tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30351842216209659662024-03-06T05:52:38.763+00:00DiagonalsNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-9272995736987421332022-07-27T13:52:00.001+01:002022-07-27T13:52:38.504+01:00<p> Hey! You might like my Instagram!. </p><p>https://www.instagram.com/diagonals_/?hl=en</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-35300985518589017532022-07-27T12:30:00.004+01:002022-07-27T12:31:26.229+01:00Arc En Ciel<div><iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Farc-en-ciel%2F" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">w/ Michel Colombier, Broadcast, The Spoils Of War, Michel Legrand, Catharsis, Serge Bulot, The High Llamas, France Gall, Serge Gainsbourg, HP Lovecraft, Cook & Benjamin Franklin Group, Dedalus, more</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-35329623341583253052022-07-27T12:19:00.003+01:002022-07-27T12:19:46.490+01:00Better late than never?It has been an insane amount of time since I posted anything here. I am a professional procrastinator, and then I get discouraged. I don't know why that would be, but there it is. I will be posting more stuf from now on. Mixes, of course. Including some that I have not/will not post on Mixcloud or Soundcloud. I bought a massive haul of library records, so seeminly difficult to find, so I will be ripping some stuff to share. I will be posting about non-music things. Also there will be news and progress on my own musical project. Finally. Dealing with MS had taken some of the juice out of me, but - even though I don't think anyone looks at this blog - I'm back!
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-44906415988108175632022-05-24T05:57:00.000+01:002022-07-27T12:13:05.674+01:00Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-52152226058173519732022-05-24T05:56:00.001+01:002022-05-24T05:56:33.129+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1oauB1HjiF5dFCF6FCshCnc4jNYBK_ClSWoSTSNokUdvLrP5XIso4dc0O2Rd79fTAj_vh7JajsvoZ6EUMdcLhi5s2NVyUc4jUEUFWlZ4XBaRySpXyz7g0jWbvQicrTdc9IHRP0MFSr_R/s490/Untitled+%25281%2529.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1oauB1HjiF5dFCF6FCshCnc4jNYBK_ClSWoSTSNokUdvLrP5XIso4dc0O2Rd79fTAj_vh7JajsvoZ6EUMdcLhi5s2NVyUc4jUEUFWlZ4XBaRySpXyz7g0jWbvQicrTdc9IHRP0MFSr_R/s600/Untitled+%25281%2529.jpg"/></a></div>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-81785989817406430112020-09-07T05:46:00.002+01:002020-09-07T05:46:34.273+01:00Arc Of A Journey<p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Farc-of-a-journey%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">w/ Broadcast, The Zodiac, The Chocolate Watchband, Ennio Morricone, The United States Of America, Stu Phillips, Bruno Nicolai, Basil Kirchin, Elephant's Memory, Nino Nardini, Springfield Rifle, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza;, The Greek Fountains, Piero Umiliani, Raymond Scott, Fred Weinberg, Hal Blaine, more - complete tracklist to come</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-5040984418278632952020-09-07T05:44:00.003+01:002020-09-07T05:44:52.856+01:00Attends Ou Va-t'en<p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Fattends-ou-va-ten%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">w/ Belbury Poly, Vanishing Twin, White Noise, Claude Perraudin, The United States Of America, France Gall, Jane Weaver, Stereolab, Death And Vanilla, Os Mutantes, Ash Ra Tempel, Ian Neal, The Focus Group, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Broadcast, Imitation Electric Piano, Pram, Arthur Verocai, Christophe, Roedelius, Stringtronics, Vangelis, Brigitte Bardot, The Memory Band, Robert Julian Horky, Seeland & The Advisory Circle, Suzanne Doucet, Modular, Merit Hemmingson, Pierre Arvay, Moon Wiring Club, James Asher, Lallo Gori, + more</span>
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-71284564320686050482020-09-07T05:43:00.001+01:002020-09-07T05:43:23.474+01:00Step Beyond<p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Fstep-beyond%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">w/ Beautify Junkyards, Vanishing Twin, Stereolab, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Kaleidoscope, Toby Twirl, The Greg Foat Group, Adrian Younge, David Axelrod, Jack Arel, The Superimposers, Amon Duul II, Novi Singers, Peter Thomas Sound Orchester, Syd Dale, Pierre Cavalli, Neal Hefti, Paul Mauriat, Peaking Lights, Freedom Power, Mariah, Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble, Bob James, Novi Singers, Catharsis, Claude Perraudin, Piero Piccioni, The Pawnshop, Le Systeme Crapoutchik, Christophe, L'augmentation, Spratleys Japs, April March & Aquaserge, + more (tracklist to come)</span>
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-62779670589580384372020-08-17T18:19:00.001+01:002020-08-17T18:19:57.837+01:00The Dreamer Flies Back<p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Fthe-dreamer-flies-back%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1. Inside Luckmoore (Cavern Of Anti-Matter)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2. Shonen (Mariah)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3. Telegraph Is Calling (The Pawnshop)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4. Death Dies (Goblin)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">5. The Dreamer Flies Back (Forever Amber)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">6. O Relogio (Os Mutantes)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">7. Winter Rhombic/The Dress Perspective (Cavern Of Anti-Matter)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8. Jaune (Philippe Besombes)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">9. Un Noel 67 (Serge Gainsbourg)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10. Al-Vida (Sohail Rana)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">11. Batterie Field (Pierre Raph)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">12. My Shade (The Pawnshop)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">13. Er Is Geen Reden (Dany Martin)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">14. L'alibi (Shake No 1) (Ennio Morricone)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">15. Rose (Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">16. Walking In The Dark (Stefano Torossi)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">17. Pop Medievale (Narassa & Zanagoria)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">18. Profil Interne (Jean-Jacques Perrey)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">19. Melancholy Moog (John Fiddy & Norman Candler)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">20. Ramps Walk (Operatingtheatre)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">21. ZinZan's Avec Moi (Cavern Of Anti-Matter)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">22. Wide Open Space Motion (Klaus Weiss)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">23. Neuschnee (Neu!)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">24. Modern Kosmology (Jane Weaver)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">25. Monstre Sacre (Lake Ruth & Listening Center)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">26. Wander (Seeland)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">27. I-Man Transport (Dymaxion)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">28. The Outsider (The Soundcarriers)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">29. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour (Os Mutantes)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">30. L'Ultimo (Ennio Morricone)</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #586573; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-56479439935160377222020-07-27T18:12:00.003+01:002020-07-27T18:12:48.085+01:00The Lightning Back<iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Fthe-lightning-back%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Library etc. tracks w/ Claude Perraudin, I Gres, Fabio Fabor, Dominique Guiot, Alan Hawkshaw, Brian Bennett, Yan Tregger & Pierre Devevey, Geoff Bastow, Vic Flick, Jacky Giordano, Astral Sounds, Magnetic Systems, Mario Molino, Janko Nilovic, Joy Unlimited, Jean Pierre Decerf, Francis Monkman, Frank McDonald & Terry Devine-King, Milan Pilar Group, Brian Dee, Andrew Jackman, Oscar Rocchi, Julian Nott, William Gum-Boot & Lawrence Wiffin, + many more.</span><br />
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Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-60678194524279994502020-07-18T22:11:00.001+01:002020-08-12T04:35:26.174+01:00In Bright Axiom / An Experience<a href="https://nonchalance.com/AXIOM/">In Bright Axiom</a><br />
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This post will be unusual for this blog, but still, I think, of interest.<br />
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Note: In the past few months, I met an amazing woman and we got married. I have meant to post one final entry on the saga of The Mission, which is still in the works; between getting married and being in the process of moving to the Bay Area of CA from FL, I have been a bit busy. Excuse the messiness of this post - I'm writing it as I am in the middle of moving.<br />
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Around 2008, an acquaintance posted images of strange flyers that were found in San Francisco that belonged to something called The Jejune Institute, which they thought would be of interest to me as at that time I was into the TV show Lost, and one of the things I loved about that show was the DHARMA Initiative, a weird science cult that was revealed through bizarre films (I, of course, love degraded media and strange 60s/70s cults). From that I followed the trail to the Unfiction forums, which were centered around things which included what would later be termed "ARGs," or alternate reality games (which Lost also created between seasons). I lived in FL and then PA at that time, so I was nowhere near San Fran and Oakland, but I was pretty caught up in what was going on and the mythology that began to emerge from what I later found out was called the <a href="https://nonchalance.com/jejune.html">Game</a>s of <a href="https://nonchalance.com/">Nonchalance</a>, which has its own fascinating and quite engrossing mythology about the<a href="https://nonchalance.com/jejune.html"> Jejune Institute</a> and the Elsewhere Society, complete with <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jeff-hull/radio-nonchalance">extremely fascinating audio</a> (which I have sampled for my own musical experiments in the past) and some wildly fantastic and incredible art. The whole venture played out until around 2011, with a climactic event that signaled the end of the Games, though with promise of a possible future experience on the horizon.<br />
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The mood, mythology, and especially the art and music that was part of this experience veered very much into the realm of hauntology.<br />
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In 2014, a wonderful documentary (which, to be fair, included some moments that blurred the reality of things in a beguiling way) premiered called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Institute-Arye-Michael-Bender/dp/B00GD5FYN4/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=The+Institute&qid=1595101544&sr=8-3">The Institute</a>. At the end of that, there was a strange logo for something called <a href="https://nonchalance.com/latitude.html">The Latitude Society</a>.<br />
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I didn't know much about that - I read some things here and there, but I wasn't able to follow along like I had been with the Games of Nonchalance. I was aware that the same people who ran that one were running this one. It sounded very different - it seemed to be purposely leaning into the secret society aspect of things and was far more mysterious. I was intrigued, but because the way my life was at that time along with less info online, I didn't know much about it. But the Games of Nonchalance always sort of stuck with me and would pop into my head every now and then.<br />
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More recently, I was made aware of a new ARG around the fall of 2019 which was rumored to be connected to Nonchalance or an extension of the old Jejune Institute stuff. The New Noology Network, it was called. I was just getting out of a relationship and didn't have a lot to do, so I followed along pretty closely and participated, even making videos when the game asked. It came to be known that it was connected to a new TV series that seemed to be based on the old Institute / Games called Dispatches From Elsewhere (which had been the title of the Commander 14 radio broadcasts from the Games of Nonchalance back in 2008). The show premiered in early 2020, just as the COVID crisis and lockdown went into effect, so I was able to obsess over it, even participating in online groups and Tweetalongs of the show, even interacting with some of the shows stars and participating in some YouTube post-show reviews by some somewhat prominent pop culture review channels. I was super into it.<br />
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I became aware at some point that there was another documentary about The Latitude Society. I wasn't sure the status of its release due to the pandemic.<br />
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(Sidebar: I haven't written much about my health issues here, but two years ago I was diagnosed with MS. There have been some scary moments along the way, but all seems to be well at the moment. Hopefully it will just be a chronic condition that is manageable. So, enough about that.)<br />
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On a whim, I sent the creator of the Games of Nonchalance and The Latitude Society, Jeff Hull, who Jason Segel referred to as "a Willy Wonka type figure," an email. I told him what following along with what he has done has meant to me and how I've felt inspired by it and asked him if it would be possible for me to see In Bright Axiom from my home. To my surprise, he answered, sending me a link and a secret password.<br />
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The documentary is amazing. It was just released for the public and is available for streaming on iTunes and elsewhere. I would recommend<a href="https://nonchalance.com/AXIOM/"> going here</a> for links as well as an interesting possible way to participate and become a part of the experience.<br />
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Here is my review of the film that I posted on iTunes (written, to be fair, in the middle of the night when I had a chance to sit down to write something, so forgive the messiness and slight stream of consciousness of it all):<br />
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<b><i>"This is a wondrous film that blends a documentary about a social experiment in awe and wonder using the guise of a "secret society" and narrative filmic elements that flesh out the world contained within the social experiment/game - with both coming crashing together at one climactic point in an actually quite beautiful and moving way. The documentary side explores a new "urban playground" social game started by the masterminds behind The Games of Nonchalance (see the doc/film "The Institute," also wonderful and a must-see) called The Latitude Society. This "game" is a spiritual successor to the prior Games, but it is really quite different - while still built on the premise of helping people realize the awe and wonder around them, be it in art or nature or just assisting a player/inductee in seeing the world through a new prism, it is built much more around the idea of a society (which begins with much in common with a secret society or a "cult") which is a bit more of a lone experience for players while still providing ways for interactive events if an inductee so chooses to participate in which allowed them to interface with each other - which is also part of where things began to go wrong. The doc/film goes into what happened with Latitude and why the experience / experiment ended, including the perspectives of the people who joined and lived this experience as well as those who created it. It's quite fascinating to see how this was all put together, the mindset of those involved, what it took to run such an endeavor, and how the social experiment was built and managed and eventually broken down. The more filmic / narrative elements are quite good, with incredible visuals and a story that gets into the mythology behind the Latitude Society and, as I wrote before, the two sides of the film meet in a very satisfying way. The musical and sound elements of this film are wonderful, especially how it all comes together over the closing credits. Highly recommended just as an interesting, engrossing, wonderfully strange film - as well as a very good documentary...a mood piece, a psychological/sociological curiosity..."</i></b><br />
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I think that is a decent review of the film itself. I can't recommend it enough - one does not need to be familiar with what came before or anything surrounding it to enjoy it - it stands alone as its own thing, an extremely fascinating and gripping story of how an art project based in providing awe and wonder / secret society / social experiment was created, experienced by the people participating, and how it was put together and run by the people who created it and how the who thing eventually fell apart (but, I'd argue, fell apart in a somewhat frustrating but kind of beautiful way), with closure to the story and experience provided by the film.<br />
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In the past few months, I met a wonderful woman, flew across the country to be together, fell madly in love, got married, and am now finalizing my move to be with her. By chance, she lives in the Bay Area, in Oakland, and grew up in San Francisco.<br />
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My personal connection to this...<br />
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By chance, as I wrote above, I met and fell in love with someone from the Bay Area. She was vaguely aware of the Games from the earlier 2000s, and we watched The Institute together. When I went there and we got married and I spent time with her in Oakland and San Francisco, I was still in light communication with Mr Hull and just decided to let him know I was in the area. He got in touch with me and proposed some sort of meeting. After my wedding and all, we made plans to meet at Fairyland, which is walking distance from my new home in Oakland (and also plays a part in the mythology of Mr Hull's life and therefore Nonchalance). My wife, who is familiar with the whole thing, came along with me as I am still new to the area.<br />
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Before I went to the park, Mr Hull emailed me an orientation email:<br />
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I went to the park, and searched for the envelope. It was, as stated, not too hard to locate.<br />
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I did as it said. On the bandstand was a family playing. My wife was next to me and wanted to time how long I stood there with the blindfold on at three minutes. I felt a little self conscious, but I took a breath and put the blindfold on and stood on the bandstand.<br />
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After a moment, there was the sound of children playing, particularly the sound of a young girl. I could see nothing. After a moment, there was a faint sound of music, playing Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1," which has significance to the Games of Nonchalance story of Eva (it's sort of her theme), but which just happens to have a significance to me that dates back to my childhood as well. The song got louder, interspersed within the sounds of the music were the sounds of a laughing, happily playing child. This went on for three minutes. There was a nice breeze. The sounds of the people picnicking in the park sort of faded out as I focused on the music. I closed my eyes within the blindfold. At one point I heard the sound of my wife softly tell me there was a minute left. I honestly felt at ease, calm and somewhat transported. The music ended, the sounds of the world around me faded back in, and my wife softly told me it was okay to take the blind fold off. At this point, if this was all there was to this experience, I would be happy. I felt like I'd had a short meditative experience. It was not at all what I was expecting when I had been asked a few weeks earlier to meet.<br />
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I looked at my wife and she too looked like she'd had a bit of an experience, though she still hasn't been able to tell me what it was. (All she could tell me was "Eva was here." I understood.) She presented me with a box.<br />
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I hesitate to post all of what was in this box. It feels a little bit personal to me. Maybe I will follow up and post photos at some point. Most importantly, Jeff Hull gave me a beautiful experience that also served as a pretty incredible welcome to the neighborhood.<br />
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A photo of me at Fairyland with my magical box:<br />
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My wife and I at Fairyland following this experience:<br />
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(This got a bit more personal than I might have expected and definitely more so than my usual posts here.)<br />
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I'd recommend checking out the <a href="https://nonchalance.com/">Nonchalance</a> site in general, but especially for<a href="https://nonchalance.com/AXIOM/"> In Bright Axiom</a> and <a href="https://nonchalance.com/latitude.html">The Latitude Society</a>. I would also recommend checking out the page on <a href="https://nonchalance.com/jejune.html">The Jejune Institute</a>, and for musical content, the gentleman who did a lot of the audio for Jejune / Nonchalance and Latitude has a <a href="https://theuriah.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> page for his music, a lot of which is quite good and interesting. Also very much worth checking out is<a href="https://soundcloud.com/jeff-hull/radio-nonchalance"> this broadcast from the original game</a>, which is just straight up a fun listen and incredibly sample-worthy if you're into that sort of thing. There's also quite a bit of writing on the Institute if you want to read about the experience, such as <a href="http://cardhouse.com/where/">here</a> (this is quite long but exceedingly well written and worth the time) and <a href="https://www.mrericsir.com/blog/tag/the-jejune-institute/">here</a>. For some reading on Latitude Society, I'd recommend <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xygykj/my-year-in-san-franciscos-2-million-secret-society-startup">here</a> and <a href="https://www.mrericsir.com/blog/tag/the-latitude/">here</a>. The <a href="https://twitter.com/pervasiveplay">Nonchalance Twitter</a> is also worth a look and follow. And above all, go watch<a href="https://nonchalance.com/AXIOM/"> In Bright Axiom</a> (and <a href="https://www.theinstitutemovie.com/">The Institute</a>)!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">w/ Can, Neu!, Gong, Faust, Krzysztof Komeda, Serge Gainsbourg, Shuggie Otis, Chico Buarque, Wanderlea, Gal Costa, Joao Donato, Gil Scott-Heron, The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra, John Barry, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Marcus Belgrave, Alain Goraguer, Oronzo De Filipe, Piero Piccioni, Sun Ra, Eden Ahbez, Jean-Claude Vannier, Don Cherry, more</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">w/ Lalo Schifrin, Stanley Myers, Henry Mancini, The Walker Brothers, Hugo Montenegro, Ennio Morricone, The Zombies, Peppino De Luca, Jerry Goldsmith, Cilla Black, John Barry, Roy Budd, Michel Legrand, more</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A mix of soundtrack music, from OST music to songs created by artists such as The Zombies and The Walker Brothers for film. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(w/ David Axelrod, Lake Ruth, Hildegard Knef, Stereolab, Modern Sound Quartet, High Llamas, SImon Park, The New Lines, Mariah, Serge Gainsbourg, Karin Krog, Fourth Sensation, Claude Perraudin, Chameleon, Roedelius, Piero Montanari, M.A BEAT!, Pasquale Castiglione, Oscar Rocchi & Tullio de Piscopo, more)</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-89688049647165271442020-06-20T02:53:00.000+01:002020-06-20T02:53:39.010+01:00Last Cloud Home<iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Flast-cloud-home%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(w/ Strawberry Alarm Clock, Klaatu, Tages, Roger Nichols Trio, West Coast Branch, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Philamore Lincoln, Zodiac Cosmic Sounds, Le Système Crapoutchik, Orange Bicycle, The Free Design, The Mission, Atomic Forest, National Gallery, Ultimate Spinach, Sound Vendor, Hugo Montenegro, Egg, Giles Giles & Fripp, Dave Christie, Out Of Focus, Legay, Peter Pan & The Good Fairies, The Poppy Family, Aphrodite's Child, Early Times, more)</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-76857704809440264222020-06-14T10:15:00.001+01:002020-06-14T10:15:25.464+01:00Surrealchemist<iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Fsurrealchemist%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(w/ Can, CA Quintet, John Cale, Stereolab, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Spoils Of War, The Superimposers, Principal Edward's Magic Theatre, Avengers, Birmingham Sunday, Jane Weaver, The Smoke, Jane Weaver, Sunforest, Vanishing Twin, Lothar & The Hand People, Bran, Donovan, HP Lovecraft, Bill Wendry & The Boss Tweeds, Nino Ferrer, Harumi, Vampires Of Dartmoore, US 69, The New Lines, The David, Eih, Damin, ALK, & Brother Clark, Andrew Brown, The Pawnshop, I Marc 4, The Sixpentz, Canterbury Music Festival, more)</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-20168491349559981612020-06-09T09:35:00.000+01:002020-06-09T09:35:21.383+01:00Alice Designs<iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Falice-designs%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An Alice In Wonderland inspired mix.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(w/ Ian Neal, Kevin Ayers, Amorphous Androgynous, Peter Howell, Broadcast, Berkeley Kites, Idle Race, Harumi, Central Nervous System, Dotti Holmberg, Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup, Frumious Bandersnatch, Lubos Fiser, Angrew Loog Oldham Orchestra, The Millennium, Pink Floyd, Sugarbeats, The Association, The Explosive, The Cyrkle, Sean O'Hagan, Them, Tm Northcott, The Lemon Drops, The Mike Stuart Span, The High Llamas, The Left Banke, Olivier Bernard, Jefferson Airplane, more)</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180739802482868174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035184221620965966.post-27905909961094143122020-06-06T20:24:00.001+01:002020-06-07T08:54:37.724+01:00Let's Never Leave Here<iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2Felevatoresque%2Flets-never-leave-here%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(w/ Testbild!, Tages, Death And Vanilla, Dungen, Doris, Komeda, Pandora, Resan, Liv På Jorden, Blond, Cymbeline, Energy, Midsommar, Bo Hansson, Sten Bergman, Merit Hemmingson, Harry Nilsson, more)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(w/ Tages, Kevin Ayers, The Joint Effort, Glitterhouse, The Paper Fortress, Thomas Edusin's Electric Light Bulb Band, Proof of the Pudding, Subterranean Monastery, Chrysalis, The Griffin, New Formula, Magicians, Triste Janero, Birmingham Sunday, St. John Green, The Orange Bicycle, The Network, The Smoke, Dalton & Montgomery, King Biscuit Entertainers, Beauregard Ajax, Thorinshield, more)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2. Svensk - Dream Magazine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">3. The Joint Effort - Mary On A Go Round</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">4. Moon - I Should Be Dreaming</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">5. Glitterhouse - Tinkerbell's Mind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">6. The Paper Fortress - Sleepy Hollow People</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">7. Kate - Strange Girl</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">8. Thomas Edisun's Electric Light Bulb Band - Red Day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">9. Tages - You're Too Incomprehensible</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">10. The Five Shy - Try To Be Happy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11. Proof Of The Pudding - Color Wheel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12. The Griffin - Murder In The Cathedral</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">13. Chrysalis - Dr. Root's Garden</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">14. Dalton & Montgomery - Blackmail</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">15. New Formula - Burning In The Background Of My Mind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">16. Magicians - Slow Motion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">17. King Biscuit Entertainers - Stormy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">18. Dr. Hooker - Weather Girl</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">19. The Network - The Boys And The Girls</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20. The Orange Bicycle - Competition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">21. Beauregard Ajax - Deaf Priscilla</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">22. Triste Janero - A Beginning Dream</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">23. Subterranean Monastery - Realistic Patterns</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">24. Earth Island - Seasons Of Our Lives</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">25. Tages - Fantasy Island</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">26. Kevin Ayers - The Lady Rachel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">27. The Mind Expanders - Cul de Sac</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">28. Thomas Edisun's Electric Light Bulb Band - Common Attitude</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">29. Thorinshield - Life Is A Dream</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">30. The Gordian Knot - Broken Down Old Merry-Go-Round</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">31. The Smoke - Self Analysis </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">32. St. John Green - Spirit Of Now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">33. Kevin Ayers - Soon, Soon, Soon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">34. Tages - I Read You Like An Open Book</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #697f95; font-family: "dm sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">35. Birmingham Sunday - Don't Turn Around</span><br />
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I've been obsessed with these two songs for years. I'd never heard anything quite like it. Long story short (you can read <a href="https://diagonalsblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-mission.html">my previous post</a> for much more exposition on my years-long obsession and quest to figure out who these guys were) I figured out that it was Daryl Dragon of Captain & Tenille fame. Even more fun: That there were two more songs listed in the copyright filing for the two released songs.<br />
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I mentioned to my friend <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/markbowen66/">Mark Bowen</a> what I'd found out and talked about the possibility of getting in touch with Mr. Dragon to ask about the other two songs listed in the copyright filing. Mark suggested I get in touch with <a href="http://www.djfood.org/">DJ Food</a>, who produced the re-release of and was heavily involved in the album <a href="https://ninjatune.net/release/the-dragons/bfi">BFI from The Dragons</a>, which it turns out is the same group who made up The Mission (plus a couple of musicians here and there and producers - the core group was still the Dragon brothers). With the help of DJ Food - who had never heard of The Mission; even in his time dealing with the Dragons, it was never mentioned - we started making inquiries and then a mysterious LP under the name of Dennis Dragon appeared on Discogs. Dennis Dragon (who has his own interesting career, scoring a couple of surf films and later fronting the surf punk band the, er, Surf Punks, and was also an alumni along with Daryl of The Beach Boys in the 70s) suddenly had an album listed in Discogs as being released under the legendary <a href="https://www.discogs.com/label/1206956-ESP-DiskWest" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, "nimbus sans", arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px;">ESP Disk'/West</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> label (which showed up, timing wise, it seemed, right when we inquired about The Mission, and which we found out was not actually part of their catalog and may have just been put there as a joke or fabrication) </span>called "Me And My Brother," which had as its first side the songs recorded as The Mission along with not only the two additional songs I found in the copyright listing, but five (!!!!!), and the side B credited to Dennis alone as an apparently half hour long ambient tape loop piece, which would have put him ahead of even the likes of Brian Eno at the cutting edge of interesting, atmospheric analog synth and tape driven drones and atmospheres. DJ Food gave me the email address of Dennis Dragon, so I emailed him.<br />
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My back and forth with Dennis was interesting to say the least. I still have the emails; I hesitate to print any of it openly. He was a very cool, interesting guy - one moment very wry and dryly humorous, the next, somewhat cantankerous. Food was able to facilitate getting a copy of the LP - according to Dennis, only about 50 were in existence (though that is completely unverifiable - they were apparently pressed by Dennis, under a record label that, when I got in touch with them, had zero record of it having been pressed by them and had a completely different release with the catalog number Dennis had, which Food surmised meant Dennis, as a joke, put that label on this privately pressed record), and Dennis said he had the last one. (Dennis - not sure if he was joking or not - was asking me to make him an offer on the LP; before I had to come up with a number, Food was able to get a copy of it from him for, I assume, no fee.)<br />
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DJ Food and I went back and forth for a while on what to do next. The music is incredible, and it was pristine. All that existed in the world was that 45, of which no good quality version seems to be available; I know mine is not great sound quality. The lyrics - much of them comprised of a completely made up nonsense language, apparently Daryl's idea - were clear and able to be made out, such as they are. The instruments are discernible. It's AWESOME. For a decade at least, I'd been listening to that 45. Those two songs have turned up on multiple mixes over the years. It was kind of glorious, and I had the idea of possibly releasing them in some form. Food was into the idea and broached the subject with Dennis. He got a negative response to say the least. (I later found out that Dennis had some very bad dealings with record companies and the idea of letting someone handle his music in that way, even something like this that he hadn't thought about in decades, was the opposite of appealing to him.) I had a rather tense exchange with him, and I backed off. I was thrilled to have this music, first and foremost, and to have solved the mystery of who this band was, and that solving it was kind of the most batshit thing - I expected it to be a handful of guys in a garage that cut a 45 in the late 60s and then went on to normal lives. I did not expect fucking Daryl Dragon from Captain & Tenille and The Dragons were the ones behind it.<br />
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Some time passed, and I thought about asking Dennis if he'd mind if I put the songs out there for other people to at least hear, because they're so amazing, I'd at least want to share them. Food was preoccupied with side B of the album, which was a half hour ambient track that, if it was recorded when Dennis said it was, would have put him ahead of Brian Eno. Food was a little skeptical and was preoccupied there. (I didn't care about that as much - it was a cool ambient track regardless of when it was actually made.) I waited to broach the subject. One night, I got an email from Dennis in the middle of the night. It simply read, "Enjoying the tunes?" I replied in the extreme affirmative, and told him how much I loved the songs and thanked him for sending them to me and Food. He replied that it was his pleasure and he was happy to hear it.<br />
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Not long after, I heard from Mark that Dennis had killed himself, news which was eventually confirmed as it spread across Beach Boys fandom.<br />
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I didn't know him outside of our few interactions, but he was clearly a talented and cool, thoughtful guy. I was sorry to hear his demons got the best of him. I hadn't known he was in pain.<br />
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That was a couple of years ago now. I'm still listening to these songs. The poorer sounding versions of the songs from the 45 are still on those psych comps, presumably still being heard, and no one outside of the three of us as at the time of this writing (as far as I know) knows their lineage or that there are more of them, and of such pristine quality.<br />
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And, of course, Daryl sadly passed in January of 2019.<br />
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I feel like, after all this time, I'm comfortable sharing these songs. I think they're insanely good (and just plain freaking insane - they made up their own language!) and deserve to be heard. In Dennis' (and now Daryl's) memory, I also want them to be shared. So, in all their wonderful, bizarre psychedelic garage fuzzed out glory, here is the entire recorded material of The Mission:<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/m26s12moo5c9t52/THE_MISSION.zip/file">THE MISSION</a><br />
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Perhaps at some point I'll post the sort-of "album" that I made for Dennis with the input of DJ Food which also included rare songs by The Dragons et al. I'm not sure if I want to release the ambient track Dennis did, at least not as a part of this. Perhaps one day. DJ Food might still want to do something with that one, and I don't want to step on that. I hope whoever may find this entry finds this story as fascinating as I found it as I went along, and I sincerely hope this music gets enjoyed. I may promote it further on some blogs or other places where obscure psych enthusiasts reside. In the meantime, enjoy, and raise a glass to the Dragon brothers.<br />
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-Nick Daly<br />
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