Latest installment of The Scrapes - The Songs of Baron Samedi

Two new vessels from the in-between world have washed up on your shores...listen hard..."A Haunting" and "Militant Signals"...download if you want to support new music and a future physical release (probably on vinyl) or just stream it on your fancy bourgeois broadband if you're a cheapskate. Dig it like a shallow grave.

Hillbilly Electronic Music...Henry Flynt

Came across this highly insightful recent interview with Henry Flynt today. He's been doing some things at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn and damn is this broadcast revelatory. It includes unreleased, unheard material including the final piece, a brilliant work of "Hillbilly Electronic Music" incorporating what sounds like a violin being crunched through a 1980s commodore 64 or some old piece of shit like that. In other words....awesome. You can stream and download this lengthy beast here: And it seems he did a nice little video walking tour of a fairly recent exhibition of his work at the Kunstverein in Dusseldorf...haven't watched it yet so I'll stick it here for safe-keeping. You can all tell me how it is. HENRY FLYNT TOUR

More deep Moroccan Strings

There's some serious radical sounds coming from the violin on this little tape posted over at Awesome Tapes From Africa Seriouuussss. Whether this fiddling is radical or innovative I have no idea but it sure sounds fresh as fuck to me. Sounds like every note has meaning...love the distorted bow work at times like he's slowly turning up the gain...

Iliss Ntmazirte

Leroy Jenkins & the Revolutionary Ensemble

Some true motherfuckers here...."Invasion"...a long and powerful ear/mind-scraping from legendary Radical Violinist Leroy Jenkins and his extraordinary Revolutionary Ensemble....from The Psyche...1975 LP release with a 2002 digital reissue floating about somewhere....

Deep Moroccan Underground Strings

I've listened to this killer jam many times in the past but I feel compelled to put a link up to it up on this blog for anyone who's never found it before... Sawamites Lhmak Hmaki Avec El Miloudia As stated simply by Mr. Shimkovitz over at the amazing Awesome Tapes From Africa where this tape can be heard: "Obviously. More magic from Morocco." Obviously indeed. LISTEN HERE Over and out from Accra, Ghana Adam Barbarian Meditator

More NOISE!

You can buy and try the music of Mr Noise Khanyile here:

http://noisekhanyile.bandcamp.com/

This shit is blowing my mind....

Noise Khanyile...Township fiddle jivin'

"...Noise Khanyile, a violinist and vocalist who can also play guitar and mandolin. The stuff the band plays is half traditional Zulu music, half township jive: an acoustic mixture of violin, African women chanting, sax breaks and dance beats provided by Western drums. There's electric guitar and bass too, but the acoustic sounds dominate. These incredible shouting voices start it off - 'Hey, this is Grooving Jive Number 1' - then the violin screams and seems to laugh at you. It's so explosive. It grabs you the way dance music should.

It's political - you don't have to be told these people are living on the edge. Khanyile makes his own bows, and his strings are all worn out, but he plays in this incredibly vibrant way. He has some wild electric effects, lots of reverb which give the violin space, and he uses a sawing effect to get the tune out, like in traditional American and English folk fiddle playing. Africans use the same intervals as we do in Europe, thirds and fourths, but they also use a lot of fifths, like in jazz. And rhythmically, we have an idea of the on-beat and the off-beat, but in Africa the two are interchangeable.

All the instruments come in at some time, over the massive bass drum beat. It's only a half-tempo song, unlike a lot of the fast Zairean music, but it snowballs till they're all playing at once, and after eight minutes, it falls apart. There's no climax, the groove is too important. This is true folk rock."

This snippet lifted from the Independent.co.uk:  http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/world-music-riffs--john-jones-of-the-oyster-band-on-the-joburg-allstars-1533544.html

This township jive fiddle rips a hole in your mind. Radical as can be...

More on this motherfucker in the future....