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Friday, 30 November 2018
SPIRITS BURNING REVIEW
http://www.the-rocker.co.uk/
SPIRITS BURNING & MICHAEL MOORCOCK
An Alien Heat
Gonzo Multimedia
Spirits Burning is one of the most unique entities in the space rock galaxy. The group consists of one main member, Don Falcone, and many other participants from various bands and projects...
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SPIRITS BURNING & MICHAEL MOORCOCKAn Alien Heat
Gonzo Multimedia
If
I take a handful of painkillers and close my eyes I can almost remember being
young. Before life destroyed everything I held dear. Back then I was a Michael
Moorcock addict. Not that he benefited as nearly all the 100+ books of his I
owned had come from second hand bookshops, mainly Bobbies in Dalry Road and
Morrison Street. Fast forward a few decades and it turned out they were worth a
blooming fortune. So they helped the late Mrs H move to her dream house shortly
before she died.
As
befitted an MMhead I was also a Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult fan, attached to
the boc-l mailing list and following HW around on tour. Strange days. “An Alien
Heat” is volume one of the “The Dancers at the End of Time” trilogy which sees
mastermind Don Falcone ably assisted by Albert Bouchard, and Michael Moorcock.
As well as the main instigators there is also room for Blue Öyster Cult family
members Joe Bouchard, Richie Castellano, and Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser,
Hawkwind family members Harvey Bainbridge, Adrian Shaw, Mick Slattery, and
Bridget Wishart, plus Andy Dalby (Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come), Monty Oxymoron
(The Damned), Ken Pustelnik (The Groundhogs), Jonathan Segel (Camper Van
Beethoven), Andy Shernoff (The Dictators), Lux Vibratus (Nektar), Steve York
(Arthur Brown), and more. So that’s going to make a lot of people very
happy.
And
there is some very good spacerock on offer here as you would expect. What it’s
missing, though, is a good vocalist. A few folk have a bash including the
Bouchard brothers and Buck Dharma but no matter who it is the voices aren’t
substantial enough. Now I’m not saying they realised that but the record does
come with a second disc comprising an all instrumental version of the record.
They kick things off with a fine Hawkwind sounding number in the shape of
‘Hothouse Flowers’. It’s one of the more powerful tunes here and sets you up for
a diverse tour through spacerock territory. There’s a wee bit of Gong now and
then, some synth driven tunes, the best of which is ‘Dark Dominion’ and plenty
of detours into ambient, electronic and psych sounds.
There
is a lot to enjoy here especially if you liked the Calvert era Hawklords
approach to music mixed with some vintage Cult. It’s not essential but there is
an awful lot for classic spacerock fans to enjoy.
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LEONARD COHEN AT SUNDANCE AND MORE
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Sundance 2019 Films Include Leonard
Cohen, David Crosby & Miles Davis Docs
Annette Bening plays Senator Dianne Feinstein, Zac Efron
takes on Ted Bundy, Awkwafina dives into a dramatic role, and Harvey Weinstein
gets a ...
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What is the 'secret chord' in Leonard
Cohen's 'Hallelujah'?
Leonard Cohen hides a sneaky message in his
lyrics, and it's all amazingly reflected in the music. Below are the somewhat
confusing lyrics of the first ...
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David Crosby, Leonard Cohen, Miles
Davis Documentaries to Premiere at 2019 Sundance
Those in attendance will have the opportunity to catch
the world premieres of documentaries about Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis,
and our uncle David ...
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Leonard Cohen & His Muse in New
Doc
The Canadian songwriter, singer and poet and his
Norwegian muse are the subject of a new Nick Broomfield documentary Marianne
& Leonard: ...
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New Leonard Cohen Biopic Marianne
& Leonard: Words of Love To Debut At Sundance
LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — A new documentary
detailing the romantic relationship between Canadian legend Leonard Cohen
and his ...
Miles
Davis, David Crosby, And Leonard Cohen Documentaries To Screen At
Sundance Film ... - Live for Live Music
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New Leonard Cohen documentary to
premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
New Leonard Cohen documentary has been announced
and is preparing to be premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film,
which follows ...
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Here we have the sixteenth episode of the relaunched webTV show by the Centre for Fortean Zoology, written and presented by Jon Downes and Charlotte Phillipson, their families and other animals. This episode contains: • A brief note of explanation • Wally the Comedy Rhinoceros • Habitat degradation • Mystery martens • A pine marten in Warwickshire? • A job for Charlotte • Mysterious aquatic humanoids? Surely not • Environmental music • Evelyn's song • New environmental activism • Corinna finds something nasty in her soup • PRODUCT PLACEMENT - Animals & Men • Watcher of the skies • New and rediscovered: New frogfish • New and rediscovered: New batfish • New and rediscovered: New megophrys • New and rediscovered: New coral snake • New and rediscovered: The vampire anole • New and rediscovered: Brown anoles on Ascension island • New and rediscovered: New parachute gecko • Fair use • Coming next month • The Patreon campaign • The team says goodbye until next month You can support us, and help us make this show ever more bigger and better at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/CFZ
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
MAXING OUT ON MINIMALISM
FRIENDS I KNOW ARE
DE-MATERIALIZING
If i give them a book,they give
another one away
Ditto with gifts-it is hard to gift a
vegan non-materialist-
Pistachios being the one comestible
they enjoy
And they shed books like cat
fur.So-how to live as a thin man?
Yesterday,i delivered a sack of my
shoes to the Sunrise Community Church
(i only have one pair of feet,and they
can only wear two shoes @any one time)
Today ,i will see how best to deal
with a plenitude of costumes
Most folk tend towards black
&gray.Men's clothes so drab and dull.
To remember John Berry,i wore bright
yellow.To remember sunshine,i wore rainbows.
Core truth is utility.I have too much
and must divest.Time laughs as i seek to edit
Always some bright object will insist
upon stories,regaling me with memories
of venues long past,and people
,too..What can i do?Even my poetry has become
lugubrious
Thursday, 29 November 2018
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op 36 - Temirkanov
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SOME LEONARD COHEN NEWS
Leonard Cohen Documentary Marianne
& Leonard: Words of Love Announced
A new documentary about Leonard Cohen and Marianne
Ihlen's love story will premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It's called
Marianne ...
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
AUSTRALIA STORMS
CLIMATE DISRUPTION
affects Australia greatly-
as an island surrounded by
waters
as a Continent with five climate
zones
and a pattern of Wet and Dry has now
become
unpredictable storms,floods and
drought
Of course,storms cause most
damage
where people are concentrated
together.
This may have been happening in the
Outback
but no one was there to report
it...
SPIRITS BURNING DUTCH REVIEW TRANSLATED
http://progopinion.blogspot.com/
What a week ... CD SPIRITS BURNING - An Alien Heat (2018) A wonderful space picture ... ... has delivered Spirits Burning under the inspiring leadership of Don Falcone. Here, together with sci-fi author Michael Moorcock (ao vocals, harmonica), on whose book 'Alien Heat', part of the trilogy 'The Dancers at the End of Time', this double album is based. Falcone likes to gather all kinds of guests around them. Again members of Hawkwind (Wishart, Chadwick, Bernand) - Spirits Burning sometimes sounds like a later version of their legendary source of inspiration - and members of the hard-rock band Blue Oyster Cult (including Albert Bouchard). Spacerock with an assertive sauce I would like to call it. It is wonderful to float away on the 16 tracks on CD 1. The hovering increases again on CD2 where all tracks are recorded in instrumental performance. I like this double album in a nice cover and it offers a great opportunity to escape the hectic daily life at regular intervals. That is possible without mind-expanding means. A few capsules of Spirits Burning also comply! Harry de Vries (what a week 27)
Spirits Burning is one of the most unique entities in the space rock galaxy. The group consists of one main member, Don Falcone, and many other participants from various bands and projects...
Healthy Music In Large Doses is the latest offering from the Spirits Burning space rock collective, this time featuring keyboardist Cyrille 'Clearlight' Verdeaux. Clearlight is a project of French son..
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Healthy Music In Large Doses is the latest offering from the Spirits Burning space rock collective, this time featuring keyboardist Cyrille 'Clearlight' Verdeaux. Clearlight is a project of French son..
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
SOME LEONARD COHEN NEWS
Leonard Cohen Under a New
Light
October saw the arrival of two treats for fans of the
late Leonard Cohen. The first, Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year
Friendship with Leonard Cohen, ...
Singer Luciana Souza brings Leonard
Cohen project two SF Bay Area shows
It took several tries over the course of a decade for
Luciana Souza to convince Leonard Cohen to let her set several poems from
his 2006 volume, ...
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SPIRITS BURNING GERMAN REVIEW TRANSLATED
From:
Siggy
Zielinski @
11 of 15
As some friends and sympathizers of Spacerock's own
eclectic nature already know, Spirits Burning is a collective of musicians led
by US musicians Don Falcone and Albert Bouchard (formerly at Blue Öyster
Cult).
In the run-up to Spirits Burning's fourteenth album,
Falcone has contacted British science fiction and fantasy author Michael
Moorcock. The goal was to use the "Dancers" trilogy by Moorcock as a text
template for Spirits Burning. "An Alien Heat" is the name of the first part of
the "Dancers" trilogy by Moorcock. After a meeting and some sessions with
Moorcock, it was discovered that the collaboration worked well, so Moorcock was
allowed to contribute his lyrics and to compose some pieces. In addition,
Moorcock has been involved in vocals in most pieces, even though it is often
just the background vocals. (Too bad that the lyrics were not printed anywhere,
so that you can probably only guess the sung content of Moorcock).
In addition to Moorcock, Falcone and Bouchard, "An
Alien Heat" involved around 30 musicians, including Cyrille Verdeaux
(Clearlight) and members of Blue Öyster Cult, Hawkwind, Arthur Brown's Kingdom
Come, The Groundhogs and The Damned. Even after up to eight musicians with
different backgrounds were allowed to write on the pieces, the result sounds
pretty homogenous to me. In vocal technique, several singers are involved as
well, though most often the voice of Albert Bouchard, sometimes pressed and
sometimes reminiscent of Robert Wyatt, can be heard.
According to the self-description of Spirits Burning,
the music is output as a spacer rock. However, it is not always easy to classify
what is required stylistically. Some pieces seem to offer a fusion of
psychedelic rock, folk, and pop rock with a pinch of spacerock and postwave,
akin to Hawkwind's time with Robert Calvert (as heard in "Hothouse Flowers,"
"Doomed," and "In the Future," among others). In the pieces like "Dark Dominion"
and "To Steal a Space Traveler", you go one step further in the direction of
psychedelic experiments and add some weird sounds, as if Daevid Allen's spirit
was present.
"Geronimo" again has to offer psychedelic-folky style
pop, in which the chant is in constant dialogue with the melodic violin lines.
It seems very difficult to find traces of Spacerock here.
Featuring the charming female vocals of Ann Marie
Castellano, the "Soiree of Fire" seems to combine the trance of Spacerock with
the ease of Artpop and the mysterious mood of psychedelic folk. Colorful and
lively-looking psychedelic-spacy folk prog can also be heard in "Fall in Love"
and "Any particular Interest".
(If anyone needs it, there is also a bonus CD to the
full package that includes the instrumental versions of each piece, so you can
of course follow the detailed arrangements better and at the same time think
about whether this music is justified even without the vocals. Without singing,
sometimes even other stylistic assignments of the individual pieces could
result, which can happen with such a musical tightrope).
I find it very exciting to watch over the entire
length of the album, how creatively the pieces from the above-mentioned musical
puzzle pieces were put together, so that pigeonholing is made almost impossible
and at the same time new ways for the musical expeditions are opened.
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
OLD MAN DECEMBER /
YOUNG CHILD JANUARY
ASHES OF CAMPFIRES/BELTANE
RITUALS
Hideaway Tuesdays young circle jamming
musicians
They do not need to know the history of
music
They create and re-create in every
mistake
Identical to their elders' human
errors...
You may believe in Reincarnation/Past
Lives/Karmic Regression
I believe in Future Lives-that which is
created in the seeds of today
The Harvests of Tomorrow.(@its
worst/Child Worship..
@its best-Trust in a Better
Tomorrow.Stock Markets rise and fall
on Futures Markets.Why not us?Trust
that we can improve
and that every perceived end-is just
another Fabulous Beginning?
JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH CHRISTMAS SHOW
News: BBC Radio Announces Christmas Shows
for John Shuttleworth, Count Arthur, Stewart Lee ...
BBC Radio has today announced its on-air highlights for
the festive period. Bob Shennan, BBC Director of Radio & Music said: “This
Christmas BBC ...
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Monday, 26 November 2018
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
ODDLY SATISFYING
AUTONOMOUS SENSORY MERIDIAN
RESPONSES
Perhaps you,too,have fallen through the
YOUTUBE
into a cavalcade of oddly euphoric
visual repetitive experiences
like watching hours of slow motion
sports-soccer,tennis,golf..
or factory processing or watching
slime,sand,soap making...
Or kitchen
cooking-slicing,shredding,cutting,dicing
In fact,all cooking programs as they
slowly reveal their processing...
Here is where your life gets lost-in
clips and memes and gifs
that are sweet and colorful eye
candy/so much so/you become addicted..
Hypnotized by ads with the sound turned
off-or cat videos-or babies playing(or both..
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KEITH CHRISTMAS NEWS
David Bowie guitarist gives first concert
ever held at historic Exeter hall
... and has toured with such legends as The Who, Frank
Zappa and King Crimson and played with Roxy Music, The Kinks and Captain
Beefheart.
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SCHOOL OF ROCK WITH DWEEZIL
School Of Rock Students Take The Stage With
Dweezil Zappa
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through treacherous ...
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MORE LEONARD COHEN NEWS
Six Chords in the park behind Leonard
Cohen's mother's house
The recent publication of Leonard Cohen's The
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Cohen was alive, and ...
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Sunday, 25 November 2018
STEVE VAI ON FRANK ZAPPA
Q&A INTERVIEW: Guitar wiz Steve Vai
talks about leading a generation of axe-men, coming to the ...
In his 40-year career working with such artists as
Frank Zappa, Whitesnake, David Lee Roth and Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist
Steve Vai has come up with ...
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Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele..
On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati..
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