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Bardo of Becoming – Srid pai Bardo

Kyema! Dag La Si pa Bar do Tschar Dü dir / Dün pa tseg tschig sem la sung dschä nä / Sang po lä gyi tröl nen gyi tü / Ngäl go gag nä ru Lo dren par dscha / nying rü dag nang gö pai dü chig Yin / mig ser pang nä Lama yab yum gom.

Kyema! (O now),when the Bardo of (taking) Rebirth upon me is dawning! May I be able to continue the course of good Karma through repeated efforts; May the womb -door be closed and the revulsion recollected; The time has come when perserverance and pure view of the circumstances are needed. In order to meditate without jealousy upon the Guru father-mother in union (yab-yum).

Too funny not to post. As reported by the BBC:

“A giant inflatable pig which floated away during a Roger Waters concert at the weekend has been recovered in tatters in California. The pig, which measured the width of two buses, was found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta. They will split the $10,000 (£5,090) reward offered by the Coachella music festival, from where the pig was lost. The inflatable pig bore the image of a ticked ballot box for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on its underbelly”

Orchestre Regional de Kayes – Badage

Just in time for summer. Portland’s Mississippi records (their shop is a must see if you hit up PDX) does it again with another awesome reissue pulled from the aether. These folks seem to be sitting pretty on a pile of timeless jams…keep ’em coming.

Terry Riley talks about what brought him to the sounds of the East, repetitive musics, minimalism, and getting in touch with the universe.

Some nice footage of Pandit Pran Nath lending vocals to a sunshine living room jam as well. Short but sweet. Yeah!

Sorry for the delay on this one.

Loren Chasse (Thuja, The Blithe Sons, The Child Readers), played a solo set as Of the other night using the following: large sheet of butcher paper, bowl of sand, twigs, pine needles and leaves, hammer dulcimer, bow, clock, flashlight, glass bottle and electronics. Stunning set, the kind of sounds you hear in the background of your dreams, up close in whispers while you’re having a conversation with Borges.

Unfortunately we had to leave early and weren’t able to get any pics of Lulacruza.

Carlos Giffoni – III

Bottrop-Boy continue their string of good times with this new heavy batch from Mr. Giffoni. Not at all what I expected to hear, Eternal Noise is more big sky than heavy dirt. Not to say that it doesn’t get ugly at times, but the four tracks on this disc have a lot more in common with long form maximal introspection rather than brain bending circuit crust. Actually, it’s really kinda pretty at times. No, really!
Pick it up here

If you don’t know the name Maryanne Amacher, get to know it. Amacher is widely known for her epic site-specific sound installations that often times take up multiple rooms and require multiple speaker systems and crushing volumes.

I remember reading an article on her in The Wire back in 1999 and just being floored by the descriptions of her work. After picking up Sound Characters, on Tzadik, I’ve been obsessed with her output. Though she is often lauded for her “third ear music” (psychoacoustic illusions and the perception that the sounds are coming from one’s own head), I was always more interested in her long-form drone pieces that would take hours, or even days to fade out, creating an after-aural image in the ear/mind, similar to how staring at the sun leaves a burned ring in your vision. Seriously heavy.  

Ecstatic Peace has got a great couple of clips from the film “Daytrip Maryanne” on their website. Poor Thurston Moore has his ears ravaged to the delight of Ms. Amacher.