just tryin to go through the emotions over here




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The Emotions

maybe not immediately obvious but this is a song about meeting an alien and being super horny for them even though you don't even understand their body or how their genitals work or anything. so then, in order to talk about anything you have to start from the absolute basics of sound itself. for instance this song takes place in a forest or jungle of some sort where the alien has landed, and once the commotion and initial weirdness has cleared, the two of you start bonding over the sounds of bird mating calls. or, if YOU are the alien visitor, the mating calls of whatever they call birdlike creatures on the planet you landed on. 

possible lyric and/or further exploration video to come, link posted here and embed on www.bley.world


if it helps any, here are the words:

(Sir K'yelb)
light shines through the
obstructing branches
into my eye, though i
never saw this coming
when i saw you landing


fingers of feathers, you lift me up;
i'd fallen between some ferns, overwhelmed.
stand we together but share no tongue
before you sense animal languages.
then, you whistle, just so,
and birds return your note


this one is calling as he starts to fly
that one is calling for he wants to nest
and in this chorus they proclaim their lust
"O, Terra!"


(Molly Moonshine) (@mollymoonshine)
come to me at night, from the black sky
teach me how to sing, i'll teach you how to fly
when we take on flight, we'll fly by, and high
take me to the star, far away [repeat]


(Sir K'yelb)
where you're from
is love a fruit in abundance?
is it shimmering?
air full of chirping,
aroused by a constellation rising


this one is calling for she wants to nest
that one is calling as she starts to fly
and in this forest they proclaim their lust
"O, Terra!"

Terra Birdcall f. Molly Moonshine

LSessionD part II

by Sir K'yelb

video version https://vimeo.com/795261158

2022
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Witness To A Stardeath

the archive continues...

set list at bottom

Ubi Sabubi
live at Mayfest
May 2000
Portage, Michigan

Chad Thorner - guitar/vox
Tim Tackett Hi Fi - bass/vox
Funk Noka (Sir K'yelb) - drums/vox/guitar

with guests
Leah White - vox
Jake Bolton - trumpet/vox

00:00 Falling Down
02:27 @ Korean Korner
03:49 Jello Shooter
05:29 BMB
08:15 99 Luftbaloons (Nena cover)
11:20 Levin's
13:33 Cel and Toby
15:25 My Name's The Same
17:25 San Dimas High School Football Rules (The Ataris cover)
20:02 Broken Bass String Interlude (incl. Time Of Your Life, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, more)
23:40 Friday I'm In Love (The Cure cover)
26:12 Kyoto Noise
28:21 M+M's (Blink 182 Cover)
31:22 In Your Dreams (Riverdales cover)
35:43 Slowfast
37:49 Connecticut Avenue
39:54 Seems So Far
42:32 Plans For The Year
45:11 I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams (Weezer cover)

48:24 Dinner At The Manhole (actual first track, cut for bad phasing issues)

Live at Mayfest 2000

Ubi Sabubi - Full Set - Live at Mayfest 2000

the archive continues...

track list below

this long lost tape comes from early 2003, about a year after I began pivoting away from guitar to try out the piano

00:00 Pianoshaker
04:28 The Whole World Is Underwater Again 
08:22 Lonely Carnies 
13:06 Sweet Groove Down 
18:22 Follow That Shine (f. H.M. Roussi)
20:57 Untitled

PIANO TAPE #1

CONFUSOR - PIANO TAPE #1

archival doesn't mean awesome, guys

this is the first digitized Six Shoes jam. The rest are still spread out across dozens of cassettes including some on 4-track tapes from long-gone machines so...we'll see.

Bad Bad (Real Bad) Basement Jam

Six Shoes - Bad Bad (Real Bad) Basement Jam

a small handful of archival demo singles from a quarter century ago—like as in 1998—never until now seeing the light of day

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old kafka music

KAFKA - old kafka music

been particularly looking forward to getting this archival gem online...

Track list below credits

JW2BLS: SPED ARMY ANTHEMS
by The Po-Dunk All-Stars
Kalamazoo, Michigan 1999

Tim Tackett - guitar, vocals
Seth Kolon - Guitar, bass, vocals
Jon Emmons - bass, vocals
Jake Bolton - trumpet, vocals
Pat McCarthy - trombone
Funk Noka Norton - drums, vocals, keys

Both tape sides appear here as one continuous track.

SIDE A
00:00 - Matador / There's No "H" In Jon
02:13 - Orange Pop Song
04:15 - Everything's So Green: TAKE 1 (Fuckup)
05:41 - Everything's So Green: TAKE 2
07:58 - The Missing Link

SIDE B
09:08 - Orange Pop Song first demo
10:43  - 2 prank calls
13:33 - The White Rappers' Rap
16:11 - Subliminal Messages
23:05 - Now You Suck first demo

JW2BLS: SPED ARMY ANTHEMS

The Po-Dunk All-Stars: "JW2BLS: SPED ARMY ANTHEMS" - full cassette

Samples:
from "I Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes
from "Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense" and "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems" by Yusef Komunyakaa (read by C. Charles Bley)
from "The Mask" and "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

Backing track from "Okiwowo (Uzi Café Remix)" by Sir K'yelb

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Langston Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa (read by Bley), Maya Angelou - music/editing by BL+EYE

Langston Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa (read by Bley), Maya Angelou - music/editing by Sir K'yelb

Recorded 5.13.2012 in Kalamazoo, Michigan

A musical excerpt from "Enbleyclopedia", a poetry collection/audiobook by C. Charles Bley. This song is a reworking of "Fractals," recorded by Sir K'yelb in 2002 (under the name Funk Noka, on the album "This Is East Hall").

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Fractals, Salt Waters

2008

originally from "Number Two Most Miscellaneous"



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The Seek Opus

Graceful Birds

2008

originally from "Number One Most Miscellaneous"

Number One Most Miscellaneous

Big Window

I'm No Good f. Sage

Waitin In A Box

Waitin In A Box f. DJ Eric P

Matador & Orange Pop Song LIVE 1999

The Po-Dunk All-Stars - "Matador & Orange Pop Song" LIVE

Turkey Sister Live

tracks and tracks and tracks by or featuring Sir K'yelb fka Chouchou fka Chri$ Tycoon fka CONFUSOR fka Funk Noka

more tracks..and full albums..and low quality music videos..at bley.world/arts/sound

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