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> FLUXLIST-digest Wednesday, March 29 2000 Volume 01 : Number 210
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> In this issue:
> ==============
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> Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
> Re: FLUXLIST: Reed Altemus at the i-zone Gallery
> Re: FLUXLIST: query/ Graham Bond
> Re: FLUXLIST: Reed Altemus at the i-zone Gallery
> Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
> Re: FLUXLIST: As seen on TV
> Re: FLUXLIST: query/ Graham Bond
> FLUXLIST: re: Sun Ra
> Re: FLUXLIST: query
> Re: FLUXLIST: query/ Graham Bond Organisation/Julie Driscoll
> Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
> Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:27:16 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
>
> <bigger>>On 29 Mar 00, at 9:14, Sol Nte wrote:
>
> >
>
> >Reed, "Space is the place" is both the title of a song and the
> title of a
>
> >film Sun Ra made which I believe is now available on video
> but I've not seen
>
> >a copy.
>
> For those of you living in the DC/Baltimore area i know that
> video americain in Baltimore has a copy of it (somewhere in
> the back, possibly in the "camp" section, which is kind of
> annoying) so i would assume that the other locations would
> have copies, or if not they'd probably be able to get it for you
> from Baltimore. They also are going to offer rental by mail to
> people outside the area soon so if you can't find the sun ra film
> (or other great stuff like the joseph beuys "transformer"
> documentary) near you, that will be an option in the near future.
> Their website is www.videoamericain.com .
>
> - - nick<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
>
> <nofill>
>
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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:35:45 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Heiko Recktenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Reed Altemus at the i-zone Gallery
>
> > Alan Bowman who sent the 18 venice carnevale images in one go.....so who
>
> Cries for an animated gif.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:09:43 -0500
> From: Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: query/ Graham Bond
>
> > another important person, together with Keith T. in a public telephone
> > cell phoning with the children somewhere in europe, she had her greatest hits
> > with 16 or so, is Julie Driscoll. And there is Laura Nyro. In the USA.
>
> I've heard of Laura Nyro of course but never actually heard her music. Julie Driscoll
> I'm not familiar with at all, probably because she's European. You mean she had her
> greatest hits when she was 16?
>
> >
> > I think "Graham Bond Organisation" was one of the first bands of John
> > McLaughlin. Has anybody records of this ?
> >
>
> Yes, I know of John McLaughlin if you mean the guitarist who studied Eastern music
>and
> did jazz fusion. Same guy?
>
> RA
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:12:10 -0500
> From: Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Reed Altemus at the i-zone Gallery
>
> Thanks Sol. Look forward to seeing the Pokemon pictures. Sounds great.
>
> RA
>
> Sol Nte wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Well, it's another i-zone gallery update: Reed Altemus has sent me some nice
> > i-zone cards to put up also I've put some more of my own pieces up.
> >
> > One of my pieces is taken with a Pokemon camera which is one of the newer
> > novelty cameras - as you can see it adds a pokemon border to all the photos
> > you take with it. Unfortunately it's so poorly manufactured that not all the
> > film I put through it gets exposed properly. I've had it about 3 months and
> > probably only got a handful of decent photos from several 24 exposure films.
> > That said it's quite something when it works.
> >
> > Now before I end this I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has
> > contributed work to the i-zone gallery and the Fluxus Eye Zone. Thanks for
> > supporting it. I think you've all made it an interesting site to visit. So
> > please keep sending i-zones, novelty photos and Fluxus photoworks. Remember
> > you can send me stuff by snail mail to scan if you don't have a scanner. The
> > address is
> >
> > Sol Nte,
> > 97,Century St.
> > Hanley,
> > Stoke-on-Trent,
> > Staffordshire
> > ST1 5HY
> > UK
> >
> > cheers and thanks to you all,
> >
> > Sol.
> >
> > BTW - The current record holder for most i-zones sent in one instance is
> > Alan Bowman who sent the 18 venice carnevale images in one go.....so who
> > wants to try and break this record? ;-)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:39:12 -0500
> From: Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
>
> Sol,
>
> > lived together - this way of making music is comparable to how Beefheart
> > made Trout Mask replica locking his whole band up together for six months.
> > Sun Ra however used this method of working for much longer, communal living
> > and strict rehearsals.
>
> Regarding Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) and the whole Trout Mask Replica
> sessions thing. Recently, people have raised a question about Beefheart and his
> treatment of his band. Some people think it was a cult and that he brainwashed
> them. There's a book out on him assessing his whole career. Here's the blurb
> from the Small Press Distribution Catalogue:
>
> Bamberger, W.C. Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts of Don
> Van Vliet
> ISBN 0-917453-35-2 2;10pp. paperback Alap Editions 1999. $17.00.
>
> For more than 17 years, Don Van Vliet made music under the name Captain
> Beefheart. When he walked away from music, he turned to his other art and is
> now an internationally known and collected abstract painter. This book looks at
> the phases of Van Vliet's musical career through the lense of the new
> ecological theories of mind which were emerging at the time Captain Beefheart &
> the Magic Band were beginning to record. The result is a unique interpretation
> of Van Vliet's music and motives- "Van Vliet as Gaia microcosm"- which looks at
> both his genius and the darker side of his Captain Beefheart persona. The
> author also offers a detailed analysis of Van Vliet's drawings and paintings
> and suggests that art world acceptance has drastically changed his art- and
> perhaps the artist himself. Illustr. of Van Vliet's paintings are not included.
>
> I'm really not sure where I stand on the whole thing. I have always regarded
> Beefheart as one of the geniuses of rock music, although I must admit I haven't
> heard every one of his records. The records I have heard are some of my
> favorite music though.
>
> >
> > Sun Ra is a fantastic artist. Myke mentioned him saying he was from another
> > planet. Yes, he claimed he was from Saturn. This wasn't serious however but
> > rather he used this as a metaphor for the black man's alienation in a white
> > society.
> >
> > Anyway, I'd love to talk about Sun Ra all day but I've a tonne of work to
> > do. I'd recommend that you all read.
> >
> > Space Is the Place : The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
> > by John F. Szwed
> >
> > Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306808552
> >
> > This is a wonderful biography, carefully researched and giving a lot of
> > detail on Sun Ra's musical influences. Who would have thought he was
> > influenced by Scriabin for example?
> >
> > Reed, "Space is the place" is both the title of a song and the title of a
> > film Sun Ra made which I believe is now available on video but I've not seen
> > a copy.
> >
> > Sun Ra was a pioneer of the black avant-garde. His blend of big band jazz
> > science fiction and mysticism influenced many later artists, most notably
> > George Clinton who also adopted a Sun Ra style of dress and had spaceships
> > land on stage during Parliament concerts.
> >
>
> I've always liked the song "One Nation Under A Groove" isn't it
> Parliament/Funkadelic w/ George Clinton? You know "One nation under a groove,
> getting down just for the funk of it"
>
> >
> > Sun Ra's music however is in a class of it's own. Apparently Sun Ra was once
> > asked to stop playing by the owner of a venue who accused him of playing the
> > music that only God was allowed to play. That says it all.
> >
> > That's a great story. I love it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> RA
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:53:03 -0500
> From: Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: As seen on TV
>
> Yes, I want one too. I'll send you some nice colored artistamps about the
> visionary engineer Vannevar Bush, who it is said predicted hypertext and
> the web in 1945 with his essay in Atlantic magazine titled "As We May
> Think". (see the complete text at
> http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.shtml. The stamps are 4
> computer variations on a photo of Bush with his Differential Analyser,
> the images are blue photocopy and then rubberstamped in orange. BTW I've
> got about 50 of them so if anyone on Fluxlist is interested, I'd be happy
> to send a sheet in trade for something similar (small ephemeral). Just
> send me your snail mail address.
>
> RA
>
> Patricia wrote:
>
> > yesandiwantone - i'll send you a lemon in a c-clamp in exchange. p.s.
> > - your stamp is due zoon - within 2 weeks.
> >
> > kisskiss,
> > ms petalpusher and her rowdy flower kittens
> >
> > allen bukoff wrote:
> >
> > > Think I should turn this into a rubber stamp?
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Name: seen.gif
> > > seen.gif Type: GIF Image (image/gif)
> > > Encoding: base64
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:58:40 +0100
> From: "Gerald O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: query/ Graham Bond
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reed Altemus
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >
> >
> >
> >> another important person, together with Keith T. in a public telephone
> >> cell phoning with the children somewhere in europe, she had her greatest hits
> >> with 16 or so, is Julie Driscoll. And there is Laura Nyro. In the USA.
> >
> >I've heard of Laura Nyro of course but never actually heard her music. Julie
> >Driscoll
> >I'm not familiar with at all, probably because she's European. You mean she had
> >her
> >greatest hits when she was 16?
> >
> >>
> >> I think "Graham Bond Organisation" was one of the first bands of John
> >> McLaughlin. Has anybody records of this ?
> >>
>
> I saw Graham Bond on numerous occasions - Ginger Baker was drummer in
> the Organisation's earliest incarnation (Bond later played in Baker's
> post-Cream 'Airforce'). I'm not sue whether McLaughlin actually recorded
> with Bond though... He may be on an early live album they issued.
>
> Gerald O'Connell
>
> http://www.wonderport.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:00:47 +0100
> From: "Gerald O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: FLUXLIST: re: Sun Ra
>
> Check for re-releases of sixties material originally on the ESP label
> (as I recollect). I heard them at the time. Exceptional.
>
> Gerald O'Connell
>
> http://www.wonderport.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:04:11 -0500
> From: Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: query
>
> Anne, Sol and all,
>
> All this talk about jazz etc. reminds me of the things I listened to in
> college. Anyone ever heard of Rhashan Roland Kirk? I always liked his music a
> lot. It was very comical and he used to play three horns at once.
>
> RA
>
> Ann Klefstad wrote:
>
> > ----------
> > > From: Davidson Gigliotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: query
> > > Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 12:22 PM
> > >
> > > Oh yes, I remember Sun Ra.
> >
> > I saw him in a tiny hall in Santa Monica. The thing about him and his very
> > large Arkestra is that they all lived together for 30 years out in the
> > country, and played together all the time, so they were like a single
> > entity, doing improvisations of a complexity and supernatural tightness
> > that were incredible.
> >
> > His use of common-and-garden popular tunes in these amazingly orchestrated
> > works was also intensely charming (viz Sol's Disney tunes album).
> >
> > A friend told me that he saw Sun Ra blowing a note for many minutes on end
> > (circular breathing), turning in a circle on one leg.
> >
> > I have the album Space is the Place, and some others. He was one of the
> > wonders of the world.
> >
> > AK
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:59:50 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Heiko Recktenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: query/ Graham Bond Organisation/Julie Driscoll
>
> > > with 16 or so, is Julie Driscoll. And there is Laura Nyro. In the USA.
> >
> > I've heard of Laura Nyro of course but never actually heard her music.
>
> Its a pity.
>
> > I'm not familiar with at all, probably because she's European. You mean she had her
> > greatest hits when she was 16?
>
> Yep, together with Brian Auger and the Trinity. Some hits and then some
> kind of early Carla Bley, "1969". And Free Jazz.... Sol probably knows
> more. "Swinging London." Maybe this has some fluxus content...
>
> > Yes, I know of John McLaughlin if you mean the guitarist who studied Eastern music
>and
> > did jazz fusion. Same guy?
>
> Yep ! From England. He did some nice music in 69 with Tony Williams
> Lifetime. "Emergency" was one of my favourite music some years ago.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:07:17 +0100
> From: "Gerald O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
>
> > I have always regarded
> >Beefheart as one of the geniuses of rock music,
>
> I met him in 1974 when I was working on the Virgin label and they signed
> him. I was shocked. He seemed like a burned out shell of a man, going
> through the motions. I tried to talk to him about Howling Wolf (the
> undoubted inspiration for his vocal style) but he was too embarrassed !
>
>
> Gerald O'Connell
>
> http://www.wonderport.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:20:00 PST
> From: "Alex Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Sun Ra
>
> > > lived together - this way of making music is comparable to how Beefheart
> > > made Trout Mask replica locking his whole band up together for six
> >months.
> > > Sun Ra however used this method of working for much longer, communal
> >living
> > > and strict rehearsals.
>
> I knew this crazy guy in Baton Rouge named Aye-A (pronounced "EYE - AY") who
> was percussionist in the Arkestra and lived in Sun Ra's big communal house.
> He said there where different "planets" in the house where the different
> musicians lived. The horn players lived in the Venus part of the house, the
> drummers and piano people in the Saturn part and so on. Sun Ra lived in the
> middle Sun part, though he originally hailed from Saturn. Aye-A himself was
> from outer space. Aye-A said they'd all eat dinner at sundown in the big
> center room and the play until the wee hours of the night.
>
> We kind of doubted he was actually in the Arkestra, since there was no
> mention of him in any of the album notes and he was always talking about
> these famous people he had met and worked with, until some reliable friends
> attended the Sun Ra concert with him at the New Orleans JazzFest back in the
> early 90's. Aye-A and my friends somehow got backstage to meet Sun Ra, where
> Sun Ra was sitting in a big makeshift throne. When he saw Aye-A, he boomed
> "Aye-A, come to me my brother", and gave him a big hug. members of the
> Arkestra went nuts whooping and hollering and started jamming with Aye-A
> pounding on a metal folding chair.
>
> Alex
>
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