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Arthur Radio Transmission #13: CLOUDS IN THE HERMAPHRODITIC MIRROR

This week’s collage, including illustration of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Will Sweeney and photo of Ira Cohen by Gerard Malanga. Double-click for fullscreen + scroll.

Let’s take a silver train underground
to the back streets of Atlantis
thru the corrugated iron roots &
then to the peak itself, to the
saddle of the last ridge past strewn
boulders,
finally meandering thru cascading snow
wearing miner’s hats on the perpendicular
dark night &
going up to the edge of the Southern Cross
where we reach at last the pure white
glistening glaciers &
begin to chant over bones in rags
of Scorpio
Armless in the sticky substance how could
they ever have had a chance?
Permission will not be required
only poems of blood offered to
the memory of TREE
It is not ice which is eternal
but the fury of the absolute
separating the void from the spirit
of man,
uplifting like life when it is used
against itself,
that is, Radical Love — & again, we
are reduced to living beings
Caught by the instant
we are taken away
We live in the imprint of the flame
& we are helmeted within the internal
blackness
where the ray begins its passage
across the indignant sky
Vain clouds uncaring in a tangle of
crossbeams
culminate in the hermaphroditic mirror…

– Ira Cohen (taken from “Atlantis Express”)

Read more of Ira’s dome-shaking poetry here.


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Download: Arthur Radio Transmission #13 4-11-2010

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Who's your brother? New BROTHER JT album and Journal

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Download: “Celebrate Your Face” — Brother JT (mp3)

New up-with-your-face psych jam off Brother JT’s “Any Stort in A Porm,” a new solo CDR joint available from the brother himself for $5 cheep. Or you can get the CDR free if you buy JT’s new “Orange Journal”—which he describes as “a 130-plus page, 8.5X11, glossy, full-color, spiral bound extravaganza. Started as lyric workbook, became spirit-channeling journal of automatic writing/drawing/collage weirdness.” Something like Jung’s Red Book. (Which, btw, is on view now at the Hammer in L.A.) Alllllright. More people should be doing this sort of stuff. Cover and two sample pages (click on ’em to enlarge) from the Orange Journal below.

The Orange Journal is available in a numbered edition of 100 for $20 from Brother JT Inc at brotherjt.com

Brother JT was featured in Arthur No. 8, available from the Arthur Store.

JT is also the host of the popular investigative TV show Tripping Balls With Brother JT.

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Lookout: CRAZY DREAMS BAND "Feels So Good"

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Download: “Feels So Good” — Crazy Dreams Band (mp3)

New menace rager from CRAZY DREAMS BAND of Baltimore, one of contemporary American rock n roll’s most exciting live frontpersons, Lexie Macchi (Lexie Mountain Boys). New album WAR DREAMS, three 8-minuteish songs (including “Feels So Good”) plus an epic side 2—that is, the way album’s are supposed to be constructed—cover pictured below, just out from the dependably tasty Holy Mountain.

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New country music: Willie Nelson "Man With the Blues"

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Download: “Man With the Blues” — Wille Nelson (mp3)

“If you need a little shove in fouling up in love/come to me, I’m the man with the blues”

Sweet-to-these-ears new Wille-penned blues, from this great American outlaw’s new album, Country Music out 4/20 on Rounder Records, produced by T-Bone Burnett (!). More info at Amazon

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Also of interest: Wille Nelson Peace Research Institute

And, very highly recommended: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart by Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin


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Thanks Kevin B.!

MV & EE + Flower/Corsano Duo No Floor Revue and other hootenannies

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Download: “Other Kinds Run” — Tower Recordings (mono – mp3)

Mono take of Tower Recordings‘ “Other Kind Runs,” which MV sez will probably be in the jams on this upcoming bbqbuster tour with the Flower/Corsano Duo. Dates and MV notes follow…

MV & EE + Flower/Corsano Duo “No Floor Revue” and other hootenannies

4/09/10 : grey matter books/hadley, western mass
4/10/10 : silent barn/brooklyn, NY
4/11/10 : oberlin college/oberlin, OH
4/12/10 : the lager house/detroit, MI
4/13/10 : the boat/toronto, ON
4/14/10 : la sala rossa/montreal, QC
4/15/10 : spring street gallery/saratoga springs, NY
4/16/10 : nom d’artiste/boston, MA
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4/20/10 : matthew dell solo w/crazy dreams band
grey matter books/western mass

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5/13/10 : abrons art center/joshua light festival/new york, NY with woods

no floor revue will feature mellow duo exchange of MV & EE and full band Golden Road with John Moloney and Mick Flower. Oberlin also sees a Chris Corsano & Aaron Dilloway duo set.

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Arthur Radio Voyage #12 with live set by Bow Ribbons

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This week Arthur Radio decided to set its boat out on a southward-flowing current, with special guests Pete Vogl and Willow Gibbons (who together make the musical duo Bow Ribbons) at the helm. We bid goodbye to the stone grey waves lapping around the edges of Manhattan, passed through the tepid manatee-filled waters of Florida, and traveled onwards until we reached the hot swells surrounding the coast of Brazil. The plan was to eventually catch up with a family of Humpback whales in Ecuador, to learn of their beautiful songs and hopefully join them in chorus.

We paused to relax on a calm patch of water by the beach, where tropical birds flitted about chirping messages to one another in nearby Pepper trees. Pete took out his guitar and sat next to Willow, who stood on the deck in the sunshine, ready to sing. Closing our eyes, we listened with the sun shimmering orange on our eyelids as Willow belted out the lines, “I will spend a lifetime in space, I will make a nest in this place…”


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Download: Arthur Radio Voyage #12 with live set by Bow Ribbons

Contact bowribbons@gmail.com to inquire about their first full-length album, coming out on vinyl in May 2010.

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Arthur Radio #11 w/ Live in-studio by Love Like Deloreans

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A scene-by-scene recap of this week’s episode by DJ Visitation Rites:

ACT 1
Scene 1, Off Air
In which DJs Ivy Meadows and Visitation Rites arrive at the Newtown Radio studio ready to set up but are hypnotized by a 25-minute bongo-laden siren dirge — Dreamcolour’s “Spiritual Celebration” — at the tail end of Sunday Brunch with Chocolate Bobka. Unbeknownst to them, the song spills fifteen minutes into the beginning of their set.

Scene 2, Aside
Meanwhile, Peter Pearson, Derek Muro, and Lorna Krier of Brooklyn’s Love Like Deloreans steal away from their home base — a renovated closet space in Bushwick containing some 20 synthesizers — load half of them into a Volvo station wagon, and appear at the station door, successfully breaking the spell that has been cast over Ivy Meadows and Visitation Rites.

ACT 2
Scene 1, On Air
Still haunted by the specter of the siren from Act 1, Ivy Meadows and Visitation Rites attempt to reproduce their experience by layering ambient musics from lands as far and wide as ‘70s Germany, early 21st Century Northampton, and present-day Canada into a single organic continuum.

Scene 2, Aside
In which Love Like Deloreans set up all seven of the synthesizers they brought in the drowsy blink of a Sunday afternoon eye, causing Ivy Meadows and Visitation Rites to suspect that that they too possess supernatural powers. Love Like Deloreans do their best to assuage their fears, suggesting that they are simply “putting the punk back in punctuality.” Exeunt Chocolate Bobka.

ACT 3
Scene 1, On Air
Love Like Deloreans perform the first half of their in-studio. Dancing, Ivy Meadows and Visitation Rites attempt to document the event through Blackberry photos, Tweets, and a FlipCam.

Scene 2, On Air
Love Like Deloreans pause to participate in and informal Q&A with Visitation Rites, touching upon their origins as a group, their cohabitation of the classical world and Brooklyn DIY, their roots in New York minimalism and ‘70s Kosmische, and why the best way to listen to music is while traveling cross-country.

Scene 3, On Air,
Love Like Deloreans perform the second half of their in-studio. Dancing resumes. Ivy Meadows films an excerpt of their set through the anamorphic lens of an oddly shaped water bottle, the results of which can be seen below.

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Download: Arthur Radio Transmission #11 with Love Like Deloreans 3-28-2010

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