DEEP SCRATCH

Tag: steve fly

  • Radio Free Amsterdam Poster 2022

    Art and music can heal and unify people, we can feel this intuitively. Good music makes us well. RFA brings together a potent mixture of good music selectors who mix up the musical medicine to be administered by our medicine man: Big Chief (John Sinclair)

    Music for peace. Music for therapy, for all, criss-crossing boundaries and borders, arriving on-time at the ears and headspace of the people. Tune in, soak up the culture. Relax, take a load off. 

    https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/

    RFA

  • This Artists Response To Eurasianism: Artlandasia.

    Hard questions emerge for us all, since the threat of Putin’s militaristic Eurasianism rears its ugly head on the world stage. I’m compelled to ask myself what I can do and what my worldview is today? What is to be done, today? How can an individual take on the history of the world and make meaningful and useful communications? What defines and distinguishes our values from those of the dictators and fascists, the fundamentalists and genocidal maniacs?  

    Suddenly, we’re refocused on Russian history, Vladimir Putin, NATO and, depending which way to decide to look on a map, the rest of the world. That’s a lot of study and depends in part on the ability to think objectively, putting yourself in other people’s shoes, it also depends on the time you have and the access you have to good information. Be that as it may, this is my part of the war effort, to shout loud: support your independent artists, build a new alternative to the hideous far-right fantasy of Putin and it’s western New Right allies: Artlandasia.  

    Independent artists, to include some independently minded artists who may not be strictly independent proper, are powerful cultural entities and help define what it is about human culture we love and what we view with revulsion. Simply put, there’s plenty of evidence for artist led and artist supported collectives to run a country, such is the broad definition of the artist in 2022. By running a country, I mean both the practical day-to-day operations of the industrial and technological infrastructure already in place, and that good ole’ entertainment demanded by contemporary culture. 

    Besides their extra explicit artistic skills, musicians, for example, may have a good understanding of negotiations, fair-contracts and working together in a team, listening and thinking fast on their feet. This is the kind of mindset and skill set we need to defeat an oligarchic dictatorship, brave skilled individuals able to work in different groups, listen and then harmonize. Indeed, varied experience and credentials and evidence are helpful in determining who plays which roles in this proposed new humanistic society of artists. Leaving Bono aside for a moment, I’d seriously support somebody like Sting as a candidate for president of Artlandasia, if such a public facing leader were required. Who would you suggest?  

    If we include all writers and literature, we Artlandaisians already have the founders of that other, non-Artlandasian space. From Thoth to Plato, from Confucius to John Adams, we the artists can lay claim to their innovation of language, their impact and influence, yet re-directed toward an open-society of self-owning ones, Artlandasians, distinguished from some Unipolar Empire of divine guided mad kings and mad generals. No, we stand united by a literal harmony, our voices make music, we worship synergy, pitch, tone, rhythm, with desire for beauty, truth, meaning, understanding. Inclusion, multicultural synergy, the innovative and progressive forces of world history reunited through art. For example, Jazz and Blues traditions (rhythm, melody, innovation, sincerity), speakeasy traditions (poetry, history, philosophy, literature) hip-hop traditions (turntablism, graffiti, breakdancing and rap) and on and on. Something for everybody, the ability to read the room.

    We acknowledge and celebrate the eastern influence on our western traditions, we pull down our vanity and conceit to meet with the other, excited and hungry to learn and listen and co-create. To explore the wonders of life, language, love, nature, outerspace, inner-space and the human condition. Together, why not all together? Artlandasia is all-around-the-world, and proposes a globalism defined by Buckminster Fuller: around-the-world-connected, around the world trading, around-the-world-sharing. Equally distributed resources and responsibilities. A new global ART alliance. 

    Computer programming and coding is an artform, another fact Artlandasia can exploit to further its cause. be creative with it. Artlandasia encourages open-source universal programming languages such as Python, to be taught and practiced top-to-bottom within the socio-cultural sphere. To borrow a term from Douglas Rushkoff: program or be programmed. Artists have a tendency to be disciplined and many are already prepared to learn a new non-alphabetic language, for instance.

    Many musicians are familiar with the need to adopt and change plans, to update and learn new skills to survive. Both the digitization and exploitation of their artform and marketplace over the last 20 years, plus the global pandemic lockdown has strengthened our grasp of economics, technology and the minds of the people. The general heart of the matter. Global internet and communications infrastructure are our friend, the backbone upon which Artlandasian can fairly function for all-around-the-world technology.

    Artists, not generals, have the means to impact public opinion by way of writing, design, and programming. Artists are the leading edge of the culture war and have empathy, compassion and sympathy essential to a fair and trustable alternative to violence and bullying. Please consider supporting independent artists who you’d like to see more deeply embedded in society and politics, in decision making and representation of your personal and national identity. Fuck war, let’s art.

    –Steve Fly
    03/03/2022
    Trondheim, Norway.

  • CORONA SLAYER – ALBUM RELEASE

    23 tracks, 1hour and 28 minutes. Corona Slayer is a collection of rhymes spoken over a serving of homegrown music. Since early March 2020 this poet donned a new overcoat belonging to Squintin Quarantino, and begun to fashion a lock-down diary. This album is a defocused adventure, a wild trip to slay the newly returned corona king covid with words and sound-dance.

  • All Steve Fly Agaric Recordings At Discogs 1999-2017

    Recordings and releases featuring Steven Pratt a.k.a Steve Fly Agaric 23.

    Fly Agaric 23 – The Fibonacci Project Presents (Not On Label – none)10″, Single
    New Flesh For Old – Equilibrium (Big Dada Recordings – bdcd013)
    21 For Sale from €2.00    		CD, Album1999
    Various – Waywords And Meansigns – First Edition (Not On Label – none)17xFile, MP3, Album2015
    Various – Waywords And Meansigns – Opendoor Edition (Not On Label – none)145xFile, MP3, Album2017
    Garaj Mahal – Mondo Garaj (Harmonized Records – HAR-010)
    6 For Sale from €3.44    		CD, Album2003
    Garaj Mahal – Blueberry Cave (Harmonized Records – HAR-023)
    8 For Sale from €3.99    		CD, Album2005
    The Gregory James Band – Come To Me (Rogue Records – 1080-4)
    4 For Sale from €3.26    		CD, Album2003
    John Sinclair (2) – Mohawk (Iron Man Records (2) – IMB6022)
    10 For Sale from €3.00    		CD, Album2013
    John Sinclair (2) – Beatnik Youth (Iron Man Records (2) – IMB6032)
    3 For Sale from €11.92    		2xCD, Album2017
    Various – Death To Fanatics (Iron Man Records Compilation CD 1999-2014) (Iron Man Records (2) – IMB6023)
    3 For Sale from €2.97    		CD, Comp2014
    John Sinclair & His International Blues Scholars* – Let’s Go Get’em (No Cover Records – none)CD2011
    John Sinclair (2) – Beatnik Youth (Track Record – none)CD, Album2012
    John Sinclair (2) – Viperism (Big Chief Records – none)CD, Album, Comp2012
    John Sinclair (2) – Conspiracy Theory (Big Chief Records – none)CD, Comp2012
    Garaj Mahal – Live in Northern California (Not On Label – none)CD, Album2001
    Various – Teaming With Talent (Harmonized Records – none)CD, Promo2004
    Robert Anton Wilson – Maybe Logic: The Lives And Ideas Of Robert Anton Wilson (deepleaf productions – none)DVD-V2003

    https://www.discogs.com/lists/Steve-Fly-Agaric-Recordings/921478

  • About 2020: Squintin Quarantino

    I intended to collect 2020 Haiku poems into a book and publish it quarterly, after the world tilted toward a new trajectory due to novel coronavirus, as you will see, my writing shatters slowly returning to freestyle rhyme and longer pieces, trying to make meaning of the new world of 2020 and what lies beyond the horizons.

    On reflection my first explicit mention of the virus is in the following lines from February 2nd: coronavirus / spreading like racism flu / check your prejudice / solidarity / with all east asian people / li sao for sorrow.” These scrawls you track my attention moving with the spread of the virus and its potential impact and its dangers, within creative works and social media posts curated for your quarantainment, culled from blog poems, tweets and rants fresh.

    For the record, my best guess is a Pangolin and a Bat spawned a new chimera near a Chinese a wet market, and since that moment power hungry greed heads have been trying to figure out how to twist the pandemic to forward their goals. Please consider my chronological diary of writings on Covid-19 as a testament to one individual trying to make sense of the available data. Stay safe, and keep supporting each other. Be nice. Thanks.
    www.patreon.com/stevefly

  • SQ – December Reflections

    Can’t be arsed to edit this, you get the jist.

    Go forward mutate fly
    Hum and dance keep it simple
    It is simple
    32 mutations and counting
    Like Tik-Tok vs. Youtube
    Which is more infectious?
    Like real guns vs water pistols
    Which more deadly
    The corona virus don’t wanna’ kill us
    It wants to join us for the wild ride
    Assimilate, co-conspire
    Expire as we do
    Inspire us to be better than them
    Better than them
    Smarter by empathy
    Viruses gonna’ evolve
    Natural origins or unatural
    What is that?

    Why man and a bat why not just the bat
    A man or women, a bat a virus or
    A lab, a bat, a leak, a virus?
    What is natural to you
    Give me a clue to chew as dawn breaks
    So we track the mutations Alpha Beta Gamma Delta
    Omicron
    What’s new on the Amino Acid scene?
    What lives next door
    Which acids and which letters switched
    Switched letters you say
    Like the S/T transfer of Einstein
    Or the HCE ALP switches of Joyce
    These voices are calling you

    A pile of bards bodies piled high
    Are singing for you
    This is how it goes
    Everybody gets infected
    Few get very ill
    Virus 1 humans 0
    Yet the new science will roar on
    The twenties will be RAW
    New science of entourage effect
    Whole greater than parts

    Burroughs said language is
    A virus from outer space
    Amino acid mutations is a 
    Language from inner space
    Fitness, adaptation, spoonerisms
    Symmetry and amino
    Crossword puzzle proteins
    Thus word spike floating
    Whirlpool raspberry coating
    Sugar and spice and terpene
    Excuse my burping I’m searching
    Spike Lee spike sea urchin
    Shrooms and silver tree birchin’  
    Comb over my curtain
    Truths hurting, hoofs hoofin’
    Windy gales blew my roof in
    Complex spiked balls trading letters
    Grabbing alphabets
    Chemical spells tricky word games
    Re-edits, reverse transcripts
    Inverse the curse Love trips
    Love thy enemy Hug the beast
    Study the mutant Sit down for the feast at least
    Map trajectories
    Open for updates
    Open for optimism
    The beginning of the end
    Omicron’s final days
    Final mutation into oblivion
    A mild tepid cold or some other
    Order of beingness, long term side effects?
    What do you make of it?
    What does it make of you?

    The viruses seems and acts atheist
    No ghosts in that machine
    All billion year old school vibes
    Mold tool tribes
    Booked mule rides A-Z
    Chemically DNA-RNA GATC
    Bass amino acid house basement
    Labs no cash just grabs
    Waterspout rush hot pinks salmon
    Autumn petal rustic
    Letter swatch time
    Itch rhyme swish
    Mutate enough to infect the meaning
    Not too far from the path
    But a new path, draft, a raft craft
    A daft math graph for laughs
    A saft bath salt fault line for guilt to
    Drink and eat at the table
    Molecules unstable why jumping
    What is that chest thumping
    Is that humping and pumping or
    Flumping and dumping Xing Ping
    Lab leak flab geek
    Boomer with a pooter
    Too fast crashed the scooter
    What master plan, what end game?
    Natural or not how you distinguish
    Same
    Letters switch like train tracks
    Coaches steaming in
    Vaccines rolling out
    Aspirations to be the aspirate Robin Hood
    Exasperate and gasps I make
    A lot of clots and side effects mateIf you don’t aspirate the needle
    Your care for the patient is feeble
    Look it up google + scholar

    Flip the scriptease
    Translate, taste the acid
    Face the acid, I meano’
    Go deep and study  
    Get a tooth bloody
    Letters keep turning
    Mutating like gyres inside
    Like Joyce inside and like
    Shannon error correction
    The race to the mildest variation
    A Goldbloom variation
    Tepid background buzz
    Endemic and with us like Bach
    Or Coltrane or Joyce
    Ubiquitous yet non-lethal
    A viral ecosystem of harmonic
    Convergence and decoherence
    Ever changing everliving
    Eternal return change eternal 4D block
    Form and function in between each slice
    Humanity engulfed by the loving 
    Protection of viruses against other more deadly
    Viruses

    Who knows what protection we have
    Against changing the letters
    Changing the words around to make
    Something Nu-topiaN
    Whatever it is I’ll assimilate
    Through the lens of art all is fodder
    We churn the cosmos, earth, flora forna
    Together mixing and curddling
    Repel attract pull and push
    These features beyond art
    Science, the secret hero of these scrawls
    Yes, that rough stickler and prickly beast
    Science
    Yet its compliance or not
    That’s the question a lot’s got
    And I’m tired of trotting the trot
    Spit out the cot, weird is born
    Breath Lee Hem Lee Whorf
    Ordinate courses cast for past torus
    Shored like a tortoise
    Husky like a mollusc eyes read and crusty
    Wind up my sleeve, papers blustery
    At the bus stop, big mystery

    Kiss the sky shine the mind, look down
    Foot to work, hand to jerk juxtapose toes
    Illuminated detail
    Precise, accurate or rot
    Spiral staircase
    Waterspout, whirlpool
    Vortex what you got DNA RNA transcription cyclone
    Dyadic Lilly Climb the book hill, spiral helix tone
    Dubbed the he licks tomb
    Clubbed till early morn’
    Rubbed the teapot, come out, come on
    Twisted locks picked packed lips puckered
    Flows battered, the pizza pattern
    To mean similar toppings Alpha
    Beta Gamma Delta
    Omicron
    All cheese
    I’m a scientist now get on your knees
    I took a lying test and passed with straight Z’s
    People speak covid breezeI just choke up and sneeze
    Scratchin’ wax, I got fleas
    Lay with dogs you dream leads
    A good breath and some beads
    Some good soil and some seeds
    A lil’ water outta’ feed, the new bleeding edge
    Sledge packed, culture
    Ready for what comes after
    Tale of the tribe
    Learning with laughter
    Graff and what comes after
    The next generation of thinkers
    ArtistsIt’s all for them to untangle
    Looked at from every side angle
    Every sly angel
    As you sit round that candle
    Know this

    War is over
    Assimilate with the virus
    No, scratch that
    Be fucking careful out there
    Please, for god’s sake wear a mask
    It’s ain’t hard If you don’t want the vaccine don’t take it
    But don’t take it I’m dragging you to the snake pit
    I took it, so that’s that
    Logged in the bucket
    Discussion is good Censors crooked
    That said
    Sometimes that hate just ain’t cooking
    In my kitchenette lithograph
    Love all the people and you do the math
    Come around my gaff
    Listen as I guff’
    Cover mics with a glove or a muff
    Covid’s gone just like that
    Into us all puff
    So I’m with you fellow humans
    It’s time to join the new fam’
    What’s identity anyhow but a trick
    Or a scam

    I’m my eyeballs, blood, bone and thoughts
    I’m my nervous system brain body interface
    Call me Steve, ole’ yam yam
    Beats damned up, tracks slammed up
    Art in tatters, shattered
    From the broken ant hill new ants
    Lost turtles, subtle
    Sub to rain gods calling 1,2,3
    Footsteps of herds bring shrooms
    14 days later rain
    I mean to say
    Cycles seasons capture change
    Predict mutation like Chalmers
    Predict, what is that?
    Edict on the derelict terror flicks
    Mutate, out smart the pricks
    Spread wings of love tolerance
    Understanding and fierce blessing
    Pierce hate with peace now stop messing’
    Cheers mates keep flossing
    Ven diagram ear needs glossing
    Switch letters by rhyme tossing
    Messy bossy fitness germ infectious term posseI don’t want it truth be told
    And I want to help strangers
    The vulnerable and old
    You do too so join me please
    In coughing in your elbow and 
    Hand to mouth when you sneeze
    Keep on flowing now don’t freeze
    Doubling of information
    Negentropic nature of things
    Entourage compound emic ettic attic tease
    Static wave ecstatic hilarity
    A kinda super fury dope rhyme singularity
    With a coherent disparity
    Between the point and marrow see
    Bones, all I see is drones
    All I write are songs
    Only thing I hit is bongs
    Packed with hash and weed though
    Printing hinting guarantees low
    Minting NFTease
    Pinching flynichin
    D lynch binge king

    Squintin Quarantino–11/12/21     

    Corona Slayer: Squintin Quarantino by Steven James Pratt https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09JVM38N8/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_ASNEARKTV6NGV0STNN21

  • Corona Slayer 2

    Written, recorded, produced and mastered by Steve Fly @ Fly Agaric Studios, Amsterdam. 24-28th July 2021. (Edited 10th August & September 13th, 2021)

    Since March 2020, Squintin Quarantino has been writing rhymes in a ‘first thought best thought’ manner, presented here with little editing. This is the second installment following on from the first ‘Corona Slayer E.P’ (released in September 2020.

    I trust these rhymes will cohere for you. Starting with the global lockdown 1 in March 2020, rhymes helped me to crawl through the last sixteen months. Besides straight ahead prose writing and my experimental novel: Deep Scratch, this SQ outlet helped cleanse my racing mind.

    SQ is intent on spreading rhymes and scrutiny of the Covid response, focused on the UK and Holland. The growing abyss between the rich and poor, and lack of support for providing food, clothing and shelter for all humanity has tripled the blow on the vulnerable. Now’s the time to take personal responsibility. #coronaslayer

    –Steve Fly,
    Amsterdam, 14th July 2021.
    www.deepscratch.net

    Thanks For The Support,
    www.patreon.com/stevefly

    Get the book Corona Slayer @ Amazon:
    www.amazon.de/dp/B09JVM38N8/ref=…HVGT28GC4RJ3HFZN99

    https://soundcloud.com/stevefly/sets/corona-slayer-2
  • Deep Scratch – Paperback

    Deep Scratch – Paperback

    Thanks to everybody who made this possible.
    –Steve Fly

    Order a signed copy via www.patreon.com/stevefly

    Sounds to accompany the words start here:

    DS ONE – NEEDLE DROPS

  • Roasting Farcebook

    http://www.patreon.com/stevefly

  • Entourage Against The Machina: Bellsybabble


    Woodsy fresh annabliss topical tropic candy tongtingtangy, almost mandy, mister barry citrus spicegills, floor all hashublifty, bloomsdag of creepea sleepea melango shifty, tango alpha skunky monkey pungent googly peppery tart noobie to social munch booberry, lemonwally smelly to make you kill your telly, jelly ashy tarticus sandlewoodsy edward woodwoodsy? Hubblegum space sight, rumbledoor creek, to cinnamon earth girl so chocolate spacey tweak, amonia echo pot ridge, minimal old sockdress, bitter orange balloon, cool miles menthol mighty mezz skittles laught us. Fondermind set and match jamnesia, what mellows? Be cheerful now! Kativa Kitnip trip lippy happy not sappy methargic, alert bud band kapw, narcotic tock clock green diesel creepy grinder on the nipnips, tipsy turvey couch locknarti, doorgone dogon dzogchen gum, curvy sling tang gong munchie for wingspong, what for brunchie? kief rich orchards of Afghandi ganji, whizzically relaxking, yo so euphoric, penergetic poms, the ritz roll chunk berry, muntally traxing clear ed speadeadmunt k’delic stone jammy headtrix, to the body bone bildeberry, put daan yr cokephone cockwomble. Canna linalool alung limountin trawl of tribenol nexus texus ohm. Mary wanna’ look sky windowpine bigendo cannibong wellwashers to grapesdom doobie town, kinnabiss kit kissa shatter faceblurry, musket cunnylust holodustin’ yer’ ear, humusky miss mackushty lady dankster gooey Humulene, hail kale berries, she ate sea and set keel to beakers, talltale hempmail mayferry riverun to smithereen mirror cracked green. Annas limonelle pinabella, humuster cannadan eucalyptwicker woo daa. Annadelta Nine Tetris Hydrew Cannibal lol, Interspices cinnammunic curcummication. Bells of light ringarange a russos, her scene myrcene coochie locks myrrh myrtle mumblin ramblinol and cookyspeak spiermunt cooking with sambol yumus humus menthanol man of borneol, “Geraniol” Youcali hiptoll pepperment. Alfy Betty gramma fam, doodle doob jamsterdab, sigil sigiluram nerolidol, eucalyptol, ocimene and caryophyllene, come on eyeleen, terpinolene and phellandrene bouncing on blood/brain’s trampoline.

    “Thus, the bootstrap model affords an intuitive all-encompassing approach and reading of Finnegans Wake, which yield a vision–traditionally associated with the waters of materia prima in alchemical texts–characterised by a feminine-like totalizing perspective, as opposed to the scintillating, yet limited, soundness of reason.–Alexander Sandulescu, The Language Of The Devil.

    –Steve Fly (November 2019).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellsybabble