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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
blissblogger said:
Another experimental electronic musician who made a record about prison


This has been Creel Poned - below is the Mimaroglu / Alpha State blurb about the unofficial reish

Creel Pone replication of this wonderful pair of Chicagoland "Paste-on" Private Press LPs. The first, "Labyrinth (Prison Walls)" was self-issued on the Composer's "Warp Records" (no relation) in 1978 & covers the score for "LABYRINTH", a piece created for electronic music and laser light created in 1977-78 & first performed at Chicago's Omega Intermedia Center. LABYRINTH is dedicated to Steve Biko, freedom fighter murdered by South African government.

The second, "Omnicircus", offers a single "Electronic Composition" in two parts, "Kriegspiel" & "Eropoc," intended at the soundtrack "for the first 2 sections of 'OMNICIRCUS', a theatre piece for electronic music, computer graphics, video synthesis, dance, sculpture, architecture, and drama" by one Frank Garvey.

Garvey is an intriguing character; born & raised in Urbana in an artistic family - his father was a close collaborator of Harry Partch's - he studied Video Art & Animation at at the Art Institute of Chicago before heading out to the Bay Area in the 80s & setting up a "Robotic" theater / performance collective under the same name as this piece - albeit 10 years later - before relocating to Pittsburgh to teach at Carnegie Mellon in the late 90s. The music here would appear to be born out of a post-Industrial fascination with harsh, sliding, mechanistic textures - not too far removed from the tape-echo addled synthesis of Maurizio "M.B." Bianchi - this certainly makes sense given Garvey's later predilections towards Jean Tinguely / Mark Pauline -styled automatons & associated anti-humanistic conceits. Text on the rear-cover of "Omnicircus" - placed just below a tell-all mushroom cloud - reads: "The danger of nuclear destruction; the enveloping of the embryo by the womb; the enveloping of the womb by the pelvis; the enveloping of the pelvis by the tissue seared by newstar; the enveloping of the carrion crow; the enveloping of the carrion dog; the enveloping of the carrion itself by the primeval light of hellfire newstar."
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Don't think ive heard this, it better be some great psychological war proto-germanic rave record. Speaking of Mimaroglu, there's a bit in Wings of the Delirious Demon that is the slimey textures of 93 darkside avant la lettre. Incredible stuff for '69
 
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blissblogger

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No audio documentation of this that I could find, but....

Flora Purim was imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California in August 1974 for cocaine possession; she was given the inmate number 2775. During her year and a half imprisonment from 1974 to 1976, she organized a concert on March 3, 1976, which brought in some famous musicians from the outside: Cannonball Adderley, George Duke, Airto Moreira, Miroslav Vitouš, Raul de Souza and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler. Purim usually performed these concerts with little or no rehearsal time, for about an hour. One performance was broadcast on KBCA FM (105.1), an L.A.-based jazz station. Among the tunes they performed were Chick Corea's "Light as a Feather", "500 Miles High", and "Celebration Suite". This was the first time such a co-operation between civilians and inmates had ever taken place - wiki

Learned about this in a very in-depth piece on the jazz fusion goddess Purim by Ann Powers.
www.npr.org

Her Voice Is In The Air

The Brazilian singer Flora Purim helped create the sound of jazz fusion. Now, as she releases what she says will be her final album, it's time to give her artistic legacy its due.
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Purim still insists she was framed
 
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blissblogger

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I like a fair bit of fusion but I can imagine some Terminal Island inmates deliberately doing something to get themselves thrown into solitary just to avoid hearing that lineup (and playing without rehearsal as well, yikes)
 
william_kent

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Pro-ject X - The Summit (A Guy Called Gerald Jungle Remix)

"Moss Side, Salford, Cheetham Hill, all bad boys"

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recorded in Strangeways Prison - from the press release:

Out of Strangeways Prison comes the first ever commercial record release, the first of its kind worldwide.

Summit Records in association with HM Prison Manchester, Victim Support, City College Manchester and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, proudly present their debut record release. This will be the first ever commercial record to be recorded and released by inmates from inside a British prison.

The tracks and information are as follows:

"The Summit", a controversial dance track with a positive message, recorded by Pro-ject X. Written by prisoners from rival areas within Manchester namely, Mosside, Salford & Cheetham Hill, this track was produced as part of the unique Music Project that started at Strangeways in August 94.
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william_kent

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Lifer's Group - Real Deal

from 1991:

Lifers Group, a special collective of MCs and other personalities who were serving actual time and participating in the well-known "Scared Straight" program at (the former) Rahway State Prison in Rahway, New Jersey.
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Lifer's Group - Belly of the Beast
 
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