Friday 29 April 2011

Tarot sketch












Tarot interpretations as a 3D animation. The various prescribed words (or ideas? images? sentiments? intuitions?) associated with a card delineate the outline, a Venn diagram set, somewhere within which lies roughly the truth we are seeking. But the definition is no particular word - the ambiguous space requires the flexibility of imagination, the possibility or potential of several perhaps contradictory meanings.
It in fact exists somewhere along a 3rd axis, the circle extruded along it into the murky subconscious. "The answer lies somewhere or perhaps everywhere in the mass of the cone..."
Similar cones are illuminated from each of the five cards, sliding and stretching through the smoky darkness, like the beams of searchlights. They eventually intersect, to form a small bright gemstone, colours irridescing and pulsing across its five main faces.
But it is the face opposite the middle card, the synthesis, which shines strongest, enough to throw a new beam of holy light, powerful insight, sharp and clear, direct to a point, from the forehead (the third eye, of course).
By this means, the tarot reader locates the meaning of the cards, and understands it. The location - the intersection of the possibilities of all the cards - is also the meaning. The location is only a metaphor in this demonstration - but the meaning is all metaphor as well. This is how metaphor works, this is how tarot works, this is how the world works.

The Last Werewolf

A brilliant new novel by Glen Duncan - and an incredibly exciting new album by The Real Tuesday Weld which promises to be their best work yet (and I should know, I've been working with them for a very long time).

Featuring the voices of Joe Coles and Serena Bobowski, and myself...




Youtube link

Longer audio trailer

http://www.thelastwerewolf.org/

Sunday 17 April 2011

THE BEST MIXTAPE IN THE GALAXY volume 3 - Float On




READ THIS FIRST if you haven't already:
http://thepipermachine.blogspot.com/2011/04/best-mixtape-in-galaxy-volume-1-turn.html

http://thepipermachine.blogspot.com/2011/04/best-mixtape-in-galaxy-volume-2-girls.html


Download this here

1. Black Diamond Express to Hell pt1 - Rev A W Nix
2. Journey In Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane
3. Aztec - Bo Diddley
4. Kizmiaz - The Cramps
5. Senor Blues - Bill Henderson & The Horace Silver Quintet
6. Scarborough Fair - Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66
7. Passing Through - Rare Bird
8. When I Get Home - Edna Gallmon Cooke
9. Caravan - The Mills Brothers
10. Violet Sky - Yuzo Kayama
11. Spanish Caravan - The Doors
12. I'm Going To Spain - Steve Bent
13. The City Never Sleeps At Night - Nancy Sinatra
14. The Travelling Tragition - Tyrannosaurus Rex
15. House Of The Rising Sun - Miriam Makeba
16. California Earthquake - Cass Elliot
17. Travellin' In Style - Free
18. Get Thy Bearings - Donovan
19. Travelin' Light - J.J. Cale
20. We Travel The Spaceways - Sun Ra
21. People From Out The Space - Embryo
22. Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
23. Night Flight To Puerto Rico - Ray Rivera
24. Caravan - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
25. I'm Standing On The Highway - The Pilgrim Travellers
26. State Trooper (Trentemoller mix) - Bruce Springsteen
27. Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
28. Float On - The Floaters
29. Stop The Sun Stop The Moon (My Man's Gone) - The Boswell Sisters
30. Wand'rin Star - Lee Marvin
31. Travelin' Blues - Slim Gaillard

Saturday 9 April 2011

THE BEST MIXTAPE IN THE GALAXY volume 2 - Girls and Boys



Click here for Part 1 - An introduction to the incredible Galaxy of Music, the massive task lying ahead of our hero, and all the legendary musicians he gets to meet.

PART 2 - Music for love scenes, of all sorts. Soft, beautiful, romantic; dirty, chilling, confusing. The first, perhaps most important part of his education in life. But is she a ruthless agent of POP?

It's so big... I had to split in two so as not to overwhelm you. It starts with the best song about masturbation ever. Also the erstwhile leader of The Nation Of Islam's confuso-calypso, and lots and lots of heavy breathing.


ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY INCIDENTAL MUSIC VOL 2 - "I Love Dig":

1. With Me In Mind - Cody Chesnutt
2. You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour - Francoise Hardy
4. Handsome Man - Barbara Pittman & Gene Lowery
5. Hares On The Mountain - Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
6. Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl - The Barbarians
7. Is She Is, Or Is She Ain't? - Louis Farrakhan
8. Women Women Women - Shelley Lee Alley & His Alley Cats
9. Femme Fatale - Big Star
10. Putain Que Ma Joie Demeure - Serge Gainsbourg
11. The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood
12. Psychedelic Woman - Honny & The Bees Band
13. I Dig Love - Asha Puthli
14. Slow Tongue - Millie Jackson
15. Make It Fast, Make It Slow - Di Rob
16. Organ Grinder Blues - Clarence Williams
17. Two Girls In Love (With Each Other) - Snatch And The Poontangs
18. I Love To Love You - Johnny Guitar Watson
19. When You Touch Me - Reigning Sound
20. Suey - Jayne Mansfield
21. Little Girl - John & Jackie
22. If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out Of Tune) - Little Richard
23. Go Home Little Girl - Ola Belle Reed


ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY INCIDENTAL MUSIC VOL. 2A - "Oh God, I Love That Girl, And I want To Fuck Her As Quick As I Can"

1. California Girls [vocal track] - Beach Boys
2. Just To Walk That Little Girl Home - Mink DeVille
3. When A Man Loves A Woman - The Elgins
4. Going In Circles - The Natural Four
5. Can't Seem To Make You Mine - The Seeds
6. I'd Give My Life For You - Willie Dixon
7. Ruler Of My Heart - Irma Thomas
8. Oh! Caroline - Matching Mole
9. If You Want My Love - The Nightcrawlers
10. Don't Bring Me Down - The Animals
11. Speaking Of Happiness - Gloria Lynne
12. Vanity - Don Cherry
13. Oh, My Love - Yoshida Brothers
14. She Loves You (telephone) - Peter Sellers
15. I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
16. Just Waitin' - Luke The Drifter
17. Spooky - Lydia Lunch
18. Bring Me Up - Ash Ra Tempel
19. High On Love - The Knickerbockers
20. Mes RĂªves de Satin - Patricia
21. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (I Can't Help Falling in Love) - Spiritualized
22. Daddy's Baby - Cody Chesnutt


PHEW! ENJOY IT WITH LOTS OF SUNSHINE

Tuesday 5 April 2011

More Sexy Mythology



The Monster Eel - How The Coconut Was Acquired As Food by The Piper Machine


The Tuamotu Polynesian's legend of the battle between Te Tuna, or Phallus, the monster eel, and Maui, the Wonder-worker, and how Te Tuna's planted head produced the first coconuts.
Taken from the lips of Fariua-a-Makitua, of Fagatu, by JF Stimson, in The Legends of Maui and Tahaki, rendered by Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology

Saturday 2 April 2011

THE BEST MIXTAPE IN THE GALAXY volume 1 - "Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream. It is not Dying..."



Well, not exactly. In fact, it's the first in a series of collections of incidental music for an incredible TV show I've been developing:

ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY!

An epic odyssey through an alternative galaxy of music - a life-changing quest for love, freedom, and the BEST MIXTAPE EVER!

In which our young hero is mysteriously transported from 1994 (a time of mixtapes and MTV) to a galaxy where every planet is home to a different genre of music, where the harmony of the spheres is a tangible source of energy coursing through everything, and the basis of all life. And, in order to get home, and win the heart of the girl he loves (who constantly scorns him for not being 'cool enough') with an awesome mixtape, he must travel from planet to planet, recording the most incredible gigs of all time - from Mozart to Miles Davis to Michael Jackson, The Animals to The Zombies, Frankie Valli to Fela Kuti, Serge Gainsbourg to Sex Pistols, etc etc etc. He gains the most incredible education in music - but also in life and love - and becomes a legendary hero in the underground resistance against the evil totalitarian POP federation, who have taken over the entire galaxy... he meets slaves singing in the fields, monks chanting in mountain-top shangri-las, punks spitting, hep-cats swinging, Germans pretending to be robots, all manner of pirates and outlaws and merchants... and finally, in an asteroid field on the outer reaches of the galaxy, manages to track down the mysterious Samplers, who have the ability to suddenly appear out of nowhere, steal music, and disappear just as suddenly...

It's a big, ambitious project, which I think would make incredible television. The idea's not quite (but at the same time is not too far off) ready to be pitched properly. If you think you might be able to help/would like to get involved please let me know. SPECIFICALLY I'd love artists and illustrators to imagine scenes from the show (I think ideally it would use the rotoscope technique, especially to bring the gigs to vivid life... somewhere between Waking Life and Sin City and Yellow Submarine). Get me at: woowoowagon at gmail 

ANYWAY, this is the first in a long series of mixtapes that are not the main concerts he goes to, but are built for wistfully watching the stars through the spaceship window and thinking of the girl back home, at the end of an episode, montages, chase scenes, etc etc etc. A bit spacey, though only occasionally overtly, but all very very floaty and psychedelic... It's a paean to stoned sunshine.

ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY INCIDENTAL MUSIC VOL 1: "Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream. It is not Dying..."

1. Tomorrow Never Knows - Little Junior Parker
2. Petite Musique De Clown Triste - Erik Satie
3. Aht Uh Mi Head - Shuggie Otis
4. Maruzzella - Renato Carosone
5. Le Brin D'Herbe - Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem
6. The Bublight - Joe Meek & The Blue Men
7. Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
8. Siboney - Xavier Cugat
9. How High The Moon - Slim Gaillard
10. Four Women on One Man - Nina Simone
11. Okwukwe Na Nchekwube - Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National
12. Flash Forward - Serge Gainsbourg
13. Tropical Hot Dog Night - Captain Beefheart
14. J'Aime Les Filles - Jacques Dutronc
15. 2069 A Spaced Oddity - Us69
16. Alcohol Love - Billy Walker
17. Moogies Bloogies - Anthony Newley & Delia Derbyshire
18. Caravan - Takeshi Terauchi
19. Sharks - Ivor Cutler
20. Hey There Little Insect - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
21. As Far As I Can Remember (Memories) - The Pasteur Lappe