New Order -Ike Yard poster found ...

Interesting email from John Cooper @ Cerysmatic this week -
someone found an old poster for the show IY did with New Order at the Ukrainian National Home bk in 1981 (or '82 !).
It says Factory & Blind Dates - that was Ruth Polsky's booking moniker and has 'New Order' hand drawn by your's truly.

Can barely remember doing it !
It should surface soon enough.
RIP Ruth Polsky ...

Scanning the perimeter

That outpost rehearsal jam Fri. was ripping; the group worked up one song perimeter into a powerhouse fat funky bass with Mark's silver handcuffs tune.
Two other former 'jams' were also put onto the 'song' track.

Saturday we had gone up to Central Park to check Istanbul Live day of Turkish music & food but when we got there it was already too crowded and so instead we walked down the tree lined lane to South end of park until the clouds broke open.
Standing under a dripping tree we see that Oliver Stone is there too, chatting and laughing into an earpiece, soaking wet.

Finished the DUSTED Top 10 Sunday.
Sundance docu night mon. screened Wild Combination , on Arthur Russell. And it was good !
Visions of Arthur in the hallway of the 12th St. building, headphones clamped on head. No words exchanged.

Jay Reatard rocked the Oval last night, a mass of core fans in the center of the green.
Trio of Italian girls came across the muddy edge to sit next to us and smoke ...

American deaths

Michael Jackson
Farrah Fawcett
Ed MacMahon
- someone said ' it's like the '70's died '
tv montage of Michael's face / the red Swimsuit poster / Johnny Carson in Ed's arms
Al Sharpton's holding a press conf.

it had already been a strange week,
the ongoing days of unrest in Iran had engaged me for hours at a time following it, then the crackdown.
After almost three cool and rainy weeks , today the sun came back out today to warm everybody up.
But with all these deaths by tonight - Farrah and then Michael in one afternoon - it's an odd feeling , mediated memory formation of popidols, bits of songs, a selection of most famous images collapsed into the moments when you first hear the next news.
Kind of a real time JG Ballard feed ...

outpost 'rehearses' Friday more like we get together and play what we want night.
First time since the Cake Shop gig .

Summer solstice

Recording with Judy went fine,
Nowthenafter listening party at Harvestworks went well, was well attended, friends came out, the rain held off that night !
The Surround Sound DVD will become available later in the year, and there is talk of taking it around to other cities this year.
outpost Mark and I went out to Hoboken Sat resulting in a first session of Luke Davis' text soundscapes and sound designs;
an opening 20 m piece sparked things off .
It was still light when we got out of the studio buzzing

Ike yard's remixes underway, should be able to hear a release date soon
DCC album demos going out
Begun working on new Dominatrix tracks, looking at remixers for the Dom Ep ...

The light faded on Summer solstice Sunday
Really rainy season , almost monsoon feeling in the last few weeks in particular ,
We have gotten used to the sound of rain growing into a downpour as a storm rolls overhead

Black and grey clouds fills the Eastern sky all day from dawn,
a plane flying towards La Guardia disappeared into a high wall of cloud

continual action >

Stayed on track this past week;
after returning from upstate Sunday,
found the Lady Gaga music video for Love Game to be a partial hommage' ahem to our old "Sleeps Tonight" video.
Contacted Cevin Fisher to see what's up with his "Women Beat Their Men" track that's floated about and surfaced on various compilations over the er decades. No response.
Sent Luca' text to Jamie.
outpost played @ Cake Shop Thurs night : Good turnout, good sound, zero real problems,
Glorytellers and Joe Lally completing a nice bill of music on a semi rainy night.
Thanks Pat ( These Are Powers ), Paul, MD, Hiromi, Atsushi and everyone that made it out !
Out to Sunset Park BK last night to Al Diaz birthday ( Al was Samo graff partner, played on the infamous Beat Bop record that JM Basquiat produced and performed as Elephant Dance @ TR3 bk in 1981),
heard this Hungarian flavored violinist in the Union Sq. subway, donated some $, gave him my card, got his card.

Iran voted Fri, Analog tv died, Newt crawled out to say some stuff ...

This week we have Zomby Mon. night @ Plan B ?
outpost records the remainder of Judy Nylon's narration for Luca's text project plus her JG Ballard narration,
and the Nowthenafter listening party on Fri. @ Harvestworks ( free ) ...

Sun's come back out of the clouds.
Now listening to Tim Hecker "The Inner Shore " from An Imaginary Country

Death Comet Crew album tracks completed

Some pretty good work this past weekend !

We worked on 4 DCC tracks -
Ignition Spark / Let The Clubs Ring / Megacidade / Galacticoast Mosi and finished Runmap and Moons On Titan Seas.
Ike Yard's Citiiesglit files were sent to Denmark's Phisteria.

Musical weekend

Some very nice nights this past week and weekend, black skies and clear white moon hanging in the sky.
Flowers white blossoms by the doorway, thunderstorms late at night, a pair of nightbirds singing in the trees below.
Obama at the Pyramids.
Nice rehearsal last night with outpost; all seven pieces run through - lots to think about.
Tonight I pack for three nights upstate at Riverglass Studios for Death Comet Crew mix sessions.
Almost completing the album.
Also a final bit of work preparing Ike Yard's Citiesglit for remix upcoming 10" ...

We should be able to have most of the new DCC album mixed by the time we leave on Sunday;
likewise Ike Yard's Citiesglit in the bag on Sat., ready to be remixed in Denmark ...
IY has first the 10" coming out this summer and the new album coming hopefully later in 2009 on Phisteria.


Listening: R Sakamoto's Out of Noise

Good bye Kashgar ...

Saddened by yesterday's Times article on the Chinese Gov.' plan to raze the Old town in Kashgar.
Far West China's ancient Silk Road depot will not be the same, the Uighur people will be moved into new apartment blocks.
Makes it easier to keep an eye on them.
Remember Free Tibet ?