I’d say they owe an apology to Fergie, but it’s not like they can really make her “music” any worse.
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Fred and Sharon: ‘Peace or War’
It’s a simple choice, Disinfonauts, and Fred and Sharon are here to help with this uplifting song.
Psychotronic Soundscapes: Top Twenty Mind-Bending Albums for 2012
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Disinfo pal Thad McKraken has written a run-down of this year’s top mind-bending albums, complete with samples for your enjoyment:
Say what you will about 2012, but since consciousness is comprised of linguistic information, the idea of a coming apocalypse in itself propagated some rather delicious undercurrents of sound rippling through the Akashic record this year. I’ve never written more than a top five list in my life, but when I was thinking back on the insane amount of mind-bending albums that dropped in the last 12 months, I was kind of in shock. Most of this stuff’s fairly obvious, at least in my world. Was it people like Terence McKenna and his mechanized Timewave Zero prophesies, inspiring people like Grant Morrison to write the great Invisibles hypersigil, that summoned this record deluge of psychoactive soundscapes into motion? I have no idea. Did the Mayans get in every band’s head and subconsciously encourage them to bring their A game in 2012 as it might be their final chance?
The Cult Of Nick: KLF, Chaos, Magic, Music, Money
From The Cult Of Nick podcast:
In 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty took a million pounds to a deserted boathouse on the island of Jura and burnt it. The writer JMR Higgs looked at this event from a magickal perspective and came up with some interesting results. The story involves the world’s first joke religion, the JFK assasination, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore and a bunch of ideas collectively known as “Chaos Magick”.
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If you’re interested in “sigils” which we get to talking about right at the end of the interview go to the Disinfo.com website where I’ve written some short essays on the topic.
The events and book are described by the author on his personal website here:
I read about it afterwards in an article in the Observer, which I immediately clipped and put in a drawer.
The Weird World Of Outsider Music
In this clip from DisinfoTV on DVD we visit outsider music expert Irwin Chusid, who introduces us to Harvey Sid Fisher, BJ Snowden and others whose music defies description.
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(Reminiscences from) The Music Scene in LA in the Early Eighties
Ray Mankarek, keyboards player of the Doors, at his home beside his beautiful blonde piano – March 1984
I have recently published The Forbidden Book, a novel co-written with Joscelyn Godwin, the noted scholar of western esotericism. Before publication, when our publisher was looking for blurbs, the name of Gary Lachman came up, himself a distinguished author in the field. He read the book and wrote a wonderful blurb. Then I noticed on Google that he went under another name, too: Gary Valentine, which opened the floodgates of memory. The Gary Valentine? The bass player for Blondie? We used to know and frequent each other in LA in what must be, for both of us, another life. I wrote to him to thank him for his blurb and refresh our friendship; he replied, “Dear Guido, my God it’s a small world! Yes, I remember meeting you and Stenie a few times back in the early 80’s with Lisa.… Read the rest
Who Reigns Supreme?
I’ve been listening to more music recently than I have reading new things, and even though I first heard this track a few years ago, it’s one I find myself often revisiting… cautiously. As time has passed, I have found with each listen it’s relevancy has increased, and it begs some uncomfortable and rarely asked questions.
Delivered with elegance and poignancy, this is Recoil’s “Supreme”.
Hit Pakistani Pop Song About Deadly Drone Strikes
Dance songs reflecting the new reality. The Guardian provides context:
In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful woman has been compared to many things – but perhaps only in Pakistan’s tribal belt would it be likened to the deadly missile strike of a remotely controlled US drone. [It's] a sign of how the routine hunting down and killing of militants by unmanned CIA planes has leached into the popular imagination.
The repeated chorus: “My gaze is as fatal as a drone attack”. The hit for singer Sitara Younis follows her success last year with another love ballad, which warns a besotted man to keep his distance: “Don’t chase me, I’m an illusion, a suicide bomb.”
Maas Khan Wesal, a Pashtu music veteran who wrote the accompanying music, said the song had proved popular because it reflected the lives of Pashtu speakers on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Eerie Sounds Emanate From New York’s Freedom Tower
Two weeks ago, passersby noticed a haunting humming seemingly originating from the still-unfinished Freedom Tower. One possible explanation is that the the strong winds of Hurricane Sandy vibrated the metal beams at the top of the structure, turning them into musical instruments:
Music Awakens Old Memories in Nursing Home Patient
Via Tripped Media:
Dr. Oliver Sacks comments on a nursing home activity director’s efforts to reach a nursing home patient with the music of his youth in this amazing – and touching – video:
Hat tip: Jpugh73
