Love how the contrasting juxtapositions express the essence of this haiku!

My good friend https://soundcloud.com/delirium-funk gave me his Bastl Kastle to play with ... and this rainy, ricey ritual little number slowly emerged from that crazy little box! Enjoy! 😁😜

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies

Takarai Kikaku was one of the most accomplished disciples of Matsuo Bashō, famous also for writing a manuscript describing his master’s final days, and the immediate aftermath of his death.

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takarai_Kikaku

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF rituaL [naviarhaiku599]

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku599-rain-rituals/

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku

Picture by Ritz

KiKaKuKaKi [ naviarhaiku599 ]

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal
 

Submission deadline: 9th July 2025
 
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Thinking Of Us (NaviarHaiku600)

The first sentence of Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig is, "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning."

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

halF icanseebymywatcH [disquiet0705]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 03 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 600: Thinking Of Us.

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

by: Andrea Cecon

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life… 

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper  (naviarhaiku600)

This track is part of the Naviar Haiku Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

Wind through pine trees-sample: Wind pine trees 190307_1313.flac by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/462783/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

among the pines-naviarhaiku600

"Run here, my towhead grandchillen, and let this geezer dandle you upon his knee." - Lester Bangs

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 04 & 05 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, effects

The first sentence in Lester Bangs' posthumous collection "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" is also the first sentence in the essay with the same title. While ostensibly a record review of the Count Five, it's more accurately a work of fiction. Since the early '90s, I haven't read many complete books beyond instructional ones—instead, I graze for inspiration and create my own works. So I pulled out a Kindle app, scrolled until I found a past favorite and here I am.

What I tried to do is capture all sorts of miscommunication—be it literally Lester imagining himself a grandfather (something I don't believe he ever became), or the way he writes in a slang he probably did not speak, in character. Or my own generation (X) trying to figure out the noise of the generation prior ("who cares about Woodstock when there was Love, garage punks, Pet Sounds and the VU?" was my way of thinking at approximately 20). Or how some of this has not aged well since Lester wrote it, and I know he, being of some conscience and allowing himself revisions and growth might approach it differently now. In the same book, read “The White Noise Supremacists” to experience him struggling with it an emerging skinhead culture. Then, perhaps, how people younger or otherwise different than myself would react to this writer.

The title is an obvious nod at Lester’s character's stolen vernacular and also a reference to an anonymous woman long ago who left a message on an answering machine of my co-improviser where the outgoing message was a snippet of some improv we’d done. She left a message that it was “ugly music.” 

The synths I used here are; Cherry Audio's ARP 2600 & Minimoog emulations; Arturia's DX7; Korg's M1; and the Puremagnetik Klome through a Moogerfooger filter and other things for the textural, almost percussive stuff.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “You Some Ugly Child” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start. The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

You Some Ugly Child (disquiet0705)

Deep bass for deep space and deep lights.

Naviar Haiku 601
pulling light
from the other world...
the Milky Way

Deep Lights (Naviar Haiku 601)

Who does she misses?

Dark Ambient Music inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos cult. Be scared and enjoy!

CTHULHU MYTHOS: OUT OF BODY

I'm Not You

Making music is about being surprised.
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Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper (naviarhaiku600)

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