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YANTRA YANTRA YALL

Over last year's Thanksgiving... staying with my folks in Greensboro, NC... I started drawing with markers and thangs... I keep doing it... whatever it is... But this is kind of how I hear music most of the time... So it was nice to visualize it...

ROBERT EENS • BE WARNED!

Robert Eens ("EE-INS"). Man, I heard this for the first time last night (thanks Jim Altieri). Bob Eens was the vocalist and cellist featured as part of a duo in Merideth Monk's "Facing North". He has worked with her for over a decade. Turns out he also performed in Arthur Russell's "Instrumentals" in the early 70's. This track is from his recent opera 'The Escape Artist'. Wow. Totally real transcendental folk music like I rarely hear and always seek out. Shattered my glass with resonance. "Be warned, your life beckons you..."

THROUGH PAINTED HILLS • MY DEBUT ALBUM

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FACE-LIFTING: Mood Ring

Starting to re-compose several of my pieces which were originally part of the "faces of sound" genus (social geometries, etc). Here's a remake of an early one - from 2006 in Portland OR - originally recorded at an outdoor park + beaucoup de overdubs...

ARTHUR RUSSELL: Radishes Flying to Jupiter

Just discovered this awesome live Arthur Russell recording online (via, Greg Davis) at Achive.org from one of the bazillion incredible concerts (many by Arthur) that have been performed at Phill Niblock's soho loft, since its inception in 1972 (i went to an incredible show there just this past weekend). But... 1980?: Entitled "Radishes Flying to Jupiter", Arthur does a cosmic-comic cello solo over some fixed keyboard changes and percussion performed by Rome Neal.



You might notice the harmonies used here are also rooted in Russell's 24-24 Music (listen to the organ in "Go Bang"). Keep listening to "radishes" and you'll hear Rome gradually bring in the shaker, ultimately laying down a straight pulse, shyly pointing directly at the dance reference this music was moving into. Russell compiled this tape himself for group compilations, via EIF, that were sent off to numerous radio stations, if rarely played. The monologue, like the music, is pretty space-y stuff - definitely not born far from a marijuana leaf at this time, and god bless those loose joints. Regardless, there's something about those harmonies and that wanderous plucked cello. like a boat on the water. it so pleasantly floats.