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  • JOHN SINCLAIR & SHARING COUNTER-CULTURE

    The epic & encyclopedic – back catalogue – of music and writings from John Sinclair, will soon be available for – digital download – and SHARED’ availability. Many of his works have been tragically lost, to both personal and national disasters of one kind or another; other works have been miss-placed and kept in storage for a long long time, and, like any other great archeological anthropological discovery from the African heartlands – the opening of the JOHN SINCLAIR archives and vaults provides a rich resource of counter-cultural gems and treasures, useful feedback for all humanity to process.

    So, i thought i could contribute a little something in the way of a hyperlinked guide to John Sinclair in cyberspace, and the places and spaces you can find his footprints and fresh air. I will also begin the work on his recommended reading/listening list from the back of GUITAR ARMY.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/

    http://johnsinclair.us/10for2/

    http://www.youtube.com/user/johnsinclairtv

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair_(poet)

    http://www.luminist.org/archives/marijuana.htm

    http://arborwiki.org/city/John_Sinclair

    DETROIT LIFE: JOHN SINCLAIR AND HIS MOTOR CITY SCHOLARS.

    IT’S ALL GOOD: A JOHN SINCLAIR READER

    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES: DELTA SOUND SUITE. (BOOK)

    DON’T START ME TO TALKIN’: FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES.

    F.F.F.S. REVIEW IN ROLLINGSTONE.

    recordings:
    Detroit Life with the Motor City Blues Scholars (No Cover Records, 2009)
    Tearing Down the Shrine of Truth & Beauty with the Pinkeye Orchestra (LocoGnossis Records, 2008)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 3: Don’t Start Me To Talking (Big Chief/Electric Catfish Records, 2008)
    crisscross with Mark Ritsema (Big Chief Records, 2006)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 2: Country Blues (No Cover Records, 2005)
    No Money Down: John Sinclair’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (Big Chief Records, 2004)
    Peyote Mind with Monster Island (Book Beat, 2003)
    Knock Out with Lange Frans & Baas B (420 Café, 2002)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 1: The Delta Sound (Okra-ToneRecords, 2002)
    It’s All Good with Fluxedo Junction (Fluxedo, 2000)
    Underground Issues (Spy Boy Records, 2000)
    White Buffalo Prayer with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Spy Boy, 2000)
    Full Circle with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Alive Records, 1997)
    thelonious:a book of monk—volume one (New Alliance Records, 1996)
    If I Could Be With You—John Sinclair & Ed Moss with the Society Jazz Orchestra (Schoolkids Records,1996)
    Full Moon Night—John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars (Total Energy Records, 1995)
    “flyright”—a monk suite,with pianist Ed Moss (1991, unissued)
    books & publicationsIT’S ALL GOOD: A John Sinclair Reader (Headpress, 2008)
    GUITAR ARMY (2nd Edition, Feral House/Process Books, 2007)
    GUITAR ARMY (Italian Translation, Stampa Alternativa, 2007)
    Va Tutto Bene / It’s All Good (Stampa Alternativa, 2006)i mean you: a book for penny (Palomar Press, 2005)
    Peyote Mind & After (Book Beat, 2003)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite (Surregional Press, 2002)
    Full Circle (Minimal Press,1997)
    “flyright”—a monk suite (1991, unpublished)
    “We Just Change The Beat”: Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 1988)
    thelonious: a book of monk—volume one (1985, unpublished)
    GUITAR ARMY: Street Writings/Prison Writings, Douglas/World, 1972Music & Politics (with Robert Levin), Jazz & Pop/World, 1971
    Meditations: A Suite For John Coltrane (Artists Workshop Press, 1967)
    The Poem For Warner Stringfellow (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)
    FIRE MUSIC: a record (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)This Is Our Music (Artists Workshop Press, 1965)

    http://www.headpress.com/JohnSinclair.aspx

    “John Sinclair is a huge lover with masses of curly black hair flowing all over his head and shoulders. . . He and his White Panther brothers and sisters from Ann Arbor, Michigan are the most alive force in the whole Midwest. They turn on thousands of kids each week to their own beauty and build them into warriors and artists of the new Nation. . . For this some bald-headed judge named Columbo sentenced John Sinclair to nine-and-a-half to ten years in the penitentiary at Jackson, Michigan.”
    — Abbie Hoffman
    Woodstock Nation (1969)

    JAMS (FROM GUITAR ARMY BY John Sinclair)

    ROCK AND ROLL

    KICK OUT THE JAMS – MC5 (Elektra)
    CHEAP THRILLS – Big Brother and Holding Company (Columbia)
    ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
    SMASH HITS – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
    FREAK OUT – The Mothers of Invension HIGH TIME – MC5 (Atlantic)
    DETROIT – Mitch Rider (Paramount)
    OZONE – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Paramount)
    STOOGES – stooges (Elektra)
    FUN HOUSE – Stooges (Elekra)
    GRIS-GRIS – Doctor John (Atco)
    BABYLON – Dr. John (Atco)
    BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    BLONDE ON BLONDE – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    JOHN WESLEY HARDING – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    BEGGARS BANQUET – Rolling Stones (London)
    LET IT BLEED – Rolling Stones (London)
    STICKY FINGERS – Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
    REVOLVER – Beatles (Capitol)
    SERGENT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND – Beatles (Capitol)
    BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT – Canned Heat (Liberty)
    SUNSHINE SUPERMAN – Donovan (Epic)
    MY GENERATION – Who (Decca)
    SAFE AS MILK – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band (Buddha)
    THE FUGS (2nd Album) – Fugs (ESP-Disk’)
    WHITE HEAT WHITE LIGHT – Velvet Underground (MGM)
    JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
    VOLUNTEERS – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
    THE GRATEFUL DEAD (1st Album) – Grateful Dead (Reprise)
    ELECRTIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY – Country Joe & the Fish (Vanguard)
    LOVE (1st Album) – Love (Elektra)
    DA CAPO – Love (Elekra)
    THE DOORS (1st Album) – Doors (Elekra)
    FRESH CREAM – Cream (Atco)
    WHEELS OF FIRE – Cream (Atco)
    BLUESBREAKERS – John Mayall (London)
    VINCEBUS ERUPTUM – Blue Cheer (Phillips)
    SUNSET – The Rationals (Crewe)
    TRAVELLERS TALE – SRC (Capitol)
    MONGREL – Bob Seger (Capitol)
    SURVIVAL – Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
    E PLURIBUS FUNK – Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
    CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
    BAYOU COUNTRY – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
    SANDERS’ TRUCK SHOP – Ed Sanders (Warner)
    SPIRITS KNOW AND UNKNOWN – Leon Thomas (Flying Dutchman)
    EDGAR WINTER’S WHITE TRASH – Edgar Winter (Epic)
    LIVE – Johnny Winter and (Columbia)
    JOHNNY WINTER (1st Album) – Johnny Winter (Columbia)
    SLY & THE FAMILY STONE’S GREATEST HITS – Sly & the Family Stone (Epic)

    RHYTHM & BLUES

    HISTORY OF RHYTHM & BLUES (Volumes 1-4) – (Atlantic)
    PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND – (!st Album) – Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
    THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW – Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
    J. GEILS BAND – (Elekra)
    ELMORE JAMES – Elmore James (Bell)
    CHUCK BERRY’S GOLDEN DECADE – Chuck Berry (Chess)
    16 GREATEST HITS – Bo Diddley (Chess)
    THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS – Muddy Waters (Chess)
    ELECTRIC MUD – Muddy Waters (Chess)
    MOANIN’ IN THE MOONLIGHT – Howlin’ Wolf (Chess)
    THE LONDON SESSIONS – Howlin’ Wolf (Chess)
    16 GREATEST HITS – B.B King (Crown)
    JAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLO (Vol. 1) – James Brown (King)
    BOBBY BLUE BLAND’S GREATEST HITS – Bobby Blue Bland (Duke)
    HOUSE OF THE BLUES – John Lee Hooker (Checker)
    URBAN BLUES -John Lee Hooker (ABC)
    SERVE YOU RIGHT TO SUFFER -John Lee Hooker (Impulse)
    I’M JIMMY REED – Jimmy Reed (Veejay)
    THE JIMMY REED STORY -Jimmy Reed (Atlantic)
    OTIS READING IN EUROPE – Otis Reading (Atlantic)
    ARETHA’S GOLD – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
    CHICAGO/THE BLUES/TODAY – (3 vOLUMES) – (Vanguard)
    DETROIT BLUES – (BLUES CLASSICS)
    GOLDEN GOODIES (Volumes 2,3,6,7,12) – (Roulette)
    LIGHTIN’ IN NEW YORK – Lightning Hopkins (Candid/Barnaby)
    WEST SIDE SOUL – Magic Sam (Delmark)
    HOODOO MAN BLUES – Junior Wells (Delmark)
    OTIS SPAN IS THE BLUES – Otis Span (Candid/Barnaby)
    THE BEST OF SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON – Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess)
    GREATEST HITS – Little Richard (Speciality)
    GREAT JUKEBOX HITS – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (King)
    ALL AROUND THE WORLD – Little Willie John (King)
    I PUT A SPELL ON YOU – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Okeh)
    THE BEST OF LITTLE WALTER – Little Walter (Chess)
    GREATEST HITS FROM THE BEGINNING – The Miracles (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – The Temptations (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – Martha and the Vandellas (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – The Four Tops (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – Elaine Brown (Vault)

    SPOKEN

    DIG -Eldridge Cleaver
    MESSAGE TO THE GRASS ROOTS – Malcolm X (Afro-American Broadcasting Co.)
    BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Malcolm X (Douglas)
    THIS IS MADNESS – The Last Poets (Douglas)
    THE SICK HUMOR OF LENNY BRUCE – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
    WHAT I WAS ARRESTED FOR – Lenny Bruce (Douglas)
    I AM NOT A NUT, ELECT ME – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
    LENNY BRUCE AMERCA – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)

    BERKELEY CONCERT – Lenny Bruce (Straight)
    AIN’T NO AMBULANCES FOR NO NIGGUS TONIGHT – Stanley Crouch (Flying Dutchman)
    SOUL AND SOLEDAD – Angela Davis (Flying Dutchman)
    HOWL & OTHER POEMS -Allen Ginsberg (Fantasy)
    A NIGHT IN SANTA RITA – Robert Scheer (Flying Dutchman)
    MURDER AT KENT STATE – Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)
    LORD BUCKLEY’S HITS – Lord Buckley (Wolrd Pacific)
    MASSACRE AT MY LAI – Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)

    NEW BLACK MUSIC


    NOTHING IS – Sun Ra (ESP-Disk’)
    THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN RA – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    THE MAGIC CITY – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    ATLANTIS – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    STRANGE STRINGS – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    A LOVE SUPREME – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    LIVE AT BIRDLAND – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    MEDITATIONS – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    SELFLESSNESS – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    KULU SE MAMA – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    COSMIC MUSIC – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    UNIT STRUCTURES – Cecil Taylor Unit (Blue Note)
    INTO THE HOT – Cecil Taylor & Gil Evans (Impulse)
    JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA – Jazz Composers Orchestra (JCOA)
    TAUHID – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    KARMA – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    THEMBI – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    FIRE MUSIC – Archie Shepp (Impulse)
    MAMA TOO TIGHT – Archie Shepp (Impulse)
    ORNETTE COLEMAN TOWN HALL CONCERT – Jazz Composers Orchestra (ESP-DISK)
    THIS IS OUR MUSIC – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
    ORNETTE ON TENOR – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
    FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS – Ornette Coleman (Flying Dutchman)
    BELLS – Albert Ayler (ESP-Disk)
    NEW GRASS – Albert Ayler ((Impulse)
    THE LACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY – Charles Mingus (Impulse)
    MINGUS PRESENTS MINGUS – Charles Mingus (Candid/Barnaby)
    EVOLUTION – Grachan Moncur (Blue Note)
    LET FREEDOM RING – Jackie McLean (Blue Note)
    LIFE TIME – Tony Williams (Blue Note)
    OUT TO LUNCH – Eric Dolphy (Blue Note)
    OUT THERE – Eric Dolphy (Prestiege)
    IRON MAN – Eric Dolphy (Douglas)
    LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA – Charlie Haden (Impulse)
    THE THIRD WORLD – Gato Barbieri (Flying Dutchman)
    THE MARION BROWN QUINTET – Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
    SONG FOR – Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
    AS IF IT WERE THE SEASONS – Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
    SOUND – Roscoe Mitchell (Delmark)
    LEVELS & DEGREES OF LIGHT – Richard Abrams (Delmark)
    HUMILITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CREATOR – Maurice Mcintyre (Delmark)
    NUMBERS 1&2 – Lester Bowie (Nessa)
    CONGRIPTIOUS – Roscoe Mitchell (Nessa)
    COMPLETE COMMUNION – Don Cherry (Blue Note)
    SKETCHES OF SPAIN – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    KIND OF BLUE – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    MILESTONES – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    BITCHES BREW – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    MILES DAVIS AT THE FILMORE – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    “IS” – Chick Corea (Solid State)
    PATTI WATERS SINGS – Patti Waters (ESP-Disk’)
    BLACK WOMEN – Sonny Sharrock (Embryo)
    EVERYWHERE – Roswell Rudd (Impulse)
    COMPULSION – Andrew Hill (Blue Note)
    FRANK WRIGHT TRIO – Frank Wright (ESP-Disk)
    BURTON GREENE QUARTET – Burton Greene (ESP-Disk)
    WHY NOT – Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
    THE GIANT IS AWAKENED – Horace Tapscott (Flying Dutchman)
    QUARTET – John Carter/Bobby Bradfoed (Flying Dutchman)
    MULTIDIRECTIONAL – Contemporary Jazz Quintet (Blue Note)

    BOOKS

    ITS ALL GOOD – John Sinclair (Headpress)
    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – John Sinclair (Headpress)
    GUITAR ARMY – JOHN SINCLAIR (Douglas Book Corporation)
    MUSIC AND POLITICS – John Sinclair and Robert Levin
    SHOTS – David Fenton
    TRIAL – Tom Hayden
    WEATHERMAN – edited by Harold Jacobs
    GETTING BUSTED – edited by Ross Firestone
    THE DRUG BUST – John Dominick
    FREE MARIUANA – Michael Aldrich
    FIRE! Writings from the Underground Press – Edited by Paul, jon & Carol
    THE CONSPIRACY – Chicago 8
    WE ARE EVERYWHERE – Jerry Rubin
    WOODSTOCK NATION – Abbie Hoffman
    REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT – Abbie Hoffman
    DO IT! – Jerry Rubin
    THE NEW LEFT: A Documentary History – edited by Massimo Teodori
    THE MOVEMENT TOWARD A NEW AMERICA – edited by Mitchell Goodman
    WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE
    PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS – Timothy Leary
    JAIL NOTES – Timothy Leary
    REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS – Diane Di Prima
    HOWL & OTHER POEMS – Allen Ginsberg
    PLANET NEWS – Allen Ginsberg
    NAKED LUNCH – William S. Burroughs
    THE SOFT MACHINE – William S. Burroughs
    NOVA EXPRESS – William S. Burroughs
    THE JOB – William S. Burroughs
    HUMAN UNIVERSE – Charles Olson
    MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS – Michael Mclure
    DARK BROWN – Michael Mclure
    THE MAXIMUS POEMS – Charles Olson
    FOR LOVE – Robert Creely
    THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY 1945-1960 – Edited by Donald Allen
    PEACE EYE – Ed Sanders
    REBELLION & REPRESSION – Tom Hayden
    POT: A HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA – John Rosevear
    ON THE ROAD – Jack Kerouac
    THE DHARMA BUMS – Jack Kerouac
    MOUNTAINS & RIVERS WITHOUT END – Gary Snyder
    EARTH HOUSE HOLD – Gary Snyder
    POISONED WHEAT – Michael Mclure
    BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME – Richard Farina
    V. – Thomas Pynchon
    TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA – Richard Brautigan
    THE STRANGE ODYSSEY OF HOWARD POW! – Bill Hutton
    A HISTORY OF AMERIKA – Bill Hutton
    THE SUN – Jim Semark
    ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST – Ken Kessey
    ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST – Tom Wolfe
    REALLY THE BLUES – Mezz Mezzrow
    THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE – Henry Miller
    THE JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT – Kenneth Patchen
    RED FLAG/BLACK FLAG – Patrick Seale & Maureen McConville
    SEIZE THE TIME – Bobby Seale
    THE GENIUS OF HUEY P. NEWTON
    ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE – Huey P. Newton
    SOUL ON ICE – Eldridge Cleaver
    POST-PRISON WRITINGS AND SPEECHES – Eldridge Cleaver
    CONVERSATION WITH ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
    PALANTE – Michael Abramson and the Young Lords Party
    OUT THING IS DRUM – Kenny Cockrill & Mike Hamlin
    THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF JAMES FOREMAN – James Foreman
    MALCOLM X SPEAKS
    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
    DIE NIGGER DIE – H. Rap Brown
    STOKELY CARMCIHAEL
    SOLEDAD BROTHER – George Jackson
    IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING – Angela Davis
    THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR – Sam Greenlee
    BLUES PEOPLE – LeRoi Jones
    BLACK MUSIC – LeRoi Jones
    FOUR LIVES IN BEBOP BUSINESS – A. B. Spellman
    SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL – Edited By Robin Morgan
    THE FEMALE EUNUCH – Germaine Greer
    THE DIALECTIC OF SEX – Shulamith Firestone
    THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN – V.I Lenin
    DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP – Marge Piery
    WOMEN IN SEXIST SOCIETY – Edited by Vivian Gornick & Barbara K. Moran
    THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH – Frantz Fanon
    A DYING COLONIALISM – Frantz Fanon
    HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE – Kwame Nkrumah
    QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG
    LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF PEOPLES WAR – Lin Piao
    SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG (Vol. -4)
    ON PRACTICE – Mao Tse-Tung
    ON CONTRADICTION – Mao Tse-Tung
    MAO TSE-TUNG ON LITERATURE AND ART
    ESSENTIAL WORKS OF LENIN – edited by Henry M. Christman
    LEFT-WING COMMUNISM AN INFANTILE DISORDER – V.I Lenin
    THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO – Karl Marx & Frederick Engles.
    THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY & THE STATE – Frederick Engles
    RED STAR OVER CHINA – Edgar Snow
    HO CHI MINH ON REVOLUTION – Edited by Bernard B. Fall


    Steven James Pratt

  • SRS is for SUN RA SYSTEM

    So, i just continued my research and writing about Sun Ra. Found some new sources and resources, and found myself asking more questions…
    More mid-week, enjoy.

    Love
    fly…

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • Time Munching And The Ear Doctor Sessions.

    TIMUCIN SAHIN: Fretloze Gitaren, Compositions. http://www.timucinsahin.com/home.html
    TYSHAWN SOREY: Drums, water, brushes.
    JOHN O’GALLAGHER: Alto Sax.
    THOMAS MORGAN: Bas
    BIMHUIS. PIET HEINKADE 3. AMSTERDAM. http://www.bimhuis.com/
    Timucin Sahin, Kai Eckhardt, AND Owen Hart JR. Grew me a nice new set of ears at the Badcuyp, Amsterdam in 2007. So i returned to witness the spacetime technician’s once more, this time at the Bimhuis with his new line up. Out the gate, out the traps, launch, go, straight off i felt i was in the right place for the evening, Timucin weaving his subtle cosmic tones and background radiation with a truly awesome flurry of fingered equations, while Tyshawn instantly abducted my ears to at least 9 simultaneous rhythm patterns, fluxt timespace signatures and all the accent and groove-feel to pull out the lilt and swing of the different junctions, at the phalanx of – intersection points – in the Plutonium jazzy-gass, splitting ears and brain-body barriers with the aroma of no-time, new time. All punching time on the chin. In a nutshell, i felt abducted by the soundscape, and the grooves satisfied by own personal glittered-jazz, drum and bass/jungle tinged taste buds like a well aged Sativa. Mwah! The show in 07 was a trio of sonic magicians, and so Timucin had all the upper register and midrange amidst Owen’s intelligent drum orbits, last night however John O’Gallagher was very much with Timucin – up there – and for me pulled out, and defined like a sharp pencil line; the intricate and beatiful pan-modal Astro-neuro attainments being shared, freely with the Audience. Thomas Morgan moved with the flow and ebb of the swirling vortex, his bass talking the talk and walking up the stairs to Jupiter, Saturn and other planets that seem under investigation by the tribe of timespice engineers and sonic-fiction poets. The undertones and light whispering voices emanating from Time-munchin’s calculations continue to crop up in all the right places for me, the quantum jumping compositions unveiling layer after layer of timespace, like an audio fabrige egg, with each new layer and complete new groove, feel and seemingly mode, to my ears. Now on fire, little flames symboling the tiny hairs in my ears, travelling and movement, verbs and echoes of just past places, remixed live, and brought back again, back to front, in the flickr of an eye or two. And when you think your used to the jumping around and technicolor sheets of sound, Tyshawn introduces another hot pepper, BANG BOOM,


    Slamming, out of nowhere, then caress, then hyperbolic jungle-jazz-swing, then a stunning trip hop flex, all comfortable and innovative at each turn, playing snare with a bottle of water, rolling it across the snare getting the plastic crackle and fizz, then twizzling the bottled water through the space just above his set, between the two overhead mics, creating further mysterious sounding artcore entertainment, symbolic gesture, in short, Tyshawn owned everything he touched, my ears and everyone else’s. Abducted by 10’000 variations on the 8 or 9 breakbeats i danced and lost my mind to in the dancehalls of Britain many years ago, which left a trace, picked up again tonight in the hardcore Drum and Bass and Sax and Guitar wisdom language. Like some of the writing of James Joyce, or Finnegans Wake, by the end of the show the 4 had put the Universe back together again, but in a whole different way using music and human ears and brains to their maximal potential, follow this! You dig! Now the street traffic sounds different to me after the show, percussive shards and trace fragments follow me out the Bimhius and down the Damrak, and the clatter of the trams is building something, i am waiting for the next launch date of Timucin (time-munching) to help me put the Universe together again and witness the tearing down, reconstructing and rebuilding of the life of the mind, or the life of the mind as i see it in 2008, fragmented times, bits and pieces and all culture and languages sirred up, whisked and baked into things, soundbites of the 21st century and all those bits and Bobs that have come before, and, i might add, the sense of the things of the future, included. In the sense of spaceways to other worlds, in the sense that vibration and Astro-Neuro attenuation through cosmic tones for cosmic culture, is out there for your to be a part of, if you can listen and trane your earwiggs. The snowballing angular turns and switching sequence puzzles ride. Together on the crest of the wave of expanding Universes, musical red shifting, and counterpointing, intersecting and jump-back assaulting of the equation. The collective whirring and mixing of pattern, rhythm, and polytonal, multiphonics flashes through the sounds spectrum in dashes and stoccato flashes, bewildering pace, slow and fast and everytime inbetween, always inbetween. Through and beyond my own comprehension, and then once more, your abducted again, sucked through a Noh-Wave Wormhole and brought home to your seat, at the show, clapping but keeping very still, but inside your wanting to dive off the roof into the cold Dutch waters below, something, to exstinguish the fires and flares started in my ears by these cats.
    I hope you get to hear this group soon, too. Get some new ears for the holiday season. New music and new ways of hearing it, Timucin and his band of spacetime explorers, gathering the limbs and languages of outer-planetary entities, i like to think. How else can i put it, i was moved in new ways.

    –Fly Agaric 23.

    Steven James Pratt

  • JO is for JAZZ OCTAVE: poem. 2005 SAN FRANCISCO.

    Blue thunder thumbs half notes, Weeping willows look all Wes Montgomery. Art Blakey’s drums of experience, Stix glossinging to Animal skinheads. Like a Taoist typesetter Theolonious fingers -Do the talking. Hornet Coletrane Ellington Fitzgerald Pharaoh New jazzeraAnnalivia Elvin Jones AfroJazz machine setter Smiling physicist Unified field theory or just sheetsOf sound?John Coltrane = physicist. Alice Coltrane – timetraveling Mother Harpist, Mythological scholar goddess. Kept Reel McCoy – Ravi Pharoah Moffet Harland – theology goods. Inside the wheels of funk -Sissy strutin spun Clockwork -Meters reformation. ESP direct sustained Magus Miles ahead Above, and beyonder. Potting string theory quilted with Jolly Grant Green Fields og gold. Charlie Bird, Donald Byrd Playing babyskyblue spells, Birds flew far and…

    Fly Agaric 23. September 2005.
    San Francisco.

    http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fflyagaric23%2Fpannonica-john-sinclair-and-his-amsterdam-blues-scholars& PANNONICA – John Sinclair and his Amsterdam Blues Scholars by flyagaric23

    Steven James Pratt

  • TY is for TRANE YOURSELF. Nov. 2003

    TRANE YOURSELF.
    By Fly Agaric 23.

    Fly: Selected Poetry

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/3of5XFj

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  • R is for RAWrientalism

    RAWriental

    RAWrientalism.
    RAW: Robert Anton Wilson
    rientalism: Orientalism.
     “The two philosophers most frequently mentioned in Finnegans Wake, Nicholas of Cusa and Bruno of Nola, taught a dialectic of resolution of opposites. Joseph Needham in his monumental Science and Civilization in China, repeatedly mentions both Bruno and Nicholas as the only two Occidental philosophers before Liebnitz to have a basically Taoist outlook” –RAW

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

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  • Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille @ Bimhuis

    Halloween 2007.
    Amsterdam. Bimhuis with Astro Tempunauts:
    Oliver Lake (sx) Reggie Workman (bs) Andrew Cyrille (ds)
    American Free-jazz in Europe.
    Messages from other galaxies and starbursts.
    Gravitationally bound systems of fate
    Dragged me to the gig like bossy Angels.
    I soon lost myself to the music though…

    Steaming passions, omni-directional forces
    Multi layered timbre, time, freedom freedom
    Star clusters, and various interstellar clouds
    How to bring it back? it back again?

    Dark Strumming from Workman,
    Blowing of shaman pipes, Tibetan sounding bells and
    His bow, sawing at the wound strings of his Double Bass.
    Searching, always looking,
    The Trio Trio Trio questioning everything
    Peculiar galaxies, unknown species,
    Starbursts, dark matter matters.

    The spirit of American music, peering into the void,
    Pop was excommunicated this Halloween in Europe.
    3 peacemakers of American Jazz, peacemakers for
    American Freedom, democracy, information technology,
    Philosophy, Science, more than mere music i say.
    These are active galactic nuclei from distant galaxies.
    Gathered on samhain between nothingness & eternity.
    Transformed into 3 Wizards constructing
    nNon-Euclidean Jazz Magic, Mystery, ambiguity,
    An awakening, masterfully crafted.
    Perfect.

    Saxes are hurtling into way way deep into Milky space,
    Oliver Lake, with the figure of a mighty Morpheus
    He serves up Red Pill after Red Pill into strange nebulae
    Journey after Journey, painting the Matrix Ultra violet
    A precise hurricane, rapid fire scatting Knu new new
    Anti-jazz language, as Dolphy, Trane, Ornette, Sonny, Pharoah.
    Popping Valve sounds like Dolphin chatter, water tight.
    Then a Jungle of tone erupts, hundreds of new tone-species
    Chattering,. spirits on the side of samhain
    All clambering to get in on this Jam.

    Andy Cyrille drums form a sound/light-house
    Past Alpha proxima, towards a ring galaxy,
    Seemingly able to jump quarter/half/ and full bars
    Ahead or behind the isolated pulse, in an instant.
    Then as if the spirits had conversed long enough
    Wrestled long enough and become restless and slipped
    Into hypertravel.

    On the side, an Anthem of Zigzag’d melody
    Accompanied by a seductive Swing, juicy roasting
    Roller coaster swing, syrup sprinkled with interstellar dust,
    Snap! Purrrrl purrrrl Snapta ta tata purrrrl.
    Snap! One massive cracking hit! Snap! once more.
    One Louder than the millions of shuffling feet of the beats
    Held with Andy’s left hand wand alone, his right meanwhile
    Poking spells and open clusters into the alloyed cymbal
    With a big “K” on it. A significant Free-jazz Doppler shift swing.

    I experienced many moments of Epiphany during the show
    Shattered thoughts coming together personal stuff
    Getting worked out by these Chirping shaman-doctors
    With the sonic Andromedae ambrosia i love so much.
    Seeing their most Humble and graceful postures,
    Hearing very few WORDS, and those that came were almost
    A whisper. Humble. Concise. Humble Informational.

    I had much gratitude for the players,
    American Peacemakers, real American peacemakers
    Here in Europe and roaming the transtemporal Omniverse.
    Here now to save the Universe again, and tonight
    Here in Amsterdam on samhain, again and again.
    They did more than that though,
    The Trio transfigured time/space for all of us.
    There was JuJu spirit in the air, impressions of cyclic minds
    Workman’s hands of plasma tonight, over the Big wooden
    Clef leaving no note left behind like an Octopus.
    Composure of an Aura murmur.

    A Super Nova birth, slapping, thumping Post Drum ‘N Bass
    Post all and nothing, this Trio Trio Trio questioning every
    Beat, Fast forwarding language computers,
    Under masterful control controlling toms.
    Everywitch way, every side, globular cluster jazz.
    Free. Anti-Pop. Wordless. Epic. And all that.

    Andy switches to brushes., suddenly everybody rushes
    And rushes and keeps streaming for some future destination
    Divisions and divisions, sub divisions, crushing music theory
    Smashing every genre, busting walls of sound, and re-building
    From a subterranean dreamscape somewhere in Asia Major,

    Palaces of fuzzy delicate crystal sculptures,
    Creatures chirp from inside them just hatching in proto-song.
    Breathing pulses, spinning off like asteroids after a collision
    Now a Zoo, different animals calling, insects, mammals,
    Strange fish and of course, birds.

    Talking, talking in varied angular velocities
    Getting through, like a fax machine signal, or a kind of rolling codex, Sheets of sound, phase shifts, whispering ghosts
    Building sonic keys signitures with Layers of rhythm,
    Layers of timbre, propagation pattern. Pattern,
    Turning transparent like giant molecular clouds of Tao.
    You build the melody now.
    You do it!

    The Trio of spacemen, all artificer, mechanic, craftsman,
    True American peacemakers , afro-black Futurist Tempunauts,
    Carrying the Legacy of the mighty Atom Smasher himself
    Workman alone played with Art Blakey, Kenny Burrel
    Roy Ayers, Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy
    Herbie Mann (R.I.P) Yusef Lateef, Alice and John
    Coltrane. The Masters of the Masters of Jazz
    Anywhere and Everywhere, and forever.

    And so i sing lofty praise in eleven sharps
    Love’s still alive and with us, the music lives and loves.
    And these cats play their music wherever it takes them
    Still today, innovating, improvising, everywitch way,
    This jazz moves to a place of chaos until the love
    Deep Within the music, deep within outer space suddenly
    Brings us back to the earth again, Big bang!
    And some healing ritualistic
    Post-Bop starts up. Hear! Calls! Everywhair!

    Waltz on the surface, dark undercurrents, tension-filled
    Cluster fucks of jamming snake rattle jazz,
    Soaring high movements of proto-galactic sax compositions,
    Entire tunes in several seconds, scales, keys,
    Rhythms, poked and screwed and pampered and peppered
    A Frenzy of light and dark forces battling
    A supercluster scale death match march at mach 4.
    Ping Ting of Alloy hats to deep Bass Bass Burrr.
    Tap Dancing polyrhythms, self replicating phrases
    With rapidly descending intervals between phrases
    Phase shifts, sonic booms, scrapping phrases
    Scratching, hooting,
    Pitter patter, hair whisper, blow, pop.

    Wood, steel, brass, reed, through air meeting
    Bio-electric interacting humans conduits into space
    Mmuscles, tendons, Lungs, lips, fingers, feet:
    Code breaking reality, trcik after trick aftrer trick
    After treat after treat after beat.
    At least temporarily, off off into deep space/time,
    And back.

    Steven James Pratt