Solar Sail’s Neighborhood

BUMERANGS BROUGHT HIM BACK

HE MADE THE BUMERANGS

THE BUMERANGS DIDN'T MAKE HIM

 

 

 

I AM VERY NERVOUS

I HAD A MIC

I COULDN'T LOVE

NOT TO BE NERVOUS

NOT TO BE NERVOUS

I NEVER LEARNED

MUSIC

EXAMPS ARE TOMORROW

I WILL NOT TAKE IT

UUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH

I CAN'T TAKE IT

OK, show of hands: how many of y'all reading this have dropped acid? Strangely enough, considering my interests in neurology and altered states of consciousness, I never have. Nope. Not once. A friend of mine once said that I acted as though I were on acid all the time, just by default. Therefore, I've always been afraid that eating a tab or two might, paradoxically, make me normal. Can't have that now, can we?

Well, thanks to London, Ontario's Golden Death Music, you do not need to resort to illegal pharmaceuticals to experience seriously altered states--I'm talking the kind that can potentially mutate you into a Homo erectus or a telekinetic, maggotlike far-future form, so be careful when listening. Also, if you're forced to take a piss test at your job, do not be surprised if traces of Golden Death Music's stunningly beautiful first album, Ephemera Blues, turn up in your urine. This is the kind of bizarre, edgy, yet still tranquil music that will permeate your entire being after a few listens, lighting up your chakra, opening your Third Nostril, and perhaps transforming your pineal gland.

Golden Death Music is singer/songwriter Michael Ramey, but the album sounds as though it's been composed by a whole studio full of musicians. Nope. It's all Michael Ramey, who has written and recorded every song himself--a sizable achievement, since Ephemera Blues has a very large sound. Mixing elements of Pink Floyd, Donovan, 13th Floor Elevators, Legendary Pink Dots, Radiohead, and Jethro Tull into a swirling, multicolored and multitextured album, Ramey has created a record that literally defines the word "psychedelic." Though most songs are primarily driven by acoustic guitar and vocals, drifting in and out and through these primary elements like noctilucent clouds are eerie synths, glitchy electronic touches, flutes, cellos, electric guitars, horns, and heavily-reverbed backing vocals. Though the sounds all blend together nicely to create a languid, sleepy texture, all instruments are still distinct and nicely arranged in space, which makes this album a wonderfully immersive headphones experience. Coloured waves of sound will fill your mind with disembodied bliss...and best of all, there's no nasty come-down or flashbacks to worry about!

Much like Pink Floyd, Golden Death Music acknowledges that melody is the keystone of any piece, and Ephemera Blues is built on a solid foundation of melody and songwriting. Ramey's lyrics are often rather dark, as on the album closer "Into the Ocean"--"Throw yourself into the water / Feel the changed and tainted ocean / Let the damaged waves caress you / Feel the change"--but not morbid. In fact, there is an airy lightness to this album that gives it the feeling of a peaceful near-death experience and greatly justifies the name Golden Death Music. "Waking Nightmare" may be constructed from a tense, unnerving electro-glitch base, but the melody itself and the vocals are quiet and pretty, as though Ramey is observing the waking nightmare of life from the stance of someone who's left it all behind. Even "Lost in Violence," my favorite track on the album, manages to depict our earthly hell with a relaxed peacefulness.

Speaking of Pink Floyd, Ramey is one hell of a good guitar-player, and his acoustic guitar work will no doubt remind you a lot of David Gilmour. There are no guitar solos in his songs, however: they are trim, economical tracks that usually measure about four to six minutes in length--just long enough to let you lose yourself in them without becoming overlong or tedious.

In many ways, Golden Death Music's Ephemera Blues is musical theosophy. Much like the literary work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Golden Death Music gathers together elements from many, many sources and attempts to synthesize them into a mystical, transcendent, syncretic unity. However, unlike theosophy, Michael Ramey actually succeeds. Whereas Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled was a hefty tome of absolutely insane religio-babble, Ephemera Blues is a tight, complex, but manageable assemblage of musical concepts and ideas that really will make you feel as though you've tapped into the Pistis Sophia, the gnostic truth, the one-ness, behind the confusion of reality. And it will bring you the peace of musical enlightenment.

Links: myspace.com/goldendeathmusic helmetroom.com

I thought you'd be interested in seeing this video. Modou Diouf is leading us in a tune called Tyzen. We are all playing different parts. I'm playing the chol which is one of the bass accompaniments though I know the other parts too as it's one of my favourite tunes!

A version of a song rumoured to be a track destined for the forthcoming new Oasis album has leaked online.

The track, which you can hear by clicking on the video below, is purported by various blogs to be a Chemical Brothers remix of a song named 'Falling Down'. However the identity of the remixers is not confirmed, and the likes of Primal Scream producer Jagz Kooner are also in the frame.

The song features Noel Gallagher on vocals, and has been praised by users of various Oasis fan forums.

NME.COM understands the band have been looking at remixing tracks from their new record, and this could be from those experiments.

Video:

 

 

Expression of many human conditions that are not expressed

Accompaniment of music

To join, to getr id of, to accompany, to remember

A magician performing to heal

And did he become the whole reality of everything

Magical eyes, magical hands, magical…

Did he make me fall in love too, around the decoration of a coffee cup with a pumpkin taking a tour, TOUR-istic city around him

And a ma

Sha-man

Cooking thyme water, burn garden sage and cence while advicing about salt rocks

For who knows maybe for aesthetic reasons to draw back

We would compel the scene in such a manner

The songs would complete

Yet the songs were being a way to compansate the lack of game in the communication trap

First spiritual reply close to those that I thought I felt, close as an equal amount, equal to

Super

Natural

Source

To dig the source of songs

Songs in deep alchol

But on the songs written on our souls he put a spell on

As I wished

The process has been mine

He surprises me with communicated and planned beauties of vision

Hiddenly

 

MAY I BE THE SECRET TRIBE TRASFORMING THESE INFORMATION

 

In primitive tribes, it was believed thateverybeing had a hidden sound and song. With that sound and song to which that being would react , they could put spell on the being and annihilate it. This is why they kept that sound as a secret. The magician doctors in primitive tribes would find the sound and song (of the evil spirit)  in someones' body and would try to cure. The magician would contact with the evil spirit in the body of the patient. An other way of healing was to transfer knowledge to chosen talented, strong people, strong as body, as mind and morally, as secret tribes.As secret tribes they did this.  Those education and technics were confidential even in near past, these days in east and west are published as theraphy systems. The aim of this system is to reach power. Until B.C. III there were three types of healers: Magician, Priest, Physician (doctor). 

During the trance  ceremony, patient was made half dead by rhythmical dances, too much breathing, jumping, swing, when the patience came out of a coma, she was healed. These ceremonies are still performed in some places like Zambiya today: Change the excitement level of the patient and create change in the nervous system.

Hunting: Like some animals catch their hunts via using their hypnosis powers, those hunters thought that the hunts would easily give in.

Eskimos played the tambourine that they made with fish skin, with the thick stick made up of fish bones or branches of tree.

With those tambourines, they created sounds close to one another. The drum of the shaman is in trance while playing the drum and so does the spectators, shaman shivers and speaks to souls.

HAWAMAL (Iceland Poem)

I have such songs that none of the kings wives, no human being will not repeat. One of them named as 'helper'. That helps you whenever needed-to overcome all that is difficult. I know a song, if they want to be master doctors, all human beings should sing.

 

its a strange thing the Mercury Music Prize, because, where does the Mercury bit come in, is it something to do with the periodical table, or the Mercurial delights of the nominees,,, well , what can you say about the nominees, you wonder where these people choosing this stuff get off... Robert Plant ??!! an album so dismal and lacking in any musical merit, its unlistenable dirge washes over you as you imagine the old rocker in some room with Alison Krauss, yuckeroo,,, and Radiohead, its hardly their best work, Adele ??!! c'mon , your having a laugh aren't you ?? the thing about it is that they obviously keep on picking bands who almost immediately fade into obscurity,, so they have had to pick a few recognisable ones this year to give the thing some credibility, as its already a laughing stock... but the albums have to be a bit 'lefty' of field, otherwise why not have done with it and choose Sugarbabes and Take That.. we'll see how long we have to put up with Adele for, another album packed full of nostalgia for those kiddies who have never heard any soul music before.. cripes...  if it was any good or any use to anyone apart from the huge major labels pushing the 'same-old-same-old' you would have a large number of unknowns, Blues bands, Indie Acts, R&B artists, (Estelle is good live but its a very boring album),,  , country, rappers, where are all the successful Asian UK Asian acts ???!!! c'mon, Robert Plant??, the album is ******' tripe.

 

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While going through some old posters in storage I came across my almost complete set of Momusu calendars dating from their 2000 calendar through 2007. The first Momusu calendar was released the previous year in 1999 and the short version of a long sad story is that while I ordered it for the record store that I was working at at the time and did have a copy for myself on hold while just waiting for the next payday...someone took it and purchased it on one of my days off. :O And it was the last copy! :( So while I am missing Momusu's first calendar for the year 1999, I do have the rest of them and I'll be posting them one at a time probably just up until 2004 as those released after that point are probably not rare in any sense as most likely every Momusu fan owns them as well.

They've all been rolled up all this time and without giving them enough time to flatten out once again they're not going to be completely flat in these photos although I did employ the help of a Smap book to help in holding the pages down on the last few months. I've been keeping the original wrappers to rehouse and protect my Japanese calendars when I put them into storage when the years up for each of them and while traditionally these style of wall calendars are intended to be the...tear each page off as the months expire...type of design, I've always preferred to keep all of the pages intact and attached by using a clamping type clip to hang them up instead. So in this way I just flip the months over and when the year's over I can easily roll the calendar back up and return them to their original packaging keeping them in their original form. I think the 2000 calendar has one of Momusu's coolest looking calendar covers ever! Gomaki sported her "original" kinpatsu (blonde) look for quite a brief period when she debuted in "Love Machine" and happily she's still wearing it in this calendar production. ^-^ Her look was simply striking and I remember how much she just stood out when I first got Momusu's "Love Machine" single back in late '99! Momusu would appear on an episode of SmapXSmap shortly afterwards and even Kimutaku dressed as "P-Chan" was wondering what happened to her wonderful "kinpatsu" look!

So much to love about this 8 member lineup!....Nacchi!, Yukosan, Sayaka!, Ayappe!, Marippe!, Gomaki!, Kaorin! and Keisan!

And the production efforts put into the earlier Momusu calendars is also notably of a larger scale. The more recent calendars seem to sport a particular outfit and the members are just paired together rounding out the calendar with a similar background, while like many things back in the "golden" age of Momusu so much more variety and personality was put into them and the creativity was at a premium as well I think. Here in January & February we have Ayappe, Nacchi and Keisan dressed elegantly in kimonos..... ...March & April gives us a group shot with a nice touch of an angelic aura... ...May & June even gives us props!...Yukosan, Kaorin, and Marippe along with..."rain"....kasa...raincoats...and a cute little dog! ^-^... ...July & August brings your wall a Summery feeling with blue skies...surfboard, ukulele, and cute & fun attire. Another thing to note is also the abundance of group shots. I've just always preferred group shots in their calendars versus the various pairings that Momusu calendars sport for the most part now....and that way every month has the entire group that you adore and love upon your wall...and not just some of the members. ^-^... ...But that being said, I had to give exception to that sentiment for September & October and admittedly this particular page of the calendar spent a good long portion of the year on display in my room back then! :P But who can blame me?...Gomaki was new and brought such an energy and special feeling to the group and let's face it, Gomaki and Sayaka as cheerleaders?!!!! What fan could've resisted that?!! \(^o^)/...ah the overall creativity was so much more back then when it came to Momusu's calendars!...if only UFA would go old school on us for the next calendar shoot, just for nostalgia's sake! ^-^... ...and lastly for the year 2000 we have November & December sporting a distinct wintery feeling...just looking at this page makes me feel cozy! ^-^ And yes!..we have another group shot! :)