More pictures / videos to go with music here :)
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Part IV of the 4 x track Control EP.  Best served with port and wine or three other tracks in the correct cooking order 🫠

So controlled

Another Day Another Lifetime

UnBoxed June 2024
Original recording by the incredible Jessica Rafuse @indiazi
Reimagined and embellished by Out of the Box
Cover image : Jessica Rafuse

[ d o w n l o a d a b l e ]

OUT OF THE BOX / INDIAZI - Take Me By Storm

Norse  Metal

photo - https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-fern-plant-884547/

Verdigris Part Two

Double Dare

I do not know why I choose the successful reggae duo as the unfortunate protagonists of my little ecological horror story in which they come face to face with the MOSS MUMMY, but I bet they gave it HELL!!!

CHAKA
CHAKA
CHAKA
DEMUS
OH
CHAKA
CHAKA
DEMUS
AND PLIeRS
PLIeRS
CHAKA
CHAKA
CHAKA
DEMUS
AND PLIeRS
VERSUS
VERSUS
THEY'RE VERSUS
CHAKA DEMUS
AND PLIeRS
VERSUS
EVERYONE
JUST ABOUT EVERYONE
OK LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS
WHAT ARE WE DEALING WITH ?

SPAGNUM MOSS
THAT CAME TO LIFE
TO HUNT YOU DOWN
AND STEAL YOUR WIFE ?
GOD'S GREEN GlOOp
COVERED IN JUICE
IT TOOK A FULL MOON 
TO SET IT LOOSE
ON…YOUR RAGGA

ChAKA DeMUS AnD PLIeRS VeRSUS THE MOsS MUMmY

method: field recordings, virtual instruments, voice
narration: some of the dirty secrets of self-awareness in relationships ... and one way of dealing with them; this also is an exercise in recovering the integrity of poems that have been belittled, willfully ignored  and poked fun at quite some time ago
image: actually, the device depicted - called a multimemo - before the image was distorted, that is - is included in creating this soundscape, which was somewhat inspired by and refers to elo-covers ....  although those are quite different .... the cover for an album called 'out of the blue'' and the  cover for an album  a friend understood to mean "disco - very". He was a genius musician who already earned an entertainer's income while going to middle school in the 1970s  ... thanks to his hammond and his talent. Only in later years did I understand myself....  that the syncretism of 'disc', 'discovery' and the images of ali baba and a uap is an astonishing feat in itself. copyright jo richter.

poem / copyright jo richter
(as published in 'halb loh, halb zunder, halb glanz):

als sie nicht mehr logen
fühlten sie sich bloß
wie tiere ohne fell
wie fische ohne meer
ein jeder wind blies kalt
im ozean aus luft

sie rezitierten laut
ihr alphabet der furcht
wieder und wieder
im hoffen auf götter
der himmel blieb leer

bis auf zwei vögel

die kreisten auf suche
nach beute und fleisch

interlinear translation; apart from two birds // when they had stopped lying / they felt as naked / as animals without fur / as fish without the seas / and each kind of wind / blew with a chill in the airy oceans // they chanted out loud / their alphabet of fear / again and again / hoping for gods / when heavens remained empty // apart from two birds // circling, looking / for fresh prey and meat //

bis auf zwei vögel

I Overlooked An Orchid- Gene Jumper, ( cover ) Micky Gilly.

Yolksit Tigerol

Running Out Of Time

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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