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Monday, Mar 16: CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE in L.A., playing the world's largest church pipe organ!

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From Monday Evening Concerts:

Monday, March 16, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

Charlemagne Palestine – “Schlingen-Blängen”

Charlemagne Palestine, organ

A true “living legend,” maverick American composer Charlemagne Palestine emerged from the downtown New York music scene. In a rare return visit to Los Angeles, where he lived in the early 1970s, he’ll pull out all the stops on the world’s largest church pipe organ. Always accompanied by his family of stuffed animals, Palestine has gained worldwide notoriety for his transcendent and earth-shaking performances, which create the illusion of dozens of organists playing simultaneously. His pure and animistic music creates trance-like drones that must be heard live to be fully appreciated.

General Admission: $25
Students: $10

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
540 S. Commonwealth Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90020

The First Congregational Church is located on Commonwealth Avenue (between Vermont Avenue and Alvarado Street) at Sixth Street. For free secured on-site parking, enter on Commonwealth Avenue.

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Lionel Ziprin Talks Smith-Abulafia Recordings

from Ian Nagoski:

The story of Harry Smith‘s mid-50s recordings of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, a Kabbalist involved with word-permutations, made between the release of the Anthology of American Folk Music and the beginng of work on the Mirror Animations and Heaven and Earth Magic has been told and retold, but it’s nice to see these newly-posted clips, filmed a dozen years ago of Abulafia’s grandson, poet Lionel Ziprin explaining the story of an extraordinary recording, which the larger world has yet to hear. It’ll happen eventually. Maybe we’ll get a decent reissue of Smith’s Kiowa peyote song recordings, too…

Baltimore Underground Hippie Paper Imagery, pt 1

From Ian Nagoski:

Here’s the first of a gaggle of posts we’ll be doing of images from newsprint hippie publications from Baltimore, 1968-71.

These are from Harry, which to quote Joe Vaccarino’s Baltimore Sounds: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Baltimore Area Pop Musicians, Bands & Recordings 1950-1980, “was founded in 1969 by Michael Carliner… After a rocky start, when the original staff revolted and walked out on the eve of the first issue’s press run, Harry became the choice alternative free [sic] paper of the Baltimore political and musical communities. Early contributors included Art Levine, P.J. O’Rourke, Tom D’Antoni, Alan Rose and Jack Heyrman. Harry survived many raids, takeovers and other traumatic events to provide alternative and community news at the height of the Vietnam, hippie, yippie era.”

Ahmed Fathi in D.C. for Free Fri. March 13

Yemeni oudist and singer Ahmed Fathi is playing the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for FREE at 6PM this Friday Mach 13 as part of the Center’s Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World series, running for another week.

If this improvisation in someone’s living room is anything to go by, the concert should be a hot one.

Wed March 11: Time Banking founder EDGAR S. CAHN at Farmlab (L.A.)

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Culled from various sources:

Dr. Edgar S. Cahn, the creator of Time Dollars and the founder of TimeBanks USA, will be speaking in Los Angeles on

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00PM at

The Metabolic Studio (Farmlab, Chora, AMI)
1745 N. Spring St., #6
L.A., CA 90012
(at Baker St. Downtown)

WHAT IS TIME BANKING?
At its most basic level, Time banking is simply about spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community. That hour goes into the Time Bank as a Time Dollar. Then you have a Time dollar to spend on having someone doing something for you. It’s a simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community connections.
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Help build a magic forest at Machine (Echo Park, L.A.)

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from Machine:

Short Version: Sara and Christy are turning Machine into a complete forest set, and we are having a volunteer meeting for those who want to participate this Thursday March 12th at 8:30pm.

Long Version: When we last saw Christy McCaffrey and Sara Newey they were making the Heavy Metal Gothic Arch at the LACMA show. They are returning to Machine this month to turn the entire gallery into a forest for a month, during which time we will be hosting all kinds of forest related activities. If you’re trying to imagine what that looks like, check out this here link…

http://machineproject.com/events/2009/03/27/magicforest/

This is a fairly epic project, even for us, and so we’re putting the call out to see if anyone would like to be part of making this happen. This is a great volunteer opportunity if you are interested in building very real looking fake forests, learning about how set design and set dressing works, and being part of a epic Machine Project project. The meeting to hear more about volunteering is this thursday night at 8:30pm, right here at Machine Project. Beer likely.