DEEP SCRATCH

Category: jazz

  • garaj mahal – 7 minds promo clip

    garaj mahal – 7 minds promo clip

    Visit https://www.youtube.com/@flyagaric23 for FULL Length Visual Album.

    Taken from the Full Length Visual Album: Rotifer. GARAJ MAHAL are: Kai Eckhardt, bass. Oz Ezzeldin, keys. Fareed Haque, guitars. Hassan Hurd, drums. ⁨@GarajMahalMusic⁩ & ⁨@flyagaric23 You know the drill: Subscribe, like, share, dance. To build a parallel science-fiction Rotifer universe based on the real world of ⁨@GarajMahalMusic⁩ and their album is like nectar and ambrosia. I took the ball and ran with it. Imagined, storyboarded, prompted, synced, edited, arranged, titled. I hope you enjoy these wild interpretations. Thanks to team rotifer for encouraging experimentation. All love. –Steve Fly If you wish to support, drop a tip, please consider unlocking hundreds of dj mixes, videos, over @ Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/stevefly

  • Garaj mahal – AGP

    Garaj mahal – AGP

  • 7 Minds – garaj mahal

    7 Minds – garaj mahal

    7 Minds (An Oz Ezzeldin Composition)

    ​ 7 minds Written by Oz Ezzeldin ⁨@GarajMahalMusic⁩ is: ⁨@FareedHaqueMusic⁩ , Kai Eckhardt, Oz Ezzeldin, Hassan Hurd. Video content generated using Gemini Veo. The creator intends to plant a tree for each full video and encourages anybody who enjoys this video to go support a local artist, or plant a tree, or both! Visit http://www.garajmahal.us and Patreon.com/stevefly

  • garaj mahal – Doin It again

    garaj mahal – Doin It again

    @GarajMahalMusic⁩ is: ⁨@FareedHaqueMusic⁩ , Kai Eckhardt, Oz Ozzeldin, Hassan Hurd. Video content generated using Gemini Veo. The creator intends to plant a tree for each full video and encourages anybody who enjoys this video to go support a local artist, or plant a tree, or both! Visit http://www.garajmahal.us and Patreon.com/stevefly

  • SOME RULES – GARAJ MAHAL

    SOME RULES – GARAJ MAHAL

    Some Rules by Kai Eckhardt featuring Cautious Clay and Angelo Moore from Garaj Mahal album ‘ROTIFER’

    (Also with a lil’ fly action x)

  • HORNITHOLOGY FOR JOHN SINCLAIR

    HORNITHOLOGY FOR JOHN SINCLAIR

    Hornithology
    (For John Sinclair set to Ornithology by Charlie Parker)

    1

    i’m thinking of you standing on the corner
    joint in my hand, in my head plays a band
    i thought i’d write a head for you

    for all that you did it’s the least I can do
    for all what you wrote on the blues is true

    and so I’m asking what can we do?

    as long as you stay in my head
    i’ll be feeling well and read

    (we cut our own path and on we tread
    but don’t forget to go to bed)

    2

    we’ll always have your music and your writing
    to brighten our day, and show a new way
    i really miss your singing and laugh

    but inside my heart I have your autograph
    outer space bop and anti-gravity craft

    obli be bop blamster dam

    dizzy bird and monk and rap
    muddy sonny ra and fats

    (ginsberg burroughs kerouac
    hope your happy in you nap)

    3

    i wonder how it is up in the jukebox
    up there in the mix with mingus hendrix
    and all the rockin’ jams that you love

    all the swinging cats an’ the poets you dug
    dancing like a teenager to wolf and bud

    i hear you speaking in my dreams

    a yusef miles and coltrane breeze
    roll up a scroll an’ cheers our teas

    (a drop of honey lemon squeeze
    in the land of ooh blah dee)

    –Steve Fly
    Amsterdam, 2nd April 2025.
    For John Sinclair (R.I.P)

  • …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    by Steve Fly

    “Omniverse / Is / The totality / Of / All the universes / And you / Are welcome / To / Be citizens / Of / The Omniverse–Sun Ra, Omniverse.

     

    “Rhythm…is the first formal esthetic relation of any part to part in any esthetic whole or of an esthetic whole to its part or parts or of any part to the esthetic whole of which it is a part.–James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

    To this drummer/blogger, music and poetry share common parenting in the human universe. For example the 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth and lungs of the majority of humans on earth create a basis and foundation for the human arts. The infinite potential of human hardware, the body, linked up with the infinite potential of the human software, mind, exhibited together in the spacetime flux of sound and symbol can heal the human condition and help the individual get a taste for freedom, and a little regiment.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    (more…)

  • Please listen and share my album together with John Sinclair: Mohawk.

    https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2936016367/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/

    John Sinclair – “Mohawk” cd
    Released Monday 24th March 2014 by Iron Man Records

    Big Chief: Getting High With John Sinclair And The Fly

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/czUbrSA

    (more…)

  • Liffissippi River to Joyce’s Poundland

    …and when the mode of the
    music changes
                               the walls of the
                                        city shake

         a perspective from relative place
                      humbled individual to their part
    in universe and other

    single individuated mind
                                          in time
    gathering tales and knick knacks
                   of history into a trick bag

    do you feel melody and riddim’
    in verse
           word sound image sandwiches
    attention to source
                       to _____ and just story

    word jazz s c r a b l e m and
    recontext’ of everything
                       in John Coltrane and
    James Joyce

                  Pound’s eccentricity flows
    to American in Europe, Joyce’s concentricity
                                           circulates the planet

    two sides of a new shiny coin
                                        ideograms on side a
                             hologrammic prose on the flip

    two torrential rivers of ink
                             bleeding shared currents
                                                               liffissippi

    Joyce’s Be-Bop and
                                 Pound’s symphonic compositions
    cut and mixed together

    Homeric history and Ulysses
                           in a conch shell sunset
                                      and a Dublin street fight

    the inner
    Joyce and the
    outer
                         Pound dynastic index
                             Irish American tell all tales

    The Cantos awake
                             a wake Cantos:
                     a dream/nightmare from
    which I am trying to awake
    (not)

                    sleepwalking giants leave
                           footprints in the mud
    trackers reverse the prints
                                          into beasts

    explicit Cantos give us facts
                  weights and measures, the dates
    places, names and flames to wit

                         implicit Finnegan offers us
    truer ficts, rubber inches,
               neurological realism and the funnies

    …like J.C’s Ballads versus
                                                       Stellar Regions
                  it’s a whole different thing
                                           consistent in its genius

                      ‘FW is psycho-archaeology
            Dr Wilson said.
                 ‘no mystery about the Cantos,
    Pound said.
                                                 they are the tale of
                            the tribe

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cantos
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Tribe

    –Steve Fly
    Amsterdam, 9th June, 2013

    Steven James Pratt

  • DJ FLY AGARIC & JOHN SINCLAIR CELEBRATE JOHN COLTRANE EQUINOX 2009

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

    Fly Agaric Studio > Bohemian National Home –
    Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 1:00-2:00 am [John Sinclair Radio Show #28220-0982]
    Amsterdam, NL. > Detroit, US.


    This episode is a birthday salute to John Coltrane and a bow to the Vernal Equinox with music by John Coltrane selected by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23 at his Oosterpark studio in Amsterdam and programmed by John Sinclair at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit. As Fly says, “Happy Vernal Equinox, or around about, please enjoy this good energy mix in celebration of the music and birth of John Coltrane. Thanks, John!”

    Playlist #282

    [01] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Welcome
    [02] John Coltrane: Equinox
    [03]. John Coltrane: Blues Minor
    [04] John Coltrane: Crescent
    [05] John Coltrane: All or Nothing at All
    [06] Miles Davis: ‘Round About Midnight
    [07] John Coltrane: The Drum Thing
    [08] John Coltrane: Spiritual

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
    Music selected in Amsterdam by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23
    Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair in Detroit
    Posted by Larry Hayden
    Executive Producer: Larry Hayden

    © 2009 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

    Steven James Pratt