Sublevel communiqué #1: by Jim Shaw & Cary Loren, recorded in the basement of the mobile-homestead at the opening, May 11, 2013.
http://www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/2013/07/13/mobile-homestead-communique-1/

communiqué #1: sublevel mould sessions

A fragment from The Legend of Mothman - a shadow puppet play. Mothman performed by Rob St. Mary.

Mothman Solliliquy

Recorded on Nov. 22nd, 1964 at the Detroit Artists Workshop. James Semark voice, John Dana: bass, Danny Spencer : percussion, Charles Moore: horn.

James Semark pioneered a type of early proto-rap form that he called the rhythm ballads. These compositions were "investigative verse" works; long tripped-out epic poems set to jazz music that undertook the study and description of jazz legends; John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and even a judgment day "jazz-poem in heaven" of Edmund Zwingy, an imaginary be-bop star. He began to put the ballads to syncopated sound beats around 1964, inspired by jazz drummer Danny Spencer practicing in a basement room next to his own, in the John Lodge Detroit Artist Workshop rooming house known as "The Castle".

James Semark: The John Coltrane Rhythm Ballad

"Useless Life" is a live track recorded on cassette, written by Cary Loren and performed  by Destroy All Monsters in 1975. Vocals, Mike Kelley, guitar: Jim Shaw and Cary Loren, violin: Niagara. Recorded at Gods Oasis, Ann Arbor. This is an extended 13 minute version that has not appeared before.

Useless Life

Raw tracks from the last scene in the Legend of Mothman and Spookhaus Apokalypse where President Trump conspires with the living dead, the Master Cylinder and moon monsters to destroy the planet and steal the magic bag from Felix. All voices performed by Rob St. Mary, written and directed by Cary Loren. and performed with Monster Island live at Trinosophes, Detroit 2015.

Spookhaus Apokalypse (last scene)

A sample from the Boofland Babylon soundtrack, created from TV, radio, recording and film samples circa 1960s Detroit. Collected by Cary Loren and Michael Zadoorian,  randomized with added special effects in four channels by Leith Campbell. Boofland Babylon is a multi-media installation that opens Thurs. April 9th, at MOCAD, and every weekend through April, 2015.  

Boofland Babylon

Track 5 from Dream Tiger CD (2000) by Monster Island, vocals & violin by Erika Hoffman-Dilloway, African percussion: Efe Bes, Chinese Organ: Matthew Smith, bells: Aran Ruth, guitar, moog, words & music : Cary Loren

Monster Island: Halloween

From the cd-r release Lonely Street: Tender Moments from the Mobile Homestead. A live recording at the Mobile Homestead, Detroit by Jim Shaw and Cary Loren. A limited edition release of 100 copies was  produced for the exhibition 'Destroy All Monsters: A Manifesto of Ignorance' held at the Horse Hospital in London, September, 2016.

riding the ghost cock

A Hiroshima memorial recorded 50 years after the first atomic bomb dropped on Aug. 6, 1945, from the Monster Island Lp "From the Michigan Floor" -- on The End is Here.

Hiroshima Bop  
 
Our shadows on the sand were a kama sutra trance
Shadows and moaning in a Hiroshima  dance
Our bodies were the shadows in the Emperor’s hand
It was teenage hari-kari  a Graceland band
And 10,000 suns that could vaporize
A fire in the mind, like a Hiroshima dance
And 10,000 girls that can hypnotize
A fire in the mind, like a Hiroshima dance

That Hiroshima Bop was all over the planet
From the Capital steps to an Eboli village
From the lakes of Ichigoomi to the shores of Tripoli
To the islands off of Bali to the beach at Bikini

Kali was unleashed and there’s no place to hide
In the hot boiling ocean the serpents are alive
And you won’t know a thing once you take that ride
‘Cuz the furnace in your body is growin’ inside 

Hiroshima Bop  was all over the planet
From the killing fields of Asia  to the streets of L.A.
From the Amazon forest and the roads in Bombay
On the hills of Sarajevo to Jerusalem walls

All the people keep a stomping to Hiroshima Bopping
And we keep the beat going counting shadows on the sand
‘till our bodies were the shadows and the shadows are the land
Apocalyptic shadows  you can feel them coming on
A cry inside the earth,  a fire raining down
Apocalyptic heavens  could it be a bomb?  
A cry inside the earth,  a fire raining down 

That Hiroshima  Bop was all over the planet
From the bunkers in Berlin  to the North of Korea
From the campus of  Kent State to the Tiananmen Square
Moving down the Middle Passage and in the camps of Dachau

We were looking at the war through the eyes of the dead  
Hiroshima planet when the black rains will fall, 
From islands off of Bali to the Emporor's thrown 
The Shadows in the sand were a Kama sutra dance
Try looking at the fire through the eyes of the dead.
Try looking at the fire through the eyes of the dead.
--words and lyrics Cary Loren, 1995 (Musique du Xanadu, BMI)

From the Michigan Floor 

Hiroshima Bop

recording by Destroy All Monsters,1975; vocals Mike Kelley, Guitars; Jim Shaw, Cary Loren w/m 

Destroy All Monsters: Acid Monster

Recorded live near a swamp in Dexter, Michigan.

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