This week we arrived at Newtown Radio as sunset was descending over Bushwick, and a mysterious blue and purple mist had started to fill the neighborhood. Feeling inexplicably sleepy, we stuck a little mugwort under the studio’s couch cushions, sprawled out on the floor, and immediately began to dream our way into Arthur Radio Voyage #15. We found ourselves in a lucid haze, lost in some kind of other-worldly superstore. Dancing our way down endless aisles of multicolored light bulbs, muffled music blaring happily over a faraway PA system, we reveled in the realization that dream worlds can feel every bit as real as waking life…
Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Arthur-Radio-Voyage-15-4-25-2010.mp3%5D
Download: Arthur Radio Voyage #15 4-25-2010
Artists played this week…
The Phantom Band / Morton Subotnik / Ursula Bogner / Sonny Rollins / Brian Eno / Cloudland Canyon / Paul Desmond / Fela Kuti / Lee “Scratch” Perry / Sa Ka Na / Ofege / Prince Far I / Peace / Augustus Pablo & John Holt / The Fresh & Onlys / Sonny & The Sunsets / Serge Gainsbourg / Kayanji Anadji / The Meters / Salvador Dali / F.T. Marinetti / Ground Zero / Way of the Cross / Walter Benjamin / Taj Mahal Travellers / Les Rallizes Denudes / Frank Chickens
Arthur Magazine 
What’s the passage from Walter Benjamin?
The excerpt is from a series of German radio broadcasts betweeen 1929 and 1932 (Aufklärung für Kinder, or, Enlightenment for Kids) – focusing on the relationship between natural disasters and artists!
hey did you forget the Talking Heads in your playlist?
i think the portion you might be thinking of is actually a robert fripp frippertronic diddy with vocals by david byrne, called “under heavy manners” referencing blakeian gods and jamaican politics – not to be confused with the prince far i album or the black dice song
thee lyrics art:
“Trumpets
I can hear trumpets
Solipsism
Euphemism
Pessimism
Pointilism
Flagellism
Nihilism
Urizel o urizel
Negativism
Positivism
Legalism
Asinism
Cynicism
Terrorism
Urizel o urizel
Jurism
Tourism
Neologism
Imperialism
Cleverism
Criticism
Cataphatacism
Apophatacism
Dogmatism
Apologeticism
Schism
Schism
Baptism
Christening
Bells. I can hear bells.
Conservatism
Liberalism
Centrism
Socialism
Communalism
Leninism
Marxism
Maotseism
Communism
Trotskyism
Fidelism
Facism
Sunder here navy man
Scofistism
Kenosisism
Pneumatologism
Theandricism
Synergism
Monothelitism
Nestorianism
Sacerdotalism
Theurgism
Ecclesiasticalism
Eucharisticism
Episcopalianism
Hesychasticism
Remain in hell, without despair
O urizel
Remain in hell, without despair
O urizel
Stop
I am resplendent in divergence
I am resplendent in divergence
I am resplendent in divergence
Continue”
The excerpt is from a series of German radio broadcasts betweeen 1929 and 1932 (Aufklärung für Kinder, or, Enlightenment for Kids) – focusing on the relationship between natural disasters and artists!
i think the portion you might be thinking of is actually a robert fripp frippertronic diddy with vocals by david byrne, called “under heavy manners” referencing blakeian gods and jamaican politics – not to be confused with the prince far i album or the black dice song
thee lyrics art:
“Trumpets
I can hear trumpets
Solipsism
Euphemism
Pessimism
Pointilism
Flagellism
Nihilism
Urizel o urizel
Negativism
Positivism
Legalism
Asinism
Cynicism
Terrorism
Urizel o urizel
Jurism
Tourism
Neologism
Imperialism
Cleverism
Criticism
Cataphatacism
Apophatacism
Dogmatism
Apologeticism
Schism
Schism
Baptism
Christening
Bells. I can hear bells.
Conservatism
Liberalism
Centrism
Socialism
Communalism
Leninism
Marxism
Maotseism
Communism
Trotskyism
Fidelism
Facism
Sunder here navy man
Scofistism
Kenosisism
Pneumatologism
Theandricism
Synergism
Monothelitism
Nestorianism
Sacerdotalism
Theurgism
Ecclesiasticalism
Eucharisticism
Episcopalianism
Hesychasticism
Remain in hell, without despair
O urizel
Remain in hell, without despair
O urizel
Stop
I am resplendent in divergence
I am resplendent in divergence
I am resplendent in divergence
Continue”