Black Acid Rock - S/D

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Both are bad trip good trip bad trip good and continuing.

dow, Saturday, 2 September 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link

So has n obody picked up taht latest Vernon Joynson book. Thought at least somebody here might have.
Were dow's comments intended to be on this thread?

Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link

Yep. Also digging Araminta by Harriet Tubman: veteran jazz-rock-etc. power trio x trumpet of Wadada Leo Smith, who's more consistently aggressive (or less passive-agressive) than electric Miles, though some of it might be descended from Jack Johnson and/or something else involving Sonny Sharrock, though no keyboards or any instruments beyond those of trio and intermittent guest---they got pedals etc., no need for more. Not sure about some of the fades yet, but some killer tracks like "Nina Simone", with sonic knives all around, as in her dreams (just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you). Also they could be part of her armory; she could get pretty militant on concert tapes.
Some other tracks here: http://sunnysidezone.com/album/araminta

dow, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

Somebody torrented one of teh Harriet Tubman lps a couple of months back. I hadn't come across them before that.

But at the moment I really want to find out about that book before spending €40+ on it.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber's All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity incl. elements of jazz and hip hop/use of tape effects (in fact the whole thing might be tape, sound quality/ambience/timbre etc not quite the bandcamp usual)m but def black acid rock, in fact it pertains to The Electric Kool=Aid Acid Test's distinction between Leary & co.'s set and setting (preparing mind and its surroundings for thee trip) vs. Merry Pranksters' WHEE HONK HONK HAPPY BIRTHDAY LET'S GO LET GO UH-OH, complete with untrained honking ect. because no matter how carefully you groom, you don't know what's around the next turn, and being a control freak can make it worse---or that's the idea anyway.
Not quite the same here, because, as a prodigal Prankster eventually observes on the book, Kesey and his favorites could be like high school golden boys etc,, and this album conveys more of a sense of something precarious, something at stake on both sides. The punk stakes a claim to "My Black Uncertainty", gets equally powerful push-back from "Throw Some Light", cosmic ballads meet guitar skidmarks upside the heart and "Quoth The Raven" and two versions of "Are U Insane?" Not a rhetorical question. Also, what's with put-downs of gentrification if you're from the projects or just can't take upward mobility or even running place for granted anymore, no matter where you're from. Or is that just bullshit rationalization, also(that one gets pushback in the same song). Anyway, science friction etc(zombies can be strength in numbers btw, or that's a suggestion here):
https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/all-you-zombies-dig-the-luminosity

dow, Friday, 24 November 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link

"prodigal Prankster observes in the book," I meant. Think it's Sandy who leaves and comes back and sees things this way now, the jocks and the cheerleaders and the geeks and so on (and if you ever catch any of the Pranksters' posted home movies, when they're playing on the beach and cavorting on the bus and so on, can seem just like his take).

dow, Friday, 24 November 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link

Not that they didn't take things pretty far.

dow, Friday, 24 November 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link

(that one gets pushback in the same song): maybe not in the words, not all of which I've caught, but the sound, the very electric instrumental activity vs. quiet voice.

dow, Friday, 24 November 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link

three years pass...

If this link doesn't work, search YouTube for: DEATH--Live in Paris!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DPGADAkT3I

dow, Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

dig this: Various – Function Underground: The Black And Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974. it's on spotify!

stumbled across it while making a lil playlist for myself via "maggot brain" thread.

budo jeru, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 23:28 (six months ago) link

Thank you, budo jeru!!!

dow, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 03:01 (six months ago) link


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