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greg davis started a blog dedicated to obscure, out of print, awesome new-age synth phaser-addicted meditative drone ambient cloud records...
proving to the world that new age music doesn't necessarily suck. its gonna be a group blog with me as one of the contributors, so watch for updates!
get zoned: crystalvibrations.blogspot.com
and then right on the heels of that zach reno got me into trying to catalog all my vinyl at rateyourmusic.com...here's what i've plugged in so far. don't know if i'll really get around to putting it all up there.
so yesterday i for whatever reason decided to start making the yarnlazer website into a blog im thinking of maybe doing that with the white rainbow page on yarnlazer as well, but i don't know. i have so many pages for white rainbow and yarnlazer...i got this blog, myspace, official websites, virb pages, flickr, vimeo, youtube....trying to consolidate things ususally makes my head hurt in some way. anyway, check out the yarn redesign....
been digging this awesome book:
that i got on tour at the equally vibratiously awesome Family Bookstore
i mean, for a long time i knew the father yod thing was heavy and awesome, and i have grooved deeply in the past to some of their heavy, heavy recordings, but reading this insider's scoop on how it all went down is really fun, surprising and inspiring. unlike the most famous cults of the 70's, the yahowha dudes never really had any huge disaster and in that way perhaps their story hints at a bigger picture of the 60's/70's explosion of communal/spiritual exploration. for every jim jones or manson, there were dozens, hundreds or maybe thousands of other small time "cults" just doing their thing. all the general public ever remembers are the poisoned kool aid mass suicides or that compound in waco going up flames or the serin gas subway terrorism in tokyo, or tom cruise being fucking crazy....our collective impression of "cults" is puritanical, ignorant and based in good old fashioned american christian fear more than anything else. not to say that tom cruise and scientology aren't fucking stupid, disgusting and lame. what fascinates me in all of this has always been the perpetual dialectic between enlightened spiritual purity and all-too-human melodrama. the cult as an avenue for spiritual freedom, exploration, experimentation, bliss, expanded consciousness on one hand, and a place of such deep opportunism, con-artists, megalomaniacs, murderers, Tony Robbins plastic self-help capitalists, T.M. pyramid schemes .
i undoubtedly inherited the interest in this stuff from my father, who studied "Comparative Religions" at UC Santa Barbara in the early 70's and then cruised down to L.A. to witness the cult explosion first hand. His own parents were into some rather esoteric turn-of-the-century "New Age" spiritualist christian stuff. just yesterday my father sent me this cool link to some awesome chakra sound healers....here's my favorite photo from their website:
anyway, anyone interested at all in the whole 70's spirituality explosion, SoCal New Age cults, west coast new age culture in general, cool robes, raw food gurus with 14 wives, hippie-communal psychedelic improv rock bands or any of that sort of shit should check this book "The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wha 13 and the Source Family" out. if anyone has the Father Yod DVD maybe we could trade
once i'm finished reading this.
A LINK TO THE FATHER YOD AND YA HO WHA 13 ALBUM "PENETRATION"
(that link courtesy of this blog)
i love websites like these : unviversal-hologram.com
of special interest are the laser light and sound chakra laser and laser party photos....
they look like they're having fun, right?
no real news on the home front. just working and trying to finish up the next white rainbow album for kranky. looks like its going to be a double disc. with some sort of vinyl representation of some of the music on marriage. have to think of album title(s). and we got our tickets to los angeles for the trudi show next month (if in LA come to trudi gallery on the 16th of december for white rainbow installation) working on an extremely limited acetate/dubplate 12inch with handpainted/screened for that thing. looks like honey's valet record blood is clean will be re-issued on kranky soon too, with an added track of some drift for all the trippers.
anyway.....we go now to sublime frequencies movie night at the clinton st!
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks to my dad for finding this one:
and something else with betty davis, santana and herbie hancock regarding miles, though i wish i could find some straight footage circa 73
oh wait - i did