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lamp lighter’s black history month top ten
10) Living for the City - Stevie Wonder (1973) 9) Evil N igger - Julius Eastman (1979) 8) Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy (1988) 7) Chain Gang Quantum Blues - Moor Mother (2016) 6) Every N igger Is a Star - Boris Gardiner (1974) 5) Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace - Max Roach (1960) 4) Ol’ Man River - Paul Robeson (1927) 3) Strange Fruit - Nina Simone (1965) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit 2) Song of the Underground Railroad - John Coltrane (1961) 1) Alabama - John Coltrane (1963) |
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William Hooker + Sabir Mateen – Dharma https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....z3L._SS500.jpg Percussion and reeds duet released 33 years after Interstellar Space was released and 40 years after it recorded. Meaning Dharma was released at a time when adherents to the Saint John William Coltrane African Orthodox Church were meditating on the significance of humanity having lived without Coltrane’s physical manifestation for, again, 40 years - the same amount of time He graced our earth, 40 years. Hooker, as always is bombastic and exciting. He also will briefly hook into a groove in a way that’s effective but would’ve been inappropriate for Rashied Ali on IS. Sabir Mateen, who was 60 at the time, still correctly echoes late period Coltrane with dashes of Dolphy and some squawking à la manière de the highly influential Kaoru Abe, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 29 in 1978. Dharma was recorded live at CBGB’s in 2004. |
Ranaldo, Lee / William Hooker / Jim O'Rourke / Gianni Gebbia Clouds: Victoriaville Concert May 1997 https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....mzL._SS500.jpg http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com In case there’s any confusion about this obscenely underrated masterpiece let me ****ing tell you it has it all. Rock’n’roll guitar god Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo meets up with the above mentioned Hooker and with Jim O'Rourke and Gianni Gebbia they flare up and tear up and make post-punk-free-jazz-noise history. |
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PS- "Strange Fruit" is one of the most important artistic achievements in American history. |
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https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qf1Nrz9TS...%252Bcover.jpg Sabir Mateen & William Simone – JOYS! This is absolutely fantastic! It’s like finding a lost 5 Star Sun Ra record. Sabir Mateen: tenor & soprano saxophones, Bb & alto clarinets and piano William Simone: percussion and electronics Recorded in Bologna, Italy Release: September 2016 Total CD time 64:00 https://sabirmateen.bandcamp.com/album/joys |
I discovered Nina's version of Strange Fruit first and thus have the strongest connection to that one. I personally find the rawness and "newness" of Billie's version to make it the objectively better version, but they're both great. I would kill to hear the original musical version as sung by Laura Duncan, but I don't know if there are any recordings of that.
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This one actually puts the brutal imagery into my mind with the most clarity. |
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Not even psuedo doxxing is ok here, don't do that again
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Then why was it mod-approved only to be removed right away?
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Idk who approved it but things slip through
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It was me.
Evident mod bias! |
Would it be doxxing to say XXXXXX teaches at the University of YYYYYY?
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In all seriousness: are you having a psychotic break? You're acting super weird. Are you okay? Are you safe?
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Man, I'm genuinely worried about you. I know this is kinda "your thing" but you've been posting **** that wilder than normal lately and seeming really morose and depressed. I'm just checking in.
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This really isn't out of character for OH. He's like the Tasmanian Devil from Loony Tunes.
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Eh, I could be making mountains out of molehills. Or projecting. If you're good, you're good, and that's good enough for me.
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Over the past couple weeks I’ve listened to the complete discography of Public Enemy. I’ve been a big fan of them since damn near the get-go and was very fortunate to get to see them early in the career. Crazy experience actually. Very front general admission. Only white guy. Punched in the back the head. Hat stolen. Met Terminator X.
In a nutshell, PE is one of those bands (like AC/DC) that sticks with a winning formula. The first two records lay the groundwork for their entire sound. Fear of a Black Planet runs the same formula with a glossier production. After that they basically keep reworking the style, laying out similar hard hitting beats and frequently sampling and quoting themselves. Their beats, djing, and production are consistently fantastic throughout their discography. I recommend everything by Public Enemy but Bum Rush and Nations are the band’s DNA. |
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Drums and racist Ching-Chong yelping. Should only be played backwards and underwater. Seven |
Is it still racist if it's done by a ching chong himself (well I mean it's racist now that I'm referring to him as a ching ching but...)? Auto-cultural appropriation is a new one for me.
Story behind that name: a group of us were doing acid in a park and Jesse said "I feel a poem, don't interrupt me" and he went on a long screed that ended with something like "I will never die, I am the Chinese man in the sky". Right when he said that, the wind got really intense and loud. Minds were demolished and the name stuck. |
I don’t think it’s racist at all. I was just fooling around. You have a heart of gold.
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top ten 2019 so far:
10) The White Horse of the Sun Album by David Terry and Eye Spirit 9) Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars Album by Sarah Louise https://www.fiveriserecords.co.uk/wp...12/483_900.jpg https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/alb...-morning-stars 8) God Is Not a Terrorist Album by USTAD SAAMI https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catal.../GB.067CD.html Quote:
After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house Album by Grouper http://newalbumreleases.net/pic/Nivhek-300x300.jpg https://grouper.bandcamp.com/album/a...ards-the-house 6) Fade to Grey A Strangely Isolated Place Album by 36 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.band...m/fade-to-grey 5) An Unruly Manifesto Album by James Brandon Lewis (inspired by the more traditionally structured work of Ornette) The Free Jazz Collective: James Brandon Lewis - An Unruly Manifesto (Relative Pitch, 2019) ****½ https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/releases 4) Xièxie Album by Celer https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie 3) Scattered Memories Album by Saba Alizadeh https://bia2dj.ir/wp-content/uploads...d-Memories.jpg https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/alb...tered-memories 2) The Gratitude Principle Album by The Cosmic Range 1) On Time Out of Time Album by William Basinski https://williambasinski.bandcamp.com...me-out-of-time https://www.factmag.com/2019/01/09/w...t-of-time/amp/ Quote:
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Dope, need to check out the new Basinski record, especially now that I know more about it.
Some that I really dug that you might not have gotten to yet: Party Knüllers X Jaimie Branch - Party Knüllers X Jaimie Branch at the Casa (free jazz) KK Null's output (noise, power electronics, dark ambient) Krallice - Wolf EP (black/death metal) Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tutti (post industrial) Deveneror - Kenoma (black metal) Jac Berrocal, David Fenech & Vincent Epplay - Ice Exposure (free improvisation) DIÄT - Positive Disintegration (post punk) |
I did not know about the PK X Jaimie Branch release. It’s an aggressive record! You might remember we discussed Branch awhile back. I really like her. She’s a powerhouse in the New Renaissance of Free Jazz (I’m trying to coin this). I also likes the way she looks and **** for whatever that’s worth. She’s cool.
All that stuff is great except I haven’t listened to Ice Exposure or Kenoma yet. |
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Sun Doesn't Rise by Mushroomhead is not in the top 50 all time great songs about the sun.
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