People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

 Jim Morrison

Harsh Reality Metamorphis

The oldest hawthorn in the United Kingdom is the Hethel Old Thorn. It grows in the churchyard in a small village called Hethel in Norfolk and is over 700 years old. According to Celtic mythology, the hawthorn is a sacred plant, which is popular with fairies. The hawthorn’s associations with supernatural powers continue until today

Beware The Hawthorn Fairy Tree

This is the first take of a track for a Comp being put together by Bode Gustave .... three guesses who the comp is in honor of

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

David Lynch

You Have Been Lynched

Holy is the mouse. Holy is the grain the mouse eats. Holy is the seed. Holy are we.. Holy to everything on Earth

The Experimentalist (Part 1)

Not sure if this track will make the Album.... lol then again not sure if The Experimentalist will make that Album goal.....

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.

Harold Edmund

The Experimentalist (The Madness Shining Through)

Swamp Donkey & TaRka - Unsocial Media

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

 Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange (The Inner Workings)

The Experimentalist will be out tomorrowish on Harsh Reality Music... link in the fruit basket as Hecklefish would say...  This track... Fuck knows, was messin' about... but the demise of this western Empire and it is demising rapidly.. seemed a place to venture artistically  - but who knows, these things can change as rapidly as Trumps orange tint :)

Music For The Death Of A Western Empire (Prologue)

If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to sell their labour power. All the physical and intellectual capacities existing in human beings, in their personalities, which must be set in motion to produce useful things, can only be used if they are sold in exchange for wages. Labour power is usually perceived as a commodity bought and sold nearly like all others. The existence of exchange and wage-labour seems normal, inevitable. Yet the introduction of wage-labour involved conflict, resistance, and bloodshed. The separation of the worker from the means of production, now an accepted fact of life, took a long time and was accomplished by force.
In England, in the Netherlands, in France, from the sixteenth century on, economic and political violence expropriated craftsmen and peasants, repressed indigence and vagrancy, imposed wage-labour on the poor. Between 1930 and 1950, Russia decreed a labour code which included capital punishment in order to organise the transition of millions of peasants to industrial wage-labour in less than a few decades. Seemingly normal facts: that an individual has nothing but his labour power, that he must sell it to a business unit to be able to live, that everything is a commodity, that social relations revolve around market exchange… such facts now taken for granted result from a long, brutal process.
By means of its school system and its ideological and political life, contemporary society hides the past and present violence on which this situation rests. It conceals both its origin and the mechanism which enables it to function. Everything appears as a free contract in which the individual, as a seller of labour power, encounters the factory, the shop or the office. The existence of the commodity seems to be an obvious and natural phenomenon, and the periodic major and minor disasters it causes are often regarded as quasi-natural calamities. Goods are destroyed to maintain their prices, existing capacities are left to rot, while elementary needs remain unfulfilled. Yet the main thing that the system hides is not the existence of exploitation or class (that is not too hard to see), nor its horrors (modern society is quite good at turning them into media show). It is not even that the wage labour/capital relationship causes unrest and rebellion (that also is fairly plain to see). The main thing it conceals is that insubordination and revolt could be large and deep enough to do away with this relationship and make another world possible.

I Am Not A Commodity

Swamp Donkey

Music is well said to be the speech of angels

Gypsy has been active in the underground music scene since the very early 80's, . An original and complex Audio Sculpted Psychedelic project founded during the 80s ... Music/soundscapes created by Gypsy working as Arzathon, Dreamtime Troubadours, Trolls on Acid, Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste, featuring many notable artist from the underground scene....., Creating Music that draws you in, a spiritual /tribal experience like no other. Some pieces are heavily influenced by early krautrock infectious grooves but the whole musical signature consists of audio sculpted psychedelic electronic epics covered by harmonized acid rockin' dynamics. Largely improvised and a dangerously lysergic sounding experience.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

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