artwork by Arik Roper

From Ethan Miller’s Silver Currant blog…

“What I can remember about this session is that it was recorded during the daytime at our practice space on 3rd st. in San Francisco most likely between September 1st and the 3rd of 2005. Comets and Growing had toured the Midwest and Eastern U.S. together in June and July of that same year. This is just a few months later and Growing was out on the West Coast to play the first Arthurfest in Los Angeles which Comets also played…”

More Miller spiel plus a download of the sesh: http://silvercurrant.blogspot.com/2010/08/comets-growing.html

Arthur Radio Transmission #30 w/ ALICE COHEN

Above: Collage of spliced animation stills taken from Alice Cohen’s “Mirror Moves For Private Eyes” on Vimeo.

Alice Cohen is a musician-animator, a wearer of various brightly-colored hats who has traversed many a terrain over the past 30 years, from Philly r&b songwriter to new wave frontwoman (of The Vels) to the present, where she is both a one-woman-band (her most recent LP “Walking Up Walls” was released on Olde English Spelling Bee in 2009) and the creator of many magical worlds in her meticulously collaged stop-motion animations, which draw from a palette of art deco interiors, vintage women’s fashion magazines, early hollywood memorabilia, abstract shapes, insects, birds, the moon, dream spaces and beyond.

She is currently working on music videos for Weekends, Linda Hagood, and Vomit Heat, and her video piece “Ear Candy” will be shown (in full big screen glory) as part of an experimental animation night at Anthology Film Archives on December 1st in NYC.

Above: Animation still from Alice Cohen’s “Ear Candy” on Vimeo.

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KEEP IT: Arthur Radio Transmission #30 w/ ALICE COHEN 9-18-2010
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Arthur Radio Transmission #29 w/ SONNY SMITH

…………:In which wanderlusting scribe, Sunsets’ smith, and all around luminous luminary Sonny Smith lands a jet plane in the Newtown laboratory/public swimming pool just in time to solo-ly saturate the airwaves with new tales of color, youth, wooing, and woe.

…………:In which prior airwave-saturators Ramble Tamble return to rotate a mighty fine short stack of vinyl diskettes at all the right speeds.

…………:In which Ivy Meadows unfurls a comfy sonic tablecloth upon the dewy green grassy grass grass for all tomorrows’ picnicings and dreamings.

…………And Hairy Painter rolls in the closing curtains with an iridescent cloud of sonic dust.

Above: Sonny tuning in the Newtown Radio studio.

STREAM: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Sonny-Smith-8-15-2010.mp3%5D

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #29 w/ Sonny Smith 8-15-2010

Playlist below…
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New aquarock: PURLING HISS "Run From the City"

Download: “Run From the City” – Purling Hiss (mp3)

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Purling Hiss is pig latin lover Mike Polizze of Philladelphia jammers Birds of Maya laying down some serious ’70s-style aquarock—it’s so submerged you feel like you’ve already got your earplugs in. Nah, that’s just the mix, bro. Right here is “Run From the City”—the title is a great tactical suggestion for contemporary coping; the song itself is, I dunno, Grand Funk meets Skynyrd in a thick cloud, recorded three rooms down. By accident. You can smell it more than you can hear it, if that makes any sense. From the Hiss’s third album Public Service Announcement, being released on vinyl and iTunes by the kind folk at Woodsist.

PURLING HISS tours now:

10/19 Charlottesville, VA Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar *
10/20 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 *
10/21 Atlanta, GA The Earl * ^
10/22 Birmingham, AL The Nickw * ^
10/23 Nashville, TN Mercy Loungew * ^
10/25 Toledo, OH Mickey Finn * ^ !
10/26 Covington, KY Mad Hatters * ^
10/27 Columbus, OH Skully’s * ^
10/28 Ann Arbor, MI Blind Pig * ^
10/29 Indianapolis, IN White Rabbit Cabaret * ^
10/30 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle * ^
10/31 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle * ^
11/01 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock * ^
11/04 Seattle, WA Neumos * ^
11/06 Portland, OR Berbatis Pan * ^
11/09 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop * ^
11/11 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex * ^
11/13 San Diego, CA Casbah * ^
11/14 Tempe, AZ The Trunk Space *
11/17 San Antonio, TX The Korova *
11/18 Austin, TX Emo’s (Inside) *
11/19 Dallas, TX Club Dada *
11/21 Memphis, TN Hi Tone *
11/24 Washington, DC Black Cat (Backstage) *
11/26 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s *
12/03 Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory *

* = w/ Kurt Vile
^ = w/ The Soft Pack
! = w/ Jaill

Arthur Radio Transmission #28 w/ MESSAGES live DJ set

Dronulational heavies Messages, recently spotlighted on the new arthur comp. BLACKOUT, stop by the newtown radio studio to zoom in and out through the infinities of the universe via some holy vinyl documents. Members three – Taketo Shimada, Spencer Herbst, and Tres Warren – each have their shining talk with the turntables and set out a multitudinous and numinously meandering path for ye noble arthurians to walk – enjoy! and treat yourself right by seeing them when they perform next, with past arthur radio guests Excepter and Up Died Sound at Coco66 in Greenpoint on October 27th. Zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Arthur Radio Transmission #28 w/ MESSAGES live DJ set 08-08-2010

SETLIST BE BELOW

hairy (@0:0:00) –
iggy pop – the endless sea
moolah – crystal waters
ex-cocaine – klondike

taketo (@0:12:30) –
muslimgauze – audio nl 004
la monte young + marion zazeela + pandit pran nath – tamburas 07
matsuo ohno – astroboy OST
vizusa – high frontier
phillipe besombes ragga country
leonard kwan – akaka falls
lee howard & the all stars – hula rock
lino – clouds
tommy james – crimson + clover
audre tschakowski – orchestral tension b
urival – blind speed pipe for yujo sueta
j.a. ceasar – ten seitan
maki asakawa – akai hashi

spencer (@0:45:00)-
butthole surfers – kuntz
brast burst – debon part 1 (excerpt)
faust – it’s a rainy day, sunshine girl
hijokaidan – takutaku
crass – nagasaki nightmare
embryo – es ist wie’s ist
chrome – zombie warfare

tres (@1:21:30) –
leon russell – acid annapolis
the shadow ring – man
ustad abdul karim khan malkauns – piran jani dekh
rolling stones – gomper
spirit – girl in your eye
don cherry/latif khan – rhythm 58 1/4
destroy all monsters – double sextet, part 2
ry cooder – tamp’em up solid
moussa kassimi – traditional
charlie nothing – the psychedelic saxophone of charlie nothing

A mellow anthem for Calif voters: TED LUCAS "It Is So Nice to Get Stoned"

Download: “It Is So Nice to Get Stoned” – Ted Lucas

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Recorded in Detroit, 1974. So beautiful. The timeless, centerpiece song from Ted Lucas’s eponymous solo album, to be reissued on October 12 by Yoga Records.

You can listen to a radio interview with Ted Lucas from the period over at Waxidermy.

Gorgeous new music: "Laura" by Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen

Download: “Laura” – Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen (mp3)

A cover of the jazz standard “Laura,” written by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer, by Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen.

This is from For the Ghosts Within—a full-length collaboration between Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon and Ros Stephen—out November 9 from Domino Records

BLACKOUT: Arthur’s new music mixtape/compilation

Arthur’s new 49-minute mixtape, specially designed to accompany (or simulate) a human-plant interaction, is now available as a digital download, featuring a high resolution JPG of the Arik Roper artwork (above), some additional art and text, and the following sequence of songs, as selected by Arthur editor Jay Babcock and sewn together by engineer/mixer Bobby Tamkin.

50-SECOND TEASER TOKE:
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TRACKLIST:
1. MOON DUO “Into the Trees” (from the Escape LP on Woodsist)
2. WHITE HILLS “Three Quarters” (from the White Hills LP on Thrill Jockey)
3. WHITE NOISE SOUND “Sunset” (from the White Noise Sound LP on Alive Naturalsound)
4. LORDS OF FALCONRY “Osiron” (from Lords of Falconry on Holy Mountain)
5. ENDLESS BOOGIE “Pack Your Bags” (from the Full House Head LP on No Quarter)
6. MASTERS OF REALITY “Johnny’s Dream” (from the Pine/Cross’d Over LP)
7. MESSAGES “Tambura” (from the After Before LP on De Stijl)
8. ENUMCLAW “Harmonic Convergence” (from the Opening of the Dawn LP)

Pay what thou wilt, starting at $4.20. All proceeds go towards keeping the Arthur community garden alive through the fall season.

~~Order here: BLACKOUT~~ NO LONGER AVAILABLE

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