today's stumble...

mandrill

2009-09-12T02:20:00.008-04:00

you're stoopid if you're a pfunkateer and don't know bout mandrill but whatever here's some links. or just type "mandrill" into youtube for yourself - they have a bunch of good live links. i like the soul train stuff personally because it seems as tho they ain't lip synching as they usually do on the show and everybody's really getting down in a live setting. mandrill is the shit basically. that is how monk a is goin out. i ain't munkin no more, still funkin tho. live hard, die strong and eat wheaties. strychnine for the youth! morphine on drip for the old!

thelonious monk is mentally ILL!

2009-06-17T17:25:00.019-04:00

If you don't know about this Monk you don't deserve the life you're wasting. Dig:

primordial global pattern as fact of Monk's way, playing is irrational, is on the synthetic brain, right of the consequence, synthetic mostly cognitive, a matter of style, intuitive global and his. his stresses is simultaneously maximizing dissonance. the "wrong" use of the left hand, phrases unresolved moments of elation characterized by notes, harmonically off definitions by a half tone so that the tension left, increased and then shakes the keyboard with upsetting primitivism.

flat fingers. instead of structure interpret them again, the swing and pauses emphasized by deficiency strictly connected to the origin.
He often plays two adjacent delays, a sort of childlike quality. keys on the piano strikesothers' compositionsm displacing the tunes with powerful elbows. When he plays, he, then, changing accents and using advances, bowing them in particular originality, chants rather free. He the keys and the meaning that very often seems to be his tunes sound like play while they are children's and do not indicate reiterative musical style at modernism. These, in his mirror of his, have the same musical "it". they is he.

"You never know what may happen, in the rhythm for instance, Monk manages to create such a tension, to compel his musicians to "think" rather than follow the usual clichés. He can start a phrase from a sequence you do not expect and you have to know exactly what to do. And harmonically he follows different routes from what you have in mind. But one thing I have learnt from Monk, not to fear what you really feel." -John Coltrane

Goodnite.

todays monk...

2009-05-29T16:29:00.007-04:00

It is time to pay homage to the monks that have come before us. These is The Monks, they will play for you now:

From the land of Can come the mad mad Monks in '66 to release their only album. Cop "Black Monk Time" on vinyl. Listen to it. Play it multiple times til your ears bleed. Couldn't find a vid of "Shut Up" and "I Hate You" except for one of them when they're old and who wants to see that? So here's deez.. appreciate the organs please.

Next week: Thelonious Monk

PS - there is a Monks DVD called Transatlantic Feedback. Someone please buy it, watch it once and leave it in their dumpster for me. I'd really like to see it. Thanks.

FNB BENEFIT

2009-03-16T14:45:00.015-04:00

Copy this and spread it!

North Philly Food Not Bombs needs to gather funds for a van to do food pick-ups and distribution with. FNB would not ask you to give them money for nothing so they hired the monks and a bunch of other cool dangerous types to provide entertainment for that cash. The unicorn will be there so you should too.

KAZUKI TOMOKAWA

2009-02-04T02:39:00.012-05:00

Don't really know what to say about this. Just dig on this guy and look him up. He provides the soundtrack and performs in this movie called Izo by Takashi Miike. It's been kinda hard to find but i've been able to track down the albums "Playing with Phantom" & "Fault of Flowers". Both are highly suggested:

...stumble into a basement

2008-11-19T17:07:00.000-05:00