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Silver Star Radio Nine: Mayan Ruins live on Imbolc

On the Way to the Peak of Normal | Posted by jmoore
Feb 03 2012

Silver Star Radio is back with a quickness, bringing you another high voltage dose of Esoteric Radio Activity.

For this live celebration of Imbolc I was joined by the fiery spirits of Cincinnati’s finest fusion of world tribal psychedelia. That’s right, Mayan Ruins take us deep into Earth’s molten core before spitting us back out at the stars in a journey that can only be described as shamanic. And even though it is radio we were still joined by belly dancer Zahara, as a further source of muse-ic and inspiration.

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Set list:
o. Behind the Scenes Preview … back stage with the band
1. I Hear A New World – Joe Meek
2. Mayan Ruins live studio performance
3. A traditional Irish Lullaby played on Glass Harmonica by Dennis James from Cristal: Glass Music Through the Ages.

4. track five from Tharmuncrape ‘an Goo by Nocturnal Emissions
5. Mayan Ruins live encore performance
6. Imagination by Sun Ra from Nothing Is…
7. The Rose Dusk Carresses the Sex of Women and of Birds by Bobby Previte from The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro on the Tzadik label.
8. I Roselund under Sagas Hall / La Folia by Nils Okland and Sigbjorn Apeland from Homage a Ole Bull on ECM.
9. A Black Dust Cloud, and Stars Embedded in Gaseous Nebulosities (for Carl Sagan) by Michel Godard from “Sous Les Voutes, Le Serpent…” from M A Recordings
10.  Oh Thou Coal Black Smith by Current 93 from Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God
11. Calling for Vanished Faces & The Cat is Dead by Current 93 from An Introduction to Suffering
12. A Daughter of Infidels by 156 from Ticks from Many Clocks
13. Music Is the Healing Force -Albert Ayler

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This episode was orginally broadcast on February 2, 2012 between 10pm and Midnight EST on WAIF, Cincinnati, 88.3FM

The Silver Star Radio series of On the Way to the Peak of Normal is an audio companion to Silver Star Journal
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Silver Star Radio 8: Interview with Taylor Ellwood & Solstice Musick

On the Way to the Peak of Normal | Posted by jmoore
Dec 31 2011

Silver Solstice Winter Star Radio
Originally Broadcast on December 22, 2011 between 10PM and Midnight EST on 88.3 FM, Cincinnati.

For this episode of Silver Star Radio I was joined on the phone by Taylor Ellwood to talk about his forthcoming book Magical Identity.

Taylor EllwoodTaylor Ellwood is the Managing Non-Fiction Editor of Immanion Press, which publishes cutting edge esoteric and occult books. He’s also the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy and Multi-Media Magic, and the forthcoming book Magical Identity. Visit him online at http://www.magicalexperiments.com

Magical Identity is Taylor’s latest book, due out in March 2012. Magical Identity explores the role of identity within magical work, using themes of neuroscience, space, time, and definitions to understand where identity fits into the magical process as well as how we can use it to enhance our magical process.

 
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Winter StarWe also featured a lot of musick from fabulous artists on this episode. Here is the full set list:
1. I Hear A New World – Joe Meek
2.  Winter Solstice – Ralph Towener- from the album Solstice.
3. Saturn – Jah Wobbles Invaders of the Heart- from The Celtic Poets.
4. Phone Interview with Taylor
5. Chemical Adjustment – Babalith- from The Doors of Misconception
6. Scorpion Tears – Stone Breath- from The Aetheric Lamp split 12″ with Mike Seed and the Language of Light on Anticlock Records.
7. The Final Solstice – Sorrow – from The Final Solstice II
8. Rough Old Night – Mike Seed and the Language of Light- from The Aetheric Lamp split 12″ (see 5 above).
9. Geronimo – Language of Shapes - (no official release as of yet)
10.  Babaziryelle – The Hermaphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk -from 156 = Musick = Babalon = Kaos on the Zoharum label.
11. Perception Is the Only Reality – Throbbing Gristle – from The Third Mind Movements.
 Om Sarasvati Namaha (Cosmic Version) - The Magic Carpathians - from Sonic Suicide.
12. fade out with a bit of the soundtrack from Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising by Bobby Beausoleil.

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Current 93 Present Harry Oldfield, “Crystal”

Musick | Posted by jmoore
Sep 26 2011

current_93_present_harry_oldfield_crystalNo matter what a person thinks of the music of Current 93, it must be recognized that David Tibet has always been a champion of other visionaries, whether they be in the realm of music, literature, or in the case of Harry Oldfield, science and invention. The “Current 93 present” series is just one example of Tibet’s gift as a curator. In this series of discs (now out-of-print) he brings to light and showcases talents who might not otherwise have received outside their own circles. While some have been more renowned, such as Shirley Collins and Tiny Tim, others like Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, the Venerable ‘Chi.med Rig. ‘dzin Lama, Rinpoche and Harry Oldfield have received less notice. Oldfield’s work in the development and application of electro-crystal therapy is fascinating, and this musical artifact, created in accordance with his research is a wondrous, mutli-faceted specimen.

Tibet was first introduced to Oldfield’s work by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (or HÖH who also mixed one of the most beautiful tracks on this release) while in Reykjavik, Iceland back in 1986. The work of Harry Oldfield is very wide ranging, but he is perhaps most well known for his pioneering work in developing non-invasive methods for the analysis and balancing of the human energy field. Chief among these methods is his innovative combination of electromagnetism with quartz crystals to create what he has called “Electro-Crystal Therapy“. There is nothing New Age about this practice. Yes, his work has been on the fringe of science, but it has gained recognition in it’s orthodox circles. After all crystals have been used for many advanced technologies including radio and computers to microphones, speakers, and lasers. That stimulating them with pulses of high frequency electricity could have a healing effect should come as no surprise. His therapy involves placing crystals in tubes containing a conductive electrolyte brine solution, and putting those tubes around certain points of the body. The tubes are then attached to an electromagnetic generator that administers electrical frequencies to the crystals. These frequencies, interacting with the crystals, then balance and normalize the human or animal energy system. Oldfield likens this process to receiving a “molecular massage.”

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Musings on Meditation

On the Way to the Peak of Normal | Posted by jmoore
Aug 14 2011

robbie-tiemanThis episode was originally broadcast on July 21st, 2011. It features my good friend John Hill and young musician and meditator Robbie Tieman.

 
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…turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream…

Robbie will be playing this Friday, August 19, at Awakenings Coffe house in Hyde Park square between 9 & 10PM.

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Coil, “Loves Secret Domain”

Musick | Posted by jmoore
Aug 08 2011

lsdcoil20 Years ago, Coil released LSD…

Last week on Brainwashed, many of the staff writers gave their views on Coil’s Loves Secret Domain. Here is my take on it…

My first experience of the music of Coil came in the mid-’90s, hearing their remixes of Nine Inch Nails songs. I tended to prefer the remixes to the NIN originals, and the versions by Coil were some of the best of those: creative and bizarre sound construction and deconstruction. Still, as remixes they were not the unfiltered visionary music of Coil proper which still allures and intrigues me to this day, a vision I fell for completely on listening to Love’s Secret Domain.

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Temple Music, “You Will Die And Your Lives Will Have Been As Nothing”

Musick | Posted by jmoore
Jul 18 2011

temple_music-soon_you_will_all_die This offering on the altar of music is a mesmeric slow burner. It goes to work on me like a time released medication. Strains of flute, bells, and synthesizer swirls gradually encompass me, infecting my blood stream with their calmness, before the levels are elevated into a heady pulsating crispness.

Temple Music is an offshoot project started by Alan Trench of the British dark folk band Orchis and an ex-proprietor of the now deceased World Serpent label. After his first Temple Music release he was joined by Stephen Robinson. Together, on this limited release of 300, (distributed by AntiClock Records in the US, purveyors of fine titles from Language of Light, Ctephin and others), they have created an immersive sound-world blending elements of ritualistic drone, string band like avant-folk, and moments of blistering krautrock assaults. There are four movements on the disc, mixed as one continuous hour long piece.

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The Fourth of July Revisited

Musick | Posted by jmoore
Jul 03 2011


northside_parade1I made the basis for this track on the Fourth of July, 2010.  I had some microphones hanging out the windows, and some stuff plugged into my Korg MS2000. Also some old jazz tapes Elliott gave me. I did some tampering with it, off and on for awhile, adding random samples to it from my collection of detritus, and transforming it in a number of computer programs. It’s languished on my hard drive for awhile.  Now it is time to share.

In some senses this sound piece is paying a homage to Robert Ashley, and his electronic piece “The Fourth of July” recorded on Magnetic Tape from 1960, a masterpiece of early American electronica. The track is available on the awesome boxed set “Music from the Once Festival 1961-1966” from New World Records. (Gordon Mumma is very present on the set, and their is one piece by Pauline Oliveros as well. A whole lot else besides.) Of course, I feel Robert Ashley’s electronic creation is far superior to mine, but I had it in mind when creating this. That is why it is called “The Fourth of July Revisited”. I did some more tampering with it just now, on the eve of July 3rd, so it really has been a revisitation to a track I started a year ago, finished today.

 
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This track is for a potentially forthcoming something-or-other collecting various sound art pieces I’ve been working on here-and-there between my other multidimensional activities.

(The image above is from last years Fourth of July parade in my neighborhood of Northside, an annual event of much fun! The Northside Rock & Roll Festival is always a blast as well.)

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Silver Star Radio 5 Promo

On the Way to the Peak of Normal | Posted by jmoore
Jun 23 2011
Silver Star Radio number Five is nearly here. The Pentacle is about to be completed. Streaming to you live from inside the Reality Studios at 88.3 WAIF FM in Cincinnati, this magickal star of a radio broadcast splinters into the four cardinal directions from the wand of our antennae transmitter while encompassing the entire Earth in the magnetic glow of the Dreamtime. Listen live tonight, Thursday June 23rd, 10PM to Midnight EST at the above location on the dial or here on the web: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/waif-cincinnati
 
Featuring a live performance from Cincinnati’s long time experimental-electronica outfit, NEATO TORPEDO, they will permeate the air with their discombobulated improvisations. Joining us is special guest, the indefatigable Dave Lynch on Sitar, Overtone Flute and Ocarina amongst other sundry noise making devices. Another Mystery Guest friend will be joining us on Mini-Moog. Along with the core members Brave Dave on bass & electronics, 8Fold on myriad antique & boutique electronic devices, Android Hissett on drums, bass, percussion, and myself Justin Patrick on circuit-bent keyboards, tapes & electronics.      
This episode also ties into the launch of “156=Musick” a global collaboration between members of The Hermaphroditic ChaOrder of the Silver Dusk, released just a few days ago on the Zoharum label in Poland (other groups on the label include Inner Vision Laboratory, Bisclaveret, and Hoarfrost amongst others). A long time in the making, with many spurts, flirtations, halts, gasps, and supportive strokes along the way, it has finally come, seeding the astral plane with the minglings of our multivalent musical emissions. The album is dedicated to the memories of John Balance, Peter Christopherson and Kenneth Grant, pioneers of magick and musick.
Other features include an invocation from Aion’s Liber Sigil A IAF (Waning MoonPublishing) and music from Babalith’s new album Huni Kui. We’ll probably also play some Coil to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Loves Secret Domain, released in July of 1991. And we’ll also play a piece from our good friend Erik T. Lawson, from a compilation he appeared on dedicated to John Balance,“Full Cold Moon – A Tribute to Jhonn Balance and the Music of Coilâ€, Otherwise we’ll just be up to some Paganarchist mischief.
 
So spread this message to your friends near or far and gather round the campfire radio as we dose you with another blast of Esoteric Radio Activity.
 
Justin Patrick Moore
 
P.S.:  And the podcast version of this episode will be up within the next week… so stay tuned.

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Deep Intuitive Rhythms

On the Way to the Peak of Normal | Posted by jmoore
Jun 12 2011

This episode was originally broadcast on June 9th, 2011.

 
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I Hear A New World -Joe Meek
Radio International x2 -Meat Beat Manifesto – from “Autoimmune”.
Zeta Reticulli/If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso – DJ Spooky -from “Rhythm Science” companion CD.
Total Recovery -Chicago Underground Quartet- self titled album on Thrill Jockey
mixed with Set Sail for the Sun -Karlheinz Stockhausen -from “Aus Den Siben Tagen” -Stochausen Verlag 14
also mixed with Trog Arena -The Deep Listening Band- from          “Troglodytes Delight”
The Dharma At Big Sur movement 1 -John Adams- from “The Dharma At Big Sur” (featuring Tracy Silverman on electric violin).
Tide IV -Current 93 -from “How He Loved the Moon”
mixed with Venio, Neththerlands, March 1983 – Z’ev -from “The Subterranean Years” on Klanggalerie
Battle Cry -Evelyn Glennie -from “Shadow Behind the Iron Sun”
mixed with Rakastvav – Sibelius: Paul Hillier conducting the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir- from “Baltic Runes”
mixed with Noolare -Nocturnal Emissions – from “Mouth of Babes”
Semi -Calder- from “System”
Frozen Resophonic -Erdem Hevaciogliu -from “Altered Realities”
Angelpoised -Fridge- from “Early Output 1996-1998″
mixed with The Land Between Solar Systems -Mum- from “Finally We Are No One”
Persian Rug -R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Seranaders -from “Chasin’ Rainbows”
A Kind of Courage -Nina Nastasia- from “Outlaster”
Children of the Dark -Richard Thomspon & Daniel Thompson -from “Industry”
The Sound of Colours -Meat Beat Manifesto- from “Autoimmune”
mixed with The Last Reading -DJ Spooky -from “Rhythm Science” companion CD.

flyer by Brian “Thrifstore Leather” Riley

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Datacide: Magazine for Noise and Politics, “Issue Eleven”

Musick, Textuality | Posted by jmoore
May 30 2011

datacide1The articles in Datacide Eleven are just the sort of critical discourse, on subjects I am endeared to, that I have been hungering to read. When it came in the mail I nearly devoured it all in one sitting. After gorging I had to slow down, due to the density of the information, even though I’m used to binge reading. It was like stuffing down a big bowl of pasta only to groan later when it has expanded to the point of bloating. Expanding the brain instead of the gut is healthier in the long run, though it still takes time to digest and absorb. But when it comes to studying up on the culture of Reggae sound sytems, of pirate radio signals leaking out from the margins into the mainstream, the paranoid and the conspiracy ridden underpinnings of the Tea Party Movement, it is the kind of work I’m willing to do in order to lead a robust textual life.

The politics of the magazine are clearly activist oriented and of the left while the noise aspect of the magazine is far from the type created by Masami Akita, Emil Beaulieau, or William Bennet, just to be up front. The kind of noise to be found in these pages is predominantly dedicated to the various “steps” (breakstep, dubstep), the various “cores” (speedcore, noisecore, breakcore), gabber and the like. However other genres are touched upon, and not every article deals with music: some are just politics, like the article “The American Radical Right and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement,” while others combine musical and political subjects. There is a healthy dose of short fiction, quick and dirty record reviews, charts written up by people in the scene, and an interview with Steve Goodman, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear out from MIT press.

…read the rest on Brainwashed…

and be sure to check out Datacide.

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