Coercri’s Lighthouse

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Jan 202014
 

Descending toward the trees, Pitchwife began to sing. His voice was hoarse, as if he had spent too much of his life singing threnodies; yet his song was as heart-lifting as trumpets. His melody was full of wind and waves, of salt and strain, and of triumph over pain. As clearly as the new day, he sang:

“Let breakers crash against the shore–
let rocks be rimed with sea and weed,
cliffs carven by the storm–
let calm becalm the deeps,
or wind appall the waves, and sting–
and sting–
nothing overweights the poise of Sea and Stone.
The rocks and water-battery of Home endure.
We are the Giants,
born to live,
and bold for going where the dreaming goes.”

“Let world be wide beyond belief,
the ocean be as vast as time–
let journeys end or fail,
seaquests fall in ice or blast,
and wandering be forever. Roam–
and roam–
nothing tarnishes the poise of Sea and Stone.
The hearth and harbotage of Home endure.
We are the Giants,
born to sail,
and bold to go wherever dreaming goes.”

And when at last the storm broke, opening a rift of clear sky across the east, there against the horizon stood the lorn stump of Coercri’s Lighthouse.  Upraised like a stonework forearm from which the fist had been cut away, it defied weather and desuetude as if it were the last gravestone of the Unhomed. (Stephen Donaldson ‘The Wounded Land’ 1980 Del Rey Books)

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Giants – The Palace Stands In Its Proper Place   [00:00]
Heights – Trick Of The Light   [04:29]
Glorie – Looking Through The Mirror   [09:53]
Magma Waves – Fujise Shinzo   [13:51]
Willow – When The Sea Called Our Names   [22:15]
Afformance – Angel Playing With Foam On The Vaulting Keystone   [30:20]
Arbor Lights – Interstellar   [34:38]
Random Forest – See The Storm   [40:00]
Bombardier – I Am The Danger   [45:09]
Degree of Arc – The Marcher   [52:03]
Chasing Traits – Sparrow   [58:46]
I Am The Architect – Louis The King   [62:50]
Audrey Fall – Medem   [71:57]
Wander – Valor   [75:11]
Richard Parker – Tempus   [79:24]

640.080 playlist.pdf

Image by Clarkson Stanfield, R. A. (unsigned), 1855, for the private theatricals at Campden-House, Illustrated London News

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640.2013

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Dec 302013
 

<< 640.2013.releases >>

Oiseaux-Tempête ‘Oiseaux-Tempête’
[released 19 November 2013]
French experimentalists Oiseaux-Tempête create visual music; rich in texture and depth. My first exposure to their music was via their release teaser on their website, and a few shorts on youtube. I was hooked immediately by their dark, organic soundscapes. The record, beautifully packaged in gatefold red vinyl with stunning imagery, expands upon the youtube films, and delivers a passionate and intense instrumental rock experience.

Mooncake ‘Zaris’
[released 18 October 2013]
‘Zaris’ is easily one of the finest post-rock records in my collection. It delivers lush soaring melodies, richly textured foundations, bold compositions, and the one feature that stands out throughout this entire release – never a need to rush. The songs are balanced and strong, and tell their story at their own pace. Impossible to pick a favorite – I love every song.

Signal Hill ‘Chase The Ghost’
[released 30 April 2013]
‘Chase the Ghost’ is blissfully melodic instrumental rock. The songs loop and sway with meandering brilliance. My go-to stream to start most days – a perfect combination of Dif Juz era-4AD, light/math, and shoegaze. Lovely.

The Shaking Sensations ‘Start Stop Worrying’
[released 22 March 2013]
The songs on ‘Start Stop Worrying’ are lush and melodic, and exhibit many of the same characteristics that made the first two Shaking Sensations records so enjoyable. The way the band embraces expanding layers of percussion; chiming guitars that weave and soar; perfect transitions between the heavy and soft moments. With this release, the band delivers six stunning and mature compositions that firmly position them among the best in the instrumental rock genre.

Oak ‘Not Afraid Anymore’
[released 19 January 2013]
Oak’s new release ‘Not Afraid Anymore’ is an excellent example of the new breed of rock bands that embrace post-punk heaviness with their own psychedelic rock influences, while adding unique driving rhythms, and densely melodic compositions. The songs are dynamic, brooding and dark. Highly recommended for fans of powerful and intelligent instrumental rock.

Kafka ‘la Petite Marchande d’Allumettes’
[released 18 January 2013]
I am a huge fan of avant-garde instrumental rock. Starting off in my youth with Gabriel-era Genesis, up through now, with great bands like Do Make Say Think, Fly Pan Am, A Far Off Reason, Jung People, Kafka. All are on regular rotation here. This release from Kafka is a musical adaptation of the film ‘La Petite Marchande d’Allumettes’ (‘The Little Match Girl’), Jean Renoir (1928), which is based on a short story by Hans Christian Andersen, first published in 1845. The story is grim and hallucinatory – the improvised quality of the songs match well to the story’s mood and will often leave you feeling disjointed and scattered, just as the little girl would have felt as she burns through her matches to maintain the visions of her long dead grandmother. The instrumentation on this record is brilliant – electro/acoustic meanderings with keyboards, bass, and guitar, with a strong emphasis on percussion throughout. An outstanding soundtrack – my only wish is that I would have been fortunate enough to see this performed live.

Fargo ‘heimkehr’
[released 26 January 2013]
The Heimkehr EP (‘Homecoming’) features two heavy epic-length slow-burners that will definitely appeal to fans of Milhaven and Daturah. I love this record. “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” George Orwell, 1984

Shy, Low ‘Binary Opposition’
[released 25 June 2013]
This EP is an outstanding transition from Shy, Low’s brilliant 2012 self-titled release. The songs are organic and uplifting, the builds are relaxed and  quiet, and the movement into the crescendos is confident and powerful. And they sound really great live – one of our favorite shows of 2013 – pummeling, and perfect.

Wired to Follow ‘Everything in Colour’
[released 30 March 2013]
MinionTV’s 2010 self-titled debut topped 6forty project’s favorite releases that year. And it remains one of the finest instrumental rock albums in my collection. Subsequent releases have also been outstanding. Recently, band members Stephen Johnston and Barry Fearns have taken a side-car adventure with the formation of Wired to Follow, featuring a deep dive into the ambient soundscapes and post/electronica that appeared at times on the various MinionTV releases. The songs on this EP are lushly textured and alive; a vivid and visual soundtrack, fitting for films such as Liquid Sky or Fantastic Planet. Highly recommended listening. On regular repeat status in the 6forty office…

Fourteen Nights At Sea ‘Great North’
[released 12 April 2013]
‘Great North’ is massive; a glacial wall of beautiful rock music. Visual and stunning. “In the field itself, ribbons of color described arabesques across a background of sultry browns and greens, forms that were pure abstraction – bright jottings from some wild man’s diary – jostling with stylized flora and fauna. But this complexity paled beside the centerpiece of the carpet: a giant medallion, its colors as various as a summer garden, into which a hundred subtle geometries had been cunningly woven, so that the eye could reach each pattern as flower or theorem, order or turmoil, and find each choice echoed somewhere in the grand design.” Clive Barker, Weaveworld

Glories ‘Mother Reverb’
[released 12 April 2013]
‘Mother Reverb’ is an outstanding collection of smooth and melodic instrumental rock. Blissfully chiming guitars; gentle yet powerful swells; and such easy movement. Highly recommended for fans of Explosions in the Sky’s ‘Friday Night Lights,’ Red Room Cinema, Rest (Nashville, US), Sunlight Ascending’s ‘Appointment’ EP, and Moonlit Sailor. This is a wonderful collection of music – definitely a post-rock gateway drug.

Man Mountain ‘To Call Each Thing By Its Right Name’
[released 24 May 2013]
This is outstanding post-rock. The songs are melodic, bright, blissful, and smooth. “Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.” Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Trappist Afterland ‘Like a Beehive, The Hill was Alive’
[released 21 June 2013]
‘Like a Beehive, The Hill Was Alive’ is definitely the most unique of the records on this year’s favorite releases list. Traditional acoustic instrumentation, spiritual lyric exploration, psychedelic folk arrangements. Highly recommended for fans of Glorious Din, Hrsta, and (Insight Records) Spahn Ranch. “and alone we tread through traps and longing; to find the path, birdsongs, insects calling; in lure we trek through thorns and bracken; to find an elm tree fit for lodging.” Trappist Afterland

EF ‘Ceremonies’
[released 01 September 2013]
‘Ceremonies’ is one of the few releases on this list that features vocals. Lush melodic post-rock, relaxed movement, and lovely arrangements. Highly recommended for fans of Moonlit Sailor and Dorena. “My wanderings amid such scenes have been many, and far-searching, and often solitary; and the interest with which I have strayed through many a dim deep valley, or gazed into the reflected Heaven of many a bright lake, has been an interest greatly deepened by the thought that I have strayed and gazed alone.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Island of the Fay

jakeL ‘The Black Sea’
[released 03 October 2013]
Outstanding progressive post-rock from Montreal. This record shines like the sun. I love it. “The Black Sea is a marginal sea and is the world’s largest body of water with a meromictic basin. The deep waters do not mix with the upper layers of water that receive oxygen from the atmosphere. As a result, over 90% of the deeper Black Sea volume is anoxic water. The Black Sea’s circulation patterns are primarily controlled by basin topography and fluvial inputs, which result in a strongly stratified vertical structure. Because of the extreme stratification, it is classified as a salt-wedge estuary. (Wikipedia)

The Autumn Leaves Fall In ‘The Different Visions Of Things’
[released 17 January 2013]
Heavy, yet melodic, post-rock from Firenze, Italy. The songs are dark and rich; deep and transitional like an October sky. ‘Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places.’ Franz Kafka, Aphorisms

Jardín de la Croix ‘187 steps to cross the universe’
[released 21 February 2013]
This EP kicks ass. Clean, tight, driving math-rock that’s constantly blaring from my iPod… “There were perhaps a hundred eyes in all, but staring an age at it would not have revealed their true number, for the thing, despite its solidity, defied fixing. Were those wheels that moved at its heart, tied with lines of liquid fire to a hundred other geometries which informed the air it occupied? Did innumerable wings beat at its perimeters, and light burn in its bowels, as though it had swallowed stars? Nothing was certain. In one breath, it seemed to be enclosed in a matrix of darting light, like scaffolding struck by lightning; in the next, the pattern became flame confetti, which swarmed at its extremities before it was snatched away. One moment, ether; the next, juggernaut.” Clive Parker, Weaveworld

Jung People ‘Gold Bristle!’
[released 12 October 2013]
There’s a whole lot of music going on here – it’s really difficult to adequately describe this release with only a few descriptives. Perfect avant-garde instrumental rock – intelligent, gentle, and so wonderfully melodic. Highly recommended if you enjoy 4AD’s Dif Juz, Do Make Say Think, Kafka, and A Far Off Reason. “If all the heavens with all their stars; exploded in this valley, they would; be but a leaf fluttering in the wind. Here a tiny fish is mightier than; a whale and nobody can say why.” Peter Sís, The Conference of the Birds

The Fierce and the Dead ‘Spooky Action’
[released 04 November 2013]
The Fierce and the Dead’s ‘Spooky Action’ reminds me of my favorite Yo La Tengo records. Tight improvisational rock jams, frequent tempo changes, blazing guitar leads, driving rhythm, and constant movement. I hear something new and wonderful every time I listen…

The Declining Winter ‘Fragment 5’
[released 11 August 2013]
“The Declining Winter started out as the meanderings of me, Mr. Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds, West Yorkshire now resident in York, North Yorkshire. A musical project to keep me occupied whilst my other group is (still) on hiatus and also so I can pretend that I’m not just an office worker by trade.” I’ve been a fan of Richard’s projects going back to the earliest Hood records, up to the latest Declining Winter release, ‘Lost Songs’ (limited cassette). ‘Fragment 5’ continues his exploration of acoustic soundscapes and lovely pastoral ballads. Outstanding.

Doomina ‘Beauty’
[released 21 September 2013]
A stunning post-rock release – the songs are hypnotic and powerful. Gentle sways lead to massive swells. Listeners who enjoy their post-rock with a side of shoegaze will definitely enjoy this record. I’m addicted… “The pillar of fire still raged in the night sky as it had for the past hour. The stars swam in the inky darkness around it, magic swirling in a frenzy as if from a bottomless well.” Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon: Volume One of the Malazan Book of the Fallen

subzar ‘Pico’
[released 16 December 2013]
This is modern-classical/post-chamber at its finest. I love the interplay between the strings and the acoustic guitars. Perfect arrangements, lovely melodies, such flawless movement. Emphatically recommended to fans of the Rachel’s. I will never get tired of listening to this EP. “subzar travelled to Austria to record in the valley town of Pfarrwerfen, near Salzburg, so sought to replicate the travellers’ ethos. ‘pico’ was recorded using only the instruments they carried and the natural sounds captured on their travels, with minimal overdubs formed mainly from analogue manipulation of recorded tracks. The result is a naked and pure recording that better captures the spirit of the quartet’s live performances.”

Vasudeva ‘Life in Cycles’
[released 23 July 2013]
Vasudeva is razor-sharp angular math that blends the pop-goodness and rapid-fire tempo of Wedding Present, with modern free-form loop/riffing instrumental rock. Superb! Extra bonus – they live close, which means that I get to see them play often. And that’s definitely a treat, because these songs are even more ass-kicking live…

North End ‘Cognoscere’
[released 13 August 2013]
‘Cognoscere’ is complex and heavy math-rock. Shifting time signatures, sharp u-turns, pounding rhythms, and layers of chiming guitars come together perfectly on this melodic whirlwind. Best when cranked through headphones, and preferably before or after the equally amazing Vasudeva release.

in violet ‘opal’
[released 08 July 2013]
‘Opal’ is sonic bliss; psychedelic post/noise-pop mayhem. Richly textured guitars, tight beats and electronics, driving bass, and signature ‘in violet’ vocal effects take you on a trip down the rabbit hole with these eight brilliant tracks. “…This bottle was NOT marked ‘poison,’ so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off. ‘What a curious feeling!’ said Alice; ‘I must be shutting up like a telescope.” Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Damascus ‘Heights’
[released 10 July 2013]
Outstanding progressive instrumental rock from New Jersey. Tight, explosive melodies and intensely energetic compositions. Damascus is my first choice when heading out on road trips – perfect driving music…

<< 640.2013.video >>

Maybeshewill   ‘Live At The Y Theatre’
Overhead, The Albatross   ‘Telekinetic Forest Guard’
Signal Hill   ‘Meatlocker TV’
And Also The Trees   ‘Live at Dark Bombastic Evening 5’
Mutiny on the Bounty   ‘BeatCast Studio Session’
Temps Zero Toulouse : Oiseaux-Tempête live impro + fotoprojektions
And Also The Trees   ‘Missing in Mâcon’ (90 minute live film)
Sigur Rós   ‘Hrafntinna’ (Converse EMPTY SPACE #4)
Caspian   ‘Live on KEXP’

<< 640.2013.live >>

Mohican, Signal Hill, Vasudeva, North End @ North Star Bar, April 25, 2013
Shy, Low @ Kung Fu Necktie, May 30, 2013
Bardo Pond, Major Stars, Static Mountain @ PhilaMOCA, June 27, 2013
Sigur Rós @ Mann Center, September 20, 2013
And So I Watch You From Afar, TTNG, Mylets @ First Unitarian Church, November 1, 2013
Mono, Majeure @ Johnny Brendas, November 19, 2013
Caspian, 65daysofstatic, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die @ First Unitarian Church, November 26, 2013

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the sky chamber

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Nov 192013
 

At the center of the Sky Chamber is a reflecting pool of dreamsteel, its surface a perfect unrippled mirror. Four chairs surround it; three are occupied. The magi have little care for the ungifted custom of setting the highest-ranked to gaze upon their inferiors. When so much business is transacted in thought, physical directions begin to lose even symbolic meaning.

Patience takes the open seat, and reaches out to the other three arch-magi. It’s as easy as joining flesh-and-blood hands. Archedons and archedamas pool energies, crafting a joined sigil, an ideogram that fills the room for an instant with the thought-shape of four names:

-Patience-Providence-
-Foresight-Temperance-

The names are meaningless, traditional, having nothing to do with the personal qualities of their holders. The fused sigil proclaims the commencement of formal business. The light in the chamber dims in response; the early-evening sky is replaced by a bowl of predawn violet with a warm line of tawny gold at the horizon. Archedon Temperance, seniormost of the four, sends forth:

-We return to the matter of the black contract proposed by Luciano Anatolius of Camorr.-

<< The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch 2013 by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group >>

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-patience-
Barrows – Apparition by Moonlight   [00:00]
Oak – …and beyond   [06:52]
The Pirate Ship Quintet – Horse Manifesto   [09:55]
[interlude]  Set Fire To Flames – Love Song For 15 Ontario (W Singing Police Car)   [17:13]

-providence-
The Nightblooms – Butterfly Girl   [20:27]
Caspian – The Heart That Fed   [27:48]
Mogwai – I Am Not Batman   [34:13]
Mogwai – Tuner   [37:45]
[interlude]  Set Fire To Flames – Two Tears In A Bucket   [40:40]

-foresight-
Laura – Visitor   [44:17]
Blueneck – Sirens   [51:27]
[interlude]  Set Fire To Flames – When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts   [57:52]

-temperance-
Mono – Nostalgia   [60:51]
Doomina – Gizmo   [71:20]
Set Fire To Flames – Fading Lights Are Fading Reign Rebuilder (Tail Out)   [80:40]

640.079 playlist.pdf

 Posted by at 12:35 pm

time is fluid here

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Oct 252013
 

The demon took apart his life, moment by moment, instant to awful instant. It lasted a hundred years, perhaps, or a thousand – they had all the time there ever was, in that gray room – and toward the end he realized that the demon had been right. The physical torture had been kinder.

And it ended.

And once it had ended, it began again. there was a self-knowledge there he had not had the first time, which somehow made everything worse.

Now, as he spoke, he hated himself. there were no lies, no evasions, no room for anything except the pain and the anger.

He spoke. He no longer wept. And when he finished, a thousand years later, he prayer that now the demon would go to the wall, and bring down the skinning knife, or the choke-pear, or the screws.

“Again,” said the demon.

He began to scream. He screamed for a long time.

“Again,” said the demon, when he was done, as if nothing had been said.

It was like peeling an onion. This time through his life he learned about consequences. He learned the results of things he had done; things he had been blind to as he did them; the way he had hurt the world; the damage he had done to people he had never known, or met, or encountered. It was the hardest lesson yet.

“Again,” said the demon, a thousand years later.

He crouched on the floor, beside the brazier, rocking gently, his eyes closed, and he told the story of his life, re-experiencing it as he told it, from birth to death, changing nothing, leaving nothing out, facing everything. He opened his heart.

When he was done, he sat there, eyes closed, waiting for the voice to say, “Again,” but nothing was said. He opened his eyes.

Slowly, he stood up. He was alone.

At the far end of the room, there was a door, and as he watched, it opened.

A man stepped through the door. There was terror in the man’s face, and arrogance, and pride. The man, who wore expensive clothes, took several hesitant steps into the room, and then stopped.

When he saw the man, he understood.

“Time is fluid here,” he said to the new arrival.

excerpt from “Other People” © 2001 by Neil Gaiman. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 101, nos. 4 and 5.

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Psychodeus – Maelström   [00:00]
Locrian – Visitation From The Wrath Of Heaven   [09:24]
Ear Trumpet – Shower Frenzy   [16:15]
Teith – This Buffalo Wings Café Is A Wi Fi Hotspot   [19:27]
The Psychic Paramount – Echoh Air   [24:10]
Stereolab | Nurse With Wound – Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason…)   [30:13]
Fly Pan Am – Sound-Support Surface Noises Reaching Out To You   [43:40]
Jessamine – Continuous   [50:45]
Third Eye Foundation – Next Of Kin   [57:36]
Labradford – Banco   [63:45]
Flying Saucer Attack – Present   [69:52]
Magnog – Lost Landing   [74:01]
Soundsmith – Sinking Upwards   [79:49]
Sonic Youth – Protect Me You   [82:40]
Spacemen3 – Suicide (Live)   [87:58]

640.078 playlist.pdf

 

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the passenger

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Sep 132013
 

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.   [Aldous Huxley]

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Exilym – Transmission n#xxx  [00:00]
The Pirate Ship Quintet – That Girl I Used To Live In  [02:39]
Leech – Hands Full Of Hearts, Heart Full of Head  [10:51]
TrucitatE – Nemesis  [22:11]
This Is Your Captain Speaking – Welcome  [29:30]
Saltland – ICA  [35:57]
Kendra Smith – Earth Same Breath  [40:03]
3epkano (Der Golem) – My Unshaped Form  [43:30]
Deadhorse – Visionaries  [48:50]
Lander Configurations – I Killed A Spider  [54:39]
Sigur Rós – Hrafntinna  [65:13]
Slowdive – Miranda  [71:35]
Blueneck – Revelations  [76:26]

640.077 playlist.pdf

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under furred eaves

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Aug 042013
 

Every year, I compile a 6forty collection that features the music that was in my ears while beach front with my family at the Outer Banks (South Nags Head, NC, mile post 19.5). I ended up working a bit more than I had anticipated, and several of those sessions were long – I found myself queuing this playlist repeatedly while I stared at my laptop screen. I’m confident that you’ll enjoy the mix as much as I do. It’s 102 minutes of perfect rock music.

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Lavinia – New Blood    [00:00]
In Violet – We’re All Dying, Says Sylvia    [05:33]
Set and Setting – Spiraling Uncertainties    [10:32]
jakeL – We Forgave It All    [18:12]
Vasudeva – Ritual / In Lieu Of Youth    [23:43]
Damascus – Heights    [29:33]
North End – Gabardine    [38:10]
Psychojet – Epic Succeed    [41:59]
The Jezebel Spirit – Baby’s Gonna Die, Don’t Get Rich    [45:38]
La Fin du Monde – Saint of Killers    [52:48]
Emphasis – Sun Falls Earth Rises    [58:50]
The Coma Recovery – Illuminator    [67:21]
Kafka – Rewind Part 2    [75:34]
Mandelenda – Nomuras’ Bloom    [81:10]
Overhead, The Albatross – Think, Thank, Thunk.    [86:55]
Coma Cloud/Crows Labyrinth – Sunrise Finale    [96:07]

640.076 playlist.pdf

 Posted by at 9:02 pm

its apparent diameter

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Jun 162013
 

The elements of the strange orb were immediately calculated, and it was at once conceded by all observers, that its path, at perihelion, would bring it into very close proximity with the earth. There were two or three astronomers, and these of secondary note, who resolutely maintained that a contact was inevitable. I cannot very well express to you the effect of this intelligence upon the people. For a few short days they would not believe an assertion which their intellect, so long employed among worldly considerations, could not in any manner grasp. But the truth of a vitally important fact soon makes its way into the understanding of even the most stolid. Finally, all men saw the astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train. For seven or eight days we saw no material increase in its apparent diameter, and but a partial alternation in its color. Meantime, the ordinary affairs of men were discarded, and all interests absorbed in a growing discussion, instituted by the philosophic, in respect to the cometary nature. Even the grossly ignorant aroused their sluggish capacities to such considerations. The learned now gave their intellect – their soul – to no such points as the allaying of fear, or to the sustenance of loved theory. They sought – they panted for right views. They groaned for perfect knowledge. Truth arose in the purity of her strength and exceeding majesty, and the wise bowed down and adored.   Edgar Allen Poe, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, ©1983 by Running Press

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Man Mountain – What Has Been Will Always Be    [00:00]
These Hands – Within / From Behind Closed Eyes    [09:52]
Red Room Cinema – The Nation Is On Fire    [16:55]
Maybeshewill – Relative Minors    [25:51]
Bear The Mammoth – In Absence Of Gravity    [32:12]
Sleeping Bear – All That You Love Will Be Carried Away    [40:48]
MinionTV – She’s A Sleeper    [46:13]
Caspian – Gone In Bloom and Bough    [49:35]
Empress – Homeward Sounds    [59:45]
Flying Saucer Attack – Feedback Song    [65:12]
Hood – Winter Politics    [70:47]
Wired To Follow – Lucy    [74:45]
Movietone – Mono Valley   [82:25]
Do Make Say Think – Greed Waltz    [87:07]

640.075 playlist.pdf

 

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the electric light bath

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May 162013
 

“Mr. Lightbody,” he began, dropping his eye to the notepad a moment before coming back at him with a professionally admonitory stare, “I’m in no position to make a diagnosis at this juncture. This is just the beginning. Why, we’ll need blood tests and count, urine and fecal analysis, you’ve got to go to the X-Ray Fluoroscopic Room, the Colon Department, we’ve got to have specialists examine your teeth, eyes, tonsils and tongue, we need to see how much acetone you’re exhaling and what your intestinal fluids look like. We won’t have a full picture until this evening, at the earliest.” He paused, squared his jaw, tugged at his tie. “I could make an educated guess, of course, judging from the color of your skin, the condition of your tongue, your general puniness and malaise…”

That sinking, doomed feeling came over Will again, but he fought it. Puniness? Malaise? Who was this self-serving, conceited, pompous, lantern-jawed hyena to be pronouncing judgement on him?

“Actually,” Linnimann went on, lecturing now, “we see any number of cases like yours — but I wouldn’t want to jump to conclusions. Nervous Exhaustion. Coffee neuralgia. Hyperhydrochloria. Autointoxication, certainly. But the Chief has already made that diagnosis.” He nodded his blond head sagely, smacked his lips, gently closed the notebook. “We’ll do the tests. You never know what might turn up.”  The Road to Wellville, T. Coraghessan Boyle, ©1993  Viking

Phototherapy, Thermotherapy, and Electrotherapy
This department employed both solar and electric light, with the latter used chiefly during winter. Phototherapy held a prominent place at Battle Creek, where the first electric light bath was constructed. Regarding the application of electricity, Kellogg noted that “electricity is not capable of accomplishing half the marvels that are claimed for it by many enthusiastic electrotherapists”. Nevertheless, he considered it valuable when used in conjunction with hydrotherapy, thermotherapy, and other methods. Kellogg, J.H., M.D., Superintendent (1908). The Battle Creek Sanitarium System. History, Organisation, Methods. Michigan: Battle Creek

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The Shaking Sensations – Anchors    [00:00]
Richard Parker – Second Hand    [05:09]
Celestial Wolves – Silent Noise    [10:02]
Kokomo – Kaputt Finker    [15:25]
Rest – Capacity    [23:02]
Fourteen Nights At Sea – Country Victoria    [27:55]
Nevermind The Name – The Dead Man’s Waltz    [33:44]
Our Blistered Horizon – Bitter    [39:04]
Baulta – You Burn As Bright As Paris    [44:52]
Be Water – Catharsis    [50:12]
Glories – Dwelling On    [60:16]
Signal Hill – Collide Us    [67:00]
My Cat’s A Stargazer – Breathscape    [74:37]
Roan – Goose Tree: Leather & Thread    [80:15]
Good Morning Finch – Last Rocket From Moscow To Neptune    [85:00]
Semblance – Never Without Misery, Never Without Hope    [90:54]
Degree of Arc – Can You See the Horizon?    [99:40]

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