March Playlist

March Playlist:

1. The Truth - Count Ossie & Mystic Revelation of Rastafari (Grounation) (respect to the living. ever faithful)
tie with: 400 Years - Count Ossie & Mystic Revelation of Rastafari (Grounation)
2. Fehlspring - F.S. Blumm (Ankern)
3. Iye, Iye - Grand Papa Diabate (Guitar, Extra Dry)
4. Da Da - Junior Byles (Beat Down Babylon)
5. Oh Yoko! - John Lennon (Imagine)
6. I Bid You Goodnight - Joseph Spence & the Pinder Family (The Summer of '65)
7. Gremlin Holiday - Kira Kira (Our Map to the Monster Olympics)
8. Banging Breakdown - Hobart Smith (Blue Ridge Legacy - Alan Lomax Recordings)
9. California Raga - Robbie Basho (Bonn Ist Supreme)
10. By Weary Well - Robin Williamson & His Merry Band (A Glint at the Kindling) (Killer harp.)
11. Crystal Under Brattleboro - Chris Weisman & Greg Davis (Northern Songs) (exclusive.)
12. We Have A Map of the Piano - Mum (Finally We Are No One)
13. Friday Nights With - Glenn Jones (This is the Wind that Blows it Out)
14. A P Special - Augustus Pablo (Original Rockers) (indeed.)
15. Shroud - James Blackshaw (Litany of Echoes)
16. Density - Sam Prekop (Who's Your New Professor)
17. Cut the Midrange Drop the Bass - Cylob (Cut the Midrange Drop the Bass 12") (yes! how low can you go??!?!?!?)

Best Show of the month: James Blackshaw at the Issue Project Room (Brooklyn)


the last snow pile--
straw clogs make it
a delight
-Issa, 1817

Mind Wheel Issue #1

I should have taken photos of the whole process but oh well...next time maybe.





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February Playlist

I can't believe february is gone already. The Earth-Ox year is now in full swing.

February PLaylist
Month o' Love (?)
"this is it."

1. All I Have is Love - Gregory Isaacs (All I have is Love (1973))
2. I Want You So Bad - James Brown (Try Me)
3. I Am That I Am - Peter Tosh (Equal Rights)
4. Seattle - William Ackerman (Childhood and Memory)
5. Sleepy Man Blues - Bukka White (Vintage Recordings 1930-1940 "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues") (sleepy all the time)
6. Strange Things - Henry Green (God's Mighty Hand) (AWESOME.)
7. Finale - John Fahey (America).
8. Veshengro - The Incredible String Band (Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending)
9. Moon Pulls - Mum - (Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy)
10. Fahrenheit Fair Enough - Telefon Tel Aviv (Fahrenheit Fair Enough) (R.I.Peace...)
11. Not Yet 1 - Melodium (Cerebro Spin)
12. Asking and Listening - Felsenmeer (Ghosts the Clearing)
13. Mami Wata - Grand Papa Diabate (Guitar, Extra Dry) (jamming to the fullest! holy cow)
14. Try Me - James Brown (Try Me)
15. Loving Pauper - Gregory Isaacs (Extra Classic) (a jam for the ages for surety)
16. Elysium - Isan (Fabricate - Remixes of Worsted Weight)


used to losing
I'm peaceful, calm...
chrysanthemum contest
-Issa, 1817

Mind Wheel / Old Furnace...Live!

Northeast Atlantic Noise Collaborative Collective: Mind Wheel / Old Furnace Performs on WMBR's Subject To Change Program

February 21, 2009 12:00p–2:00p

Western Massachusetts drone/space rock outfit Mind Wheel / Old Furnace record a live set for WMBR's Subject to Change that will be broadcast during the February 21, 2009 show. A multi-player ensemble. Terrascope Online described Old Furnance's new Hidden Hills CD as "Opening with a glorious, string driven, rising drone, this is an album filled with emotion, passion and invention, the wistful music within painting pictures of expansive vistas and secret places."

stream it online at : http://wmbr.org/

Pizza Party



Mind Wheel Pizza:

roasted garlic
olive oil
herbs
kale
broccoli
apple sage vegan sausage
mozzarella & pedano

it was sooooo good!

JANUARY PLAYLIST

The first of the new year: 2009. hallelu-JAH

Rededication at year's end.
Who will take the Green Knight's challenge?

January playlist - New Year Rockers for 2009

1. Black Starliner Must Come - Culture (Two Sevens Clash)
2. Brand New Second Hand - Peter Tosh (Legalize It)
3. Your Teeth In My Neck - Scientist (Scientist Rids The World of the Curse of the Evil Vampires)
4. Won't That Be a Happy Time - Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family (Real Bahamas, Vol. 1)
5. Swell Headed - Burning Spear (Rocking Time) (I-n-I will never run away)
6. These Days - Nico (Chelsea Girl)
7. If He Changed My Name - Nina Simone (Live At The Village Gate)
8. Duckie - Solvent (Solvently One Listens)
9. Machine Gun - Mum (Blue Skied An' Clear: Morr Music Compilation)
10. Loving Pauper - Gregory Isaacs (Extra Classic) (Financially I may be a pauper, but when it comes to lovin' I'm all right. crazy mix too holy cow.)
11. The Poor Boy is Taken Away - Richard & Linda Thompson (Pour Down Like Silver)
12. Sponji Reggae - Black Uhuru (Red)
tie: Guess who's coming To dinner - Black Uhuru (Guess Who's Coming To dinner)
tie: World Is Africa - Black Uhuru (Sinsemilla) (all ties for Prince Jammy, michael Rose, Sly and Robbie, and Puma)
13. The Fahey Sampler - John Fahey (Contemporary Guitar, Spring '67)
14. Kora Bali - Toumani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko (New Ancient Strings) (pure bliss and then 6:43 blows your mind off)
15. Mercy, Mercy - The Rolling Stones (Out Of Our Heads)
16. One Day Soon - Dennis Brown (Big Youth & Friends: Chi Chi Run)
17. Lady Midnight - Leonard Cohen (Songs from a Room)
18. River Of Heaven - James Blackshaw (Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 2)
19. readonly - Melodium (Banicle EP) (hot shreds!)
20. Bird Show - Stay High
21. Innocent & Vain - Nico (The End...) (whoa. Eno on the Mind Wheel precursors...)
22. Thunder Love - Robbie Basho (Indian II)




She came in and poured a bucket of dirt at the foot of my bed.
Climb in Belt of Rubies.

this blessing
not allowed in Paradise...
new sake
-Issa, 1822

december playlist

december playlist full of surprises
december playlist play me some
december playlist eyes through the iris
december playlist come and gone

Merry Christmas to One and All!

1. Maya - Incredible String Band (The Big Huge)
2. Meditation - Rupie Edward's All Stars (Dub Basket Chapter II)
3. Sensemilla Persecution - Buju Banton ('Til Shiloh (Exclusive)) ("meditation is good for one and all")
4. Floor Killer - Kira Kira (Live at the Space Gallery, 12/6/08) (Quote: This one if called 'floor killer' because that's what it is!)
5. Tal - F.S. Blumm (Ankern) (eat an egg Kronos Quartet)
6. Snowdrops and Phlox - ISAN (Meet Next Life) (Breaking into the old stash once again)
7. Brand New Second Hand - Peter Tosh (Legalize It)
8. 400 Years - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Catch A Fire) (Peter yet again...and those backing vocals are killer. jam out)
9. Roy Simmons (Singing) Roe Kahrahrah (Drumming) 2. The breaking of day, the sun is coming up. This is a popular song, and it is popular now. (Comanche Peyote Songs, Vol. II)
10. Rub It Inna Zion - Little Dread (Natty Dread On the North Coast) ("me cyan't get no work and me cyan't buy no shirt in dis desert...me jus' a likkle dread")
11. Elyne Road - Toumani Diabate (The Mandr Variations) (forever a hit)
12. One Drop - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Survival)n (I know Jah never let us down!)
13. Exorcise / Intone - Ben Vida (The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration)
14. Twin Peaks Theme - Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks) (pulling out all the stops angelo...up to episode 9 already in the annual winter sessions)
15. Walla Walla - Burning Spear (Rocking Time - 1974)
16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Studio Demo) - George Harrison

Christmas Cuts:
Jacob Miller & I-Roy - Natty Christmas (The Whole Album!)
The Wilson Sisters - Hay Santa
Theme from Christmas Vacation
Missing some Kenny & Dolly though...
James Taylor - Go Tell it on the Mlountain


Big flies - fly away to refuge

November Playlist Boyyyyyzzzzz

yeeeeah!

pre-thanksgiving November Mix Hit List

Winter busted right in. Cold overnight. A transition month away from delaware north to maine. will everything work out? who knows and/or who cares...

1. Ride Natty Ride - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Rebel Music) (No water can put out this fire!)
2. I Won't Share You - The Smiths (Strangeways, Here We Come)
3. Braille Foundry - Isan (Salamander)
4. Old Southern Melody - John Fahey (The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
5. Elyne Road - Tuomani Diabate (The Mande Variations)
6. The Invasion - Burning Spear (Marcus Garvey) (wa da da - killer phase)
7. The Bells - Town and Country (C'mon)
8. Choanal Perforation - Melodium (Cerebro Spin) (cash flag beats!)
tie with Vocal Cord Polyps
9. I Can't Love Another - U-Roy (Dread In A Babylon)
10. The Bookhouse Boys - Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks)(!)
11. Goodbye Goodbye - Bridget St. John (Thank You For...)
12. Coo Coo Bird - Jean-Paul Pickens (Intensifications)
13. The Fisherman - Leo Kottke (My Feet Are Smiling) (Kottke is coming back-well...early Leo atleast)
14. Your Long Journey - Doc Watson and Family (Doc Watson and Family)
15. Obodo Eyo - Sir Victor Uwaifo (Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-1976)
16. Agustkot - Kira Kira (Our Map To The Monster Olympics)
17. Do Me Justice - S.E. Rogers (Lopi Kodi Ya City Council: Nigerian High Life) (now that I am feeling fine pour me a glass of beer)
18. To Remake the Young Flyer - Guided By Voices (Under the Bushes Under the Stars)
19. V - David Daniell (I, V, IV, I - Table of the Elements)
20. Pass By - B. Fleischmann (Welcome Tourist) (This track is probably the B. Fliesch all time jammer. is the new album any good?!?!?)
21. Raga Abhogi Kanada On Surbahar (Alap & Jod)/Raga Kalawati On Sitar - Ustad Inrat Hussain Khan Tabla: Affaq Hussain Khan
22. Out to Lunch - Eric Dolphy (Out To Lunch - Blue Note 4163) (Sweet vibes Eric and some serious machine gun funk from Tony Williams on Drums)




watch out, kids!
don't let those red mushrooms
cast a spell
-Issa, 1813

tea of the month: High Mountain Green Oolong from Tao of Tea
hellls yeah.

Free Poetry:

Re-edit

On old and flat wires
I am happy.
I lose time only to find
The sun is gone
And I am still alone

many hands

Great GrandFather Mustang Many Hands Teaching Of
The Day:

Allow the hands of your soul to be the compass that guides
you along the path of life. Listen to your heart and you will
receive the directions to follow on a daily basis. Be open and
trust when your heart tells you to change your course and
with faith follow the new directions. This way you and All
your Relations will receive gift coats of many colors and
discover new revelations.

Father Death Blues



Father Death Blues

Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going

Father Death, Don't cry any more
Mama's there, underneath the floor
Brother Death, please mind the store

Old Aunty Death Don't hide your bones
Old Uncle Death I hear your groans
O Sister Death how sweet your moans

O Children Deaths go breathe your breaths
Sobbing breasts'll ease your Deaths
Pain is gone, tears take the rest

Genius Death your art is done
Lover Death your body's gone
Father Death I'm coming home

Guru Death your words are true
Teacher Death I do thank you
For inspiring me to sing this Blues

Buddha Death, I wake with you
Dharma Death, your mind is new
Sangha Death, we'll work it through

Suffering is what was born
Ignorance made me forlorn
Tearful truths I cannot scorn

Father Breath once more farewell
Birth you gave was no thing ill
My heart is still, as time will tell.

October PLaylist

Is October the month when IDM comes back?!?!?!?! Portland, Maine! Time of Rivers Festival yields good shows and the time of work has dawned. One month to finish. A time of great illness all around as Derek and Robyn were crazy ill-do I feel a tightness inst mine throat?!?!
Philadelphia for the world series was super fun. Gotta love Red Hook and Royal friends. Goodbye to the South though as Morgan moves north toward the studio.
Great indecision creeps in as I search for an answer to the question of reality. Plus the presidential election is only days away...holy crap.

Who has a gate for me to go through? Thank you to all of my hosts these past few months.

1. A Side: Jiroh's Tune Up/ On - Gai/Jin (Gun Court 7")
2. Tiramakhan - Dembo Konte & Kausu Kuyateh (Tanante)
3. Morning in the Zanskar Valley - The Buddhist Nuns at Chuckikjall (Tibetan Prayer Chants) (holy! unbelievable jam!)
4. Visions of Johanna (alternate) - Bob Dylan (No Direction Home, Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, Disc 2) (featuring commentary by Taigen Dan Leighton. right on.)
5. Fly High - Bridget St. John (Thank You For...)
6. Where Butterflys Go In Winter - Robbie Basho (Twilight Peaks)
7. Metal Mothers - Guided By Voices (propeller?)
8. Yesu Ka Mkwebaze - Novicat de Soeurs Missionaires (Lipa Kodi Ya City Council: Nigerian high Life)
9. Echo and Abyss - James Blackshaw (Litany of Echoes)
10. David & The Phoenix - Glenn Jones (Against Which the Sea Continually Beats) (Live at Space gallery)
11. Me & My Mad Girl - Robin Williamson & His Merry Band (A Glint At The Kindling)
12. Coal Creek March - Pete Steel (Classic Mountain Songs: Smithsonian Folkways)
13. The Five Sacred Trees: III. Eo Rossa - Hovahness (Mysterious Mountain)
14. Meniere's Vertigo - Melodium (Cerebro Spin) (endolymphatic hydrops are things melodium has been known to cause)
15. Elyne Road - Tuomani Diabate (The Mande Variations) (yeah. yes. deep jams.)

Watched: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Fog, The Orphanage, Dracula, ROTLD 1, The Funhouse, Nosferatur: Vampyre Der Nacht, etc. etc.

Best Live performance: Glenn Jones at the Time of Rivers festival in Portland, Maine at The Space - sweet guitar jams all around too.



Great GrandFather Blake Heyokah Teaching Of The Day:
Oh, just let go and walk on the wild side of reality.
Release all the preprogrammed prescriptions for
living and break on through to the other side. You
deal the cards for a change and fire the dealer who
doesn't know what he and she is doing. Forget about
yesterday, walk awake in the DreamTime today, and
tomorrow will manifest from your actions in the
moment. Manifestation comes from what you do,
what you think, and how you behave moment by
moment by moment. If you have a good time and
laugh from your heart, love people unconditionally,
and utterly and completely love your self you will
see that you have all that you need and most of what
you desire.

September Playlist

Happy Birthday Mom!

Homeless on the front. Philadelphia, Lewes, Burlington, Northampton, Cape Cod, Portland, Brooklyn...on the run in the east coast. I had forgotten what it was like to wake up to a dog's constant bark...until september. Great Grandmother Singing Dolphin Dreamcatcher dreams out from white sage smoke of eastern paradise.

Burlington chill zone with lots of world music in the mix and Robbie Basho marathons for sure. Northeast travels usher in the first cold days of fall while work for Obama continues through the gathering of knowledge and open dialogue of issues like the picking and subsequent distribution of so many fresh apples.

1. Gardana - September Collective (S/T)
2. 14 Cheerleader Coldfront - Guided By Voices (Propeller)
3. Lordly Nightshade - Incredible String Band (The Big Huge)
4. Sleeping Bag - Beck (One Foot in the Grave)
5.Booty Melt - Extreme Animals (Let the Music Take You There) (baba love. s'more b/c this track is too good.)
6. Beach Haus - Selbyville (Send Selbyville To Disneyworld LP)
7. Green Vines - Bird Show (S/T)
8. Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks - Of Montreal (Sunlandic Twins -Bonus EP)
9. Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Chronicle, Vol.1)
10. Black Heroes - ratatat (LP3)
11. Melting on the Meadow (Start A People outtake, 2003) - Black Moth Super Rainbow (Bonus Drippings)
12. The Road the Gypsies Go - Robin Williamson and His Merry Band (A Glint at the Kindling)(flute soaring to the soul, trailing clouds of glory)
13. A Very Cellular Song - Incredible String Band (The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter) (Split right down the middle and when I look there's two of me both as handsome as can be. Here we go, slithering. Living the timeless life.)
14. Modulo Pi - Melodium (A Possible Way of Spending Time)
15. Toomus Meremereh Nor Good - S.E. Rogers (Love is Love) (Sierra Leone love jams!)
16. Kaen Solo, lai sootsanen - Tawng-koon See-aroon (Thailand: Lao Music of the Northeast) (kaen: a free-reed bamboo mouth organ consisting of six, fourteen, sixteen, or eighteen tubes. old style.)
17. Don't Sell Daddy No Whiskey - Ras Michael and the Sons and Daughters of Negus (Love Thy Neighbor)(Big shout out to Brendan B. this one is for he.)
18. Mooste - Lau Nau (Nekkuu)
19. In the Flower of Our Youth - Richard Crandell (In the Flower of Our Youth)
20. Highway of Diamonds - Oren Ambarchi (Destinationless Desire 7")
21. Crying - Roy Orbison (7/61, Anthology 1956-1965)
22. Life Is Love - Deuter (Celebration) ("love as much as you can from wherever you are") (Peace vibe central-NNA)


Best live performance of September: Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul at the Green Door Studio in Burlington, VT. Awesome vibes all around.

cats of september: wilbur, paws, echo, hilltop (big buddy)




George Lakoff

Check the dialogues!

http://www.livingdialogues.com/George_Lakoff.html