Author Archives for Jay Babcock

Oct 16-18: "We are interested in Christianity as resistance, not religion."

Via
http://www.jesusradicals.com/
http://www.inthelandoftheliving.org/
http://www.psalters.org/
http://www.circleofhope.net/

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PROMOTIONAL TEXT:
“On October 16-18, the folks at Circle of Hope in Philadelphia will host activist theologian and author Ched Myers for a biblical exploration of nature, civilization and feral faith. The conference will focus on Sabbath/hunter-gatherer economics, rewilding and resistance, and engage our biblical origin stories for signs of hope in the midst of the current economic and environmental crises.Additional speakers will also present on a range of topics, from primal parenting to practical rewilding…
The cost of this event is free.”

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The Strange World of Coffin Joe at the Cinefamily all this month

Courtesy of The Cinefamily, a montage in celebration of a month-long Coffin Joe retrospective every Friday in October!  Most films aren’t available on VHS or DVD including the world’s only subtitled prints of his major classics flown up from Brazil.

10/9
At Midnight I Take Your Soul
This Night I will Possess Your Corpse–the world’s only english-subtitled 35mm prints flown up from Brazil!

10/16

Damned: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins (A Sundance-awared winning documentary on Coffin Joe)
The Strange World of Coffin Joe
Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

10/23

Awakening of the Beast (This psychedlic masterpieces was banned for 20 years!)
Finis Hominis

10/30

Embodiment of Evil (his new one!)
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind


"Fire In My Bones" preview No. 2 of 3: "Don't Let Him Ride" by the Mississippi Nightingales (1971)

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Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/02-Dont-Let-Him-Ride.mp3%5D

Download: “Don’t Let Him Ride” – Mississippi Nightingales (1971) (mp3)

Here is the second of three songs we’re presenting this week from the forthcoming, eagerly awaited Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007, a stunning 80-song, triple-CD set compiled by Mike McGonigal of Yeti Magazine fame. Most of the songs on Fire are sourced from independent regional labels, and almost none have ever been widely available. These are some genuine lost treasures of American devotional music, folks. Mike has done some serious collecting, culling, and sequencing on this set, and we’re all the lucky beneficiaries.

The seriously Pops Staples-inflected “Don’t Let Him Ride,” adapted from the O.V. Wright composition, is from the set’s opening disk, “The Wicked Shall Cease from Troubling.” From the liner notes: “This song was released on a 45 on the Home Boy’s label, which might have the best logo artwork this side of Mingering Mike. H-B was one of a handful of labels featuring production by Bishop Bobby King Cole of Memphis, TN.”

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Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 is being released on October 27, 2009 by the good people of Tompkins Square Records of New York City. You can pre-order now from Amazon.

Previously: “How Long” by Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1948)

TONIGHT (Wed): LINDA PERHACS live in Los Angeles at REDCAT

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Linda Perhacs and Friends
World premiere
Wed 10.07.09 8:30 pm
at REDCAT

Co-presented with Draw Pictures and dublab

Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/parallelograms.mp3%5D

Download: “Parallelograms” – Linda Perhacs (mp3)

“[Parallelograms is] one of the most mystifying and beautiful moments of the psychedelic era, on par with any outré work of the time.” LA Weekly

“This evening of experimental exploration is the first-ever public performance by enigmatic folk singer Linda Perhacs, whose legendary 1970 album Parallelograms is an uncanny, ruminative masterpiece of psychedelia. She is joined by an eclectic mix of artists, who chime in with projected artwork, film, dance and musical interpretations of her work. Perhacs and her collaborators also highlight ideas from the book that inspired Parallelograms: the Theosophist manifesto Thought-Forms, written by Annie Besant in 1901…”

NEW interview with Linda Perhacs by Daiana Feuer at LARecord: http://larecord.com/interviews/2009/10/07/linda-perhacs-interview-we-have-great-powers/

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Botanical Illustrations from CODEX SERAPHINIANUS

Many thanks to Will Crofoot for sharing these otherwordly illustrations taken from Luigi Serafini‘s masterpiece Codex Seraphinianus, a fantastical encyclopedia of the unknown completed between 1976-1978, and published in an extremely limited edition in 1981. Click to enlarge:


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Saturday, October 17th – Craig Colorusso's SUN BOX Installation on The North Shore of Boston, MASS

Important Records presents:

Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.

Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers. It sounds different inside of the array. There is a different sense of space inside. Certain speakers will be closer and louder therefore the piece will sound different to different people in different positions throughout the array. Creating a unique experience for everyone.

There are no batteries involved. The Sun Boxes are reliant on the sun. When the sun sets the music stops. The piece changes as the length of the day changes. Making the participants aware of the cycle of the day.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988tCKKKc_8

This piece will be presented Saturday, October 17th on the North Shore of Boston, Noon til sundown. Rain date: October 24th, same time.

E-mail john at importantrecords dot com for address and directions.
Visit the project online here.

New music: "Caroline" by Espers

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Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Espers_Caroline.mp3%5D

Download: “Caroline” – Espers (mp3)

From the forthcoming ESPERS album, III, available October 20, 2009 from the good folk at Drag City Records of Chicago and Wichita Recordings of London.

Marvelous album cover artwork by Xavier Schipani of Baltimore.

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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Tennessee Claflin

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OCTOBER 6 — TENNESSEE CLAFLIN
Victoria Woodhullʼs sister and partner; published
first U.S. edition of Communist Manifesto.

OCTOBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF SPIRITUAL ANARCHY.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 6 IN HISTORY…
1536 — William Tyndale burned at the stake for heresy.
1843 — William Morton demonstrates the effects of ether, Boston, Massachusetts.
1845 — First co-op store in US opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1981 — President Anwar Sadat assassinated by Muslim activists, Egypt.
1984 — French filmmaker François Truffaut dies.
1992 — Croatian council communist writer, theorist Ante Ciliga dies, Zagreb.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

"Fire In My Bones" preview No. 1 of 3: "How Long" by Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1948)

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Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/01-How-Long.mp3%5D

Download: “How Long” – Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1948) (mp3)

Here is the first of three songs we’ll be presenting this week from the forthcoming, eagerly awaited Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007, a stunning 80-song, triple-CD set compiled by Mike McGonigal of Yeti Magazine fame. Most of the songs on Fire are sourced from independent regional labels, and almost none have ever been widely available. These are some genuine lost treasures of American devotional music, folks. Mike has done some serious collecting, culling, and sequencing on this set, and we’re all the lucky beneficiaries.

“How Long” is from the set’s opening disk, “The Wicked Shall Cease from Troubling.” From the liner notes: “Sister O.M. Terrell recorded one 78 for the Playboy label in 1948, then cut six songs for Columbia five years later. Like many working within the ‘sanctified blues’ tradition, she was an itinerant evangelical singer with holiness affiliations (hers being with the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God).”

Sister Terrell died in 2006 at the age of 95.

Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 is being released on October 27, 2009 by the good people of Tompkins Square Records of New York City. You can pre-order now from Amazon.


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