Head Medicine Weekly
vol 1
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the first installment of a new feature, a weekly dose of various sights and sounds,
comics and culture for your eyeballs and earholes.
too many memorials recently...
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister 1945-2015
David Bowie 1947-2016
Nigeria Rock Special
Psychedelic Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria
2008 Soundway Records
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when Ginger Baker, drummer of Cream, arrived in Nigeria in 1970 and hooked up with Fela Kuti, two amazing musical ambassadors' worlds collided. Baker brought Western acid rock with him and it melded seamlessly with Kuti's Afro-funk sounds and traditional African rhythms. the young people of Nigeria went wild for this concoction, and countless bands sprung up playing a brand new style of psychedelic, fuzzed out afro-rock. there are several great compilations to wade in to that document this rich musical era, and Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970's Nigeria will give you plenty of material to sift through. buy it HERE.
here are a few of my favorites:
The X-Ray Audio Project
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In the Soviet Union during the Cold War, music and records that were not controlled by the state were highly sought after but hard to come by. an underground market formed, and bootleggers needed to use their ingenuity to create the product. armed with a record press but suffering from a lack of supplies, these bootleggers used repurposed x-ray plates to fill the demand.
these albums were forbidden treasures, and their ghostly story is only now starting to emerge.
click HERE for more information on The X-ray Audio Project
UNKLE
The Runaway
video directed
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a scuzzy, down n' dirty track from James Lavelle's long-running UNKLE project, off of their 2010 release Where Did the Night Fall. vocals by Elle J, with a darkly seductive video by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones. very, very cool stuff.
Volumen Uno
by
Fabian Rangel Jr, Alex Ziritt, and Ryan Ferrier
2015 Black Mask Studios
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written by Rangel Jr
art by Ziritt
lettered by Ryan Ferrier
Space Riders: Volumen Uno collects the entire introductory 4 issue mini-series, and, from one look at the cover, you know exactly what you are going to get. there are no subtleties here. this is a 1970s black light poster hallucination exploding to life. Rangel Jr's story is properly unhinged, flowing like a stream of consciousness Fletcher Hanks creation, and Ziritt's art looks like a mix of Jack Kirby and Paul Pope on a steady diet of LSD. it's a perfect blend. buy the book HERE
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~kojak
