Author (#23)March 2008 Archives
Today is a very happy day.
First, because I have regained my health after another spell of fever and sickness. I had so many dreams. I dreamed that I slapped a snake's face off, and then of a cat named Apron that waged a sinister war against do-goods.
Now I am better and I can feel nature awakening to the fertility of spring.
After months of work, today I offer the fruits of my own fertility. In a triumph against the creative-reproductive pathogens, I have published my first zine and am in a cycle of releasing my best music yet.
BIRTHDAY is my zine. It is more of a personal anthropology confection than a zine. It is a cake made of the ingredients of home, story and personal mythology, made special tart and sweet with opinions and confessions, and frosted and dressed with shakes of my own pretty collage confetti. It tells the story of my Oakland home, my first climb up a mountain, and my wedding. There are tributes to dancing, Princess Diana, ballerinas on Earth, and a review of an Ornette Coleman performance. It is more sincere than serious. It is $4, including shipping.
BIRTHDAY OF BLESS YOU is my new album on Not Not Fun records. It is my meditation on feminine sacred invention, on sun worship in the moments before earth disintegration, on the proud miracle of creation in a trash-proliferation era. I am really proud of this record. It is equal sincere and serious, and there is also a Merle Haggard cover. I was smiling a lot while I recorded it, even though sad things were sometimes happening. It is $15 including shipping.
If you would like to order BIRTHDAY and BIRTHDAY OF BLESS YOU together, please email me at incaore@gmail.com and I will sell them to you for $18 together, including shipping. Not outside of USA though, we'll have to talk about that. And for $20 total, I'll also send my new 7 inch on Arbor records. It's a split with Axolotl.
More good things happen this year. Grouper and I are self-releasing our split tape on vinyl! Acuarela will release it on CD in Europe soon too. My CDR BALLET CHOP is coming out very soon on Ruralfaune in France. A collaboration between Inca Ore, Tunnels and Heavy Winged will be imprinted by Not Not Fun. And Grouper and I play two dates next weekend at SXSW.
Friday March 14 at Habana Annex
Saturday March 15 408 Josephine St. 1-5:30 (Higher Publicity Party)
I'll see you soon.
I'm moving back to California.