http://www.wordthecat.com/goku playing with the faeries since May 2005 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:31:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en --- lamin fofana brings percussive chamber atmospheriks for the new year with a three track EP on sticks and stones records. vinyl forthcoming on 30th jan. digital on 27th feb. (there's a soundcloud link and a youtube link. which to post?) the head of audio at the bbc thinks radio should offer ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2012/01/13/dubious-prey-visual-devices/ ---- Big up the BBC and Brook Lapping Productions. Erykah Badu presents two half hours of radio on the Black Power movement and the aesthetics and music that accompanied it. Great montage and interviews with Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, Ornette Coleman, Sonia Sanchez, Lloyd McNeil and Talib Kweli. Kweli describes a situation ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2012/01/13/black-is-a-country/ --- Anne Briggs, heavyweight vocalist of the 60s/70s English folk revival sings an acapella rendition of 'young tambling', a song about a woman who is ravaged by a mysterious man in the woods and left pregnant. Later, as she ventures out again to the woods to pick a herb which will ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/11/09/two-eyes-of-wood/ ---- York Hall, an old boxing gym in East London was bathed in darkness for Amadou and Mariam's 'Eclipse' show on Tuesday night. The audience sat surrounded by audio roosters, fragments of speech and trains recorded in Bamako, Mali's capital. Amadou and Mariam are blind and the blacked out venue was designed ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/11/03/bamako-eclipse/ Since April 2011, myself and Alyssa Moxley have been recording people who keep bees in London, their hives and the soundscape around... We spoke to people from Capital Bee, the Golden Company, Walworth Garden Farm and the Southbank Centre and recorded them tending to their hives and discussing what the ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/10/14/cosmopollination-a-radio-programme-about-urban-beekeeping/ right now, lots of things are on fire. most of them are shops. a few houses are on fire in croydon. people have been evacuated from clapham junction. north london is kicking off. everywhere is kicking off. places with a stong sense of community (and local enfranchisement) have come out ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/08/09/more-information/ Akio Suzuki is a Japanese composer, artist and inventor of instruments. he's interested in the sounds of nature, stripped down pieces of noise and their resonances in a given landscape. David Toop fetes him as "a kind of magician". In the sleeve notes to the 'Odds and Ends' double CD, ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/05/23/akio-suzuki-%e9%88%b4%e6%9c%a8-%e6%98%8e%e5%ad%90/ "At the death of Francis I in 1547, a meal was served to the king's coffin, while a wax effigy (complete with moving parts) was set up in a salle d'honneur, where it was ritually fed until the king was buried." from Carolyn Steel - Hungry City p.223 --- Keep eating. Hype Williams ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/05/17/food-lets-get-buried/ alex macpherson just published a great article on lil b, tyler the creator and sexuality in hip hop. in case you're unaware, lil b has announced his new record will be called 'i'm gay'. he's not gay, but he does play with his sexuality, calling himself that pretty bitch and ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/05/10/swag-worth-a-million-some-notes-on-lil-b/ samgeall links to an article on the relationship between occult practices and cyberfraud in ghanaian popular culture... Sakawa: On Occultic Rituals and Cyberfraud in Ghanaian Popular Culture by Joseph Oduro-Frimpong [pdf] this may sound obscure but let's just think of occult practices as means to an end. when riki lake or oprah ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2011/04/07/occult-cyberfraud-industry-hype/