Open Collab by noxpox
https://soundcloud.com/noxpox-page11

Original Track
https://soundcloud.com/noxpox-page11/noxpox-kannmangebrauchencan-be-used

noxpox - kannmangebrauchen (Insatiable Void Remix)

Together

I treated myself to a copy of the Grateful Dead's Cornell show from the spring of 1977 a few birthdays back.  I spent some time in Barton Hall over the years when working at the UC and saw Bob Dylan there when in college.  Considered by some to be one of the best shows the Dead ever performed, the center piece of  the show is an epic Fire On The Mountain that I have been flirting with the last few years.  I could jam on those two chords for hours and recently decided to put my spin on it.  More shoegaze than anything, brought to you here with nothing but love.

Music and words by Hunter and Hart/The Grateful Dead.

Fire On The Mountain (Grateful Dead Cover)

With the upcoming Keith Rowe celebration in Berlin just around the corner, reflecting upon how Prepared Guitar noise crossed cultural boundaries. Pink Floyd in 66/67 a band of the London arts scene. Legend has it that Keith Rowe influenced Syd Barret to do improper things for the guitar that no other Pink Floyd guitarist cared to explore. I found this idea more plausible than Syd being stoned or aggressive -- although both artists might have found they shared a transgressive feeling for how such noises are the thang to challenge the thinking about the thang. While there's nothing in Syd's guitar sound surpassing anything Hendrix hadn't blown through several times with the vitality of ten thousand cats, it's also more complicated to think it through the Keith Rowe perspective. Hendrix's path, in my reading, was, yes, to found his own sound, gain his freedom, but also to destroy the white western exploitation culture with the rage of the slave uprising through the electrified blues and render, as a result, an American problem and treasure. In the last days, Jimi wanted to bring it back home and play deep electro-acoustic blues and rock the studio like CAN influenced by Stockhausen on shrooms. Keith's sound was already detached from folk traditions, more consciously post-modern (self-historicizing, self-contextualizing -- to lay the emotional guitar down, pushed away from the body), and few people really want to deal with that new kind of wilderness he explored in HARSH, where you see shards of what he maybe transmitted to Syd and which Jimi knew very well but never lived to take out of the rock and roll physicality context. Prepared Guitar music doesn't really exist if the guitar is not really involved, though. This track is all about those cross-over moments between the psychedelic movement and fluxus and free improv and indeterminacy. Syd was still in a rock band rooted in the Black Music of the Colonies and then they got rid of him. Noise has maybe messages beyond human aesthetic.

Syd B Keith R

Blooming guitar tone experiments with an open tuning & new strings.

Enjoy!

Magnolias in bloom on Westbourne Grove, London W11.

Being in Bloom

Fetthenne

Remembrance

The Ambient Saxophone

Journey to Moon River

Rituals of the Moonlit Current//The Journey//Theorems of Tidal Longing

Rituals of the Moonlit Current

Where everything dwells

Senglar & Wilhelm Matthies - Kays

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Syd B Keith R

Jeff Gburek