webbs hill studio
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funnily enough,at a bar called Tago Mago in Thornbury-thought you would appreciate the juxtaposition as you are a big fan of the album/band.
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That would be incorrect. I'm not a big fan of this band at all. I just have a wide range of respect for people's work and how they create it. What folks don't get about that album is that it was 20 hours of music cut up haphazard and that was that. There was no music design, or song idea, or concept. It was cut, paste that's it.
It's on Holger Czukay's CAN page.
I'm, basically, a part of the "beat poets" club, and as such, stuff that comes out of "nowhere", is always interesting for me, and OK. The problem is that people that think their words are the same thing as them directing their farts and ideas and religions, and no one can doubt them! It's nice if the words and work have some meaning, but it is not a necessary pre-requisite, which is a music concept that is getting too old! And of course, the mixing of a non-singer with a band ... no one here has the guts or balls to discuss this! Damo is the ultimate product of the theater/film acting folks in that area at the time! And previously, Malcom Mooney (also an actor) had tried to do something with the band. So, I'm not the only one, btw .... !!!
The point, and the same thing with the stuff on the other thread, is that some things CAN COME OUT, of what we think is "nothing", and that is a major opportunity for actors on stage and film, and also for musicians, if they are so inclined to learn something else, that may or may not (like a professor's idea is just as good, right?), help you in the future, and in learning how to interpret music and use your fingers to better define your work and you. I was, compared to the other 3 director students in my whole class, the only one that was studying and using experimental stuff, and not afraid to work with "psychic" concept and ideas, all of which worked magnificently for all the work I did.
My saddest side of things, is that I have never been able to blend this work with a band, because all the musicians, including here, are really tough folks that are not visionaries per se, and usually are afraid of doing something else that is completely different, and not jump off the pier into the ocean! Guess what all the productions I did had? .. yepp ... lots of lights and MUSIC and SOUND. Like I wanted the stage to get "bigger" than it was! And this is something that 99 out of a 100 bands can not do and will likely not make it because of it. You don't always need that "extra" (specially if you are very good inside), but it will help when you are not as well defined.
post edited by Moshkiae - 2014/02/19 09:29:08