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:
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.
More witchiness, this time from Broadcast
New music: "Caroline" by Espers
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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
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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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.
Arthur presents Sunday Oct. 18, 3pm in Philly: How to make herbal tinctures—a workshop with AEMEN BELL
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Arthur presents
Wildcrafting Magical Elixirs
a workshop with Aemen Bell
Sunday, October 18
3pm
Just in time for Halloween…
Learn how to create and use your very own simple and edible potions! Using beautiful crystals, moon cycles and magical plants from your own backyard, herbalist Aemen Bell will show you how to play with the friendly energies of Mother Nature, and you will leave with your own Magical Elixir! We will explore and explain recipes to enhance Love, Dreaming, and more. Don’t worry: you don’t need to have any witchy experience—just come with an open mind, a little common sense, and a willingness to use your own very powerful imagination.
Space is limited to 24 attendees. Workshop tickets are available for $10 in advance, $12 day-of-workshop, as space permits. Reserve space in advance by
* sending $10 per guest via PayPal to editor@arthurmag.com, or
* handing cold hard cash to Jay or Brooke at 2037 Frankford; arrange ahead of time via email to editor@arthurmag.com
This workshop will be held indoors at 2037 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown (Philadelphia, PA 19125).
Aemen Bell is a Brooklyn-based herbalist, artist, writer, and unlicensed pet detective. She has been making potions since she first took an empty shampoo bottle out of the bathroom trash at age 4 and filled it with mud, rocks, and cat hair. She apprenticed under the lovely, patient and eternally knowledgeable Lata Kennedy of Flower Power Herbs and Roots in New York City’s East Village.
Aemen’s own line of Magical Elixirs, Praecantrix, is currently sold throughout the New York and Pennsylvania areas, and online at AemenBell.com.
She has been showing her art publicly in New York City since 2000, and her photographs were recently featured in the art book They Be We.
Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — JUN TSUJI
OCTOBER 4 — JUN TSUJI
Japanese anarchist, translator, musician, bohemian.
OCTOBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
London: CARRYING IN THE PUDDING, a ceremony dating to 1775, opens
pudding season with an eighty-pound meat pie, and songs such as “Ye
Pancakes and Toasted Cheese.”
ALSO ON OCTOBER 4 IN HISTORY…
1884 — First issue of Chicago anarchist paper, The Alarm.
1884 — Anarchist, bohemian Jun Tsuji born, Mukaiyanahara-machi, Asakusa-ku.
1928 — American civil rights pioneer James Forman born, Chicago, Illinois.
1967 — Radical American songwriter Woody Guthrie dies, New York City.
1970 — Rock singer Janis Joplin dies, drug overdose, Los Angeles, California.
"You play to be in harmony with your brothers": Videographer Peter Glantz hangs with Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale, Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen and Art Jenkins
GREAT RECORD STORES OF AMERICA No. 1: Inside the 'fuge
“GRADY’S RECORD REFUGE is a new & used record store located at 2546 E. Main St. in Ventura, CA. We buy, sell & trade LP’s, CD’s, cassettes, 78’s, 45’s, DVD’s, vhs, reel-to-reels, 8-tracks, laserdiscs, and more……we also sell needles, cartridges & belts for turntables, and do PHONOGRAPH REPAIR………we also sell used stereo equipment….. especially RECORD PLAYERS!”
http://www.myspace.com/gradysrecordrefuge
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ventura-CA/Gradys-Record-Refuge/138504304331
p.s. Grady Runyan was in MONOSHOCK and is in LIQUORBALL. Follow each link to see what Julian Cope says about the bands. He knows more than you do.
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