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The three musical artists featured in MungBeing 14 are way off the beaten path. Five songs are available for download.
MungBeing 14: The Future www.mungbeing.com/issue_14.html
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Kathleen Yearwood
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"A distant ethereal feminine voice coaxed me into a vortex of haunting beauty. High witchy trills glided atop the precise yet gentle resonant flutter of plucked strings and quietly dispersed into the emptiness of space around us, falling nowhere. We drifted with her as peace gave way to a sadness and pain so profound. Jarred by the swirling punctuations of dissonant string-bending, she shattered my peace and sucked me back into it, over and over. Not even the frantic singing / of the nighttime whippoorwill / can bring back the useless sacrifice. Warbles, glossolalia, hand claps, the smashing of glass, the barks of hungry wolves yelping under a cold winter moon, danced in the frozen air around her piercing soprano and delicate, thrashing guitar. Kathleen Yearwood: the ordeal, the animus; a taproot deep into the blackest wells of the collective unconscious, a naked shaman spellcasting and dreamweaving as she quivers standing upon the snow clad only in a coyote mask. Her totem plant is belladonna, or perhaps the little man of the gallows: medieval and timeless, she brings us the ritual of the witching hour. Her music is the force of revelation, the kind of revelation we flee from in our nightmares."
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The Rudy Schwartz Project
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"I first found the music of Joe Newman in the dollar bin of my then-local used record store (now a Quizno's, I'm told). I was in luck, as what I'd found was Joe's seminal album, Gunther Packs a Stiffy, recorded under his usual nom de fume, The Rudy Schwartz Project. I was appalled and delighted as I listened to this Subgenius cynic lovingly (and viciously) skewer all that is most inane in this culture we call, for lack of a better adjective, American. I am delighted and proud to present to you two of The Rudy Schwartz Project's most consistently topical tunes, "Creation Science Polka" and "Jimmy Swaggart." If Richard Dawkins were a nightclub act, these just might be in his repertoire."
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Daniel AIU Higgs
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"The musical pieces created by Daniel Higgs (best known for his band Lungfish) on his newest release Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot [Thrill Jockey] are wonderfully droneful incantations that bob and weave across the floor like punchdrunk boxers. They dance a looping jig on the broken boards of the front porch. They recall to mind the experimental works of Henry Barnes in the mid 90s and explore the aural properties of the guitar with a zenlike zeal and glee."
MungBeing 14: The Future www.mungbeing.com/issue_14.html
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Kathleen Yearwood
www.mungbeing.com/issue_14.html
"A distant ethereal feminine voice coaxed me into a vortex of haunting beauty. High witchy trills glided atop the precise yet gentle resonant flutter of plucked strings and quietly dispersed into the emptiness of space around us, falling nowhere. We drifted with her as peace gave way to a sadness and pain so profound. Jarred by the swirling punctuations of dissonant string-bending, she shattered my peace and sucked me back into it, over and over. Not even the frantic singing / of the nighttime whippoorwill / can bring back the useless sacrifice. Warbles, glossolalia, hand claps, the smashing of glass, the barks of hungry wolves yelping under a cold winter moon, danced in the frozen air around her piercing soprano and delicate, thrashing guitar. Kathleen Yearwood: the ordeal, the animus; a taproot deep into the blackest wells of the collective unconscious, a naked shaman spellcasting and dreamweaving as she quivers standing upon the snow clad only in a coyote mask. Her totem plant is belladonna, or perhaps the little man of the gallows: medieval and timeless, she brings us the ritual of the witching hour. Her music is the force of revelation, the kind of revelation we flee from in our nightmares."
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The Rudy Schwartz Project
www.mungbeing.com/issue_14.html
"I first found the music of Joe Newman in the dollar bin of my then-local used record store (now a Quizno's, I'm told). I was in luck, as what I'd found was Joe's seminal album, Gunther Packs a Stiffy, recorded under his usual nom de fume, The Rudy Schwartz Project. I was appalled and delighted as I listened to this Subgenius cynic lovingly (and viciously) skewer all that is most inane in this culture we call, for lack of a better adjective, American. I am delighted and proud to present to you two of The Rudy Schwartz Project's most consistently topical tunes, "Creation Science Polka" and "Jimmy Swaggart." If Richard Dawkins were a nightclub act, these just might be in his repertoire."
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Daniel AIU Higgs
www.mungbeing.com/issue_14.html
"The musical pieces created by Daniel Higgs (best known for his band Lungfish) on his newest release Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot [Thrill Jockey] are wonderfully droneful incantations that bob and weave across the floor like punchdrunk boxers. They dance a looping jig on the broken boards of the front porch. They recall to mind the experimental works of Henry Barnes in the mid 90s and explore the aural properties of the guitar with a zenlike zeal and glee."
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