a bright array

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's 10 favourite psychedelic folk songs published in Arthur in 2004:

gen ten zip {115MB, 10 mp3s, various bitrates all above 196kbps}

dreambabydream

narwhal dreamzzz [zip file of mp3s]



01. BLUES CONTROL Puff 6:28
02. THE TERMINALS Different Air 5:39
03. LOREN CONNORS and SUZANNE LANGILLE Spectres 1:34
04. SARIN SMOKE It Chars Our Lips Yet We Still Drink - Part III 8:49
05. DOROTHY CARTER Shirt of Lace 6:12
06. OMIT Consuming Soft Matted Masses 2:35
07. MORDANT MUSIC Darkside of the Autobahn 4:45
08. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover; live) 7:24
09. MECCA NORMAL Kingdom Without Weather 3:34
10. CYNTHIA DALL For Tiara 2:02
11. DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE Lapse - Dream 6:01
12. OMIT Eluent Immersion 4:09
13. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Silver Smoke of Dreams 4:56

Iggy can handle the jandal
(via Hamish Kilgour on facebook, if I recall correctly)

"I saw your shadow on the moon last night"

Prince Rama of Ayodhya Golden Glow {320kbps mp3, 16.3MB, 07:07}, from 'Zetalnd' (Cosmos Recordings, 2009)



So infectious. I'm excited that they have an LP due out later this year on Paw Tracks. Their live set on Brian Turner's WFMU show was my intro to them and really blew me away. I am averse to the Hare Krishna religion, but can groove on this band's out-there 'om mane padme hum's, and I really like their aesthetic.

PRoA @ myspace, flickr.

jingle jangle midnight

W.D. Hammond's Jingle Jangle Morning
(colours & luminosity way altered)

• Keiji Haino First Blackness {320kbps mp3; 03:18)
  from A Challenge to Fate (1994, Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier)
  
• Keiji Haino To Excess {224kbps mp3; 03:34}
  from Beginning and End, Interwoven (1994, Streamline)
  - last song on the first album I heard by him
  

turning

yuletidings, southern hemisphere-ians

10 songs, + a field recording from the Ekstrom ice shelf:
winter beams black waterfall beeside grey cumulusless ocean moon comets {77.77mb zipped mp3s; various bitrates all above 192kbps}

• Micah Blue Smaldone A Winter's Truce (2005, North East Indie)
  
• Sun Araw Beams, from 'Beach Head' (2008, Not Not Fun)
  
• Topaz Rags Black Honey, from 'Tarot Harem' 7" (2009, Not Not Fun)
  
• Belong Beeside (Tintern Abbey cover), from 'Colorloss Record' (2008, St. Ives)
  
• Ashtray Navigations Photographing the Waterfall, from 'Sgt. pepper's Mystery Four Twenty Hex Aurora Toilet' (2009, Memoirs of An Aesthete)
  
• Maddy Prior and June Tabor The Grey Funnel Line, from 'Silly Sisters' (1976, Chrysalis)
  
• Growing Cumulusless 1, from 'Color Wheel' (2006, Troubleman Unlimited)
  
• Peter Gutteridge Ocean, from 'Pure' (1989, Xpressway)
  
• Arborea Look Down Fair Moon, from 'House of Sticks' (2008, Borne Recordings)
  
• Pelt Crown of Comets, from 'Dauphin Elegies' (2008, VHF)
  
• [field recording of iceberg 'b-09a', Ekstroem ice shelf]
  

then the sky opens up for you

a u t u m n   a g a i n

• Gary Lucas and Jozef Van Wissem Tomorrow Never Knows (Lennon/McCartney) {192kbps; 03:52}
  from The Universe of Absence, BVHAAST, 2004.
  
• Belong Late Night (Syd Barrett) {320kbps; 03:31}
  from Colorloss Record EP, St. Ives Records, 2008.
  
• Raccoo-oo-oon On the Roof {192kbps; 05:42}
  from The Cave of Spirits Forever, Time-Lag, 2005.
  
• Einstürzende Neubauten Der Kuss {256kbps; 03:42}
  from Haus der Lüge, Thirsty Ear, 1989.
  

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Psychic TV with the Angels of Light Godstar {320 bitrate, 03:42}
(1985)
video clip on YouTube

so catchy

oh, Canada

Pembina Institute's Oil Sands Watch
Greenpeace's Stop the Tar Sands campaign
Moniot's November Guardian column: "The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen."

not knowing what on earth there is to know

Roy Harper Another Day {192 bitrate, 02:57}
originally from Flat Baroque and Beserk (Harvest, 1970)
+
Warm murky cover by Ex-Cocaine (myspace), who have an LP out on Siltbreeze
Another Day {192 bitrate, 03:47}
from Keep America Mellow (Killertree Records, 2004)
&
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush singing it in 1979: YouTube.