Gull, everybody.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Out of Africa, Into the Big Space
Episode 1 (1st hr) by into the big space
Out of Africa, Into the Big Space
Demo Episode Submitted as Proposal to Baton Rouge Community Radio
hosted by Eric Roy
Episode 1 (1st hour)
1. Nuru Kane – “Colère” (Senegal) // Riverboat
2. Soothsayers – “Freedom” (UK) // Red Earth
3. Hayvanlar Alemi – “Hayalgucu Sporkulubu” (Turkey) // Sublime Frequencies
4. Dara Puspita – “Pesta Pak Lurah” (Indonesia) // Sublime Frequencies
5. Circle – “Vaanen Valtiatar” (Finland) // Ektro
6. DJ / Rupture – “a01” (USA) // Tigerbeat6
7. Neal Pattman – “The Mogul” (USA) // Art of Field Recording
8. Group Bombino – “Boghassa” (Niger) // Sublime Frequencies
9. Yaaba Funk – “Me Nye Me Dofu” (Ghana, USA, Martinique, Jamaica, Italy, Germany, UK) // Hereandnow
10. Flying Lotus – “Do the Astral Plane” (USA) // Warp
11. Man City Lion – “Na Doo” (Thailand) // Sublime Frequencies
12. Afriampo – “ヤーヤーエー” (Japan) // Supponpon
13. S.E. Rogie – “African Gospel” (Sierra Leone) // Real World
Out of Africa, Into the Big Space will be a music show that harnesses the human spirit in its most exploratory, wide-eyed form in tracks from around the world. African music will be an essential part of the show. The Out of Africa hypothesis - which postulates that all Homo sapiens originate from Africa - will be enacted sonically, bridging the massive breadth of African jams with rhythms from around the world, including places like India, Turkey, Haiti, Japan, Eastern Europe, the US, the UK, South America, Finland, and Thailand. Acoustic and electronic will both be embraced fully. The sounds, bands, and vibes experienced first hand while working at an Afrobeat venue in London will be shared, all the while creating an atmosphere both entrancing and inspiring. Efforts will be taken to introduce listeners to underground sounds from these regions in addition to more classic tracks. Commentary will be informative, but brief. The focus will be on the music, sometimes relaxing, sometimes danceable, sometimes more challenging – always inspiring. The goal is to create an atmosphere both foreign & inviting. However, there will be moments of oddness & unfamiliarity (isn’t that one reason we travel?).
This show will NOT be:
- A playlist of tracks from world music collections available at Whole Foods.
- Exclusively international, efforts will be made to illuminate connections between American sounds both new and old and those around the world.
Out of Africa, Into the Big Space
Demo Episode Submitted as Proposal to Baton Rouge Community Radio
hosted by Eric Roy
Episode 1 (1st hour)
1. Nuru Kane – “Colère” (Senegal) // Riverboat
2. Soothsayers – “Freedom” (UK) // Red Earth
3. Hayvanlar Alemi – “Hayalgucu Sporkulubu” (Turkey) // Sublime Frequencies
4. Dara Puspita – “Pesta Pak Lurah” (Indonesia) // Sublime Frequencies
5. Circle – “Vaanen Valtiatar” (Finland) // Ektro
6. DJ / Rupture – “a01” (USA) // Tigerbeat6
7. Neal Pattman – “The Mogul” (USA) // Art of Field Recording
8. Group Bombino – “Boghassa” (Niger) // Sublime Frequencies
9. Yaaba Funk – “Me Nye Me Dofu” (Ghana, USA, Martinique, Jamaica, Italy, Germany, UK) // Hereandnow
10. Flying Lotus – “Do the Astral Plane” (USA) // Warp
11. Man City Lion – “Na Doo” (Thailand) // Sublime Frequencies
12. Afriampo – “ヤーヤーエー” (Japan) // Supponpon
13. S.E. Rogie – “African Gospel” (Sierra Leone) // Real World
Out of Africa, Into the Big Space will be a music show that harnesses the human spirit in its most exploratory, wide-eyed form in tracks from around the world. African music will be an essential part of the show. The Out of Africa hypothesis - which postulates that all Homo sapiens originate from Africa - will be enacted sonically, bridging the massive breadth of African jams with rhythms from around the world, including places like India, Turkey, Haiti, Japan, Eastern Europe, the US, the UK, South America, Finland, and Thailand. Acoustic and electronic will both be embraced fully. The sounds, bands, and vibes experienced first hand while working at an Afrobeat venue in London will be shared, all the while creating an atmosphere both entrancing and inspiring. Efforts will be taken to introduce listeners to underground sounds from these regions in addition to more classic tracks. Commentary will be informative, but brief. The focus will be on the music, sometimes relaxing, sometimes danceable, sometimes more challenging – always inspiring. The goal is to create an atmosphere both foreign & inviting. However, there will be moments of oddness & unfamiliarity (isn’t that one reason we travel?).
This show will NOT be:
- A playlist of tracks from world music collections available at Whole Foods.
- Exclusively international, efforts will be made to illuminate connections between American sounds both new and old and those around the world.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
So I've been getting back into Refused and "Evil Empire"...
(from a dream I had last night)
falling sky,
every time you close your eyes
I take a picture.
I only know you when you're gone.
My teeth fall out
and into clouds.
Away with a breath,
like Medusa blood,
like a boat
on a dry bed
at the edge of the world.
A sandcastle...
You want this to happen.
All collars, all colors.
We won't stop 'til we eat each other.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Just Another Sunny Day
Blue Ridge, you're the best seat in the house.
(There was a time before we were born... if someone asks, this is where I'll be.)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
I am a Scientist
searching for a voice that resonates.
I would like to make myself clear.
speak clearly,
simply,
without bullshit.
it’s difficult when
what I have to say doesn’t make sense.
it is an indictment of sense,
of precision, perfection,
of often quoted rationality,
of straight lines ignorant of scatter.
Rock and roll anti-hero once sung,
“I am a scientist, I seek to understand...”
…and I do.
I seek to understand what prevents understanding.
Am I a shitty scientist?
Am I a saboteur?
I am a wanna-be gadfly
and, most of all, a humble human being.
yes I admit,
I am most interested in what eludes description.
in life,
in surprise,
in Mistakes (why not just love them?).
Evolution may be Intelligent after all.
dark late night,
on the verge of a great discovery,
eyes in a microscope,
and mooned by a cyanobacteria!
the little (lovely) bare-assed bastard.
I smile and go to bed.
coyote is the metaphor that sticks (owww!).
thank you Donna Haraway.
provocation may be the only way (oh that blue-green bum!).
thank you David Hume.
what is my role?
perhaps it’s to simply
spread the word.
reality is time-dependent.
space-dependent.
knowledge at time = t
is sometimes shit
at time = t + 1 two southern states away.
so, stress the local,
cut out the middle man!
Rock and roll anti-hero once sung,
“You don’t need a weatherman
to know which way the wind blows.”
Suddenly,
it all became incredibly clear.
conversation,
adaptation,
science =
another lost art.
we are all scientists.
I would like to make myself clear.
speak clearly,
simply,
without bullshit.
it’s difficult when
what I have to say doesn’t make sense.
it is an indictment of sense,
of precision, perfection,
of often quoted rationality,
of straight lines ignorant of scatter.
Rock and roll anti-hero once sung,
“I am a scientist, I seek to understand...”
…and I do.
I seek to understand what prevents understanding.
Am I a shitty scientist?
Am I a saboteur?
I am a wanna-be gadfly
and, most of all, a humble human being.
yes I admit,
I am most interested in what eludes description.
in life,
in surprise,
in Mistakes (why not just love them?).
Evolution may be Intelligent after all.
dark late night,
on the verge of a great discovery,
eyes in a microscope,
and mooned by a cyanobacteria!
the little (lovely) bare-assed bastard.
I smile and go to bed.
coyote is the metaphor that sticks (owww!).
thank you Donna Haraway.
provocation may be the only way (oh that blue-green bum!).
thank you David Hume.
what is my role?
perhaps it’s to simply
spread the word.
reality is time-dependent.
space-dependent.
knowledge at time = t
is sometimes shit
at time = t + 1 two southern states away.
so, stress the local,
cut out the middle man!
Rock and roll anti-hero once sung,
“You don’t need a weatherman
to know which way the wind blows.”
Suddenly,
it all became incredibly clear.
conversation,
adaptation,
science =
another lost art.
we are all scientists.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
More Sound & Vision
post regarding the rising Mississippi River and seeing nature as coyote forthcoming...
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