kewoBPRn6g/X70uSXM-41I/AAAAAAAAFlU/rmrhPDyEs-8hQTXnmkz0FAYxrK1O9srBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BPATTERN%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">The <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank">benefit comp for Bradley Kokay</a> was recently reviewed at <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2F1208fullerave.blogspot.com%2F2020%2F11%2Fvarious-artists-pattern-recognition.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0a0skEuQr1VJIuLWMQe-BFto2hk-ZqWlCKGmuFf_XB-LFDP3DcRdiNSkQ&h=AT1-KoFQplBT4ZXms9BsJLEqNku3PRLachxb0IlklTDGMgJKhOiKlgD6arEeomWIty9Xk5AyRuDCCTixzXurdUjfST5qGkaSvk56cx1wx6PefawWQP8uWk4lyY7pAf2w2Xk8&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT0R0JY8S7l73e-HeK7YkdGjTF6byO6bjJQHzIbUcav_DhURNS5HJUOzLE0TCjO4W1fBRjMIRDwKijPocklqbxV-JFvE3Xnm10jBH6subjxI8RnJHYAH8lPK1q7xHMlX2vrKoNtW8-0xxpquyvY1EsGKgTMAWD-rIRrubk3ACqjdAqYPXF3e6KoOA9SgLyAHnlEB4XcFVNAWcnP9Ct80yg" target="_blank">1208 North Fuller Ave Apt 1</a>, featuring Hal McGee & Jeff Central, GX, Mental Anguish, Modelbau, Justice Yeldham, irr.app.(ext.), Torturing Nurse, Howard Stelzer, Illusion of Safety, and more.... Thanks again! </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Mama Baer's track (<a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/Kommissar-Hjuler-Mama-Baer-170409828634/?__cft__[0]=AZUvsD6hV-GdCL1ZWQxiX5fMObI-7r63M2BjXbQOMH3GojuKYxX8yD_JsP18FMGfBxr9-cerSLCYhc47q_CiqBw_pINt4pjDKy6K1QGyu56drjjQy6N6pwnm9jIE32pWehSkpuvPa4t1MzrRzqatBNCNqJTcmJZH_9tQ0UDKE2Ohenhr0iiP81zXT7AoZQs75fRyvT2bpd8D6jA53yL9SXzO&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer</div></a>) from the "Pattern Recognition" benefit compilation for collage artist <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/bradley.kokay?__cft__[0]=AZUvsD6hV-GdCL1ZWQxiX5fMObI-7r63M2BjXbQOMH3GojuKYxX8yD_JsP18FMGfBxr9-cerSLCYhc47q_CiqBw_pINt4pjDKy6K1QGyu56drjjQy6N6pwnm9jIE32pWehSkpuvPa4t1MzrRzqatBNCNqJTcmJZH_9tQ0UDKE2Ohenhr0iiP81zXT7AoZQs75fRyvT2bpd8D6jA53yL9SXzO&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Bradley Kokay</div></a>was aired on <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiopanik.org%2Femissions%2Fl-etranger%2Fshow-413-a-reincarnated-hems%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3nEEvMLHsYvTwi_4hGU6GETMGAnUsvFWc6ifsTD3AB63XWDa9wYqhLnBo&h=AT3-YM3DqikiXbS4teRELF2OxIOdfju4GrYa_dl1OPgzj0v2CNYcSXKiw7CJJtPjVg4vK9xI-18bJcr28Un_MlXtxXM3LqYJdqDM8ZW3IZqFIlUv86P6EZdlL8zM3-zxrdmd&__tn__=H-y-R&c[0]=AT3mjpEqmQcN-yqUpFsXUYAOk0GmAw5eDuH5hgwX2kPfKgDbePw_O43HEaWu_CdN9Xk_Uxi_QwzH88v5ncBO2eZJVFsq5oANGUNGB3GFYieXzto0Gvm2qPjdphKAwUD3FPImKsKDg2sVpZLrqRRfqDBn5EEQLX0KHB1USXmMle4BOnKdmH6mDu3YWb-R6JL1PR1CnXJFg8CJJB_FxOXSwuMN_lW6wzqYnwjBXK968lDioA" target="_blank">Radio Panik in Brussels</a>! Alongside tracks by <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/novembernoevelet/?__cft__[0]=AZUvsD6hV-GdCL1ZWQxiX5fMObI-7r63M2BjXbQOMH3GojuKYxX8yD_JsP18FMGfBxr9-cerSLCYhc47q_CiqBw_pINt4pjDKy6K1QGyu56drjjQy6N6pwnm9jIE32pWehSkpuvPa4t1MzrRzqatBNCNqJTcmJZH_9tQ0UDKE2Ohenhr0iiP81zXT7AoZQs75fRyvT2bpd8D6jA53yL9SXzO&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">November Növelet</div></a>, Lydia Lunch, Alice Kemp, Joe Colley, and more! Thank you!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ff8yeqa6wVA/X70vLAaDmnI/AAAAAAAAFlg/hH4V0LKw6D4_4cL-Xg3iRkhm-cWuiz35QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ff8yeqa6wVA/X70vLAaDmnI/AAAAAAAAFlg/hH4V0LKw6D4_4cL-Xg3iRkhm-cWuiz35QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4HgoRBhrQ4s%26fbclid%3DIwAR06K1mogRdWTKG6z-hlOSa0Lv_f61l2UsfmDH9CIQyuuu-1X074jjmjL2M&h=AT3qDLPT9w7pCa7EGkJ1nG9rWMRiWV_M9HC3jBgQDGFCrZ166ToIFvN1724EJ_6GDncDy6_RRf7caaJaTg0n4LkVdxJkcphIbCmtI3NQsvEL5TYK69Du7Xr0U0tYpJwTD-Jj&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT3pbG10IHiUaG-mXelDv2OuWaZ3BAfDv24ucGa5zuehV-5H_y-tFmCYNuZql8AU76saYATn1gOzDPqKI0nH3FIKkR5Tzbjbc1PW-5VLDN5RvAFfuJu4ilRHZT_6v1kzrpaVonhOs1y0btOCQnLbb-N1VK5a9nyV61BPLRQhDllW1D57oe8NY_K4DM3C1RkqlGlOLtuveulcBw9A-bokeA" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Noctilucant</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> reviewed the recent release, "</span><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/acidosis" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">An Accidental Exorcism</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">" by 156 (Adel Souto) for the Noctilucant dark ambient vlog! Also, there was ample praise for the collage art by Bradley Kokay, as well as mention of the "Pattern Recognition" benefit compilation for Bradley Kokay's art studio, which was lost in the Alameda wildfires. Thanks!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2LO53GUCqa0/X70v6lX-HKI/AAAAAAAAFlo/vqSF7AE_2E4fOydkclTriEhdEYbJEfUEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BnITAL%2BeTCH%2BCOVER%2B%2Bjewel.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2LO53GUCqa0/X70v6lX-HKI/AAAAAAAAFlo/vqSF7AE_2E4fOydkclTriEhdEYbJEfUEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BnITAL%2BeTCH%2BCOVER%2B%2Bjewel.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A favorable review of Nital Etch's "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum" target="_blank">Simulacrum</a>" release on NO PART OF IT, and this is probably the most glowingly emphatic pieces I've seen him do on the <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DA5G4GahuM0o%26fbclid%3DIwAR1wFcXGhGNuhFaFaIktZyEgzTi-ZNx8H0E5L_-uY6FQPJs-j8mUkeAM5bc&h=AT0JJH-tQPm3eq_RGbyYzNpXuZurTYfCH3kUcRIJc8omdZetcKUpW7f_fR2HSok4whncWtBS4LTb7bc3abNSIsNeLq712LUoODC-HHAwdyFA0pALVeQLkBMMze79OKMo0QF4&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT3T3c5wsRES9-kDL56MVM3LI4XNYtYAvETAFgPaj1q9XuTOedN2TSWzANhcJoM0xwelk3IXGlAT5emkW7kptpMyCqAXmB-hmzjWb9Mh_oR5F7EjxlbJ-x9fYVfFq5RohJPVOsGIRf6dnIgUTOwzNhnXPS_FfAaSxgF44ibLkuokaZTVh0RcesLr6wywqfQDMd-HbHxrXd9ZUy7xGmT7tw" target="_blank">Noctilucant dark ambient vlog</a>. Also, again, praise for </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/bradley.kokay?__cft__[0]=AZXEghUj3lLhoUV8LaeetTQ7kV-b-Z8BSanlFh_IJxV4VhYvmzfaT_HIX4n_emw4Qc-4pe2i3lbcq4fSQn_10kT3AvRaPoP7P6fzQJ4IDy1BLogIsn22FuD4zo10E1kfQ5JNeu-VPzsQghO5hwu6fORUOEUBSUe1xpczjPu2n71Aef2sqNNukjo1Uhx1lCpj5QQ&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;"><span>Bradley Kokay</span></div></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">'s excellent collage art. Thanks Joseph Noctilucant!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-35130888652096458892020-11-13T04:56:00.002-08:002020-11-13T11:44:43.797-08:00Interview Series #21: Hailey Magdeleno<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar. </p></div>
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I've never met Hailey, but I've been in touch with her for a while. I think my first introduction to her was seeing a video of a <a href="https://ritualchair.bandcamp.com/album/cult-of-mary-demo">Ritual Chair</a> performance, shortly after some boy was trying to out her as a "fake noise artist" of some sort (her friends stuck up for her and the post was removed, apparently). With my curiosity piqued, I was not prepared for what I saw. First, her voice was distinctively agonized and penetrating; not the type of thing one could rehearse, and certainly not the go-hard gesturing of a person who was half-hearted about it. </div><div><br /></div><div> Second, it rapidly occurred to me that this was not a regular power electronics performance. It seemed to me that Hailey briefly made gestures to seduce the small audience of entirely men, and then started screaming about being sexualized. The notion of being sexualized without permission was taken and turned around on the audience. Madgeleno started cutting off her dress with a pair of scissors, crying and wailing, and asking thoughtful questions in a blunt but thought-provoking way about the nature of sexism, but more importantly, I as a viewer of youtube felt somewhat assaulted, and that is not something I'd ever experienced before, yet many people deal with similar every day. Hailey's "Licking Wounds" project goes into detail with some of her experiences related to trauma, and to me effectively inverts the common nature of power electronics as a genre without being novel or naval-gazing. I am very much interested in what her projects develop into as she evolves. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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<b>1. What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b></div>
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1. I've been getting into gothic lolita fashion again. Been doing
hobby electronics (Raspberry Pi and FPGA), listening to dark ambient,
and sewing. I'm mostly trying to distract myself with too many hobbies.</div><div><br /></div>
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<b> 2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If you don't like that question, what do you have to say about true art (vs. "entertainment")? </b></div>
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2. I do it because I believe it's art, it's fun, and people care. Makes myself think harder about my own feelings. </div><div><br /></div>
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3.
Ritual Chair is painful, yet rewarding. Sometimes it feels like I'm
picking at scabs, but most of the time it causes a lot of
self-realization. I think I'm better equipped for day to day life thanks
to my project.</div><div><br /></div>
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<b> 4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis?</b></div>
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4. I think I've always been blessed with
creativity and supportive parents, it stems from whatever holds my
interest for longer than two seconds. I want to be knowledgeable in all
aspects of anything I aspire to contribute to.</div><div><br /></div>
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<b>5. How would you describe your philosophy?</b></div>
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5. My
philosophy stems from a mixture of the occult and mysticism. I
appreciate the idea of something after death. I believe in a God, and I
believe in doing good when it is possible. </div><div><br /></div>
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ghosts and God, as well as a multitude of spirits. I also like hearing
people's skepticism against it all. Favorite conspiracies are about mass
shootings. I always wonder about the fuller picture. </div>
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7. (I'm
unsure what this question is asking) I feel really blessed to have so
many crazy experiences now in my life, most stemming from my project.
Getting to travel, meet, and talk to many people I find inspirational
and amazing artists has always been a dream of mine. </div><div><br /></div>
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<b> 8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone would ever ask?</b></div>
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8. I
have a few side projects, Licking Wounds (with Bonemagic), Ritual Goat
(with Loop Goat), Salted Circle (with Endometrium Cuntplow and Verge
Bliss), and Cult of Mary (I use exclusively religious tapes as
samples). I think it's important for me to practice and play with
artists of different noise styles, everyone approaches their gear
differently.</div><div><br /></div>
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<b> 9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? </b></div>
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9. I would bring along with me any Sigillum S
album, Brian Eno's Textures, Silent Hill 2 OST, and The Wake singles.
There's many more I'm forgetting. I tend to switch out what I am
listening to monthly, but I find most dark ambient to be blissful.</div><div><br /></div>
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Hiding my mother's keys at around 2 to prevent her from going to work. I
hid them underneath a dinning room chair. I don't know if it actually
happened, I get mixed answers from my mom whether or not it is real or a
dream. Other one I know is real, is going to the grocery store for
Fruity Pebbles, and proceeding to eat them in this odd cone shaped
Tupperware container my mom had. I was also around 2 at the time. </div><div><br /></div>
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I think it is easy to separate the art from the artist with certain
things, but it's in monetary support and praise where I draw the line. I
refuse to support any artist who has harmed another in a devastating
way. I understand people can repent, but that is between them and their
choice of a god. Maybe their god is their egos, and that is why they
have so many problems with responsibility.</div><div><br /></div>
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12. Peter and Jhon
of Coil, Goya (the painter), Alexander McQueen, Aubrey Beardsley, and
Sylvia Plath. I find them to be most inspiring. In my opinion, they
prove that art is always a sacrifice, and sometimes you have to
sacrifice yourself. People need to understand your message, whether they
care to at that moment or not. Art is everlasting. All of their work
has deeply moved me.</div><div><br /></div>
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hand, but I think it is always important to care. Care about something,
someone, and yourself. If you can't do any of that, you're lost.<div><br />
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<br /></div>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-45734178829636295372020-10-24T03:45:00.000-07:002020-10-24T03:45:58.442-07:00October<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--4FG2VvK3m8/X5P3_o1iVFI/AAAAAAAAFbg/omrR_D5bBZA9TBHRUuojsMfEsj60dX6sQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BPATTERN%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--4FG2VvK3m8/X5P3_o1iVFI/AAAAAAAAFbg/omrR_D5bBZA9TBHRUuojsMfEsj60dX6sQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BPATTERN%2BCOVER%2Bjewel%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">HUGE <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition-a-benefit-for-collage-artist-bradley-kokay" target="_blank">BENEFIT COMPILATION</a> JUST ANNOUNCED!</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">In September 2020, artist Bradley Kokay lost his art studio, 20+ years of art and collage material, as well as other personal belongings, in a large-scale fire. Much of the town in Oregon burned down. This international compilation of long-standing experimental / noise artists is a benefit to help Kokay recover art supplies and rebuild his workshop. Kokay uses mostly xerox machines and transparencies to create sometimes mural-size collages, occasionally in real time at public places as a sort of performance. He relies heavily on physical source material, and doesn't use computers for his work at all. All proceeds from this release will go directly to Bradley Kokay. </span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">1. GX JUPITTER-LARSEN</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">2. MODELBAU</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">3. MAMA BAER</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">4. HOWARD STELZER (FEATURING ARVO ZYLO)</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">5. JUSTICE YELDHAM</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">6. ILLUSION OF SAFETY</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">7. irr.app.(ext.)</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">8. HAL McGEE & JEFF CENTRAL</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">9. ERIC LANZILLOTTA</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">10. MENTAL ANGUISH</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">11. SHARLYN EVERTSZ & ARVO ZYLO</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">12. NOVASAK </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">13. TORTURING NURSE</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0139300221_16.jpg" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="397" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0139300221_16.jpg" width="397" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/civil-war?from=embed">Blood Rhythms' Civil War LP</a> was reviewed on <a href="https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=11504">Chain DLK</a>.. Here is an excerpt:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">One of the issues that I have with a lot of power electronics stuff is that the underlying noise is just so boring. </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Blood Rhythms</b><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> manages to avoid this trap by keeping the underlying compositions interesting... ...If you like power electronics that takes the noise part seriously this is well worth checking out.</span></span></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hDy3x2nMves/X5P4hAPKd2I/AAAAAAAAFbo/Gsq_wuLvf9sLbObr8U0DgmGY0bAvcADNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BTROU%2BCOVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hDy3x2nMves/X5P4hAPKd2I/AAAAAAAAFbo/Gsq_wuLvf9sLbObr8U0DgmGY0bAvcADNACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BTROU%2BCOVER.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="background-color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr" target="_blank">TROU</a> was reviewed at <a href="https://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/trou-grjothaugr/" target="_blank">Noise Receptor</a>!</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Here is an excerpt:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><i style="background-color: black;">More than anything the material is best appreciated when shifting your mindset to a space where there is no past and no future, allowing oneself to focus on the ever-present current moment. Artwork wise has the appearance of an obscure and forgotten lo-fi black metal album 1990s, where the chosen artwork by Zdzislaw Beksinski appears to be a visual representation of the Nietzsche quote<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: “if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you”. </span>As darkly surreal as the cover, this is intriguing and engaging release.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-spHA0tSCIKs/X5P5lc1K0OI/AAAAAAAAFb0/M8fw5znEuK84CjHHX3BgUvpDO55HYVq-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-spHA0tSCIKs/X5P5lc1K0OI/AAAAAAAAFb0/M8fw5znEuK84CjHHX3BgUvpDO55HYVq-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/an-accidental-exorcism" target="_blank">156</a> was reviewed at <a href="https://criticalmassesmedia1.wordpress.com/2020/10/23/156-an-accidental-exorcism/" target="_blank">The Critical Masses</a>! Here is an excerpt:</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><i style="background-color: black;">Yeah, <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An Accidental Excorcism </span>stays firmly in this lane, and <a href="https://onefivesix.bandcamp.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">156</a>, aka the Cuban-born Adel Souto, makes good on his promise to craft “meditation music for metalheads.” Stripping the mythology of any good metal concept down to its framework reveals the basic components of abrasive noise and demons, and here Souto combines both for a riveting jolt to the system. This stuff has to be terrifying, and <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An Accidental Exorcism </span>is, whether it’s the harrowing horror warmup described earlier or the unholy proto-industrial clang factory found on devastatingly unflinching tracks like “Whirling” or the sinister “Command to Move.” And you have to wonder, was the performance of the exorcism itself accidental – like, the possessed didn’t want the demon out in the first place – or was the exorcism accidentally performed on the wrong person? Either way, I have to imagine the experience would be unforgettable, no matter who it was performed on.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N35j0_4bCOE/X5P6exBweHI/AAAAAAAAFcA/EwHb0QcchhIxvBqZaPaC_Stb27asfPzKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2Bacidosis%2BINSERT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N35j0_4bCOE/X5P6exBweHI/AAAAAAAAFcA/EwHb0QcchhIxvBqZaPaC_Stb27asfPzKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2Bacidosis%2BINSERT.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iRNzlpOuiR0/X5P7Cud_4VI/AAAAAAAAFcI/M-dlQjpAPUUumNxSCweZw_qlXCzs27c6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BWAX%2BFRUIT%2BCOVER.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in" target="_blank">WAX FRUIT - DROWNED BY THE WORLD WE LIVE IN</a> was reviewed at <a href="http://vitalweekly.net/1254.html?fbclid=IwAR2bJeB95f2fR5QQVg5nBCw6pqvo5RauMHSSsoX4bKJqmCTh8SbxUeycbqo" target="_blank">Vital Weekly</a>!</span></span></div></div><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">While large parts of the catalogue of the US label No Part Of It are used to unleash the noise beast, there is also room for something else, such as the music by Wax Fruit. They are a duo from St. Louis, Michaella and Dom, the first singing and the second on synthesizers and drum machines. As with many projects such as these, the inspiration is drawn from the 1980's minimal synth scene. Not that it was called that in those years (in fact, I have no idea since when we are using the word 'minimal synth'). I always think 'minimal synth' means 'one synth, one drum machine, one voice', but no doubt that is something romantical notion of this kind of music. Especially on the synth front, there might be more than just one synth. Wax Fruit does a great job by sounding very retro. It is stripped down from most productional values, just the rhythm machine ticking away time, the synths in mild overdrive version, bare melodies and the voices buried in the mix (which is a good place to hide if one is that proficient at singing). I heard quite a bit of this minimal synth back in the day, but, actually, more of that in the last ten years. I quite enjoy that kind of music, as I love the sort of naivety when it comes to production and yet still it manages to sound 'pop'; well, in a sort of odd way of course. It is not the kind of pop music that will reach the masses, but one that could well on a night that is promoted as 'darkwave'. As always, I have no idea what these lyrics are about, as I never pay much attention to them, but maybe titles as 'Synthetic Reality' or 'Nightmares (Become Real)' says it all? The '80s, the height of the Cold War, were no fun, but is the world better off, right now? I doubt it, and even if this 'Done Before' (as one of the titles go), we get an updated soundtrack for grim times. (FdW)</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xHj9EiCzMxg/X5P7r957kPI/AAAAAAAAFcQ/LykDJkboROAsLgnGosjqo9tTd4lzBhPUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xHj9EiCzMxg/X5P7r957kPI/AAAAAAAAFcQ/LykDJkboROAsLgnGosjqo9tTd4lzBhPUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2B156%2Bcover.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/an-accidental-exorcism" target="_blank">156 - AN ACCIDENTAL EXORCISM</a> was reviewed by <a href="http://vitalweekly.net/1254.html" target="_blank">Vital Weekly</a>!</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Behind 156 is Adel Souto, born inCuba, now living in Florida, who had a bunch of releases so far on such labels as Chondritic Sound, Goat Eater Arts, Humanhood Recordings and Feast Of Hate And Fear, but 'An Accidental Exorcism' is my first encounter with his work. Besides music, he is also active in translating Spanish poetry, writing for magazines and photography. Both the Bandcamp page and Discogs list that his work is "in the spirit of early Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, Crash Worship, and Z'EV", using material from the junkyard as instruments and adds a bit of synthesizer. I also understand he takes sound samples on board from friends. The inspiration for this new release are horror films and I think that shows in the titles of his pieces. If the references given may lead you to think that this is some rhythmic banging on oil drums and sheets of metal, then you are wrong. Just as well as I was, I must admit. The music by 156 (I am not sure what the name means) is the exploration of metallic sounds in a more atmospheric context. I would think he samples his rubbing, scratching, and hitting of metal and puts a bunch of these together in what becomes the composition. He adds the shrieks of a metallic violin In 'Ode To Pazuzu' or a very deep shaking synth in 'Wirling', with some disparate clanking on metal, which is quite the rhythm piece; here, I'd say it is all play live. The music from 156 harks back to the early days of industrial music, mostly Neubauten but without any vocals and more production value when it comes to the use of 'other' sounds. It deepens the original industrial sound and creates a richer and darker atmosphere with it. This is not some tribal oil drumming but the sound of the industry in decay. The soundtrack for the post-industrail society, which we may have left behind us, but then this music is wel-suited for film about that time. Excellent stuff! (FdW)</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2r0jnnfKt8/X5P8TybljTI/AAAAAAAAFcY/XZj43B7r1TcZL5M-rRFtEXm9ZBopdN_hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2Bacidosis%2BINSERT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2r0jnnfKt8/X5P8TybljTI/AAAAAAAAFcY/XZj43B7r1TcZL5M-rRFtEXm9ZBopdN_hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2Bacidosis%2BINSERT.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/acidosis" target="_blank">STERILE GARDEN</a> REVIEW (Thanks, <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/AuralAggravation/?__cft__[0]=AZXxLiFwvTZVuTXHpwBoHpbVwiWvvzjsyQSWyHgZoxH6n_63yUAXtwzUbY-47PBWVzk1o6X6UrOxMV8v9z5sVRZMH_WEmNSKm_nbFzJmqIGCSNUf3hrFnA569x2jHydcNPHECiDTo0CIgDi_k9_YfciBmYAB65K44UrV5WdLWopdbR8LuASTzHqnwbRFk4fT4IU&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Aural Aggravation</div></a>):</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Slowly raising a hand – dripping in coagulated blood and thick, sticky semen – from the swampy morass of angled noise that’s entirely representative of the contemporary dark electronic scene, where dark ambient, power electronics, and harsh noise sim in the same sewers, Sterile Garden emerge with Acidiosis. It’s pitched as ‘harsh noise for junk metal, tape recorder, and 4 track;, and while Sterile Garden is an open-ended project with countless contributors featuring on their 40+ releases in the 14 years since their inception, on this occasion, Sterile Garden is simply Jacob DeRaadt.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Acidosis contain six untitled, numbered tracks, and they segue together to create on enormous lump of churning industrial noise. Howling whines of nose like jet engines firing up power full-throttle into barrelling blasts of abrasion.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Without lyrics or any form of vocal element apart from the muffled dialogue on ‘Acidosis 6’, the album is purely a host of permutations of mangled noise which feature here with every shade of feedback and distortion imaginable assailing thee listener’s tenderised eardrums. Metallic clattering, and scrapes, barks and yelps and screeching screeds or nail-scraping, eye-watering blurting screeds or treble dominate.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">So much of this overloading, speaker-splitting noise is so above the limits, so over the regular limits of noise, it hurts. But while suffering, enduring, or perhaps enjoying the pain, if you can get past the tinnitus-inducing shards of treble, the walls of mid-range that blast away like hurricane, there is detail, there is textural depth. No doubt many would disagree, and this s very much one for the noise aficionados: there no tunes, no structures, just screaming feedback and howls of painful noise, whistling feedback and manged, cacophonous noise hurtling headlong toward the crusher. Alright, it is just needless, neverending noise, but as I was out and about earlier, on a supposedly ‘quiet’ walk, I became attuned to an endless stream of noise ranging from conversations to car engines. Peace and quiet is a myth – although Acidosis is not so much anti-ambient as anti -sanity, a relentless bewildering squall of horrible noise.</span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Acidiosis is all the metallic clanks and scrapes. With Acidiosis, Sterile Garden have landed the crusher that will crush your soul. It’s a gut-churning, skull-compressing horrorshow that hurts, physically and psychologically – meaning a job well done.</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0252512605_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="381" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0252512605_16.jpg" width="415" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/chemtrails" target="_blank">Thirteen Hurts - Chemtrails</a> was reviewed by <a href="https://criticalmassesmedia1.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/thirteen-hurts-chemtrails/" target="_blank">The Critical Masses</a>!</span></i></div></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Here is an excerpt:</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: normal;">He might be going/have gone mad at some point though, if the conspiracies about chemtrails are to be believed. Living in Colorado, Zatoichi was treated to numerous instances of chemtrails from jets, and they probably continually dosed him, over and over, until his mind resembled the sounds emanating from the </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Chemtrails </span><span style="white-space: normal;">disc. By that I mean his mind was simmered down to a viscous, oily goop that burned and seared and began to eat away at his brainpan. This is all OK, because in a selfish sort of way, I’m happy to be a part of this process, observing the frequencies and static and blasts of scouring agents emanating from his work. And this was pretty much all done with guitar pedals, so there’s quite a bit to sift through here.</span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2873535813_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="350" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2873535813_16.jpg" width="350" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels" target="_blank">Blood Rhythms' The Universe Spilling Out of A Spider's Bowels</a> was reviewed by <a href="https://criticalmassesmedia1.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/blood-rhythms-the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels" target="_blank">The Critical Masses</a>! Here is an excerpt:</span></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: normal;">B<i>lood Rhythms is on a drone kick this time around, serving as an energy source as repeated motifs emanate from a failing core and irradiate everything they expand toward. It’s dangerous stuff, as exposure to this pure energy surely carries multiple warning from the Surgeon General. Forget the PMRC, </i></span><i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">this </span><span style="white-space: normal;">is the governmental watchdog that must be paid attention to! Zylo and cohorts seize upon the most primordial material and send it our way, with a deep undercurrent of noise humming through the space and time of these seven harsh numbers.</span></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eARB6PyWAqM/X5P_Urn0GpI/AAAAAAAAFck/gGUJ3ADXl1MiT-EHX1Qg3uHFbFUFG3shwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BTROU%2BCOVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eARB6PyWAqM/X5P_Urn0GpI/AAAAAAAAFck/gGUJ3ADXl1MiT-EHX1Qg3uHFbFUFG3shwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BTROU%2BCOVER.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr" target="_blank">TROU's recent reissue</a> on no part of it was reviewed rather poetically by<a href="https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2020/10/trou-grjothaugr.html" target="_blank"> <div class="nc684nl6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">Lost In A Sea Of Sound</div></a>. Here is an excerpt: </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: italic; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;">The powerful hum of engines at work, tireless and consistent to measures blurred by time. To truly experience this long meditative drone would mean a journey is in process. Listen... there are infinite worlds within these sounds. These realities mirror the infinite worlds opening in each of our consciousnesses. Somewhere deep within this sonic current, a pulse can be heard. A rhythm that permeates the cosmos through the smallest components of the atom. This is the sound of continual energy being compressed and stretched through time. As this energy radiates monumental might, thoughts surf to the highest places, then plummet beneath all we know. Grjòthaugr is a manifestation of aural pathways each listener will discover for themselves. The connection is for each of us alone.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: italic; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: italic; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K71oj8hoHiU/X5QAl5Gcc9I/AAAAAAAAFc0/d1R18t8NNWQkBZvhEG6vioPAuvmrMFq8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BnITAL%2BeTCH%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K71oj8hoHiU/X5QAl5Gcc9I/AAAAAAAAFc0/d1R18t8NNWQkBZvhEG6vioPAuvmrMFq8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BnITAL%2BeTCH%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum" target="_blank">Nital Etch's Simulacrum</a> was reviewed at <a href="https://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/nital-etch-simulacrum/" target="_blank">Noise Receptor</a>! Here is an excerpt:</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: normal;">The overall atmosphere is one of frayed and faded sepia tone photographs of desolate wintery landscapes, skeletal leafless branches and decaying abandoned buildings. On the opening track </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Outro</span><span style="white-space: normal;"> is an excellent statement of intent, featuring mournful cinematically edge, with sub-dour orchestral tones and floating violins. </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Incisions</span><span style="white-space: normal;"> follows, with a similar filmic tone of minimal melody and moody bass drone, but mid track shifts off into sparse field recording elements and piano being played somewhere in the depths of an abandoned mansion. </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">You Poor Thing</span><span style="white-space: normal;"> commences as an abstracted soundscape, yet from mid track onwards features achingly sad violin melody and string backing. The track </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Barabara</span><span style="white-space: normal;"> changes things up, where the experimental industrial sound comes to the fore through a a forceful mid-toned industrial drone which builds to avalanche intensity against which an old documentary sample is set. </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Loss</span><span style="white-space: normal;"> is perhaps the most contemporary classic type piece on offer, building around string backing and serpentine violin melody, while </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Obsolescence </span><span style="white-space: normal;">plays out as another cinematic piece of tensile edged and slowing elevating orchestral strings. With regard to the back half of the album, it features around 25 minutes of material, being denoted as excepts of 1 through 4 of a longer piece titled </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Glass Tube Roses</span><span style="white-space: normal;">. In overall tone these tracks are slightly less refined looser in execution. Generally being more subsumed with a foggy production, thus perhaps having a stronger dark ambient tone than the experimental contemporary classical soundscapes of the album’s front half, yet they still maintain the same dour, sepia toned cinematic flavour.</span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="background-color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hxOnIwJVQL0/X5QBpfS3onI/AAAAAAAAFdE/Xv-i11qxQRopsztiWEBvNtwWpoNoMP6vQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2Bspider%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hxOnIwJVQL0/X5QBpfS3onI/AAAAAAAAFdE/Xv-i11qxQRopsztiWEBvNtwWpoNoMP6vQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2Bspider%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div></span></i><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels" style="background-color: black;" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"></span></a><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels" target="_blank">BLOOD RHYTHMS' "The Universe Spilling Out Of A Spider's Bowels"</a> was<a href="https://youtu.be/6X8TENToU64" target="_blank"> reviewed by Noctilucant</a> for their dark ambient vlog. It is clear that the reviewer doesn't know a whole lot about noise music, but they did refer to this release as "Meditative Music for Psychopaths", which we'll take as a compliment. Also, praise of Bradley Kokay's art is worth mentioning. Thanks!</span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0252512605_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="369" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0252512605_16.jpg" width="369" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/chemtrails" target="_blank">Thirteen Hurts</a> and <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels" target="_blank">Blood Rhythms</a> were aired on <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-10320/" target="_blank">The Institute of Spectra-Sonic Sound</a>, also featuring PBK, Beequeen, Legowelt, and more. Thanks!</span></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: italic; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: italic; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2481090219_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="325" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2481090219_16.jpg" width="325" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/zerrissenheit" target="_blank">Recent BLOOD RHYTHMS release "Zerrissenheit"</a> was aired on <a href="https://www.totallyradio.com/shows/signal-to-noise/episodes/signal-to-noise-29-sep-2020" target="_blank">Signal To Noise/Totally Radio</a>. Also aired were Diamanda Galás, Gerogerigegege, Les Rallizes Denudes, and more. Thanks to Nick Roseblade!</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7oBHWNt9G7U/X5QEjH0HJZI/AAAAAAAAFdQ/Q7mZoDUkZbcuteIZxUd5nxlha5VSKMyAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1423/KUNAKI%2BnITAL%2BeTCH%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7oBHWNt9G7U/X5QEjH0HJZI/AAAAAAAAFdQ/Q7mZoDUkZbcuteIZxUd5nxlha5VSKMyAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/KUNAKI%2BnITAL%2BeTCH%2Bcover%2Bjewel.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum" target="_blank">Nital Etch</a> was aired on a mix by <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/toneshiftradio/toneshift-tuesday-64-part-a/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><div class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Toneshift</div></a>! Thank you! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-39551925486916461282020-10-13T01:55:00.001-07:002020-10-28T04:43:15.726-07:00Interview Series #20: William Meehan<div dir="ltr" id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2362">
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a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
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Aside from being a wellspring of Fortean knowledge, Mr. Meehan has been active either as a DJ at WZRD-Chicago in the 80s, a member of the pioneering Chicago freak-punk/no wave band <a href="https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/chicago_nowave_.html">Silver Abuse</a>, or a noiser under the project Research Defense Squad still operable in some capacity since the 80s. </div>
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<b>1. What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b></div>
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Of late I've been collecting obscure Film Noir DVDs, continuing to
immerse myself in late 19th and early 20th Weird fiction (and
investigating the New Weird) and researching the Western Ceremonial
Magic tradition especially the work of Jon Dee and his Enochian system
of magic. Also continuing my studies of theoretical mathematics and
physics and their relation to metaphysics.</div>
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<b>2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If you don't like that question, what do you have to say about true art (vs. "entertainment")? </b><br />
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I am a musician and no, it is not a hobby, it is a spiritual calling
one that I am determined to continue with until I pass into another
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<b>3. How would you describe what you do?</b></div>
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I sing, I write songs, I perform and record them with my band Silver
Abuse. I am also collaborating with other musicians in some other
projects later this year.</div>
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<b>4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis? </b></div>
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As a youngster I went through a period of learning my craft and as I
got older was able to use the newfound abilities to explore the world of
sound. Currently I am trying to use what I have discovered in these
explorations to continue to make interesting music that will bring a
certain amount of joy to those who listen to it.</div>
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<b>5. How would you describe your philosophy?</b></div>
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5- Don't be an asshole. And treat animals with respect.</div>
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<b>6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you believe it or not). </b></div>
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Human beings have a certain amount of hubris in which so many people
believe that they are the crown of creation. The universe is
unimaginably vast (and unimaginably weird)and we are incapable of
understanding even a tiny portion of it. I have had a lifelong obsession
with the occult and the paranormal and have been a practitioner of
various spiritual disciplines. Also, I happy to be a nice Irish Catholic
lad because Catholicism is a wonderful fount of High Weirdness. As for
my favorite conspiracy theory I really like the one that claims
Hurricane Katrina was a form of weather warfare created by rogue Russian
scientists in the pay of the Yakuza as revenge for the defeat of Japan
in World war 2. </div>
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<b>7. What would you say was your most definitive experience? </b></div>
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7. DMT</div>
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<b>8- A number of musical projects and collaborations that shall reveal themselves in time.</b></div>
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<b><br />9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of "perfect"? <br /> </b></div>
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Sprit of Eden- Talk Talk , Ladies and Gentlemen, We are Now Floating
in Space- Spritualized, Electric Ladyland- Jimi Hendrix, Intersteller
Space-John Coltrane, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%25C3%25AEla-Symphonie&source=gmail&ust=1554723789631000&usg=AFQjCNE8X_W49OF0yYXRqbmq6LjIYm0JEg" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie" id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2806" target="_blank" title="Turangalîla-Symphonie"><i id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2807"><span id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2808" style="color: #0066cc;">Turangalîla-Symphonie</span></i></a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatuor_pour_la_fin_du_temps&source=gmail&ust=1554723789631000&usg=AFQjCNGsfNDtZ-26PxOLpbTIU2d12YWb5w" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatuor_pour_la_fin_du_temps" id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2829" target="_blank" title=""><i id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2830"><span id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2831" style="color: #0066cc;">Quatuor pour la fin du temps</span></i></a>- Olivier Messiaen, <b id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2883"><i id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_2884">The
Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Beethoven's nine symphonies,
Spiritual Unity-Albert Ayler, the complete works of Current 93, Coil,
Nurse with Wound and Throbbing Gristle as well as most of Physic TV as
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<b>10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to) recall? </b></div>
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10- My cousin trying to drown me when I was three.</div>
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<b>11. Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </b></div>
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Yes. Some of my favorite artists are awful people. The idea that one
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12- There are people that I have admiration for but I certainly don't consider them to be heroes.</div>
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13- <span id="m_7508681458340884116yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1552513770807_3174">''It's my sincere wish that after my death, my head be severed and replaced with a bunch of broccoli. It's the artist in me.''</span> </div>
Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-32003548731014101472020-09-25T03:26:00.001-07:002020-09-25T03:26:24.309-07:00New Releases <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">New releases on <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/">NO PART OF IT</a>, with options to purchase in bundles available now:</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0202047609_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="363" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0202047609_16.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">On this new full-length, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/an-accidental-exorcism">An Accidental Exorcism</a>, 156 returns to his original experimental industrial sound, but with an added flair. Though the music on this release is still in the spirit of early Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, Crash Worship, and Z'EV, 156 has added the use of synthesizer on some tracks, while still staying away from outsourced samples, as all sounds used are strictly recorded by collaborators. On this newest release 156 pays homage to minimalist horror movie soundtracks, while still sounding like a drum circle in a rusty junkyard, and staying true to the “meditation music for metalheads” motto.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">156 is conducted by Adel Souto, who is a Cuban-born musician, multimedia artist, and writer. The outfit started in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood in 2010, but has recently relocated to the Florida Everglades.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Adel began playing music in the late 80s, and had formed or joined many punk and hardcore bands, plus contributing to several albums by other acts. He has written for his own fanzines starting in the early 90s, and has devoted pieces to numerous magazines, fanzines, and websites since. He has released several books, including a “best of”, and a chapbook on the subject of a 30-day vow of</span><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> silence, while also having translated the works of Spanish poets. His work, both art pieces and photography, has shown in galleries in NYC, Philadelphia, and Miami, as well as in Europe, and South America. His music videos have been screened at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives, and he has lectured on the subject of occult influences in photography at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's Department of Art and Art Professions.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4102929389_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="317" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4102929389_16.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-by-the-world-we-live-in">WAX FRUIT</a> began under a different name, with at least one CDr under its belt, probably around 2010. St. Louis couple Michaella and Dom pool together their lengthy experience in this project, which finds Michaella using her influences as a DJ/Synth Fest curator/bonafide record geek to fuse ideas with Dom, who did synth-based experimental music and noise under the name Sigulda for many years, as well as running Side Of The Sun Recordings for much of that time.<br /><br />Wax Fruit is clearly inspired by early 80s minimal wave and synth pop, perhaps also some choice synth soundtracks and other things, but I think there are some vocal melodies that contribute something compelling to the genre(s) history, if not carefully crafted lyrics that can easily resonate with most humans in our nauseatingly well-informed period of time.<br /><br />While there are a few tracks here that are instrumental in nature due to collaborations with hylidae, and although the total running time is less than 26 minutes, DROWNED BY THE WORLD WE LIVE IN still plays like an LP, with the distinct feeling that a story is being told, and that the listener is in good hands. In hopes of reaching a wider audience, DROWNED BY THE WORLD WE LIVE IN has been reissued by NO PART OF IT label from a pro-cassette edition from around 2018, which were also accompanied by CD demos in slimline cases.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0786038567_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="356" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0786038567_16.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Harsh noise for junk metal, tape recorder, and 4 track, Recorded at the Apohadion Theatre in Portland, Maine over the course of two months, summer 2020. <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/acidosis">Sterile Garden on this recording</a> is Jacob DeRaadt. Lightly mastered by Arvo Zylo.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Sterile Garden has been active since 2006, a project headed by Jacob DeRaadt, with and without regular collaborators. DeRaadt also runs the fantastic Basement Tapes label. His collective's output has evolved to include visual art and film. The project could be characterized by the use of primitive tape manipulation, blown-out field recordings, and just general good, old-fashioned industrial noise, but often without the regular gestures that have come to be constraints within the legacy of these mediums. Some people master the posturing of noise and experimental music; the hills and valleys can be predictable and reliably anticipated. Sterile Garden is even more amusical than those folks, with structures that often sound like archaeological excavations more than compositions.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">With over 40 releases on labels such as Monorail Trespassing, No Rent, Dumpster Score, Fusty Cunt, and a recycled tape on RRRECORDS, Sterile Garden has weaved a diverse tapestry of mostly tape-based material, often traversing territory in or</span><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> around the realms of sound collage, drone, and fluxus level material action. ACIDOSIS sees the project pursuing an updated approach to harsh noise, with DeRaadt's unique way of making his 4 track recordings sound like they were assembled in a burning basement, or dragged through a mud-pit.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2873535813_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="354" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2873535813_16.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-spilling-out-of-a-spiders-bowels">Blood Rhythms</a> is a project headed by Arvo Zylo, with frequent guests and contributors. Here it sees the fleshing out of some ideas that have been in motion since 2003, but it seems like they have never been more appropriate to explore than now.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">To be short: repetition as a form of drone music, or ersatz machine sounds, have been part of the repertoire since the beginning. Here we have Zylo taking his more ambient leanings, which were never quite soothing, and often more abrasive in nature than most, to maybe more of a rational extreme. As part of a natural evolution, these tracks exhibit further leanings towards a dense drone atmosphere, although not in a typical style of looping synthesizers and hoping for the best.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Instead, there is a bit more adventure to these tracks, as they're not afraid to be abrasive or raw, and they don't stray far enough from the bounds of noise music to be considered pleasant by the academic crowd. Herein, one might hear string instruments, harpsichords, factory machines, insects, and the air pressure of hissing steam. However, sometimes one sound has been juxtaposed in a way so as to resemble another, or be quite indistinguishable through all of the layers of different sounds, which one hopes at times, would make for a "third voice" to appear. "The Universe..." sees Zylo's signature</span><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> "failed minimalist" style manifest with what is ostensibly drone music, but in actuality is often jam-packed with layer upon layer of nuanced stereo activity.<br /><br />This incarnation of Blood Rhythms features source material from Dave Phillips and Daniel Burke. Art by Bradley Kokay. Harpsichord was recorded by Blake DeGraw at Cornish College. Thanks to Christopher D. Turner.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0252512605_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="346" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0252512605_16.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/chemtrails">Chemtrails</a> is the third release on NO PART OF IT Label from THIRTEEN HURTS, a project helmed by a character who goes under the name "One-Eyed Zatoichi", and active in some form or another since the 70s.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">This release is a reissue of an extremely limited CD from 2012. While it has the overall application of many harsh noise and heavy electronics artists, being that it is created mainly with guitar pedals, Chemtrails stands apart in that it has a wide cinematic curve, with wild crescendos and sharp, rhythmic patterns that sometimes lead to climactic and engaging soundscapes. One-Eyed Zatoichi was kind enough to elaborate on nature of the release:</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">"...it was based on a concept. I noticed that out in Colorado in the middle of nowhere, we had a continuous abundance of chemtrails in the sky. It bugged me not for the chemicals raining down on us, but for the haze left in the sky which directly affected my astronomy efforts at night.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Around that time, I was aware of various conspiracy sites that talked of the Chemtrail issue. While I'm not hardcore or rabid on the subject, I did have concerns and thought that chemtrails would be an interesting subject to create some noise after. Following some research</span><span class="bcTruncateMore" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">, the first thing I did was to come up with titles for the pieces... ...on Chemtrails, I had the titles first and then created sounds to go with those titles, almost like creating a soundtrack to a word instead of an image.<br /><br />While I came upon quite a few "happy accidents", there was usually clear intent when I was creating sounds. Thus, as you are listening to the pieces on Chemtrails, you can look at the title of the piece and I'm hoping you can see what I was trying to achieve. Also, the pieces themselves follow a path. From the people, to the idea of inoculating them, to the method of deployment, to the chemicals themselves, to the visible result, and finally the end result. With all the forethought that went into creating Chemtrails, I am close to considering it a 'Concept Album'...<br /><br />...The piece Useless Eaters is from a quote by Henry Kissinger: "The elderly are useless eaters". He also said the world population needs to be decreased by 50%.<br /><br />The photos on the front and back of the cd are photos I took from the [solar-powered, completely isolated] house in Colorado. Being at an elevation of 6800 feet, the jets overhead seemed to be a lot closer than when I lived in California. That is how I was able to take a clear shot of the jet flying overhead. Considering this and the sheer amount of chemtrails overhead on any given day, one could say that I was more directly influenced to 'speak out' about chemtrails than a more casual observer."<br />-One-Eyed Zatoichi</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;">In other news:</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2481090219_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="348" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2481090219_16.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/zerrissenheit">Blood Rhythms' Zerrissenheit</a> was recommended in <a href="https://avantmusicnews.com/2020/09/03/amn-picks-of-the-week-blood-rhythms-kloob-onasander-dan-weiss-god-body-disconnect-john-kolodij/">Avant Music News</a>' picks of the week. It was also aired as well as another artist on the label, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr">TROU</a>, by Teachers AIDS on <a href="https://kfjc.org/listen/playlist?i=62899">KFJC</a> alongside Eric Lunde, Brume, Darksmith, and more. <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr">TROU</a> was also aired on <a href="https://kfjc.org/listen/playlist?i=62901">KFJC</a> by Lexi Glass, along with Zoviet France, Incapacitants, Prick Decay, and Murderous Vision. </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3635093408_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="346" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3635093408_16.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">A track from Nital Etch's "<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum">Simulacrum</a>" release on NO PART OF IT was featured on a new dark ambient playlist by </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="animation-name: none; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/noctilucant/?__cft__[0]=AZUWycmgMEfqEhA_w0pWxx8iZwurUowPC-QY0SwjOFbsDGgl56yukolVVR36AcO-MzD_52CdKd4BSMmDXhW9TWCKqC6M8hco5wZqoVSaE24r7QG6w8NyX7xNdOMwRw5LFXetNghK-ZgDwvxdm1ZtI9TwaxJFdlVAK7I16hE8cLEEZyrurMDoNl6Q8GUTFECbsSw&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><div class="nc684nl6" style="animation-name: none; display: inline; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">Noctilucant</span></div></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">! Good stuff here! </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="animation-name: none; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://youtu.be/e40tZ3efS4I?t=2957&fbclid=IwAR2dcvV9hFgSGznyFTOPY6psSw__M1hYws3oJnwcN8dL90lYpmviOy5j0Yg" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/e40tZ3efS4I?t=2957</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum">Nital Etch</a> was reviewed by <a href="https://spidey.kfjc.org/40412/nital-etch-simalacrum-no-part-of-it/">KFJC</a>! </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><i>Eerie Cinematic Vignettes.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><i>Haunting, serene, and at times unnerving like dreams of lovers long passed, entropy, and the death of hope. A collection of modulated strings, samples, and ambient sound collage by Washington state’s Kevin Lewis culled from unreleased selections by this magnificent composer, released August 2020 by the label No Part Of It (Chicago). In a word, perfect.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0128052925_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="366" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0128052925_16.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr">TROU</a> was reviewed by<a href="https://spidey.kfjc.org/40415/trou-grjothaugr-no-part-of-it/"> KFJC</a>!</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Catamaran, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;">“Trou” (pronounced trū ), french for “void” is the mysterious and prolific rhythmic noise, harsh industrial project from France ca. 2012 to present. Three gloomy tracks of mind wipingly repetitive dark ambient/industrial fare suitable for the final round of stripping your captive of their ego. Apply liberally to the feeble minded in order to gain control and begin supplanting capitulation for autonomy as you guide them towards self destruction and they bend to your terrible will. Originally self-released on cassette in 2017 this outing is another delectable/detestable disc from Chicago label No Part Of It.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1751423660_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="403" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1751423660_16.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">In 2005, Arvo Zylo constructed a drone piece out of several layered samples from pop divas holding sustained notes. It was submitted to a compilation with this information ahead of time, and rejected out of fear of copyright retribution. Thinking that since no single sample therein is easily recognizable in the slightest, "Upheaval" was reworked in a total of 100 different versions, the final version being four hours long ("The torture has been transcended" - WIRE Magazine).</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">This release, which was released in a cassette edition by deadbeat Czech label Nova Alternativa, is now available on pro CDR in the states, because the label failed to send artist copies after over three years of waiting. I do not recommend ordering the cassette edition, and the label had requested not to have the full release on bandcamp because of it. So now, after two years of only being a single, the full release is available to stream, download, or purchase in PRO CDR format.</span><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">This is the second full-length collection of Upheaval versions. The first was released on cassette by Tymbal Tapes, and features versions 63-69. More than just drone material, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/upheaval-2?fbclid=IwAR2fqnsqI3fv-UKKhPgNIaZSdE_1vNjIhbyCyJ5Tw48atqWKrmu0Pq-4rOY">this edition of "UPHEAVAL"</a>, traverses several different approaches, from soundtracky ambient "vistas" to abrasive industrial repetition.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Mh2E76idNs/X2sDMGIbX3I/AAAAAAAAFVM/99NkLGuH0aw0px5bRLKOBYHB_VbatrxCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/55.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Mh2E76idNs/X2sDMGIbX3I/AAAAAAAAFVM/99NkLGuH0aw0px5bRLKOBYHB_VbatrxCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/55.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum">Nital Etch</a>, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/blood-soaked-sand">Credo In Deum</a>, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/zerrissenheit?from=embed">Blood Rhythms</a>, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/threshold?from=embed">Thirteen Hurts</a>, and <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr?from=embed">TROU</a> were reviewed by <a href="https://criticalmassesmedia1.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/no-part-of-it-new-cd-batch/?fbclid=IwAR27GKiNDfjmLmyxmYttKL5d4ezBPZglKgUVXX9xhmmLRbCgsJE25kLPYZc">The Critical Masses</a>. Here is an excerpt about Credo In Deum's "Blood Soaked Sand"":</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Beginning with a much more overtly rhythmic approach than a straight noise hum, Credo in Deum warps a captivating tale of vicious danger through your speakers with the harrowing “Battered Wife Syndrome,” a dynamic opener that pits the loud violence of the track’s title against periods of tense quiet, ratcheting up the fear. As the album progresses, the rhythm is dialed back in favor of crackling noise, when the dial is set to “rock crusher,” or malfunctioning diodes, when the dial is set to “Sodomized with Spikes.” (Yowza …) At all turns, regardless, </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Blood Soaked Sand </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">crackles with wicked energy, a tense and volatile ritual.</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWkqOeSqJP0/X2sBX2RGfcI/AAAAAAAAFVA/3ubgAFliVMcC6qjzhei0lShIu1ZCfVMIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1650/logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1650" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWkqOeSqJP0/X2sBX2RGfcI/AAAAAAAAFVA/3ubgAFliVMcC6qjzhei0lShIu1ZCfVMIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum?from=embed">Nital Etch</a>, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/blood-soaked-sand">Credo In Deum</a>, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/zerrissenheit?from=embed">Blood Rhythms</a>, <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/threshold?from=embed">Thirteen Hurts</a>, and <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr?from=embed">TROU</a> were reviewed by Vital Weekly. Read the reviews <a href="http://vitalweekly.net/1249.html?fbclid=IwAR2PPy35mKaU86DcL6W_Ta7ydUY9g3uOReJbKsLsBlFIc1iShlXE7lSGd9M">HERE</a>. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0139300221_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="367" src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0139300221_16.jpg" width="367" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/civil-war">Blood Rhythms' Civil War LP</a> was aired on this lovely program, <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fspectrasonicsound%2Fthe-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-91920%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2M3ldaZSY8S0P3wdUvCFQR7Lw9vJLubFyFX9BAW49Xx_F5rfLjzC6uf8g&h=AT3Y4-M6KAq5UnRusERF-OUmWa_VM4TQk5880bh5-3HFgEsxYmjI579k6q_lO4QGFlgK5FWSaLcP11NzT8KmK9zIQ0u78jctSnBfAYyP8ov9qaRWPbqzqatjynpeTCUU6kwQ&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT1HAZAigm5BUodGHR3WuXpa7lnqSurHwesgh33T8wb-qT6FYtVLxWoKKKtBhRhIwaJikdaY2Pcjp3atKPoJN0wuPARKT3-bYbCKu1-AEpN4jNrb8_6PQWFGEAmhu8a5Wfqm7rSMKWDeVXQT31fqCbT9SeOUA0VgJFPl6TeCmZfsvcROSoRS0DOj4YE">The Institute of Spectra-Sonic Sound</a>, and also features irr.app.(ext.) + Nurse With Wound, Controlled Death, Anastasia Vronski, Phillip Jeck, and more, plus a PSA about the virtual streaming NorCal NoiseFest created by Lob Instagon and Austin Rich! 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Also in there are guest appearances and tracks by Penderecki, Quicksails, Daniel Johnston, Peter Brotzmann, and more! 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Still Arvo's most musical work to date, but it's chaotic and noisy a lot of the time, too. Much of it was recorded in a closet, directly onto a tape recorder, during bouts of life-threatening insomnia. 2001-2003 ish. </span></span></span></p>Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-22590474886254762422020-09-13T01:47:00.001-07:002020-10-28T04:43:27.121-07:00Interview Series #19: Steven Intermill<span class="im"></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
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<b>Steven, also known as Witchbeam, was one half of a long-standing occult-driven synth duo called Telecult Powers, whom I've seen a couple times at Chicago's Neon Marshmellow fests. I've also seen Steven collaborate with Aaron Dilloway in Cleveland to great effect. I think he is from Sweden. I'm not sure what happened sequentially, but I had the impression that he lived in New York, and then (returned?) to Cleveland, where he founded a museum on the Christmas Story, and now a museum dedicated to witchcraft, called <a href="https://bucklandmuseum.org/">The Buckland Museum</a>. Steven also hipped me to <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/2340211-Merrill-Womach">Merrill Womach</a>! Thanks Steven! </b></div>
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what's in front of me right now. Operating the Buckland Museum of
Witchcraft & Magick takes up all of my time, so essentially just
reading and studying things that make a better experience for my guests.</div>
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<span class="im"><br /><b>3. How would you describe what you do?</b></span>I don't, I never have, no artist statement. Just wake up every day and pursue what ever strikes my fancy. <span class="im"><br /><br /><b>4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a brief synopsis?</b></span>When
I turned 30 my eyes opened to the unique opportunities we have as
living creatures. I spent the years before that just blank. Not sure
what happened, but something did that year. I was filling my head with
all sorts of information that finally boiled over into experimental
music, illustration, painting. I was into it all before that, but it
seemed to wait until my 30s before my ideas started to be more fleshed
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"fortune favors the bold." Pretty self explanatory, let's see if it pans
out.<span class="im"><br /><br /><b>6. Do you believe in psychics, magic,
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I believe in all of it, too many extraordinary experiences that can't
just be brushed away. Lon Milo Duquette says that it's all in your head,
you just have no idea how big your head is. Maybe that's it? As far as
conspiracy goes - I do believe there is an attempt to overload our
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Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
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Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records, or at
least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
"perfect"? </b></span>Ah, now you're going to make me choose between Fun House by The Stooges or Jimi Hendrix's Axis Bold Is Love? Not fair to either!<span class="im"><br /><br /><b>10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to) recall?</b></span></div>
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the most defined would be meeting my friend George when I was a kid,
Easter 1976. Orange stuffed duck in my basket, I picked him up and
spouted "Hey! George! What are you doing here?" My parents were under
the assumption we were long standing friends. I remember that like it
was yesterday.<span class="im"><br /><br /><b>11. Are you able to
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question - I'm not going to go out and champion Michael Jackson or R.
Kelly because I've never really been interested in their work in the
first place. I guess it would be a case by case basis, good art probably
only exists because of flaws in character. The cracks are what let the
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wife Jillian is a hero, she has the Herculean task of dealing with me
day to day. I always in awe of her patience and and work ethic. Helena
Blavatsky for having an unrelenting drive. All the early suffragettes.
Raymond Buckland for having an uncompromising understanding of the first
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"<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/grj-thaugr">TROU</a>" (meaning "hole" or "void" in French) is a project which has been active for around ten years. Grjòthaugr has been reissued from a criminally limited edition cassette back in 2012. Like another favorite TROU tape, "Nebelsturm", Grjòthaugr is a hypnotic, loop-based, trance-inducing industrial noise/ambient release like no other I've heard. It's hard to tell for sure what makes these three lengthy tracks remain compelling for 15 to 35 minutes each. It could be Reichian phasing, moderate adjustments of effects, very careful layering, or maybe some other methods, but whatever the case may be, these loops of unknown origin take us on a journey.</div>
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Much like locked grooves, Grjòthaugr's three simple loops welcome us into a void, where sounds change and mutate with the listener's engagement, and can appear to transform dramatically with slight changes in positioning.
Much has been said about minimalism in art, and many a minimalist risks more than others the stigma for falling short of anything beyond mediocre. Here, whether it is sourced from tape loops or direct signals, we have a glaring example of compelling minimalist experimental music and noise.
TROU is also known for creating exemplary harsh noise and HNW, and their releases are often diverse and wide-ranging, but Grjòthaugr, one of the outliers in the project's vast catalog, stands as a crowning achievement, obviously worthy of a wider audience.
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Hyperbole aside, I honestly think that this project would be doing movie soundtracks if it weren't for all of the schmoozing involved. Incisions or Obsolescence are pieces that could have been used for the score to the Joker movie. The avenues of (dark) ambient, classical, and experimental electronics explored here can carry the rawness for a noise show, or the aptitude to present as an opener for Pamelia Kurstin. Simulacrum is a collection of highlights from previous recordings to date, all of which have yet to be released into the physical realm.<br />
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There is an admittedly obvious influence from the work of Muslimgauze throughout my excavations, and similar to Muslimgauze, Buddhist on Fire was wildly prolific, having at least 260 releases during a relatively short period of time. Another thing that occurred to me, was that there's an apparent series called "Hell 365", with each entry numbered "HELL-015" and so forth. This is to suggest that an "album"-length release was published every day for evidently at least one year. Of those that I saw, all of them were exceeding 60 minutes in length.</div>
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Many tracks by Buddhist on Fire were percussive in nature, and it was this quality that I first found strikingly hypnotic when I discovered the project on a recycled tape from RRRECORDS around 2012. However, when I explored that vast catalog of works by this artist, I found a significant amount of work that was much more expansive, textural, definitively noisey, and generally experimental than what I'd expected.</div>
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I initially wanted to include some material by Buddhist on Fire as part of "ESCHATOLOGY", a 24 way split box set across 12 tapes that NO PART OF IT label was doing, but being that those cassettes were all limited to 20 minutes per side, and since many of the chosen tracks that I'd liked most were longer than 20 minutes by themselves, it became necessary to edit extensively. I came to learn (and this came to me from LaBarge himself) that all of these releases are not only available for free on archive.org, but they are also available to publish freely within the public domain. </div>
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With that kind of freedom, and with LaBarge apparently AWOL after his one single illuminating reply to me, I meddled with some of the tracks, and I edited excerpts as best I could. I tried to cram the essence of what I thought would be the most representational tracks by Buddhist on Fire into 20 minutes of condensed and focused sound. You'll find herein what I considered and chiseled down into a CD length release, including what I'd decided on for the ESCHATOLOGY compilation . It could have easily been two, or even three times as long, considering what I'd culled from several hours of listening. Here is a little sampler of the pieces I've found with what I think is that glaring creative "spark" that I think some of us helplessly gravitate towards.</div>
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By the way, Robert LaBarge has since converted from Buddhism to Catholicism, and wishes for any future releases of his work to fall under the name "Credo In Deum".</div>
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<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/threshold">THIRTEEN HURTS</a> is the chosen project name of one rather elusive character who calls himself One-Eyed Zatoichi. Active for many years, and having released the well-received "<a href="http://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/uvb-76" target="_blank">UVB-76</a>" on NO PART OF IT label before, we were given the go-ahead to release two prior full-lengths under the THIRTEEN HURTS moniker. Enthralling, almost soundtracky, heavy electronics with no noise swashes or synthesizers to speak of, listeners will no doubt enjoy the very unique and compelling work here, which was released in digipak CD format with almost no promotion.</div>
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Just as a reminder, numerous releases are available currently to <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-safety-zev">bandcamp subscribers only</a>. They may or may not be available physically in the future. Feel free to drop by and consider supporting <b>no part of it</b> label on a regular basis. <br />
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Two copies of BLOOD RHYTHMS' "Assembly" LP were played at the same time, on WMSE Milwaukee's "Alternating Currents" radio program. Listen to the <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wmse.org%2Fprogram%2Falternating-currents%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0yOX1GjPM2-VdIb3VCwIYiQFzTPhqknC3bIMZRjUzW7CpnLQeuYTtYxlQ&h=AT3pRUnSHxWjJS2lDnAkZ-zcveb47Pq5TZoip2UiV89JaUjgeC0v69s4yfgLGrvc1pIzdqYLnMt8oExXvIatRMKH1iQ2VIr94z74rqibClDqqbl7pQBOJ94kATOJZdwkUpgp&__tn__=R*F&c[0]=AT3xuLwYnpvcIehkRkdlnYfK7-K3LyDXr6VI2U82A_j2CItPUcVUpkZsHVRpyeov9ymMtVuZNg5ndcFwp64Zq7SsBrQBcVmIhdJMaUQB6nu8kvKKBUsCXIpuk-O_X5jgao6-THKkypsjPSzyGCU">archive here</a>. Copies are still <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Blood-Rhythms-Assembly/master/855370">available here</a>. </div>
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<a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/les-fleurs-du-mal" target="_blank">EaViL's "Les Fleurs du Mal"</a> release was aired on German podcast GLORIOUS MONO a couple of times. <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/rebootfm/grenzpunkt-null-77-2020-08-01/">Here</a> and <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/rebootfm/glorious-mono-82-infinite-livez-and-tex-royale-2020-07-04/">here</a>. Thanks to Tex Royale!</div>
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Arvo contributed to "<a href="https://orco.bandcamp.com/album/concrete-jungle-an-or-co-skatenoise-compilation-vol-1">CONCRETE JUNGLE</a>", a "SkateNoise" compilation curated by James Keeler (WILT, Hedorah). There are some punk songs and some experimental / noise tracks utilizing the sounds of skateboards.</div>
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Arvo also contributed a track to a "<a href="https://weirdmusiccomp.bandcamp.com/releases">Weird Music</a>" compilation. The track was completed in 2013. At that time, rural Ohioan outsider musician/spiritualist Zack Kouns was curating a compilation of artists doing interpretations of his words/lyrics. That compilation may not have come out, so Arvo's track is available here now. Protman, a friend and collaborator, is also on the Weird Music compilation.<br />
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If you haven't already, feel free to check out this month's edition of the no part of it interview series, featuring recording artist and world traveller <a href="https://nopartofit.blogspot.com/2020/08/interview-series-18-anastasia-vronski.html">Anastasia Vronski</a>. In March of 2019, Arvo scheduled 30+ posts where various artists answered the same questions at around roughly the same time. Those posts are being published on the 13th of each month. </div>
<br />Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-64163315783056368662020-08-13T01:12:00.001-07:002020-10-28T04:43:45.054-07:00Interview Series #18: Anastasia Vronski<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: left;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
at a bar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vlY-qb5maZI/XKB3LNDcSJI/AAAAAAAAEU0/FRzcBZpcG7sIEGy39hrY-rFTejt_14FgQCLcBGAs/s1600/wishing%2Bbad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1440" height="162" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vlY-qb5maZI/XKB3LNDcSJI/AAAAAAAAEU0/FRzcBZpcG7sIEGy39hrY-rFTejt_14FgQCLcBGAs/s400/wishing%2Bbad.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="https://anastasiavronski.bandcamp.com/">Anastasia Vronski</a> is a bit mysterious for me, as I've been aware of her work for over ten years, and been in touch on social media, but she has never been very revelatory. I know that she is from Russia, and on two different occasions when I was corresponding with her with regard to releases, she was travelling somewhere and with no permanent residence. I have come to enjoy her work quite a bit. I have touched on this a bit in my promotion for the <a href="https://criticalmassesmedia1.wordpress.com/2019/01/10/various-artists-a-birth-place-is-not-a-grave-site/">6 tape set</a> that she is on, but her work, like her presentation in general, has a morose quality to it, while also imbued with a positivity and a lust for life, at least to me. She goes from musique concret to black metal and a lot of things inbetween; field recordings, drones, doom, dub, and the like. I thought I might be able to shed some light on the matter with this interview. I hope you enjoy it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: black;">1.
What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I have always listened to a lot of music in various genres. Recently
I have been re-visiting some of my favorite pieces of music through
albums I made on my Facebook account. One is for songs and the other
is for instrumental pieces, so basically I've been listening to a lot
of things I already know and love but had not heard in a long time.
As for recent discoveries, I am really into the recent Merzbow
albums. It might be a cliché but I think Merzbow is really my
favorite Noise artist because of the diversity of his output. From
DADA collages to cut-up Harsh Noise through Free Jazz drumming, he
has done it all and I value this variety. At the other end of
the spectrum, I have been enjoying some Bob Dylan live bootlegs,
especially from the ''Time Out Of Mind'' era. I'm also discovering
noise from 2000-2010 that has a different vibration to it, such as
Birds Of Delay, The Skaters, Vodka Soap etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>2.
What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Meaning
of artist and hobbyist is complicated and not everybody agrees about
it . What I can say is I have a job that takes all my time , now
above this I study so I have not much time for making music and icons
but I consider these activities as vital for me. It is a need</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: normal;">Before I was on Facebook I had no
attention to photography . And discovering great photographers I
began to make photos on my own, I had never before and quickly enough
it changed all my views of Nature and the world , I began to see it
through a lense , I had a camera in my brain and I had to make an
effort not thinking like this , I felt it created a filter between me
and the world ,( but at same time made me appreciate it more too )
but for music it is the same , I am constantly listening to noises,
but I am used to it since I was little , it is my world so I
don’t feel a filter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">With
icons you express your creativity through very rigid rules .This is
another experience . I cannot say it is a hobby as it is
spirituality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>3.
How would you describe what you do? </b></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
depends because I do many different genres. Noise-wise I would say I
went from harsh to more drone-oriented sounds. I also try to
incorporate noisy elements in otherwise ''electronic music''. I like
it when the music is somewhat functional, when you can use it to
relax, or maybe dance to. Some of my recent tracks are almost
danceable, but always with something twisted about them. I'd say what
I do is not ''pure'' as in purely in one genre or category. I
wouldn't like to limit myself like that. It might not be a good way
to get recognition, because I think people like to know exactly what
they are going to get with an ''artist'' but I don't mind, so be it.
I like the fact that it's not possible to categorize me as ''noise''
or ''electronic'' etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>4.
How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a
brief synopsis?</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
taught myself computer and then music on computer . I started with
Noise . Usually I record sounds with a small recorder and then
arrange the sounds with the computer, sequence them. Sometimes I play
live and record but most of the time I sequence pre-recorded
material. Some time ago I decided to do only what I wanted whatever
my mood (see previous answer). I learnt a bit of guitar, a bit of
bass and percussions. Then I discovered field recording, Religious
music, foreign music and it has inspired me to use my own field
recordings and samples. I really like working with samples, putting
them in a different context. I'm not worried about having to pay for
using these samples as I don't sell my music. So, to describe my
creative process nowadays, I usually start with a specific sound I
have, it could be a field recording, a sound I made or a sample, and
build around it. It sets the tone and often it gives me the title of
the track too. If it doesn't work for me I start again with a
different set of sounds</span><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>5.
How would you describe your philosophy?</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">In
music : don’t make pay for music , don’t try to please for
success , do what I want . </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In life : try not to hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>6.
Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then
maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you
believe it or not). </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
have my shaman , she helped me , and she taught me some things ,
like mind travel and healing plants . She wanted to initiate me to
become shaman but I was not ready .<br /> It’s difficult to imagine
that this universe exists without being created , so there is almost
certainly a ‘’God ‘’ but no proof that he is good .
Jesus Christ was a good person , a revolutionary , only for that
reason I can doubt and believe I need to know more . <br /><br />I had
3 experiences making me believe in powers . 3 persons have hurt me
badly , really ugly , and I wished very strong that something bad
happened to them, and I imagined what it would be . I didn’t cast
a spell , I just was thinking of revenge because I had been so
wounded .<br /> Not very long after I learnt that what I had imagined
for them had happened . I was afraid because I didn’t know if it
was me It was a terrible coincidence . , I didn’t really wanted
what happened , only I was hurt and at one moment I needed a symbolic
act to appease my heart <br />After this when I was getting angry and I
was beginning to have some idea like that , I guess everybody has in
anger , I quickly stepped back in my thoughts but still something
happened to the person but not exactly what I had in mind . It
happened not so strong or somewhat different .as if the process was
interupted . So now I am very careful , even if I am not sure if
these events were related to me . I avoid thinking of revenge and
try to forgive the person and forget them. <br />I now try to see if I
can bring something good , instead of bad , but starting with little
things because I have to be careful, if I wish something good to
someone it can bring something bad in their life . You never know the
consequences of what you want , it can be worse if you do it for
others <br />Maybe one day I will return to my shaman ,last summer a
lightning struck the house where I was staying and an electrical
device exploded near my ear . (I got tinnitus and hyperacousia
because of it).<br />I didn't realize it was a sign. But now my life
came to a stop , what I wanted I will never have , , so maybe it
was a call of shaman .</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I have a theory too , linked to climate change . I think it is so
incredible that the lpowers that be carry on leading the humanity
to its end , including themselves and their family, that I begin to
believe they have a back up plan, , it could be going on another
planet hiding it because if people knew it they would attack them ,
kill them and stop all this madness . So these people carry on to
make profits until they will leave in secret , and it will be too
late for the rest of us .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">7.
What would you say was your most definitive experience?</span></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The death of my mother when I was 5
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you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that yo<span style="color: white;">u don't think
anyone would ever ask?</span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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No side
projects </span><br />
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</span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Would
you care to name any theoretical "desert island" records,
or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
"perfect"? </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></b>Duos
for Doris <span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Keith
Rowe & John Tilbury</span></span></span></span></span> , <span face=""roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Arseny
Avraamov - Symphony Of Factory Sirens , Tchaikovsky Hymn of the
Cherubim ,Erik Satie Gnossiennes 1 Gymnopedies My box of
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I choose one happy one little
boy defending me at school when I was attacked and he would be my
friend all my life and even become my adoptive brother later . My
Seva.</span><br />
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Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">learning about
the person flaws, but once I know it I can’t enjoy as much it
anymore , like with Nietszche and it’s misogyny .</span><br />
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Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel
free to add anything that makes them stand out. </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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de Beauvoir writing her book The Second Sex in 1949 seems to me
visionary .and brought the most important awareness to women .</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
individual is introduced informally as if they were being discussed
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Active since at least 1991, Blake Edwards' main project Vertonen has traversed many different roads. What I'll touch on here, firstly, would be his arrangements for various field recordings of factory/industrial landscapes titled <a href="https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fait-a-la-machine">Fait a la Machine</a>. I should add, that Edwards not only tracked down the various field recordings, at times getting permission from staff on site, but he also speaks French, so don't mess with it. I should also add, that I think it's okay for me to say that he's an English teacher, so apologies in advance for any errors on my part... as they are surely my fault. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">While it would be a disservice if I didn't point out Vertonen's epic sense of long, sprawling ambient tundras that heave themselves into swirling mechanical feeding frenzies, or sometimes just dissipate into dust, I'd have to highlight a few of my favorites being a bit of the earlier works; The split LP with Nautical Almanac, Return of the Interrobang, Deteriorated Broadcast, The Split LP with 16 Bitch Pile Up, and some others that have a humble, yet ambitious feel to them, in the sense that they are often in the classic "everything but the kitchen sink" vein, but have a precision that only a pioneer could foster for that long--keeping us guessing. Maybe it's simultaneously light-hearted, but also buttressed with the feeling that you're in good hands. And even with the more ambient works, they are sometimes accompanied with deeply conceptual overtones, forgotten languages, and laborious symbolism, sometimes almost convivial in their ambiguity, and are dadaist the sense that they sometimes harken back to a more mathematical/serialist approach to noise music that is basically long-forgotten- a complete lack of the mythical fervor than many of us try to achieve with symbolic tropes or emotional diadems. I would also be remiss to exclude the fact that Vertonen is quite fond of loops. He's worked with locked grooves, real-time vinyl damage, and extracted numerous looper-cauldrons on extremely limited CDR from Robert Turman, Velvet Underground, Lana del Rey, and his live sets did include at one time tape recordings of machine sounds, harsh noise, synthesizers, and Lady Gaga. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">As a label head, Edwards ran the CIP label for an apparent 25 years, releasing intimate and integrity-driven large-run media with the likes of Wolf Eyes, Z'ev, Chop Shop, Joe Colley, Hafler Trio, Skozey Fetisch, Hans Grusel, and many others. In place of CIP is now a smaller run label <a href="http://ballastnvp.blogspot.com/">Ballast</a> in its stead, focusing on more intimate listener settings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Lana Del Rey, OULIPO, letterpress.<br />
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<b>2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? </b><br />
Hobby.<br />
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<b>3. How would you describe what you do?</b><br />
Audio-based art, often with textual and visual components.<br />
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<b>4. How would you describe your creative progression over the years, in a
brief synopsis?</b><br />
Most recently I’ve been interested in extracting as much possibility as
possible out of outdated or damaged equipment.<br />
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<b>5. How would you describe your philosophy?</b><br />
Form follows function.<br />
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6. Do you believe in psychics, magic, ghosts, or gods? If no, then
maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you believe it or
not). </b><br />
Absolutely not, nor am I particularly interested in conspiracy theories. <br />
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<b>7. What would you say was your most definitive experience?</b><br />
While that may be yet to come, perhaps to date contracting cryptococcal
meningitis. Being in an ICU and subsequently receiving seven spinal taps likely
shifted my perspective on the phrase “carpe diem.”<br />
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8. Do you have any side projects that I am not aware of? If not, what is
something you'd like people to know about you, that you don't think anyone
would ever ask?</b><br />
dead edits is a collaborative operation I execute with Eric Lunde. <br />
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<b>9. Would you care to name any theoretical "desert island"
records, or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
"perfect"? </b><br />
NON: Pagan Muzak, Tori Amos: Under the Pink, Big Black: Atomizer, Misfits: Walk
Among Us, Roland Kayn: Makro I-III, Faction: Darkroom, Hafler Trio: intoutof,
Lana Del Rey: Born to Die.<br />
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<b>10. What is the earliest childhood memory you can (or are willing to)
recall? </b><br />
My memory apparently isn’t that good: I do remember riding a tricycle on my
grandmother’s concrete cistern (which doubled as a sort of patio) when I was
perhaps 3 or 4.<br />
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11. Are you able to appreciate other peoples' creative work regardless of
their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what extent? </b><br />
Yes. The extent is while I may appreciate it, I will not support them
financially. </span></div>
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12. Do you have any heroes or heroines? Who are they? Feel
free to add anything that makes them stand out. </b><br />
I do not: there are people I admire, but I would not pedestal them as a hero or
a heroine.<br />
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<b>13. What would you like to have on your epitaph? Or what is your
favorite quote? </b><br />
A favorite quote: “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be
a horrible warning.”</span><br />
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THIRTEEN HURTS is the chosen project name of one rather elusive
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and having released the well-received "UVB-76" on NO PART OF IT label
before, we were given permission to release the two prior full-lengths
under the THIRTEEN HURTS moniker. Enthralling, almost soundtracky, heavy
electronics with no noise swashes or synthesizers to speak of,
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Blood Rhythms "Assembly" LP exists in a new <a href="https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/1047168873">"Found Under A Rock" edition</a>. These are the remaining official copies of the original pressing (not the mispress). Sealed within a black vinyl bag is the 180gram black vinyl LP in a plain black handstamped jacket, a hand-stamped, manually type-written insert, and a black marble tile. "Assembly" is comprised of source material from brass and wind recorded in a meat locker with Bruce Lamont, Dave Purdie, Brian Klein, and others, assembled/manipulated by Arvo Zylo. Some copies came with an anti-record littered with meal worms, but those are long gone. </div>
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The new issue of Noise Receptor features <a href="https://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/blood-rhythms-civil-war/">a review</a> of <a href="https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/civil-war">Blood Rhythms' Civil War LP</a>, (as well as a quarter page ad for the record, incidentally). The issue also has features on Nordvargr, Total Black, Post Scriptvm, and more. </div>
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Arvo unearthed <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/no_part_of_it/pata-noir/">a mix from over a year ago entitled "PATA NOIR"</a>. The mix features Foetus covering Tuxedomoon, Lumerians performing separately together in isolation tanks, Jeff Greinke doing an homage to NEU!, and other golden works by Los Iniciados, Scott Walker, Dean Hurley (Twin Peaks Season Three sound design), Aphex Twin, Hermann Kopp, and more. </div>
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For more items Arvo is selling (currently Prince, Drew McDowall, Mort Garson, and more), feel free to check in on his <a href="https://www.discogs.com/seller/NOPARTOFIT/profile">discogs seller page</a>. </div>
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If you haven't already, check out this month's edition of the <a href="http://nopartofit.blogspot.com/2020/06/interview-series-16-trenton-willey.html">no part of it interview series</a> with comedic surrealist prankster Trenton Willey. </div>
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<br />Arvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00706534774355981063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749961665652226738.post-61154287418990235112020-06-13T00:00:00.001-07:002020-10-28T04:44:21.566-07:00Interview Series #16: Trenton Willey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The NO PART OF IT Interview series was
a strain of questions sent to a number of different people between
February and March 2019. Each entry was scheduled chronologically to
be thrust upon the world on a monthly basis since then. Each
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<b><br /><br />Scheduled March 2019</b>Wow man, so I've known Trenton for almost 10 years now. And he has not "grown out of it". I have never met another person like him, and I know I never will. I spent three days with him while on tour, in Austin TX, and it was some of the funnest times I've had. I think he wore the same ceremonial robe and rambled ecstatic nonsense most of the time, and on one occasion re-enacted his imaginary appearance on the Jerry Springer show, doing obscene things with a pencil eraser. Trenton seemed to casually look over and observe your responses to his ad-lib obscenities, and slowly turn it up a notch so that it either tested your sensibilities, or made you uncomfortable about something that is only slightly different than what you did laugh about before. In application it is not only a very clever and witty form of comedy, but also the only presentation I've ever known that actually played on the context of expectation in anticipating the crowd's laughter, almost forcing it out of them due to the fact that they know they are supposed to laugh at this juncture. I just don't know what to say about how his work takes shape, where it begins and ends, or how it has "evolved". I will just say that I let him do stand up comedy on the phone for 6 hours straight (or at least tried to) during my radio show, and it is documented in an article I did for <a href="https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2011/09/trenton-willey-poor-homeless-comedianrainbow-killer-nsfw-mp3.html">WFMU's blog</a>. A lot has changed since then, culture wise, but my intro there is still about the best I can do here:<br />
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<i>...While it may seem buffoonish at first, Willey's surrealistic
stream of brutish puns and psychedelic one liners eventually seem like
they are transcendent; Some kind of ultra reality where humor is only
the pretext for the sort of nonsense that finds us leaving theaters
feeling drug-addled after a particularly mind bending movie, or just
guiltily laughing our asses off. He appears as someone who happened to
take mental imagery of dinosaurs, care bears, made for TV movies, and
soap operas, along with mass murder, racism, sexual abuse, daily news,
political correctness, and various media histrionics all into the
blender of his mind, set on liquefy. But rather than presenting these
sometimes turbulent concepts as a means to shock people with the
severity of them, he presents them with the sort of aplomb that one
might expect from <a href="http://pbskids.org/rogers/" target="_self">Mister Rogers</a> and
in the context of total madness. When I heard that Trenton was
talking about going for the Guinness Book of World Record for the
longest stand up comedy set (<a href="http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Longest-stand-up-comedy-show-by-an-individual/blog/2681961/7691.html" target="_self">40 hours</a>), I invited him to do stand up on the phone for 6 hours with no audience, to be aired on my radio show. </i><br />
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I'm fascinated by the concept and the purported benefits of <a href="http://www.creativethinkingwith.com/Image-Streaming.html" target="_self">image streaming</a>,
and I'd be happy to uphold someone who would be able to go through with
it, especially if he is keeping with this style of slinging ludicrous
word diarrhea throughout. It would certainly add to his body of work;
endeavors such as <a href="https://vimeo.com/11952463" target="_self">interviewing his father about </a>gay animal marriage, making <a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F18787571&h=pAQB2VJyC" target="_self">a play with a dead cat</a>, the animated film "<a href="https://vimeo.com/17267193" target="_self">Hair Camp</a>" (featuring Venus, a vegan cannibal Venus flytrap with a British accent), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxKU24BMML0" target="_self">teaching invisible children about death</a> (WARNING: this one is particularly viscous), a group protest where every person protests something different, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0OprHSkgPx4&h=SAQB5260q" target="_self">stabbing himself during a knife dance</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fr0qrlYMf4" target="_self">getting chased by hecklers</a>....</em><br /><br /><b>1. What kinds of things have you been getting into lately?</b><br />
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I've been cum dumpster diving. I got enough semen to inject into totem
pole. Turns out the heads are in different dimensions and they all
don't know it except for the one in the middle who is super
intelligent. The rest are really dumb. More like a todumb pole right?
Now he's my wacky next door neighbor. To him he's blocks away, doors
and doors that I can't see flying above the 8th day in-between Saturday
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<b>2. What you do, do you do it as an artist, or is it a hobby? If you
don't like that question, what do you have to say about true art (vs.
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2. Making
coherence and sanity appear in a dream realm, when you wake up the real
killer is at the edge of your bed and your eyes have been removed and
put in a seeing eye dog. Now you have the vision of a dog that is
leading a blind man straight to the foot of your bed. Your skull has
been opened so he can read your mind, the brail in your brain tells him
your deepest secrets and that secret is that you're in a golf cart in a
clit garden and the killer has made you the kind of the garden and the
mayor of flying musical notes coming out of a guitar. Cook those notes
and eat the tunes you grove with your dudes on youtube with a brew. I
bench press canvas and climb explosions. GO HOME TEAM!</div>
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I think anything and everything can and is funny. Dark, surreal, anti
humor, whateves. The more gnar gnar the more cray cray it is.
Sometimes the laugh track will pull his green arms out of nothingness
and ask for a coffee. He might laugh at what you think is the wrong
time, but maybe the laughing at cancer was a coping mechanism. Remember
I am a rape joke survivor.</div>
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4. I sucked, I
peaked, someone wrestled me over an abortion joke on stage, someone got
knocked out in front of me while I was on stage. I've been banned from
places, I've "killed it" and that it was my ego the time in Hollywood I
preformed on mushrooms. I met a guy with elephantiasis that night. His
hand was huge and that wasn't the shrooms making his hand that big. He
was a nice guy who is dead now. Graveyards are useless boxes of
sadness that could be converted to houses for the alcohomeless. I once
did stand up in a grave yard where the ghost booed me.</div>
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My philosophy is have fun with life before you die. God thinks he
exist so hard he thought himself into existence and we can think him
out. Then we can stop god from letting millions starve, drown, and be
hurt. Make jokes about everything. Some people think jokes =
belilting. I think jokes can be made because it's on your mind and or
you care about it. People say certain things can't be funny. It's
funny racism is one of them. If something is profoundly ignorant how
can you not laugh and make fun of it? Who ever said scarecrows were
scary, a farmers hayfork could fuck that starfish extortionist apart
faster than a building that no plane hits without the mayor inside it
falls to the ground.</div>
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then maybe you'll share your favorite conspiracy theory (whether you
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of those things. I like proof. Things I even see and feel end up
turning to be fake. Like the lost love of a love that lost her love.
Let's just say that I did believe in those things. Here are my fake
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Psychics - Last time I went to one,
her crystal ball was broken, it was only playing flashbacks. Then it
flashed forward straight to my funeral where people where spitting on my
corpes, to lube it up before my body gets lowered down. Is it too much
to ask for one lover to get in my coffin to be buried alive and be able
to fuck me until air runs out? Corps - <span face="arial, sans-serif">a
main subdivision of an armed force in the field, consisting of two or
more divisions. kind of ironic that a huge percentage of them will
become individual corpes. No strings are hidden in this puppet show.</span></div>
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- If you can make a house of cards, put a card pool, a card hot tub,
and card dog in there. I will live there and you can saw in half any
card person in front of a card audience and I'll watch. I don't have a
house. Homeless jokes hit close to not home for me.</span></div>
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<span face="arial, sans-serif">Ghost
- A ghost with an electrical outlet in his lower back who made my toast
calls it ghost toast and plays pranks. He puts the Virgin Mary in
toast to fuck with Christians. Come on what a wusspuss do M</span>uhammad. Religious fanatics can't kill a ghost. If you kill a ghost he's an alive person again.</div>
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- I only believe in Muhammad the prophet of the Muslim faith. I saw
him on a piece of toast. He told me I could have a slave and a king for
the cost of 14 baseball players head aches. Sucka sucks, I would have
settled for an text anagram of the history of yourself.</div>
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a 7 year relationship I had with a woman I still loves, that doesn't
love me anymore. All I need is a basement to chain her up so she can
never get away again. I miss her. </div>
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born in a full screen movie, when it transferred to widescreen I was
just a floating head for a year. All I could date was a jackolatern.</div>
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or at least releases that you think are approaching your concept of
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The screams of all the foster children that wonder why the icy hearted
masses chose to let more kids plop out of c section hole after c section
hole. I snuck a dog into a c section, when she gave birth to the dog
man it became big news, but it's just a regular old seeing eye dog with
human eyes. Hence why the day stalker wanted a new pet.</div>
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Preschool, a bunch of kids hated me, bullied me, kids me, chased me,
threw sand at me, and I would get in trouble too for doing nothing. I
had one friend that joined them then started kicking me too. I ripped
the wing off a moth after that then cried a lot and my mother lied to me
telling me the moths mother would come give the mother new wings.
Maybe she believed it.</div>
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regardless of their personal shortcomings or inherent flaws? To what
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11. Art and the human
are completely different. Lenny Bruce who was Jewish could like a nazis
art. The person can be terrible, the art could be good or terrible.
Some great people make shitty art too. Sculptures, made of human shit.
They are great for fucking the shit out of. The glass birds break
through the shit chest and shatter in the night skies.</div>
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