TRACKLIST:

Banana Moon Prologue
Finis Africae - “Suite Amazónica”
Steve Kuhn - “The Meaning of Love”
Tony Esposito - “Caucciu”
Eden Ahbez - “The Old Boat”
Hermeto Paschoal - “Sereiarei”
Reuben Bell & The Casanovas - “It’s Not That Easy”
Phil Yost - “Bent City II”
Orchestre Jamel - “Martha Au Clair”
John Martyn - “Couldn’t Love You More”
The Godz - “The Mind”
Lyn Christopher - “Take Me With You”
Peter Ivers - “Child In A Chair”
Hiroshi Sato - “Blue And Moody Music”
Tom Zé - “A Felicidade”
Cerro Verde - “I Lost A Game”
Jean Wells - “Have A Little Mercy”
Captain Beefheart - “81 Poop Hatch”
Michael Henderson - “Stay With Me This Summer”

Sam Davis's Album

Episode 1, 9/4/2016

Tales From The Banana Moon:  Hair Trouble Bañaña

(performed by Lucy Lindsey)

When I entered, the groomer was sitting at his desk waiting for me, as though he had been staring at his side of the door for some time. He intended to project sympathy but he appeared smug with a disingenuous child’s puppy-dog eyes. Holographic accreditations flickered around him like stars. He swatted at any that disrupted prolonged eye contact. Animated crests and cascading ribbons circled his head in responsive, variable orbits. Most were from institutions I recognized, some even from Earth. A few were from depths I’d never heard of. Something that looked like a stone plaque crumbled to pebbles and then rejoined in lewd couplings of alien anatomy.

His hair moved similarly, which is to say constantly. It would rise and crash in waves, threading itself through loops and hollows, simulating waving fields of wheat at sunset. Once, it even flashed a human hand making a peace sign.

My procedure went without incident. It was over sooner than I had expected. The receptionist rang me up for the set of Tiny-Hairvesters that replaced my malfunctioning structured array. I was disappointed. It had been a boutique array and cost more than I could afford. Over 80% recycled hardware and all locally sourced. It ran on full photosynthemic solar with a hybrid frictive battery which was distributed across the array. And it was a great haircut too. Very simple. Clean and close cropped, vaguely military. The developer was a Buddhist monk and only offered the one style. In theory.

My own hair had been stuck in a cycle of forward shuffling triangle waves in parallel rows, all advancing toward my hairline at different speeds. There was no customer support but I had the developer’s personal card. He was on extremely deep vacation, a meditation retreat beyond my cheap tight beam. After hitting reset for the hundredth time, I felt as though I was definitively out of options. My hair was a squat, haunted by the rhumba of a fatally compromised array.

The groomer was taken aback that I’d want to disrupt such an artful display. He spoke at length of how fascinating it was that the style was generated exclusively by corrupt feedback local to the array. To him, this made it almost organic, even a naturally occurring aesthetic sentience. His diatribe bordered on the spiritual, saying more than once what a unique experience he was having. He seemed genuinely moved. 

I tried to be polite but I was in a bit of a rush. As I had already done with friends and paparazzi, I insisted that it simply wasn’t what I had paid for.

Phantom Band - “E.F. 1”
Tim Maia - “You Don’t Know What I Know”
Seaside Lovers - “Melting Blue”
Bernard Edwards - “You Don’t Know Me”
Steely Dan - “Only A Fool Would Say That”
Robert Wyatt - “The Age of Self”
The Technique All Stars - “Stalag 17 Version”
Joni Mitchell - “The Jungle Line”
Peter Hammill - “The Second Hand”
Boscoe - “He Keeps You”
Ramases - “Dying Swan Year 2000”
Jorge Ben - “Cinco Minutos”
The Next Exit - “Take A Look At Your Friends”
Haruomi Hosono - “Bara To Yaju”
Twilight - “I Wonder Who”
Labi Siffre - “When I’m On My Own You Are On My Mind” 
Hall & Oates - “When The Morning Comes”
Emmitt Rhodes - “Mirror”
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - “In A Sydney Motel”
Harry Nilsson - “I’ll Be Home”


Episode 2: Hair Trouble Bañaña

“Mazes” by Ursula K. Le Guin, pt. 1, read by Dean Kissick
Traditional music of the Philippines recorded by Pribislav Pitoëff - “Kulilal Ni Barangajan”

Mick Karn - “Passion In Moisture”
John Martyn - “Save Some (For Me)”
Spike - “Fooling Around”
Max Romeo & The Upsetters - “War Ina Babylon”
Philip Catherine - “Nairam”

“Mazes” pt. 2
Finis Africae - “Hombres Trueno”

Masonic Wonders - “I Call Him”
Patto - “The Man”
Meredith Monk - “Lullaby”
Lee Oskar - “Haunted House”
Julie Tippetts - “Oceans And Sky (And Questions Why?)”
Todd Rundgren - “Cliche”

“Mazes” pt. 3
Ash Ra Tempel - “Silence Sauvage”

Episode 3: MAZES

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