Word The Cat

Here’s Cancer Cloud:

He came out of an oil depot fire in Hemel Hempstead, north of London at the weekend and now he’s coming to town. People are scared of cancer cloud. That makes him sad. No-one wants to come out of their houses to play with him. He feels rejected. They pulled him out of the ground when he was oil and took him a long way from home and put him in a refinery next to the M1. All he wanted to do was fuel some stock broker’s 4×4. Now the same stock brokers shake their fists at him and say “keep away from my family!” He is doomed to wander the atmosphere alone, until one day when he will wreak a terrible revenge, contributing to the reversal of the gulf stream and giving London the same climate as Vladivastock.
If cancer cloud was an animated series this would be the title music:

Afrirampo – Matane 1.7mb

Afrirampo are from Osaka and they’re really good. Here’s their website. This record was produced by John Zorn. He’s an all purpose NYC-based saxophonist and general musical hub (here’s his label’s site). This is a track from the avant-klezmer group he’s in with Bill Frisell.

Masada live in NYC April 1996 8.4mb

John Zorn also made an album of Ennio Morricone covers in 1984. Ennio Morricone is an Italian film soundtrack composer, he’s most famous outside Italy for the soundtracks to Sergio Leone’s westerns. The first of these tracks is a cover of theme music for ‘Once Upon a Time in America’. The other’s a version of the theme for Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1965 anticolonial film ‘The Battle of Algiers’ (incidently this film was later used to train CIA operatives to recognise bombers in disguise).

John Zorn – Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America) 4.4mb

John Zorn – Battle Of Algiers 4.4mb

Back to Cancer Cloud, this would be the closing theme music:

Keiji Haino & Boris wonder what colour would be suitable for the dwelling 2.1 mb