kOPERNIK

I am exhausted. Can barely type. These sounds are soul invoking, and that's something much needed in Vietnam, Pittsburgh.





Kopernik

Loren Connors : Sails

Welcome to Vietnam, Pittsburgh ; let this sound guide you through.

GZA : Liquid Swords

Because only white people like you when you're old.

Immoderation

Hello there. Today began as an oddly sunny and warm day here in Vietnam, Pittsburgh, but has progressed into another dirge. Cast no Shadow until you breathe fresh light. Let the bankers rob, the politicians steal, and the police roll in their own fecal matter; get yourself back friend. Each met plateau will be followed by another, more challenging at every pass. Walk the ground and remember that every step counts. Make it through the hard parts friends. Make it smile.







If you walk in the trouble, find this useful.

Geinoh Yamashirogumi : Yamato Gensho

"Named in English 'Yamashiro’s Performing Arts Group', Geino Yamashirogumi was a massive vocal ensemble comprised of up to 70 singers at a time. The ensemble was joined on side one of their 1976 debut LP by the Spiders' organist Katsuo Ohno and 'Monsieur' Takayuki Inoue on some particularly incendiary electric guitar, along with bass player Takanori Sasaki and drummer Jiro Suzuki, conspiring to create a thrilling and soaring hybrid of Krautrock, Gospel and swampy Cajun music. Side two's bizarre early Residents-like vocal chimping and LORD OF THE FLIES prattle was almost (but not quite) as great. Named OSOREZAN after the legendary sacred mountain on the northernmost island of Hokkaido, this debut LP is a spectacular achievement and appears at number 8 in Japrocksampler's Top 50. Thereafter, Geino Yamashirogumi unfortunately lost 'it', their muse being substituted instead for a series of bizarre 'genre' LPs. The second LP CHI NO HIBIKI was merely an accurate reading of several Georgian, Russian and Bulgarian folk songs, most likely without interest to anyone still on this mortal coil, and certainly back up on ebay just two days after our postie had delivered it. Five years later, the third LP AFRICA GENSHO was released, though the title freaked me* out so I've never attempted to search it out. In conclusion, we rock'n'roll frontiersmen just have to accept that in order to find the greatest lost Japanese music, we're gonna have to become ever more open-minded about the places where we search. A further tour of underground Japan will undoubtedly bring forth umpteen more lost classics from the most unlikely places, as evidenced by the unexpected classics lurking within theatre music, street music and the like." -JapRockSampler.Com



Yamashirogumi is a brilliant star you've always been able to see, but have never been focused enough to notice. His music will likely show again soon here, it is both profound and adventurous. Have fun with this while snowflakes fall between you and the fourth wall.






The Red Pill

Enkh Jargal : Hoirr Ongo

WATCH THIS WATCH THIS WATCH THIS WATCH THIS

To hear this fine musician on the top of a snowy mountain... My God. Get some culture, check out the history of Mongolian Throat Singing, Throat Singing in general, and the "Horsehead Fiddle". You'll feel educated. I swear. IT'S RAPIDSHARE, I KNOW.


Part 1



Part 2

The Laughing Windows : EP1

many Thanks to Soundweave for hooking this one up. Rabbit Ear the page. It's worth it.

"A joint release from Doug Shipton's Battered Ornaments and the associated Finders Keepers crew, the debut EP from The Laughing Windows follows their killer 7" with two 10"s worth of mysterious Krautrock dabbling and horror psyched vibes. The first thing to strike us about this group has to be Luke Insect's seriously uncanny vocal resemblance to Thom Yorke. Sure, there are a lot of people who try to sound like him, but this doesn't feel like a conscious decision and simply, but kinda definitively, makes the group sound like Radiohead doing a mean Amon Duul impersonation. The most impressive of the five tracks are both on the first disc, loaded with two extended jams skillfully moving from synth driven moods to arcane folksy wanderings with prog-rock arrangements." -boomkat

Imagine it's 3Am and you have finally retreated to warmth out of the white chaos outside. Unless that's what you are doing. Listen and Do Some Homework. Truly Amazing

this.

Move with Me

Today is the first Official Snowfall in Vietnam, Pittsburgh. The sky is foreboding and it appears as if life itself will be tested by white oblivion. So, pay attention to these next posts if you attempting to trudge your soul through it all and make progress in the deepest and vaguest of chaos principalities. I am running on, but the coffee's still piping and so is the soul. Keep it warm, keep it safe. Here comes the blizzard.

Bill Orcutt: A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Check his history out. He's a living Legend. But not in Vietnam, Pittsburgh. Not yet.



...This one is already sold out. Get it before the sun goes down.



And one for you

Hargreaves Noyes Duplant : Malachi

No Words. Just Fucking Do It. It will soothe your soul.











It's a visual sound.

Rhys Chatham

A more beautiful sound than police sirens, than the Red Death Gang, and the sound of too many different people, seemingly too different to work out their differences. Relax, it's a world out there. Sleep now. Tomorrow is already here.

You need This.

#if it's good, wear it.

The Waking World

It's only after the lights go out and no one's around when the true sense of self hits like baby grand falling three stories into your brand new mercedes. While the world sleeps, the muscles will not. The muscles, including the heart and brain, will not calm themselves. They understand the physical strain of of feeling used, dumped in an alley, and picked through by bums, as the police watch each huddled warm around the corner at Pashke's 24 hour Quik-E-Mart.
It's not whining, it's the internet; and I am exhausted beyond sleep. This is where I break the rules, where I say I, I say I way too much, because I...well I can't remember.

Remember the audience will never love you, and they only want you to be there when it suits them. When it pleases them. They will walk out when it suits them. They will tell you good show when it suits. Them. No matter your trade, break the rules, only bend for those of true heart, and keep your heart inside your head. What we do might matter, but only if it does to ourselves. The sermon on the ladder, the boss fires, and the prostitutes await beside vampires, werewolves, and police officers. The streetlights are down. Open your eyes and see your way through. They can't hurt you unless you let them. Stay warm. Listen.