The Belgian Richard Wright

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Have It All (2006) by Planningtorock

Damn, why haven't I heard of this chick before? I think this is her most recent work and this cd is fucking mind blowing. ALL of it.


The alter ego of multi-instrumentalist/programmer/videographer Janine Rostron, Planningtorock fuses all of Rostron’s talents into a dazzling audiovisual presentation that borrows from classical music, glam rock, spacey imagery, and hip-hop. A classically trained violinist who began playing at age eight, Rostron moved from Bolton, Lancashire, to Berlin in 2002 the Planningtorock persona first surfaced in 2004, when she began performing at the city’s clubs. Planningtorock’s live shows blurred the boundaries between concerts and performance art, with Rostron wearing outlandish helmets and costumes and interacting with video characters.

* Have a listen to Planningtorock - Hiding Where I'll Find Me. {via}

* And watch a recent video from her Vimeo below.

HAVE IT ALL from planningtorock on Vimeo.

Link | Last.fm

You're Welcome.

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The Bob Moog Moogseum

The Bob Moog Moogseum

The Asheville Tourism Board just gave them a nice grant for their museum.

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Doll Face by Andrew Huang

DOLL FACE

A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

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Extra Action Marching Madness

No one has ever actually seen Oakland/San Francisco's Extra Action Marching Band actually march...at least not in a straight line.

Rather, the 40-plus-person ensemble barges and booms into streets, bars, festivals and crowds with a hypnotic drum corps, a heady horn section, and a scantily-clad flag team that's been known to stop traffic.

The Extra Action Marching Band will be in New Orleans this weekend for the annual Voodoo Festival.

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Ooze Out's Finest

Leslie Keffer

Peter Poffenhoffer's Ooze Out's Tuesday night program is appointment radio on WPVM.

Leslie Keffer is an experimental composer currently in Nashville, TN. Hear her talk about all things glittery, magical moments and her forthcoming LP Give It Up, on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label. Download the Leslie Keffer interview here.

Also, tune in this week for our exclusive interview with Caethua. (via)

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Aw, come on. Squeeze the wheeze.

Some Firehead has started a Firesign Theatre wiki (co-op encyclopedia) at the new domain www.fireheads.org
From their home page:

Welcome to the start page of the FIREHEADS.ORG WIKI!

This site is dedicated to, but has absolutely no association
with, the mighty Firesign Theatre. There's a lot to do here:
the only Firesign Theatre Forum on the Internet, user blogs and
articles, and the main event, the Firesign Wiki that all users
can help build.

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"Our Favorite Things" is a new DVD/CD by the notorious experimental music and sound group Negativland, co-released by Seeland MediaMedia and Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema Digital. The launch event takes place at 8:30pm this Saturday, December 1st at Other Cinema in San Francisco.

Or you can buy it online.


To understand the DVD compilation Our Favorite Things, one has to comprehend the basic tenets of Negativland’s philosophy. Thematically, the band appears to follow the William Burroughs’ method of cut and paste creativity. The notorious beat author, responsible for the incomprehensibly brilliant Naked Lunch, used to write long passages, tear out the typed page, cut the sentences into soundbite snippets, and reconfigure the prose into new, unexpected phraseology. Much of the music Negativland makes is standard rock and electronica stomps. There’s even a peppering of pop and pleasant valley sundriness to it. But the lyrics, when there are any, follow a more free flowing, stream of subconsciousness pattern. read more


link | via-1, via-2, via-3

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LIZA LOU

Liza Lou is most known for her entirely bead-encrusted environments KITCHEN and BACK YARD that each took years of her life to create. Her medium of choice may be the diminutive glass bugle bead, but the resulting installations are anything but small scale. Her installations are truly labours of love that take countless hours of effort, so although the work for her most famous pieces was executed in the 90's, they are timeless representations of domestic life that are definitely worth seeing when the exhibitions travel. Kitchen is a monument to woman's work within the home, one created with millions of tiny beads glued onto the surfaces of many real kitchen objects. The installation is a full-sized kitchen of 168 square feet, fully-equipped with appliances, breakfast cereal and a sink overflowing with dirty dishes.

via: mocoloco

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Worms
Uploaded by www-microbia-nl

This experimental underground music video shows debutant singer Lolly Jane Blue on her way down the earth layers; a journey leading to a swirling underwater climax.

www.silvanderwoerd.com - video director
www.lollyjaneblue.com - singer songwriter.

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Extra Action Marching Band

Extra Action Marching Band

A 30 member musical performance group from Oakland/San Francisco recently left on a European tour leaving admirers and unwitting witnesses in their sequin-spewing wake.

Manifesto:
We, the EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND, shuffle, loiter, charge, and crawl around embracing our environment and quite frequently our audience. Defying categorization, this mutant lovechild of traditional peripatetic music and ecstatic turmoil consists of a hypnotic and driving drum section, a "smoking" horn line (w/a touch of sound effects), and is lead by a brutally sexy and provocative flag team. An Extra Action performance is a celebratory, transcendent spectacle that entices, amuses, arouses, and intoxicates the audience.

Another Stumbleupon link | via: mateo

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Rising Appalachia

Rising Appalachia

This ain't #@&$%*! bluegrass music..."

Sisters Chloe and Leah each play some odd combination of vocals, the fiddle, banjo, jaw harp, kalimba, and some killer spoons. With their newest band member, Forrest Kelly, on a fine array of hand percussion, their tunes just got kicked up a big handful of knotches. With many a fine guest appearence from such madd musical magicians as the incredible Jan Smith, Larkin Grimm, Maurice Tunner (play that trumpet!), the ferocious Cailen Campbell, Barbara Panter (Hair of the Dog), and Witt Connah (the most bad-ass blues harmonica player around)...and a conglomeration of other fantastic and fine-tuned additives- their sweet sounds are bound to delight, sooth, or mystify.

Rising Appalachia are now living in Asheville and their new cd can be found at CDBaby.

via | link | myspace | x-posted

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Larry "Wild Man" Fischer

Derailroaded: Inside The Mind Of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer is currently running on Sundance Channel.

Josh Rubin's strangely fascinating documentary parses the life of outsider musician Larry "Wild Man" Fischer. Growing up in the '50s, Fischer was an undiagnosed manic-depressive schizophrenic who, after attacking his mother with a knife, landed in a mental asylum.

Eventually he headed to California in the late '60s, where Frank Zappa discovered him singing his own strange compositions for a dime a song along Sunset Boulevard. In a strangulated growl somewhere between a possessed Tiny Tim and Bobcat Goldthwait, Fischer's music is something of an acquired taste. Zappa championed him and he led a convoluted career appearing on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and landing on the British Top 50 charts.

Derailroaded is interspersed with plenty of talking heads delivering anecdotes, as well as footage of Fischer performing, but ultimately this is a film not about music or fame, but about the ravages of mental illness. Despite many moments of levity—such as a completely bizarre re-enactment of an interview between Dr. Demento and Frank Zappa, done with puppets—it's a devastating portrait of delusion and fathomless despair.

You sure can see the Zappa influence but man, oh man, was the poor guy ever out there.

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Friday Random 10

Friday Random 10 - Haven't done this in a while. Shuffle 'em up and show us your ten. (If you don't have a 10, an 8 will certainly do.)

1. Take My Hand and Come With Me - Lähtö
2. Wake In The Morning - Pearls and Brass
3. Waiting Phase One - Porcupine Tree
4. Hyper-Ballad - Bjork
5. Rejoicing in the Hands - Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart
6. Universal Soldier - Buffy Saint Marie
7. Winters Love - Animal Collective
8. Pandora - Cocteau Twins
9. Black Wall - Six Organs of Admittance
10.Monkey Man - Rolling Stones

Happy Friday!
Now to go spend some quality time away from my family.

*After a well deserved nap (i was on the rode at 4am) I wake to see I'm rushing the week along and it's only Thursday. Oops. --yawn--

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LD Beghtol interviews Diamanda Galas

I enjoy LD Beghtol's column at the Village Voice and his podcast which is a weekly ramble through the obscurer and experimental corners of music.

LD's High Bias' latest column and podcast Pre-VD Love Bomb, is about Diamanda Galás Valentine's Day Massacre on February 14 @ The Knitting Factory.

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