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Heimlich Sleeping Position taken from Evany Thomas’ Secret Language of Sleep book

The Books performing “The Classy Penguin” @ the 2007 Wall of Sound Festival in Ft. Worth, Texas at LaGrave Field (Sept. 22nd)

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Bon Iver & St. Vincent – Roslyn – From the mega tween hit Twilight: New Moon soundtrack, this is another slow burner featuring Annie Clark.

Animal Collective – Bleeding – This track is off of the Fall Be Kind EP, and it’s another trippy journey into AC’s outter world of pop and dreams.

Tune-Yards – Real Live Flesh - The re-release, remastered version of Bird Brains includes this new R&B track which is one of the highlights from her live show. I’ll post up the live version pretty soon.

Prefuse 73 – So Much Over Time - A spliced-up number from Meditation Upon Meditations (The Japanese Diaries), which will be released shortly. Tourettes-inspired beats?

Milinal – Burn In Sky Ya - From Russian producer Yakovlev Valentine, and off of Audiobulb. This ambient flavored album features a Brendan Monroe design for the album cover which is similar to the Awakening shirt at Red Choo Choo.

Setlist from 10/28/07, Ornette Coleman

sunday evening, for the 25th anniversary san francisco jazz festival, i experienced one of the most amazing shows. it was controlled chaos even beyond the spectrum of jazz. every frequency was filled with a matter of sound or rhythm. the genius behind the madness was and still is, ornette coleman. a rare stateside performance.

the lineup was comprised of a drummer (his son) who was pounding his kit as if it harmed his family, three bassists and coleman on tenor sax, trumpet and violin. i still cannot comprehend fully what exactly happened sunday night, but it was unlike anything else that i’ve ever encountered with music. one bassist was playing a music man stingray electric bass, another was on a full sized upright playing with fingers and a bow while the other played a smaller version of an upright playing with fingers as well as bow and the occasional wah-wah pedal.

even before the music started there was discussion involving the works of ornette coleman. the head of the festival recounted the first time coleman had played the festival many years back and how coleman wanted to make it a special performance, so he had hired a body manipulator/piercer to do a live performance in conjunction with the show. many were shocked and many were amazed. and he said that only two people asked for refunds at intermission.

ornette coleman throughout his career has tried to push the boundaries of not only his music, but art as we know it in whatever form. you can read on countless other sites of his legacy with a pulitzer, grammy and other achievements, but you have to experience him live to truly appreciate how far beyond musically he is from the rest of the world. they say that the only art form the united states has given the rest of the world is jazz. if that is the case then ornette’s art is for the entire universe.

Ornette Coleman – Lonely Woman (Jazz) – the closing song from his set the other night. it sounded nothing like this recording.

Prefuse 73 – Aborted Hugs (Abstract Beats) – this is from his new album ‘preparations’. this song reminds me of coleman’s set. pure melodic madness ?