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| Foam-O-Graph© - Ground Zero For Taste! |
There's nothing Knitting Pattern Guy™ enjoys more than scarfing back a fistful of psychotropics and temporarily obliterating his meatbag self! In what promises to be a popliar FoamFeature®, K.P.G. will every week present his Electronicals Soundtrack to the fractal fringe of the fun zone!
"That's right, Farq!" enthused K.P.G. yestiddy at th' IoF©'s state-o'-th'-art Sensory Deprivation Chamber [above - Ed.], "This week I'm popping my synapses to Pitch Black!"
For those unfamiliar with the duo, Pitch Black is Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, famed "Bubblegum" music pioneers. "Pitch Black was like this side project?" uptalks Jerry today. "We were way ahead of the curve with that one!" laughs Jeff. "We were getting hits as The 1910 Fruitgum Company as part of our Berklee doctorate and recording as Pitch Black at night, in the same studio! Crazy times!"
Antecedently FoamFeatured®, Knitting Pattern Guy's timely choice allows a more comprehensive loadup of the Dynamic Duo's innovative work!
We gots Electronomicon (Black Disc), we gots Ape To Angel, we gots Futureproof (2 disc), we gots the antecedently FoamFeatured™ Rhythm Sound And Movement. All youse bums have to do is tell us if you can see a starry sky at night where you live. On my last trip to the UK (last in both senses of the word) a couple of years back, there was no night sky above my father's house, just a pale haze of light pollution. "Do you ever see stars?" I asked a neighbor, and she looked at me as if I was strange. So - you can see stars at night? Because this strikes me as important.
ReplyDeleteSeeing stars in Manhattan, with the naked eye, is difficult. However, from my balcony, I can see the moon in an intermediate phase, which if you're into such things is called: The Waxing Gibbous. Basically, it's between a half and full moon.
ReplyDeleteYou said, "naked" ... uh huh, huh huh ...
Deletenot to mention...never mind. Black Randy & The Metro Squad's "Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie" could almost, somehow, maybe be read as LA punk commentary on "Pitch Black." I could be wrong. I've been wrong before.
DeleteLike Babs, I'm in an apartment surrounded by many other apartments and that means light pollution. But the waterfront and many parks are only about a 15 minute limp away and the offshore breeze often keeps the sky clear.
Delete(Another sure way to see stars is a quart of crème de menthe.)
chicago since 1956, pittsburgh before that. i must have seen some stars in the sky on a side trip but i really don't recall. i just take it for granted that they must be there.
DeleteHoly Synchronicity -- I was just thinking about that fairly obscure (but great) Black Randy album a couple hours ago for the first time in years when Jonder (over yonder) was quoting the Trouser Press's description of MX-80 guitarist Bruce Anderson's guitar tone as "a cross between Sonny Sharrock and a bad-mood Robert Fripp." That made me think of Pat Garrett's guitar sound on parts of "Pass the Dust ..." which has always stuck with me (a super compressed and modulated tone similar to Brian May's guitar on "We Will Rock You").
DeletePretty decent night sky here in FLA. "The stars are all connected to the brain"
Older readers may remember MrDave's controversial op.ed. piece "Where Is My Pez Dispenser?" a few years back.
DeleteI'm near the hill country, & therefore more out of town, so, yup, stars at night.
ReplyDeleteYes...seeing stars is important. We see the stars on a constant, along with the moon in it's phases...very important. North Carolina produces some of the most beautiful nights possible.
ReplyDeleteWill, AAU
The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas. Though I gotta cop that when we are in Colorado with the big farm family I married into those night skies are something to marvel at, a sight to see.
ReplyDeleteStrange place, Texas. Not that anyone from South Louisiana can say much about places being strange. The great Comanche warrior Quanah Parker's last wife used to tell her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, one of whom was my colleague, that someday all the Europeans would get tired of being here in the US and go home to their lands and their people where they belonged.
Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes
DeleteReason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
The Dead endure...
DeleteYes!! ... but not every night!! ..and then not that many!! .. but, they are up there!!
ReplyDeleteSan Francisco to the right of me, Oakland to the left. No stars.
ReplyDeleteClowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...
DeleteLight Polution Map at: https://www.cleardarksky.com/maps/lp/large_light_pollution_map.html
ReplyDeleteBurning up the world - "enjoy the night scenery":
Delete(mute sound, use slider)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCEMBU9Sk98&list=RDbCEMBU9Sk98&start_radio=1&rv=bCEMBU9Sk98&t=25
(in the tradition of th' IoF© - you want to hear the music - and it's basstastic - just ax!)
ReplyDeleteToo close to Paris to have, like, a sky full of stars, but we get half a dozen or so visible ones around here.
ReplyDeleteDrop da beat, Farq, get funky! Drop da beat, Farq, get funky! oweeowee oweeowee...Move your hands in the air and wav...got a bit carried away there...Whoops, sorry...well, anyway, consider yourself asked for basstastic bextravaganzas!
ReplyDeleteHere ya go, OBG! Pro tip: turn up bass to eleven, turn up treble to eleven. I'm listening to Ape To Angel as we speak - it's MONUMENTAL.
DeleteSugar Sugar
(I shouldn't have to point this out, but this is OBG's link - anyone else clicking it will be subject to th' CURSE O' FOAM©, today manifest as pruritic earlobes.)
lol spent a half hour looking for the link lol thought the link was someone new chiming in I so dumb but anyway thanx
Deletestars here on clear nights which are sorta rare
DeleteWhere do you dig up your information? Pitch Black are Michael Hodgson & Paddy Free from New Zealand.
DeleteJoey - you're new here, right?
DeleteYeah, I'm a newbie around the Isle.
DeleteI came here from a link on jonder's blog. I respect his catholic taste in music & figured I might find some good music here. & I have.
I agree with you that Pitch Black is some "swell music". I get that your humour leans heavily toward facetiousness. I just thought that you might want to give some of the 4o'5 Guys who don't know this group a bit of real info. You seem to go to great lengths into the backstories of some pretty shitty bands.
Sometimes I read something here & just feel as though I must give my two cents. Guess I'm just cheap. Sorry.
Hey! Those pretty shitty bands are my friends!
Delete(When I started this thing, which I've never been closer to finishing, incidentally, I didn't want to go the way of most music blogs and copy-paste information from wikipedia or allmusic or wherever. This is, for better or worse, the internet, and those seeking factual information only have to twitch their mouse finger to get to it. Plus, it's boring for me to do that. Sometimes it's hard to tell, being based on False Memory Foam, if it's the factual truth here or not - I think I finessed a couple by youse bums - and yes, sometimes I d0 mi 0Wn rEserCh on a lesser-known act because I can't find it in the regular sources.
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DeleteWell, you can never be sure. I wiki'd the name origins of Jesse Colin Young after reading your piece. Granted, it was more down to earth than the more obvious larky write-ups. But still, there's now enough doubt that you can never be sure where the truth, if any is to be had, ends, and the Farquniverse begins...
DeleteI nurse a fond hope that my piece on the "Rock Classics" release of an edited Ring Cycle went unquestioned. It certainly fooled me.
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/05/bitter-harvest-dept.html
I'm enjoying Ape To Angel, very much!
DeleteThat's because you have intelligence, a finely-tuned critical apparatus, and innate good taste; not like some of the lowlife grifters we get here.
DeleteGet off my lawn!
DeleteHere in the Dorsetshire (South of England), I can see the stars very well, despite a little light pollution. Also seen the string of satellites passing over in the summer, I know they're not actually attached but its quite something seeing them equally distanced as they pass over us.
ReplyDeleteOut here in the sticks, we have some beautiful night skies. When there's no moon, you can see the Milky Way quite clearly.
ReplyDeleteMany a celestial object viewable from Ally Pally.
ReplyDeleteRemember Kirk week?
Here's Roy Haynes
https://we.tl/t-utZ22DJQHB
An old favorite. Rahsaan "kills it" on Fly Me to the Moon.
DeleteBill and Stella, turn out the stars on this one.
https://workupload.com/file/UNRaBr4AkdH
Orion shows me how late i am.
ReplyDeleteOut here in the tropics, Orion's lying down. Which makes sense.
DeleteI see stars, but they're mostly local heroes and has beens.
ReplyDeleteIn the sky, I see if they're not obscured by the snow clouds.
I would dearly love to hear the dark side of bubblegum...
ReplyDeleteLink's up there, Steve - keywords Sugar Sugar. You'll get itchy lobes, though.
DeleteI mean stuff like the Archies' evil twins might record.
DeleteHuh, color me surprised. That's certainly a lot more modern electronic/dacefloor-y than I imagined. See folks, the Farqster ain't just all about the sweet, sweet country rock! He's shimmying spastically all over the (dance) floor to impress the pretty young things, muchb to Kréeme's [19 his ass] dismay...
ReplyDeleteThis is swell music. I can't tell you why, it just is. Fuck criticism, analysis, description, categorisation ... this is music and it is swell. Listen to the first track on Rhythm ... when the bass drops in, your rectum prolapses. That's how swell this music is.
DeleteI downloaded it but found it totally not to my taste. It's just nothing I can respond to.
DeleteWell, I gotta go with the Sharkster on this one. And it's not that I don't like electronic music, even modern one. I do, for selected stuff.
DeleteBut this isn't my jam. But hey, I'm willing to try whatever washes up on the shore of the Isle of Foam, and if it ain't my thang, I push it back out into the ocean...
Exactly, OBG. Listen and move on.
DeleteMove on off my lawn!
DeleteTo give y'all an idea of what modern electronic music I like.
ReplyDeleteAbout a decade ago, Mojo had a pretty cool tribute to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" made by electronic or electronic-adjacent acts. I kicked out the part I didn't like (mostly repetitive dance beat sections) and mixed this into one big megamix
The Mojo Reboot All-Stars - Wish You Were Here Again
https://workupload.com/file/LZrwvttFqyx
I don't like the original album, so I'm unlikely to enjoy this Pop Hits On Synthesizer version.
DeleteWhat is wrong wit' youse bums, not liking Pitch Black?
We're just not as young and hip and with it as you are.
DeleteI wear Angels Flight© slacks exclusively. They're slightly flared for today's look.
DeleteSorry Farq, Pitch Black is not really floating my boat, maybe I need a handful of enhancement spliffs or some magic milkshake. Some of it sounds familiar, the sort of thing I would have listened to 10/15 odd years ago.
ReplyDeleteI mistakenly thought it was Babs listening to FZ guitar solos, but it was you, Bambi.
DeleteHere's the link to some more FZ guitar. The Mediafire links all seem to be working.
http://gzsuitarfolos.blogspot.com/2012/11/plops-bootlops-of-gz-suitar-folos.html?m=1
I can now report that Pitch Black definitely worked with accompanying Mathmos liquid lens (oil wheel) projection and 3 bottles of enhancing Shepherd Neame fine beers, although some tracks better than others.
DeleteThanks SteveShark, that is the very place where the FZ guitar stuff I've been listening to has come from.
DeleteAnyone into Zappas Shut Up and Play Your Guitar album, should seek these wonderfully compiled collections - highly recommended, see SteveShark link above.
There are 4 more volumes, but I have no link for them.
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