Category Archives: music

He was always tinkering

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Via >dmtls Merzbau

Active since April 2007, DMTLS is my kind of blog. His tags (upon tagging considered a fine art) tell much of the story:

20th century composer art avant-garde bizarre book cinema culture erotic-grotesque erotic art experimental fetish fluxus gothic grotesque Hermann Nitsch horror industrial jazz John Zorn John Zorn related modern classical music musick neofolk noise NYC photography surrealism video Vienna Aktionists

Already linked at another Jahsonic favourite Esotika Erotica Psychotica, >dmtls Merzbau is off for an promising start.

Sex beats

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“Yesterday in 1981, Gun Club released their debut single, “Sex Beat“. It was backed by “Ghosts On The Highway“. Both songs appeared on their debut album, Fire of Love. The Los Angeles band went through numerous personnel changes. At various points in their career, they had Patricia Morrision (ex-The Bags, later Sisters Of Mercy and The Damned), Rob Graves (ex-The Bags, future 45 Grave), Terry Graham (ex-The Bags) and Kid Congo Powers (future The Cramps).” On this date in 80s music history.

Liebestod

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Liebestod (German, “Love’s Death”) is the title of a song from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.

As a literary term liebestod (from German Liebe, love and tod, death) it refers to the literary theme of erotic death or love death meaning the two lovers’ consummation of their love in death or after death.

Two-sided examples include Tristan und Isolde, Romeo and Juliet and to some degree Wuthering Heights, one-sided examples Porphyria’s Lover and The Sorrows of Young Werther.

The joint suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and lover Henriette Vogel is often associated with the liebestod theme.

Wikiwikiwiki

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Excuse the light posting recently. The reason being that I am converting Jahsonic.com to a MediaWiki which takes a lot of time. I would like to ask your help. I am especially looking for technically skilled people.

At this moment I am looking for someone to write a WikiMedia bot to automate some simple tasks.

Contact me at jwgeerinck at hotmail.com if you want to help out.

P. S. : the song is Newcleus’s Jam On It, “the theme song to Wikipedia” due to “the little chipmunk-funk voices” that go ‘wikiwikiwiki‘.

Latin hustles and European folksongs


Soul Jazz presents: New York Latin Hustle (2007) – Various
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New York’s melting pot of Puerto Rican, Cuban and Afro-American musicians led to stunning culture clashes in the 1960s and 70s when Latin styles mixed with Funk, Disco, Soul and Jazz to produce new hybrids such as Boogaloo, Latin Jazz, Disco and Salsa. All these are featured in Soul Jazz Records latest journey into Latin music, New York Latin Hustle.

The record features all the kings of Latin music – Tito Puente, Machito, Eddie Palmieri, Candido, Ray Barretto and many more, alongside rarer, lesser known names.
In the 1960s Fania Records and Tico Records released stunning Latin Boogaloo, Descargas, Latin Soul from the emerging New York Latin scene. In the 1970s, Salsoul Records similarly mixed Salsa, Soul and Funk to release stunning Latin Disco crossover material such as Candido’s ‘Dancin and Prancin’, which would go on to be a million seller.
New York Latin Hustle brings all this together and features Latin music from all these styles, labels and eras.

The album comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography. –Soul Jazz

On an entirely different note, I’d like to introduce this album:


Brossa d’Ahir (1977) – Pep Laguarda & Tapineria
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What do I know of this album? Nothing much except that it was produced or engineered by Daevid Allen (Soft Machine, Gong), that it sounds somewhat like this, that it’s sung in Mallorquí (Majorcan Catalan), that my brother discovered it via Jens Lekman and that it is recommended for Joanna Newsom fans.