Spiewnik dla dzieci

Polish children's songs for winter, spring, summer and autumn.

a set of lazy psychedelia... these are the songs i'm humming lately. wanted this to sound a bit like the tomorrow come someday soundtrack.

twilighters - nothing can bring me down
principal edwards magic theatre - asmoto running band
the british north-american act - the world would understand
chris britton - will it last
tomassini, fidenco, donimak, lolavirsi - autostrada di sera
mourning phase - contrived
neighb'rhood childr'n - happy child
elecampane - water
lallo gori - la morte scende leggera
emma myldenberger - wassensteyn's hochzeitnacht
mireille rivat - dejé mis bienes terrenales
wiliam bukový - kristove roky (excerpt)
jana matysová - chlapec s planou růží
courtyard music group - bonny labouring boy
inca cola (advert)
PRE-Be-UN - ecosystems (excerpt)
woorden - the other side of the mountain
dr. strangely strange - strangely strange but oddly normal
kaguya hime and snowfall south - princess kaguya drunken
vijay rhagava rao - recollections
october cherries - dreamseller
ultimate spinach - sacrifice of the moon
the advancement - child at play

or here

Ericka Beckman

Ericka Beckman, film/vid artist coming out of CalArts in the 70s at the same time as Mike Kelley and Matt Mullican. Not sure if she was also in a band but jeez, I hope she was.

Taylor Mead / Ron Rice

At the end of the summer I got to watch a copy of Ron Rice's The Flower Thief on a borrowed VHS, my first Taylor Mead experience. Mead, the cross-dressing, aphorism-slinging, slouchy beat-poet fixture of Warhol's factory, passed away this spring. The Flower Thief is something like the urtext of underground film. It was filmed on leftover Army-surplus black & white stock and features Mead improvising his way through bohemian San Francisco in 1959 or so, like a latter-day indie Stan Laurel or Charlie Chaplin. What a great film. The 1970 Mead film Brand X is being restored and looks to hit the revival circuit soon.

As the Mead obits have been rolling out I've gotten curious about Ron Rice, the filmmaker. He cast Mead in a few films, but it was in his work with Jack Smith that things got really twisted. His 1964 film Chumlum, filmed during breaks from the shooting of Smith's Normal Love, is a psychedelic feast for the eyes and ears. There's a great review of this film here. So much to love here, beginning with the gentle, impressionistic cymbalom soundtrack by one-time VU drummer Angus MacLise and Tony Conrad.

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Janie Geiser

Julian kindly sent this one, a kind of sur-reel dream diorama about algebra by filmmaker Janie Geiser. Lovely sounds as well.

Trafic: L'art conceptuel au Canada

Reading this great book falling asleep holding baby. So many inspiring images... similar to this.

Top to bottom...
Vera Frenkel, String Games (1974)
Parachute magazine, from Montreal in mid-70s
Marcella Bienvenue, I Believe in Myself (1979)
Roy Kiyooka, Long Beach to Peggy's Cove (1971)
N.E. Thing Co., N.E. Thing Co. Hockey Team (1972)
Mediart magazine (1972)
Gordon Kidd et Martin Bartlett, image extraite de Light-On (1971)
Ian Carr-Harris, Wendy Sage Being Compared (1973)