Docmenting in Reverse 002 - Cardiac Antidote
‘Cardiac Antidote’ is an experiment in radio art incorporating music, manipulated voice, and a live reading of a poem of the same title. Have been wanting to see what’s possible in this format beyond just playing songs and this is the first attempt at that. Hopefully will continue to stretch in the coming months.
Full show is on the @icehouseradio youtube/website 🌎
Song ID: Romance - Crying Is The Only Thing That Gets Me Through
The first Black Decelerant album is officially out in the world today. Much love and gratitude to @rvngintl for the support and facilitation through the process. Hoping your listens bring you something needed, whatever that may be. We’ll see y’all tonight at @sctrpc
We’ll be taking the show on the road and visiting y’all in Europe in the UK in November
Dates:
11/24/24 - [UK] London @ The Carpet Shop
11/25/24 - [PT] Braga @ FENDA Festival
11/27/24 - [BE] Antwerp @ Het Bos
11/29/24 - [DE] Berlin @ Silent Green Kuppelhalle
12/03/24 - [NO] Oslo @ Himmel
12/04/24 - [ES] Barcelona @ Casa Montuijc
12/06/24 - [FR] Paris @ La Boule Noire
with a couple more TBA
poster design by @e.n.e.r.g.y.a.n.g.e.l
all links where they go
Documenting in Reverse 005 is live on @icehouseradio ’s archive
Got a lot of writing done in april and got exhausted and filled with angst but had to honor my commitment to this thing anyway. Turns out there was something to find in this middle of that and this ended up being possibly my favorite show so far.
Excerpt of a currently untitled piece written in the green room of a show @omarijazz did while I was visiting portland.
And the very beginnings of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s “Good Morning Blues” in the final seconds.
Black Decelerant - the duo of Khari Lucas, aka Contour, and Omari Jazz - is responsible for one of the most beautiful records in recent memory. The music on “Reflections Vol. 2,” released on RVNG, is explicitly about slowing down. Its deeply personal music, tracing lineages of improvisational jazz and spiritual ambient into something uniquely powerful. The collaboration meditates on “themes of Black being and nonbeing,” bringing forth music that is quietly defiant and achingly profound. Imagine looking out of your window over a sprawling capitalist jungle, and feeling all the sorrow and beauty of that reality hit you at once. Black Decelerant’s music captures that duality. The music demands comfort and stillness. Come to Open Air prepared to melt into the darkest hours of the night.
Documenting in Reverse 004
This wasn’t my favorite show but I’m committed to the process of continuing to try things and allow the rhythm of that to become whatever it’s meant to become. My energy went more to prepping for last weekend’s show than to preparing for this and so I wasn’t all the way “there” so to speak and I think the sonics reflected that. If anything it was a reminder that this show is meant to be an experiment and an opportunity to learn things about process rather than something to be realized as a product. Anyway…
This is me reading from a piece in progress called “Live Stock”
Full show is available on the @icehouseradio youtube/website as always.
Another excerpt from Documenting in Reverse 003 on @icehouseradio . Manipulated audio of myself reading from a piece called “Priestess”
Transcript:
okay let’s take the stairs down a while and listen to the sounds of stones lining this spiral elevator junior singing a profane parable always at the bottom always at the bottom where you left me i am always there singing because the harmony of a duet is clearer than polyphony and sharper than solo
do not write me from the embassy of apology i cannot visit you i have no space for regret in my passport, what i mean is try not to I love to hear from you and I will accept what is possible when I should not and when I should sameness is our arms around each other
there are three lights in the distance
please be one
Song ID: Ben LaMar Gay - Mestre Candeia’s Denim Hat
DIR 003 - Priestess / Motherless Child
Third episode is live on @icehouseradio . More reading and playing with words and music. Excerpt is from a currently untitled piece.
Transcript:
I was promised a lesson on floating and was left in deep water without a hand underneath my spine
The bottom loves me too good to move
Besides, you can’t cry underwater
You just watch the ships capsize and all the colors of life changing overhead like a movie with no runtime
Just leaning
Everybody knowing somebody they can’t write to
Can’t speak to it but reaching out all ghostly to try and get a hand on spirit
As if to say please knew me and be knew
Before, that is
The death in the air comes gliding acrooss the field to greet those unbroken and unseen unions
Where this missing abounds from our eyes
Trying to meet another pair like needs
To mean what counts to you and me
“Documenting in Reverse” is a container for researching and sharing music, poetry/writing, and whatever else feels interesting. The title refers to the idea that time based pieces of art (especially music) reflexively document the changes of the viewer/listener over time just as much as they serve as documents in and of themselves.
For the first episode, I chose to focus on the music of 70s Mali and Angola, spotlighting political icons like Artur Nuñes and musical innovators like The Amazing Rail Band.
The first episode is archived on the @icehouseradio website and youtube, as will be the rest of the episodes. Future episodes will air every four Wednesdays at 6pm central time
From Texas with Love 🤠
Congratulations to @tomskinnermusic on the release of his new album ‘Kaleidoscopic Visions’, which is out everywhere today.
The penultimate song, Logue, is a piece we were able to write together last summer that’s remained close to my heart. I’m glad people will get to hear it now in the context of this rich body of work
🖤🖤
Out now: watch Contour perform live at Le Guess Who?, leading up to the release of new album ‘Take Off from Mercy’.
Contour is the vessel for multifaceted creator Khari Lucas’s musical research, songwriting, and production, with which he draws in his artistic ancestors, making past and present interact.
Watch the full concert film via YouTube: link ⟶ LGW’s bio.
🎥: @dammeskieft
✂: @anais_saebu
🎙: @marcbroer
“Morning”, the third and final portion pre-album, is out today. Two more songs and lyric videos to match
‘Reflexion’ produced by @omarijazz and @lockheartles
‘For Ocean’
produced by Omari and Myself
Additional keys by @salamirosejoelouis
Guitar by @zonegoer
mixed by Omari
mastered by @almachrome
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photography by @killkamdow
final layout by @xtults
and a special thank you to @woodyothello who’s sculpture appears in the For Ocean lyric video and inevitable short film. more on that soon enough…
![The first Black Decelerant album is officially out in the world today. Much love and gratitude to @rvngintl for the support and facilitation through the process. Hoping your listens bring you something needed, whatever that may be. We’ll see y’all tonight at @sctrpcWe’ll be taking the show on the road and visiting y’all in Europe in the UK in NovemberDates:11/24/24 - [UK] London @ The Carpet Shop11/25/24 - [PT] Braga @ FENDA Festival11/27/24 - [BE] Antwerp @ Het Bos11/29/24 - [DE] Berlin @ Silent Green Kuppelhalle12/03/24 - [NO] Oslo @ Himmel12/04/24 - [ES] Barcelona @ Casa Montuijc12/06/24 - [FR] Paris @ La Boule Noirewith a couple more TBAposter design by @e.n.e.r.g.y.a.n.g.e.lall links where they go](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6811316163665462346423_0_99c3f1af45a275c8f0fd98890f0ee86c.jpg?o=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&h=e853938a5f220129c1bc9527b71b28fa)
