| new items in the [SHOP] | 15 07 2005 | |
| Finally posted a bunch of great releases we have been recieving in the [SHOP]. Apologies for lack of photography at the moment, I will be adding them tomorrow after I find the fucking digital camera interfaced for my laptop. Next week we should have a batch of great pieces from AJNA including current DEATHSPELL OMEGA an d ONDSKAPT titles of magnificence.
All orders will be sent in a much more timely fashion than the past 3 hectic months. I am home most of the summer and therefor can run a more professional mailorder ship. Thanks for the patience. JACK ROSE // Raag Manifestos LP BORIS // Dronevil 2LP LEVIATHAN // A Silhouette in Splinters LP v/a EARTH // Legacy of Dissolution 2LP TOM CARTER/ MARCIA BASSETT // Zaika LP OM // Variations on a Theme LP THRONES // Day Late, Dollar Short CD psi // Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators CD MARZURAAN // Solid State CD GROWING // Live CD SUNN O))) // The GrimmRobe demos CD | ||
| Durtro News | 15 07 2005 | |
| From Tibet:
15 July 2005 Current 93 & special guests live in San Francisco: 4 & 5 November, 2005 BLACK SHIPS EAT THE SKY: Current 93 will be playing two shows at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall www.gamh.com on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November. Also appearing over this weekend, we are delighted and honoured to announce, will be OM, BABY DEE and SIMON FINN on Friday 4, and OM, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE and PANTALEIMON on Saturday 5. Tickets are $30 and go on sale on Sunday 17 July. They are available online from www.virtuous.com and www.tickets.com. They are also available from the GAMH box office (+1 415.885.0750) and Slim's box offices (+1 415.255.0333). Special items will also be available at the show from some or all of the groups. We are very much looking forward to seeing you all again in this, one of our favourite cities. "How He Loved the Moon" special edition of 1 copy box set to be auctioned on eBay with all profits going to the John Bradburne Society A special edition of 1 copy of the recent and beautiful HOW HE LOVED THE MOON wooden box edition on Beta-lactam Ring is to be auctioned on eBay with all monies going to the John Bradburne Society www.johnbradburne.com. This wooden box edition was originally released in an edition of 31 copies at a price of US$425 each: 20 copies were for sale (and sold out months in advance) and 11 copies were given to the artists involved. This edition has: the 2LP of HOW HE LOVED THE MOON in RED vinyl; the 7" picture disc; the 2-sided 7" acetate of MOONBIRD FOR JHONN featuring Ben Chasny and David Michael; a handwritten manuscript in David's hand of the lyrics to MOONBIRD; a photograph of Jhonn Balance and another photograph of David and Steven Stapleton; a 1-sided card thanking all those involved in this charitable edition; and a hand-printed 4-page card, signed by David, featuring the text of the lyrics to MOONBRID and with this extra text on: "This is an edition of 1 numbered copy, signed by the author, inserted into the Beta-lactam Ring wooden-box auction edition of of 'How He Loved The Moon'. Also included is a holograph manuscript of the 'Moonbird' text in the hand of someone who when he wrote it was David Tibet. All monies from the auction of this item will go to the John Bradburne Memorial Society for their work to the Mutemwa Leprosy Mission in Zimbabwe. My thanks to whoever bought this for their kindness and charity." Chris McBeth of BlR has also very kindly offered a 100$ credit for the winner of this auction for any BlRR releases. The item can be found under the Seller ID blrrecords-dot-com on www.ebay.com. The auction starts on Friday, 15 July, 2005. David meets the green fairy David has been commissioned to design the label for a bottle of absinthe. He is very very delighted to accept. This absinthe will be generally available, though the best place to purchase it from is direct from Absinthvertrieb Lion. They can ship orders worldwide. There will also be a limited edition of 93 in a special wooden case with printed C93 image on the lid. This case will include: a bottle of absinthe with the label signed by David; 2 absinthe glasses; 2 absinthe spoons; and a limited CD only available in the special edition featuring a song with David on vocals and Ben Chasny on guitar. For more details contact Markus and Absinthevertrieb. The website is available in English, German and French. Markus Lion Absinthvertrieb Lion Neudorfstrasse 6c D-79331 Teningen Germany Phone +49 7641 9359476 Fax +49 7641 9359477 www.absinthevertrieb.de mail@absinthevertrieb.de Black Ships Ate the Sky The proposed release date for this album is November 2005. However, as recording continues, we do not even yet know if it will be a single or a double CD, so much depends on the recording which throws up new ideas constantly. Black Ships Ate the Sky videos Two videos will also be recorded during September for those tracks released on AT SUNSET BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY (the 'Coptic' CD single from Toronto). These will be released about the same time as the album. They are both being filmed by our friend Cam Archer, to whom we were introduced by Ben Chasny and Stephanie Volkmar. Cam did an absolutely heartbreaking video for Six Organs of Admittance's 'All You've Left', which can be seen, along with his other beautiful films, at www.camarcher.com. Six Organs supply a lot of the music for his films, and Stephanie Volkmar has worked extensively with Cam on his films on design and costumes. I love this man and I love his films. Current 93 and Nurse With Wound official downloads to be available soon Due to demand and the continuation of illegal download sites, C93 and NWW material will soon be downloadable in high quality from State 51, who have also been handling Coil's work in this area. More details as soon as some material is ready to go up to come down. Durtro Mail Order shop Closure: We have had to close the shop, as you may have noticed, as we have become inundated with huge amounts of orders, and wanted to process them all and ship them out before recieving more. The shop will reopen next week. Coptic T-shirts: Many of the T-shirt sizes sold out immediately. These have now come back into stock and those who have not yet received them will be doing so very soon. Apologies-we were really caught unaware as to how popular a T-shirt in Coptic would be! Important notice: The majority of items available from the shop are now manufactured in, and shipped from, our base in Toronto, Canada, so orders may take longer for customers in Europe to receive than they were used to when we used to ship from the UK. However, the postage costs will remain unchanged. Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods lyric book Due to the huge delays with this book (which David is still, needless to say, working on), we have to decided to process ALL orders remaining in the online shop. EVERYONE who has pre-ordered this book up to the present date in either the special (with artwork and CD) or standard format (with CD), will be receiving a special item which will be shipped at the same time as the book. If someone has ordered multiple copies of UNDER THE RAIN, they will receive the same number of copies of this special item. We have also closed the pre-order facility for this book. No further orders will be taken for UNDER THE RAIN AND TEETH OF GODS book until it is published. On publication the standard fomat (without CD) will be added to the shop. Thank you all again for your patience with this book. David never realised how much time it would take to collate and complete. It will, as he has said 93 times before, be worth the wait? Brainwashed Current 93 site Our friend SKot Kirkwood has done an amazing job over the years on this site, as has Jon Whitney of Brainwashed in hosting it. It was originally the 'Official Current 93' site, but SKot's increasing busyness with other areas of his life, as well as other life changes, mean that it has not been updated for a very long time. So we have removed the 'Official' name from the site, whilst keeping it on Brainwashed as a valuable and living C93 archive. It will also, Jon informs us, be subject to some major updating in the near future. THANK YOU SKOT for creating this site, and THANK YOU JON for maintaining it. We are very grateful for all you have done and will do on our behalf. Those interested in volunteering to help to add to, and update, the Brainwashed archive can contact Jon through www.brainwashed.com. The only official site for C93 and Durtro is now www.durtro.com. Forthcoming collaborations David has been invited to be on new albums by Gary Smith, an amazingly inventive and talented guitar player, who of course is a member of Bill Fay Group. He is also to be featured on new records by Andrew Liles, irr.app. (ext.) and Gary Ramon's Quad spaceship project. At the moment I love I recently saw with Joe Budenholzer the film DIG! which covers the careers and rivalries of US groups the Dandy Warhols and the Brain Jonestown Massacre. Though I didn't know anything about either the members or the music of these groups, I highly recommend this real-life slice of Spinal Tap. It also includes a couple of sweet interviews with Genesis P-Orridge. I also noticed that Anton Newcombe, the crazed poncho-wearing charismatic who leads the BJM, is wearing a Death In June T-shirt in a scene at the end of the film. My favourite character by far in the film if the maraca- and tambourine-wielding Joel Gion, whom Ben Chasny then told me was a friend of his. This man Joel is the unsung genius of the 2 groups! I also have loved watching THE RAPTURE, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. I am listening to OM's HOLY MOUNTAIN still, and Mellow Candle's SWADDLING SONGS. And I read and read and read and sometimes I drink wine and am sick and sometimes I drink beer and am unsick. And overall I am as happy as the Ladybird Template. durtro.com | ||
| 14 07 2005 | ||
| Thanks to Chasney for this dope 1987 Fushitsusha flyer. | ||
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| BLACK ONE | 14 07 2005 | |
| Just returned on a red eye from a mastering session in Los Angeles this morning. It's finished!
sunn50 SUNN O))) "Black One" CD & 2LP Sin Nanna 02:19 It Took The Night To Believe 05:56 Cursed Realms (Of The Winterdemons) 10:10 Orthodox Caveman 10:02 CandleGoat 08:04 Cry For The Weeper 14:38 Báthory Erzsébet 16:00 Players on the album: Greg Anderson Stephen O'Malley Oren Ambarchi Wrest Malefic John Wiese Mathias Schneeberger 0904 & 1104 Initial tracks recorded @ the Sanctuary via Reedo 0505 Primary tracks recorded @ Donner+Blitzen via Count Von Schneeberger 0505 Mixed by sunn0))) + Count Von Schneeberger @ Donner+Blitzen 0705 Mastered by Mark Chalecki @ Capitol Mastering Additional 4 tracking on Wrest & Malefic's machines. Artwork by Jo Ratcliffe Text by Seldon Hunt SUNN O))) Art Direction by Stephen O'Malley PRODUCED BY 0))) Release date: 18th October 2005 European release date TBC, liklely the week or 2 before the states. | ||
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| Plotkin speaks | 14 07 2005 | |
| Interesting technique article/interview with James Plotkin from EQ magazine: | ||
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| 13 07 2005 | ||
| dear friends and galactic travelers-
as an ongoing exploration of the mind-numbing relationship between art and music, i'll be performing a nonobjective sound action with the unarguable master of evil trumpet, Nate Wooley, from deep inside my installation UNDER GUESTS TO DRIFT LIVING @ The Sculpture Center in Long Island City , saturday july 16th, 2:30 pm. -------------------------Nate Wooley - trumpet, spell casting---------------------------------------- ----------------------Fritz Welch - snare drum, cymbals, objects-------------------------------------- FREE - no $$$$! for directions: http://sculpture-center.org/gi_directions.html stay healthy, --fritz | ||
| 10 07 2005 | ||
| Just returned to NYC!!! Birminham festival was evacuated by the police 10 minutes before Masami and I were to play... bomb scares. The entire city center was also evacuated and they actually found and exploded 2 "suspect packages". Long night of finding a place to stay, retrieving equipment from a locked up building, etc. When we finally got back in to the venue we found Genesis P-Orridge in a room playing a white piano in full drag!!! That sort of made the entire thing seem like a remake of "Threads".
Will post an image of said pianist soon. Anyway, 3 out of 3 gigs with Merzbow cancelled. Total bummer. Masami is a good guy and we were both able to find and share a sense of humor about the entire week at least. BATTLES and JESU were both superb at SuperSonic. The event had a great atmosphere and was fun to hang at otherwise. Apologies to the people who came out for our set but were let down by the evacuation. Appreciation for your faith regardless. Managed to meet up with The Drude on the way to Heathrow today for some dom-judgement and lunch at the Familia Cope ranch. Good tymes and healing from the 21st century dramas of the United Kingdom. | ||
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| ARTHURFEST SEPT 4 AND 5 IN LOS ANGELES - TWO-DAY PASSES NOW ON SALE!
ArthurFest takes place Sunday, September 4 and Monday, September 5 on Labor Day Weekend at the historic Barnsdall Art Park on Olive Hall in the Little Armenia/Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. The two-day lineup features SONIC YOUTH SLEATER-KINNEY THE BLACK KEYS CAT POWER OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL MERZBOW (Japan) DEAD MEADOW T-MODEL FORD THE JUAN MACLEAN COMETS ON FIRE SUNN 0))) SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN WOLFMOTHER (Australia) VETIVER GROWING JACK ROSE JOSEPHINE FOSTER EARTH RADAR BROS. CIRCLE (Finland) MAGIK MARKERS MODEY LEMON MARISSA NADLER BRAD LANER (Electric Company, Medicine) BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT NORA KEYES (Centimeters) LAVENDER DIAMOND (feat. Becky Stark) VIKING MOSES FUTURE PIGEON WINTER FLOWERS with additional acts to be announced shortly. ArthurFest will use the Great Lawn area of Barnsdall Park as well as the theater space of Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. Click here to see pictures of the beautiful site. In addition to live music, the festival will feature rarely screened avant garde films, something by HENRY JACOBS, food stands from neighborhood eateries, a booth featuring 82-year-old bluesman T-MODEL FORD who will dispense wisdom & possibly kisses for a small price, and other fantastic attractions to be announced. A LIMITED number of two-day $70 passes for the event are on sale now through http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=socal&query=detail&event=611985&interface= | ||
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| Chadly family O))) | 08 07 2005 | |
| Congratulations to our Parisian friend Hicham Chadly and family on the birth of little Ines! All the best! | ||
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| SILENCE | 08 07 2005 | |
| Lack of posts lately derived from lack of internet and time on the road. Greece fell apart completely with no shows or DJ sets happening at all. A disappointment indeed, but not a disaster as it allowed Anne and I to travel for the better part of a week eating good food, swimming in the Aegan and getting sunburnt.
At the Athenian airport now, about to depart for UK and a duet with MERZBOW tomorrow (at SuperSonic festival). This is now a unique performance! Im positive it will be a killer. Going to LA next week to master BLACK ONE of SUNN. Its near... Thanks to everyone who helped SUNN on these recent dates and not least of all, the honorable collaborators and crew: Andrew Hartwell, Oren Ambarchi, Attila Csihar and the mighty Tos Nieuwenhuizen. Hail! | ||
| SUNN @ Roskilde | 08 07 2005 | |
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http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~jhame/2005/videot/roskilde%20039.avi Photos: http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~jhame/2005/Roskilde2005/photos/photo21.html | ||
| My man representing at Roskilde | 08 07 2005 | |
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| GREEK MESS | 04 07 2005 | |
| SLAM FESTIVAL IN ATHENS WAS CANCELLED. Its a big mess involving a contract dispute with Fantomas & some mistakes with MERZBOW's flights being cancelled.
This show should be happening instead: MERZBOW + STEPHEN O'MALLEY ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO BIOS // ATHENS GREECE WED 6th JULY BIOS is at Pireos 84 & I am assured by the promoter that there will be a reasonable door cost of 12 euro or so. SUPERSONIC performance is definately still happening on Saturday. Anyway, Anne and I go to the beach in the meantime. Athens records stores & restaurants rule! Motorcycle chaos... | ||
| EARTH | 01 07 2005 | |
| Battlefield Earth
Nine years after their last studio album, Seattle sludge-metal pioneers Earth return—three times. by Phil Freeman Seattle guitarist Dylan Carlson talks like the longtime junkie he once was. His sentences decay slowly, the last few words getting steadily quieter and quieter until . . . eventually . . . he's . . . done. But he's been clean for a few years now, and he's ready to refocus on the music that's made him a cult figure for over a decade and arguably the root of an entire subgenre. 1993's Earth 2 is probably the most perverse footnote of the grunge years. A three-song, 73-minute revelation, it sounds like a guy neck-deep in cooling tar trying to play the intro to "War Pigs," eventually giving up and just letting the guitar drone until it stops all by itself. Back in '93, it and its creator were mostly greeted with baffled half-smiles. Lots of people only purchased it, or wrote about it, because of Carlson's friendship with some guy named Kurt Cobain, who screamed on Earth's debut EP, Extra- Capsular Extractions. (A much more troubled Carlson can be seen in Nick Broomfield's film Kurt & Courtney.) Earth's membership was in constant flux, and the group's last studio album was 1996's Pentastar: In the Style of Demons. Their live appearances, always haphazard and erratic, tapered off soon after, and Carlson's drug problems deepened. "It took me a while to get back together and decide I wanted to do music again," he says. "For a long while, I wasn't sure I wanted to keep doing it." Twelve years after Earth 2, the time seems right. A lot of underground metal has been cast in Earth's image. Bands like Warhorse, Boris, and Khanate have applied Carlson's lessons in patience and feedback to post-Sabbath riffage, releasing some of the most harrowing albums around. Sunn O))), led by Southern Lord label head Greg Anderson, started as an Earth tribute band before moving in an avant-garde direction all their own. "It's nice to know that what you've done has some kind of value beyond the commercial," says Carlson of Earth's impact. "Because obviously, this kind of music, you're not doing it to be on MTV Cribs or anything." Now, Carlson's back in a big way, releasing three new records on as many labels, with another one coming on Southern Lord in September. Each new Earth CD has its own character. Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword (Megablade/Troubleman Unlimited) contains only two tracks—the 14-minute "Dissolution III," recorded live on WNYC radio in 2002, and the 54-minute title track, a duet taped that same night featuring Carlson's current girlfriend and musical partner, drummer Adrienne Davies. Listening to the whole thing is tough but rewarding, like surviving a very slow rockslide. Legacy of Dissolution (No Quarter) is a remix album, with contributions from Russell Haswell, Jim O'Rourke, Justin Broadrick, Mogwai, Autechre, and Sunn O))). Most of the remixers emphasize drone rather than heaviness, and Autechre's track is barely distinguishable from the original. Carlson's participation was limited to digitizing old master tapes. "There's [a] perception that I picked the people that were on it, and that's not quite the case," he says. "[Label head Mike Quinn] basically told me who was interested, and they all sounded good to me." 070796 Live, on Autofact, is the best of the new Earth releases. It shares "Dissolution III" with Living in the Gleam, but the other three tracks are its biggest selling points anyway. The opening title track is a two-guitar piece featuring Carlson and Ian Nickson, recorded at the Hyperstrings festival in Europe. "Dexamyl" is an 18-minute Carlson/Davies stomp from February 2003; the disc closes with a James Plotkin remix of "070796." Unfortunately,Autofact owner Josh Hunt had a major falling out with Carlson between Earth's 2003 European tour and the present day. Carlson now says Hunt "went to prison for wire fraud and was just recently paroled, and now it looks like he's going to go back." A U.S. marshal in Alaska confirmed Hunt pleaded guilty to fraud by wire in May 2004 and was sentenced to 12 months, restitution of $35,506, and three years supervised release—from which he is currently missing. "He tried to con his way through life, and unfortunately, we were caught up in that and paid the price," says Carlson. I tried to get Hunt's side of the story. I really did. Knowing nothing of this dispute, I e-mailed Hunt for a review copy of 070796 Live in March. He replied, "I don't have a working relationship with Earth any longer. After taking them on tour with KK Null in 2003, I had some unrelated legal problems for which I spent a year in federal prison. . . . I've only recently got my label up and running again. . . . I would be more than willing to talk about my label, releases, my legal troubles, etc., to get all of the rumors out of the way and start fresh." A month later, having received and loved the disc, I tried to contact him for the promised interview. But the label's Web site [www.a-fact.com] was no longer accessible, my e-mails to him bounced back, and a letter I sent him went unanswered. (Sunn/Khanate guitarist Stephen O'Malley's Web site, www.ideologic.org, is currently displaying a federal warrant for Hunt's arrest, issued by Oregon U.S. Marshals.) Rare is the serious music fan with a high horse to climb on regarding the ethics of record-label owners. Who among us has never illegally downloaded a song or a whole album? What music geek worthy of the label has never bought a bootleg? I myself have surreptitiously recorded a live performance (Fushitsusha, Tonic, N.Y.C., 2001, though my pocket-muffled cassette recording is not the one that circulates). But if Hunt's ethical lapses were so extreme that they opened a rift with the band, should Earth fans support his label by purchasing what's admittedly a really nicely packaged, great sounding, and musically top-shelf release? I don't know. I don't even know if my getting a free copy makes things better or worse. For his part, Dylan Carlson wants to put the whole thing behind him and focus on Earth's real-deal comeback. "Not to toot my own horn or anything, but the writing's much stronger now than it's ever been," he says. "Everything fits." Southern Lord, a label largely built on Earth's aesthetic, is more than ready to push them out there, too. Maybe their time has come at last. Twelve years isn't too long to wait to see your vision embraced. From www.seattleweekly.com Dylan Carlson photo by Bruce C. Moore | ||
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| 27 06 2005 | ||
| BORIS interview / SUPER7 MAGAZINE
All 3 members of the band are requested to answer the interview if possible. Thanks! Return to Dave: EarsplitPR@aol.com T:Takeshi W:Wata A:Atsuo ------------------------------- Here are the questions I would like to ask each member of Boris- 1. When you were a child, did you have a favorite Anime, Manga, or live-action super hero TV show? T: Yes, Masked Rider, Devilman, and animations with giant robots like Boltes Five, Convatler V. Also Space Iron Man Kyodain, One Seven (17). And I can't ignore Gudam! W: I don't remember much... Ginga Tetsudo 999 (Galaxy Train 999), Uchu Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato), Gundam, Hokuto No Ken... something like that. And I was into Cowboy Bebop several years ago. A: Too many to pick up. In Japan we had 4 or 5 new hero shows every year when we were young. It would be more if we include animations. We grew up watching uncountable heroes and animations unknown outside of Japan. Japanese are crazy, more than non-Japanese think. We still watch this kind of programs today, not only in our childhood. You should watch GAOGAIGAR and La Fillette Revolutionnaire UTENA. 2. Did you have a favorite robot or super hero toy you played with as a child? T: My grandmother used to buy some when I was a kid. Such as a super alloy of Getter Robo. After I became a schoolboy I always bought plastic toy-model kits of Gundam from my pocket money. W: Something like a super alloy of Robocon. I loved "super alloy" toys. I also made a plastic toy-model of Gundam A: I often made plastic toy-models too. My parents used to scold me. I remember I made a Godzilla. I made the Diet Building too and let my Godzilla destroy it. GAOGAIGAR's toy is still my favorite. 3. Has any Manga or Anime influenced the music of Boris? T: I don't think they influenced directly, but they might occupy large part of our memory and mind because we came through them in our impressionable childhood. For example, appearing scary monsters, or heavy story became trauma. And cool theme songs! W: I think they did. Combining, transforming, flying speedy, going space. A: They are the roots. 4. Do you like Kaiju? Do you have a favorite Kaiju? T: Zetton and Jamira. I prefer Kaijin rather than Kaiju. I had always loved anti-heroes since I was young. W: Well... No. A: Too many to pick up, again. 5. Do you like Godzilla (Gojira) or any of the monsters in the Godzilla movies? T: I didn't like Godzilla so much. It was too popular. I liked minor Kaiju or Kaijin, something unbelievable concept and design. Obscure things excited me. Not a lovely kid I was. W: I have not seen Godzilla very well so I don't know. A: Forget about Godzilla. Did you see Gamera? Last Gamera was awesome. You have to watch it. I remember I watched it with Joe Preston in a movie theater in Japan. 6. Do you collect anything? T: Now I collect frog goods. But never girly fancy ones. W: Frog goods. But I don't like real frogs. A: Interesting images, animations, experimental movies, and so on. 7. How old are you? 8. What is your favorite song on Akuma No Uta and why? T: Ibitsu. Because we didn't have that type of songs before. I still feel freshness when I play it. W: Akuma No Uta. No specific reason. A: My favorite is Ibitsu too. Environment of music I grow up is condensed in it. thanks Chad Hensley | ||
| planar return | 21 06 2005 | |
| draft one for the solstice. the sunwheel keeps turning... | ||
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| Residual Oz Memories | 20 06 2005 | |
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| BRIDGE FREEZES BEFORE ROAD | 20 06 2005 | |
| I have a 74 minute audio piece collaboration with the sculpture of Banks Violette appearing in the following show. The piece is titled "Bleed". The sound is a powerful monodrone in the spirit of the Ur cow (thanks McGrail). It should be running continuously throughout the show.
Opening is 24th, the show runs through 19th August. at Barbara Gladstone Gallery 515 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 tel: 212 206 9300 www.gladstonegallery.com :::::::::::: Bridge Freezes before Road. Curate by Neville Wakefield Slater Bradley Chris Burden Clive Barker Dan Colen Anne Collier Lali Chetwynd John Dogg Jeff Koons Adam Helms Richard Hughes Matthew Day Jackson Martin Kippenberger Scott King Nate Lowman John McCracken Adam McEwen Erik Schmidt Steven Shearer Robert Smithson Banks Violette Kelly Walker Aaron Young Andrea Zitel | ||
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| artwork by Justin Bartlett | ||
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| Aaron Horkey/Brlsq art show info. Better late than never. | 17 06 2005 | |
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| The Scream | 17 06 2005 | |
| Israel May Use Sound Weapon on Settlers
By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 10, 2005 JERUSALEM - Israel is considering using an unusual new weapon against Jewish settlers who resist this summer's Gaza Strip evacuation - a device that emits penetrating bursts of sound that leaves targets reeling with dizziness and nausea. Security forces could employ the weapon to overcome resistance without resorting to force, their paramount aim. But experts warn that the effects of prolonged exposure are unknown. The army employed the new device, which it dubbed "The Scream," at a recent violent demonstration by Palestinians and Jewish sympathizers against Israel's West Bank separation barrier. Protesters covered their ears and grabbed their heads, overcome by dizziness and nausea, after the vehicle-mounted device began sending out bursts of audible, but not loud, sound at intervals of about 10 seconds. An Associated Press photographer at the scene said that even after he covered his ears, he continued to hear the sound ringing in his head. A military official said the device emits a special frequency that targets the inner ear. Exposure for several minutes at close range could cause auditory damage, but the noise is too intolerable for people to remain in the area for that long, he said. Another official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because of his sensitive position, said the device hasn't been tested on subjects for hours at a time, so he couldn't discuss effects from prolonged exposure. He said there was no direct connection between the recent introduction of "The Scream" and the forcible removal of settlers who resist evacuation orders, which is to begin in mid-August. But he didn't rule out the possibility of using it to root out settlers if persuasion fails. The other official said "The Scream" could be used if protesters march on Gaza settlements or take up military positions. "The whole issue of non-lethal is viewed from a desire not to get into a situation where soldiers are in distress and the consequences would be harsher than expected," he explained. He said the military is still evaluating the device's debut performance in the field. John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org think tank in Alexandria, Va., said he believed last Friday's demonstration was the first case of such technology making it out of the laboratory and into the field. He said the U.S. and possibly China and Russia are developing acoustic weapons. "I'm not aware of any other agency that is actively using it at this point," Pike said. The military offered few details on the device, but Pike said he assumed it worked on very low frequencies that set off resonance in the inner ear. He said he was unaware of potential damage besides possible hearing loss. Though the military refused to comment, Pike said the device probably sends its sound waves out in a specific direction, protecting the soldiers behind it. "Most governments don't face large-scale demonstrations with a potential for lethal violence," he said. "So I think I would look to Israeli security forces to be an innovator in the non-lethal arena, simply because of the unique challenges it faces in the crowd control arena." The military officials said Israel is constantly trying to bring new non-lethal weapons into the field but wouldn't disclose details. Its current arsenal includes tear gas as well as rubber-coated steel bullets, which have caused dozens of Palestinian fatalities. Critics say Israel, with all its military technology savvy, should have done more in the years since the first Palestinian uprising began in 1987 to develop non-lethal weapons for use against hostile Palestinian masses. Troops often turn to live fire, sometimes against teenage Palestinian stone-throwers. Police, too, used deadly force in October 2000 to put down rioting by Israeli Arabs at the start of the second Palestinian uprising. Thirteen Israeli Arabs were killed in those riots, and a commission of inquiry found that police used excessive force. Israel's B'Tselem human rights group says Israeli security officers don't come equipped to police protests. "Although they could have anticipated they would have to disperse crowds, they didn't equip themselves with non-lethal means," spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said. Weapons they do have, such as rubber-coated bullets, are misused - fired, for example, at too close a range, Michaeli said. The rubber-coated bullets can be lethal from close range. Pike said the reason there aren't more non-lethal weapons available worldwide is because it is difficult to achieve both safety and effectiveness. "The number of things that are genuinely effective at crowd control and substantially less lethal than lethal weapons - it's a pretty short list," he said. Weapons like pepper gas wouldn't put off a determined crowd, Pike said. Something like sticky foam might keep people out of a building, "but if I'm talking about controlling a mob in a city square, it just doesn't enter into play," he said. Israel's past efforts to develop non-lethal crowd dispersal weapons included a gravel-spewing machine introduced and quickly abandoned during the first Palestinian uprising. From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_the_scream via: Jonathan SoundHeals@ aol.com | ||
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| GREY (ex-BABA YAGA) | 15 06 2005 | |
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Hello....attached is a flyer for an upcoming gig. We've also got a couple more listed below. Our website should be up in the next couple of weeks. I'll let you know when it is complete. DooM On....AJ Tuesday June 21st El Corazon Book of Black Earth In Haste Grey Friday June 24th College Inn Swarming Hordes Lesbian This is a wedding anniversary for our friends Johnny and Karin. It should be fun! Friday July 1st Chop Suey FLYER ATTACHED Wormwood Grey Grievous Lesbian | ||
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| Not A Joke | 15 06 2005 | |
| Received this bizarre poster in my email today from a Federal Marshall! This is not a joke, but certainly is funny. Associative madness continues.
Debra S Boyd Criminal Investigator Deputy US Marshal District of Oregon 503-326-3568 503-969-6752 | ||
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