Our dear friends over at Arthur Magazine invited me to guest DJ their inaugural radio show on Brooklyn’s Newtown Radio this past Sunday afternoon. They’re going to be spinning some pretty amazing music every Sunday from 4 – 6pm EST, so tune in if you get a chance!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
4 pm
Eat Records
124 Meserole Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
At the First Poppy Seed See-in we will gather together to look into what is called “the hidden dimension of the public sphere.”
For free distribution at the event will be the famous Poppy Seed Programmes: 200 pamphlets containing poppy seeds and illustrated by Michael Curtis Hilde with integral texts by Arthur “Weedeater” columnist/blogger Nance Klehm. Here’s an excerpt from her text:
“The hidden dimension of a public sphere is the sphere of imagination. How we locate disorder and remedy it is how we imagine our body and mind.”
Also available will be silkscreened prints of the Arthurdesh poster signed by artist Arik Roper. Posters are $5.
Come eat, drink, pick up poppies, talk and listen to records– support autonomous local businesses like Eat Records, haven to thinkers, practitioners, artists and free people alike– re-imagine, see-in.
Organized by michael curtis hilde.
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If you can’t make it to Eat Records this Saturday, we are setting aside 70 poppy seed-loaded Arthurdesh programs for sale online. These are for sale only in US ($6 postpaid) and Can ($8 postpaid).
Paypal your order to
First come, first seeded.
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“Here are sixteen reports, differing approaches that, through their own individualized methods, access the one ground. It’s a privilege and blessing to have known many of the musicians on this disc, to have shared in song with some, and stages with others. In all cases I have been the healed recipient of their craft sitting alone with my headphones… Here is their auditory journal.”
—Al Cisneros February 2009
1. Lichens - “Kopernik Trip Note” (previously unreleased)
2. Linval Thompson - “Wicked Babylon”
3. Grouper - “Everyone in Turn”
4. Current 93 - “Mockingbird”
5. Quixotic - “The Breeze”
6. Scott Kelly - “The Ladder In My Blood”
7. Hush Arbors - “The Valley”
8. Mia Doi Todd - “Night of a Thousand Kisses”
9. Six Organs of Admittance - “Bar-Nasha” (previously unreleased)
10. Holy Sons - “Drifter’s Sympathy”
11. Pantaleimon - “At Dawn”
12. Grails - “Acid Rain”
13. Sir Richard Bishop - “Almeria” (previously unreleased)
14. J. Mascis - “War” (previously unreleased)
15. Wino - “Silver Lining”
16. Alpha & Omega - “David and Goliath”
All proceeds go to supporting Arthur Magazine’s mission. Curated by Al Cisneros (of Om, Sleep). Edition of 1,000.
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via Arthur
Desh is a hindi suffix that denotes a sense of home or country. This special chapter of The Story literally themes as a benefit for the magazine, which in the current depression has been forced to go out of print and take it online. This is unacceptable to myself and many other Arthur readers, as Arthur is the only great American publication to currently be seeing print. The days of Rolling Stone are over, the high-era of rad zines has passed; Arthur stands alone as a sole halcyon of rugged American individualism and the timeless values associated with nature, consciousness, and evolution into higher human potential. Their struggle today is as much a part of The Story as the metaphysical concepts we’ve been discussing up to this point with the series, and we hope that this show will directly turn around real funds to get the mag back on earth.
About the bands…
Cover photography by Lisa Law, design by Alia PennerAuthor Trinie Dalton traveled into the wilds of New Mexico to live with psychedelic earthers BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT for two days. Sublimity ensued. Here’s what happened. With photography by Lisa Law.
Douglas Rushkoff: The mortgage and credit crisis wasn’t merely predictable; it was predicted. And not by a market bear or conspiracy theorist, but by the people and institutions responsible. Illustration by Arik Moonhawk Roper.
Dave Reeves: Having doubts about Iraq? America’s victory is Infinite. Just have a look at Vietnam…
Molly Frances on all sorts of delights in, from, or about Los Angeles—from Wallace Berman, Velaslavasay Panorama and Lily Tomlin in The Late Show to Show Cave, Nite Jewel and the new Flying Lotus album. Plus other, non-geographically specific stuff.
On May 10, 1968 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE opened two shows for THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE at the Fillmore East in New York City. Artist/scholar Plastic Crimewave reports on this extraordinary, little-known moment in American countercultural history.
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More info after the jump!
This is what started it all.
This is more than a compilation–it’s expertly sequenced and paced, like one long, slow flow of a particularly rich vibe. Liner notes are by the artists themselves, paying tribute to each other, all handlettered by Devendra, who also provides artwork on cover, back cover, sleeve, tray and the disk itself.
Track listing:
1. Vetiver (with Hope Sandoval) – “Angel’s Share” (from the “Vetiver” LP)
2. Joanna Newsom – “Bridges and Balloons” (from “The Milk-Eyed Mender” LP)
3. Six Organs of Admittance – “Hazy SF” (previously unreleased)
4. Viking Moses – “Crosses” (from “Crosses”)
5. Josephine Foster – “Little Life” (prev. unreleased home recording)
6. ESPers – “Byss & Abyss” (from “ESPers” LP)
7. Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart – “Rejoicing in the Hands” (from the “Rejoicing in the Hands of the Golden Empress” LP)
8. Jana Hunter – “Farm, CA” (prev. unreleased)
9. Currituck Co. – “The Tropics of Cancer” (from “Ghost Man on First”)
10. White Magic – “Don’t Need” (from the Drag City EP)
11. Iron and Wine – “Fever Dream” (from “Our Endless Numbered Days” LP)
12. Diane Cluck – ” Heat From Every Corner” (from “Macy’s Day Bird”)
13. Matt Valentine – “Mountains of Yaffa” (prev. unreleased)
14. Entrance – “You Must Turn” (prev. unreleased home recording)
15. Jack Rose – “White Mule” (from “Red Horse, White Mule”)
16. Little Wings – “Look at What the Light Did Now” (from “Light Green Leaves”)
17. Scout Niblett – “Wet Road” (from “Sweet Heart Fever”)
18. Troll – “Mexicana” (from “Pathless Lord”)
19. CocoRosie – “Good Friday” (from “La Maison de Mon Reve”)
20. Antony – “The Lake” (from “Live at Saint Olaye’s With Current 93″)
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How a brush with death, a haunted guitar and filmmaker Harmony Korine helped Spiritualized’s JASON (SPACEMAN) PIERCE wrestle a new album of narcotic gospel music into being. By Jay Babcock, with photography by Stacy Kranitz.
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, legendary film director/author/poet ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY (El Topo, Holy Mountain) reflects on his encounters with Zen teacher EJO TAKATA and Surrealist master LEONORA CARRINGTON in late-Sixties Mexico City.
NANCE KLEHM salutes weeds—in particular, Artemesia vulgaris, aka mugwort.
The Center for Tactical Magic tells us HOW TO THROW A HEX—and why.
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