jeudi 29 avril 2010

Mike Watt with the Stooges

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLT1aMQ--U

DanceDreamDance — 18 mars 2007 — The Stooges play live at Waterloo Records in Austin Texas March 16th 2007 during SXSW. The store was at capacity, hundreds trying to get in, pretty awesome. Footage is a little shaky but the spirit is there.

"Chez Laurence" : nouveau salon de thé rue St Médard

Philip Scalia photographs

Philip Scalia photographs http://philipscalia.com/

Mike Watt and Robert Branaman

Mike Watt and Robert Branaman

Mike Watt in Myspace : http://www.myspace.com/wattfrompedro

Robert Branaman video by UGROOK06 — 25 avril 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpToxlkVCLQ

UGROOK06 — 25 avril 2010 — Beat Generation poet, painter, and film producer Bob Branaman continues to make avant garde art today. Branaman joined the Beatniks in San Francisco in the 1950s, part of the Kansas Vortex, which included Charles Plymell and Michael McClure, and soon made his name as a hep cat. He outlived many of his bohemian contemporaries, despite his bad habits. In Spring 2010 he had a show of his paintings at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles.

mardi 27 avril 2010

Charles Plymell : The Benzedrine Highway Interview

Interview by Paul Hawkins :
On line with phtographs at http://www.jackmagazine.com/interview-ch-paul.html
Bill and friends


Neal Cassady, 1963

Paul Kennedy: Sunrise Studio

Welcome to Sunrise SSL Studio


Sunrise Recording Studio offers a state of the art SSL recording and mixing facility. Based in the vibrant center of Islington, in the heart of central London, Sunrise is set in a relaxed and professional environment & is staffed and equipped to the highest standard for recording artists and record producers alike. With acoustics by award winning Andy Munro we are proud to present this state of the art facility for your consideration.

For bookings & information please contact.

Sunrise Studio Bookings Manager

Paul Kennedy E-mail paul@12one.net>

Tel:+44 (0) 207-685-8595

Control room


Desk: SSL 6000E G+ 60 CH


Acoustics: Andy Munro.

Monitors: Yamaha NS10, KRK RP8, Dynaudio Acoustics M1.

Amps: Quad 520F Power Amplifier, Bryston 600, Chord SPA1032.
 
Work station:
 

Computers: Apple G5 Tower Quad Core, Pro Tools HD3 System, Prism Dream ADA - 8xR Plus 2x192 Digidesign, Total of 40 Ins And Outs, Apple G5 Tower Dual Core, Protools7, Logic Pro 8.


Keyboards: Korg M3 Music Work Station, Yamaha Motif Rack X5, Waldorf Q Synthesiser, Roland XP- 60 Work Station, Novation Remote 37 5L, Nord C1, Micro Korg, NI Kore Hardware

Outboard:

Compressors:EMI TGI2413 Zener Limiter Stereo, Urei 1176N x2, Manley Elop, Tube Tech Stereo Multiband compressor SMC2B, Manley Massive Passive Stereo Equaliser, Tube Tech Program Equaliser PE1B, Emperical Labs EL8X Distressor, DBX 160 Compressor Limiter x2, DBX 165 Over Easy Compressor Limiter x2, JoeMeek Channel VC2, Waves Platinum 6.


Reverbs: Lexicon 480L Reverb, Lexicon 224X Reverb, The Great British Spring Reverb.

Effects: Sherman Filterbank, Evantide DSP4000 Ultra Harmoniser, AMS DMX 15-80s Delay, AMS DM 2-20 Tape Phase Simulator, Bel Electronics Flanger BF-20, Watkins Copicat Tape Delay, Roland SDE-330 Space Delay, Roland SDE-3000 Digital Delay, Yamaha SPX 90x2, Drawmer Dual Gate DS 201, Music Coder Barth Vocoder, Line 6 Pod XT Pro, TC Helicon Voice Harmony Vocal Effect.
 
House Engineer "Savvas"
 
Our in house Engineer Savvas comes with a great track record after just completing the now platinum Peter Andre album amongst many many other projects. The Studio can be booked with or with out our house engineer.Savvas has worked for the past 15 years with some of the UK's and US's top artists at some of London's top studios.Having graduated from Master Rock studio he worked with many top producers. Savvas then went on to work as a house engineer at Mayfair studios. Savvas continues to produce top results for big number of UK and international Producers, Labels, Writers and Artists.
 
Paul Kennedy

Sunrise Recording Studio
E-Mail paul@12one.net
Phone: +44 (0) 207-685-8595
web: http://www.sunrise-studio.co.uk/

4EME FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILM ET VIDEO DE CREATION, BEYROUTH

FIFVC 2010

New moving images

11-14 MAY 2010

OPENING CEREMONY: MAY 10, 2010. AT 7 PM

AT ALBA
FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AT
http://www.fifvc.com/

ackerman film clips of plymell

S. Clay Wilson scrawling on the wall of his building "Plymell is back" and the photo of him, Glenn and me at the Art Institute in SF. With Ginsberg & Burroughs later ate late night dinner, the last time they saw each other. Charles Plymell


Mary Beach-Pelieu and Claude Pelieu website with art catalogue

The Beach-Plymell Collection :
http://www.beachpelieuart.com/

dimanche 25 avril 2010

Inside William Burroughs' Orgone Accumulator Photograph by George Laughead

http://www.vlib.us/beats/burroughsorgone.html

Phil Baker: William S. Burroughs


http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=8932829
Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914––97) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In William S. Burroughs, Phil Baker investigates this cult writer’s life and work—from small-town Kansas to New York in the ’40s, Mexico and the South American jungle, to Tangier and the writing of Naked Lunch, to Paris and the Beat Hotel, and ’60s London—alongside Burrough’s self-portrayal as an explorer of inner space, reporting back from the frontiers of experience.

After accidentally shooting his wife in 1951, Burroughs felt his destiny as a writer was bound up with a struggle to come to terms with the “Ugly Spirit” that had possessed him. In this fascinating biography, Baker explores how Burroughs’s early absorption in psychoanalysis shifted through Scientology, demonology, and Native American mysticism, eventually leading Burroughs to believe that he lived in an increasingly magical universe, where he sent curses and operated a “wishing machine.” His lifelong preoccupation with freedom and its opposites—forms of control or addiction—coupled with the globally paranoid vision of his work can be seen to evolve into a larger ecological concern, exemplified in his idea of a divide between decent people or “Johnsons” and those who impose themselves upon others, wrecking the planet in the process.

Drawing on newly available material, and rooted in Burroughs’s vulnerable emotional life and seminal friendships, this insightful and revealing study provides a powerful and lucid account of his career and significance.

samedi 17 avril 2010

Charles Plymell : Eat Not Thy Mind Review by Paul Hawkins





Eat Not Thy Mind is a piece of art. A collage by Claude Pelieu on the front cover and a foreward written by friend and bass spanker Mike Watt. This book comprises of 18 contemporary poems by the Outlaw Poet that is Charley Plymell. With love and care Glass Eye Books/Ecstatic Peace Library series editors Byron Coley and Thurston Moore have produced beautiful artifact. And that`s just the outside! Charley Plymell is rightly thought of as one of the best poets within the Amerikan literary underground. He has seen a lot since his birth on the Kansas high plains in 1935 and the early memories of the sound of the wind in the cab of an Reo Speedwagon truck. His father was a cowboy, his mother once a stunt car driver. He stormed out of Kansas with the likes of Bob Branaman, S. Clay Wilson, Michael McClure, Bruce Connor and the Wichita Punks speeding through the vortex, wailing and roaring north, south, east and west. Plymell and the Wichita Punks had road tested speed, dropped LSD, held mescaline rituals and experimented with art and other creative forms in the 1950`s. All trail blazers. He already had two volumes of poetry, Neon Poems and Apocalypse Rose out when in 1971 City Lights published his seminal novel, Last of The Moccasins. This novel grips, gleams and glistens with his hobohemian prose-style; spinning tales of his life in and around Wichita, his road trips to and from the West Coast along the Rt. 66 Benzedrine Highway and beyond, his crazy Hipster years and the boho life of his elder sister Betty. His words became sparks of energy, sparring partners to the mind. Eat Not Thy Mind`s lexeme glows incandescent in 21st century dark consciousness becoming the lubricant on which the freaky brain clouds part to reveal a head-on, vibrant and astute engagement with life. Charley`s words at once heady, seductive and intoxicatingly descriptive. His Hipster years melded into his psychedelic ones and he hit the handbrake in San Fransisco. Charley lived with Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, printed the first Zap Comix by Robert Crumb, wrote and wrote and wrote some more. Having burnt rubber and seen through the Beats Inc. Charley licked his wounds and wound up in Cherry Valley. He condemned the National Endowment for the Arts and his sharp and intelligent analysis appeared in the NY Times and other print outlets, spilling the beans on the NEA`s inbred favoritism. With his wife Pam they started Cherry Valley Editions publishing Herbert Huncke, William Burroughs, Roxie Powell, Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach to name but a few. Charley still and always will remain very firmly a poet. And what a poet. Always sensing where to cross the tracks from an early age, Charley`s Eat Not Thy Mind sends energy pulses soaring round the readers mind, birth pooling a new view on the present day madness, anutha zone of interrogation, a fresh windblast for the head and heart to get tanked up on and soar. Charley Plymell`s Eat Not Thy Mind is supreme.


Charles Plymell : Eat Not Thy Mind

Glass Eye Books/Ecstatic Peace Library

Buy it here http://yod.com/yodstuff/product_info.php?products_id=6469

374 trade copies and 26 lettered and signed by Charles Plymell

See Charles Plymell's interview by Paul Hawkins “Charles Plymell : The Benzedrine Highway Interview” in  Ginger Eades's blog Even for the Hipsters, Hustlers & Highjivers http://hipstershustlersandhighjivers.blogspot.com/

mardi 6 avril 2010

Ricardo Mbarkho: Artists talk: video art by Björn Melhus at Beirut Art Lounge

Artists talk: video art by Björn Melhus


Beirut Art Lounge
Karantina River bridge
09th April 2010, 19:30
clock


Homepage of Björn Melhus
http://www.melhus.de

The Lazarus Corporation: what do you want on an art website?


the lazarus corporation news & updates
the lazarus corporationalternative visual art, music & writing
Hi Isabelle Baudron,
The Lazarus Corporation website is currently in the process of a major overhaul - that means recoding from the ground up: structure, functionality, and visual design. You won't see any changes until it's all done, sometime around May this year.
My question for you is: what sort of features/functionality would you like to see?
You can take the following 6 items as granted:
  • the ability to view pieces of artwork - visual art and writing
  • the ability to purchase pieces of artwork
  • the ability to leave comments on pieces of artwork
  • the ability to view articles & reviews
  • the ability to leave comments on articles & reviews
  • the ability to easily post items of interest to facebook/twitter
Here's how to let me know your ideas:
All suggestions (however vague) will be gratefully received!

Paul / the Lazarus Corporation
the lazarus corporation
http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk