Everything We Do Is Music

Tue May 8
Experience the joy of UNTIL THAT DAY music! Here Ras I Ray and Erik Rabasca supporting Tony Rankin (with Ras Emmanuel) while opening for DAAB, the legendary reggae band from Poland making their first-ever appearance in New York on Saturday May 5 at Warsaw in Brooklyn. Like bands behind the Iron Curtain 30 years ago, DAAB was jailed for simply playing music. Music, the true universal language, is our method and weapon! UTD=UNITED+UNTIL THAT DAY!

Experience the joy of UNTIL THAT DAY music! Here Ras I Ray and Erik Rabasca supporting Tony Rankin (with Ras Emmanuel) while opening for DAAB, the legendary reggae band from Poland making their first-ever appearance in New York on Saturday May 5 at Warsaw in Brooklyn. Like bands behind the Iron Curtain 30 years ago, DAAB was jailed for simply playing music. Music, the true universal language, is our method and weapon! UTD=UNITED+UNTIL THAT DAY!

Sun Jul 31
stencils: Swoon (by jakedobkin)

stencils:

Swoon (by jakedobkin)

Sat Jul 2
underground decay

underground decay

Thu Jun 30
Stowe Boyd: Life As A Mosaic, Not A Monolith: What Google+ Means

stoweboyd:

My recent brief experience with Google+ (or plus.google, as the URL says in reverse polish) has led me to some observations about how we might be shifting our personal and collective use of tools, and thereby our sense of self in the increasingly media-augmented world we inhabit.

Google+ is a…

Wed Jun 22

A remix of 35 musicians performing Radiohead’s Paranoid Android. Enjoyable!

Thu Jun 9
rachelinbrooklyn: The Look, NYTimes

rachelinbrooklyn:

The Look, NYTimes

(via mikehudack)

KILLIN IT

#957 in the Other category charts on Reverbnation!

Tue Jan 4

Beyond Sound

The recording process is always an interesting one. Getting the right sound, ensuring that the levels are set so that you don’t peak, putting across a vibe and, ultimately, nailing the take. I want every note heard to be human, not digital. Because it’s emotion we ultimately feel on many levels when we’re open to vibration beyond sound.

The first track and possible album title of my next album is The Devil’s Angels. I’m not ready to post tracks yet, but, here are the lyrics:

The Devil’s Angels hover/Lift off to victory smothered/Lengthy competition signals/Old ways dying and brittle

Power conceived by a master/gorging on it faster and faster/Reverence turns cold in an instant/Shackles strangling resistance

Security strikes at the fearful/under guise of protecting people/who by rules they’re creating/from this axis in time, proliferating

Survival of joy is the mission/From mountains to ocean and between them/Evolving from next generations/learning fast than those who create them

Tomorrow’s questions go answered?Glory of past we wish to capture/Meaning we seek through existence/is challenged continually and frequent

So all goes to hell and to heaven/All cries from laughter or wailing/All suffers misinterpretation/All the Angels’ Devils simply hope for…

Mon Oct 4
maxistentialist: A photograph of sunlight reflected by waterways across the central United States, as seen from the International Space Station in November of 2003. The scene looks southwest from above Lake Michigan across the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, towards Texas near the horizon. At least two of the smaller lakes at bottom, near the Illinois River, are cooling ponds for nuclear power stations.

maxistentialist:

A photograph of sunlight reflected by waterways across the central United States, as seen from the International Space Station in November of 2003. The scene looks southwest from above Lake Michigan across the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, towards Texas near the horizon. At least two of the smaller lakes at bottom, near the Illinois River, are cooling ponds for nuclear power stations.

Mon Jul 26

Fishbone is the most talented and ridiculously entertaining band to never “make it big time”. Everyday Sunshine should have been a massive hit in its day.

Fri Jul 23
Flaming Lips and guests cover Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Yeah, I know I’m late to the game on this one. But I finally had some time to sit and listen. If you’re a fan of either the original or of The Lips, it’s more than worth a listen. They keep the integrity of the original but updating it with angst, agitation, and modern sounds. Truly great! Hearing Henry Rollins say “I know I’m fucking mad” is genius. Check some song samples at this link…

Wed Jul 21

James Brown - Super Bad 1971… when I toured, we used to rock this in the van, shaking it at 75 mph down long stretches of midwest highway on our way from east coast to west and back. good times!

Mon Jul 19
(via mikehudack, ilovecharts) I wonder what this chart would have looked like between the world wars, or while the British Empire was waning, or during the Napoleonic wars, or while Rome ruled the Western world.

(via mikehudack, ilovecharts)

I wonder what this chart would have looked like between the world wars, or while the British Empire was waning, or during the Napoleonic wars, or while Rome ruled the Western world.

Sun Jul 18
Grateful Dead at Golden Gate Park Jan 14, 1967

reading Phil Lesh’s autobiography. he described this show as lift-off for a highly experimental and psychedelic period. lots of energy, great jams!

Thu Jul 15

Other Dimensions in Music play a spiritual free jazz, composed on the spot. An ecstatic experience if you ever get to see them