Drone Again

I'm so back onto drones. Was I ever off drones? I'm feeling that wave of "why would I ever listen to or make any other kind of music" again. Here's a short list of great drones:

1. ghosting - their current myspace song.


2. the dream syndicate (lamonte young, tony conrad, et al) - 2 iv 64


3. lamonte young - dreamhouse 78'17


4. lamonte young - the melodic version (1984) of the second dream of the high-tension line stepdown transformer from the four dreams of china (1962)


5. tony conrad - pythagoras, refusing to cross the bean field at his back, is dispatched...

I also got a copy of Sun Circle, which is pretty much a cover album of Lamonte Young's rare Black Album by Greg Davis and Zach Wallace. I was SO excited about it when I ordered it. I need to listen to it again, but I wasn't super impressed on the first listen. There's a glacial-speed development that happens in lamonte young's best stuff, it almost becomes vertical - time stands on one end and begins to move straight upward. Sun Circle on first listen does a great job of apeing the aesthetic of the Dreamhouse stuff, but it just felt flat to me. I was in a terrible mood when I put it on though, so that might be it.

jog he can

I came across this poem dedicated to John Cage today. I guess i'm not in the mood for fluxus poetry today, but it was nice to see I'm not the first to anagram Mr. Cage.

I was in the mood to play the trombone today, which was the first time I sat down and practiced in months and months. I'm incredibly rusty, but working my chops back up to a passable quality was a lot of fun. I'm sure it annoyed the neighbors though.

What's annoying me right now is whether it's okay for me to sing a song about Jesus at my show on Saturday. I'm not religious, but tasteful devotional songs have recently been very comforting to me. I can't decide if my song would be insulting to a hypothetical Christian audience, despite the respect I intend in performing it. I may chicken out and just sing a love song instead... Those are always offensive to someone regardless.