Category Archives: music

Nu Groove

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Via Woebot comes this Nu Groove documentary. Pretty representative for the Nu Groove sound is Bobby Konders: The Poem.

Woebot also points us to this Lee Perry interview. From that interview:

Viceland: What are your thoughts on the war in Iraq?

Lee Perry: The war in Iraq was ordained to be and Iraq was supposed to be Babylon, but Mr Bush don’t want Iraq to have the power to know that Iraq is Babylon. Nothing go wrong, it ordained to be so. Otherwise Saddam Hussein will end up being the destruction and Bush would prefer to be the destruction. Babylon was in Iraq, now Babylon in America.

Eno on Can

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Although once described as not requiring real effort in a Curt (Groovy Age) interview, the practice of choosing Youtube clips requires knowledge and patience. So it is with great pleasure I present you this brilliant clip of musician/artist/theorist Brian Eno on German Krautrock band Can. The source of this clip is as of yet unestablished.

Speaking of Groovy Age, guest editor Jaakko is doing a series of posts on Terror Blu, a previously unknown (to me at least) Italian fumetti series. Jaakko has also what appears to be the largest online collection of fumetti available.

John Zorn plays his favourite records

John Zorn plays his favourite records via dmtls

The thing I like to find out most about my favourite artists is who influenced them. Show me your bookcase/record case/video library and I’ll tell you who you are!

A bit about Zorn at Art and Popular Culture.

The originating broadcast is NYC FM, c. a. 1992.

The tracklisting is Mauricio Kagel, Napalm Death, James Blood Ulmer, Hasil Adkins, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Roland Kirk, Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Husker Du, Die Kreuzen, Naked City, Indian Karnatic Jazz (directed by T.K. Ramamurthi), Funkadelic, Beach Boys, Ennio Morricone, John Zorn, Lenny Tristano, very similar to the one found here.

This is the hippest hour of music I’ve’ heard in a long time.