December 16, 2017
Neal Kosály-Meyer recites Finnegans Wake Chapter 4
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Karen and I had small parts to play (Karen on bodhrán, me on a venerable complex of lighting equipment). Neal proceeded, in this fourth chapter, to, as the book says, murder all the English he knows.
Recorded
December 17, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 788 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [March 2011]
First a Visitor Services Song sung by Neal
we have wandered together into a huge dark chamber
our soundlights don't reach the roof or walls
long loose strings shine zither and washtubbass
loverly piano tune
apparitional abidingness
repetitionness
poking the imperturbable
poke
poke
Mirzya - Daler Mehndi, Sain Zahoor, Akhtar Chanl Zahri [from BollyGood Volume 1]
multi-voiced like hip hop collabs
made of parts with cleverly revealed seams
The Fourth Pavian and The Galliarde to The Fourth Pavian - William Byrd - Elizabeth Farr [from My Ladye Nevells Booke]
Not a polyphony of voices but of time planes
polytemporalplanar
immense pieces despite appearances
String Band Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers [from Alan Lowe's Really The Blues]
low overhead for a travelling crew
some folks and their easily transportable instruments
and of course some singin'
The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done - Woody Guthrie [from Columbia River Collection]
The Great Historical Bum,
Woody's nom de plume,
his actorly persona
his literary conceit
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| Jerry Lee Lewis |
Those words those near nonsense barely an excuse for a rhythm and a rhyme of improvisatory lyric emphasis
December 19, 2017
Breakers Off Baranquilla - Joseph W. Clokey [?] - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, Joanne Deacon [from my mom's private tape]
suitably plangent
drifts away
I'm Your Puppet - James and Bobby Purify [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock and Soul]
on a virtual stage constructed out of reverb
also, in the mechanically presented herky jerky, a hint of Devo
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| Bernard Purdie - Aretha's master drummer |
The drummer here is not "a drummer" in the Keith Moon Animal take it all over sense, but only an essential part of the percussion portion of the rhythm track.
The bass player is killing it.
Word on a Wing - David Bowie [from Station to Station]
open: synth tone || piano finger drawing
new || old
pacing vocal affect
pacing arrangement affect
his scheme of things
his own vocals standing in his own light
Don't Let Go The Coat - The Who [from Face Dances]
light on its feet: a bit earlier than, but of a piece with Graceland, or True Stories.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
December 18, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 948 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
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