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Hello,
I'm back at the computer this week after a mad few months. Rehearsals begin again with Last
Under The Sun and Police Bastard and there's lots of emails to catch up on.
Cosmic Trigger
Steve Fly and Simon Reeves start work on post production this week. Simon spent three days last week recording Oliver Senton reading Cosmic Trigger 1 by Robert Anton Wilson. Here's a picture of Simon and Oliver at Framework Studio, Birmingham, on completion of the great work.
Framework Recording Studios,
Birmingham.
Framework Studios has worked with Napalm
Death,
Carcass, Cathedral, Meathook Seed, P.J.Harvey, Ride, Family Cat
and
other acts including Piss On
Authority,
Police Bastard,
Spirit Bomb, Drongos For Europe, Selfless, Cerebral Fix and more.
Telephone Simon (UK+44) 07790 158210 or email sifra...@gmail.com
Back In Five Years:
Some people wonder what on earth I do for a living if Iron Man Records is a financial disaster most of the time. Well, you asked for it, here's a life in a couple of weeks:
Vinyl Test Pressings:
I'm
waiting on test pressings of John Sinclair - Beatnik Youth Ambient to
arrive and also test pressings of Police Bastard - Confined. Exciting
times.
Pre-order John Sinclair - Beatnik Youth Ambient on VINYL
Catalogue Number: IMB6033
Release date: 11th November 2016
Label: Iron Man Records
Distribution: Cargo
Side A
Do It (6:16) Recitation - John Sinclair, Music - Youth, Mix - Youth and Michael Rendall
Brilliant Corners (11.29) Recitation - John Sinclair, Produced by Youth
Side B
War On Drugs (6:18) Recitation - Howard Marks, Music - Youth, Mix - Youth and Michael Rendall
Sitarrrtha (9:19) Recitation - John Sinclair, Produced by Youth
John
Sinclair, the renegade poet, scholar and cultural revolutionary
releases "Beatnik Youth Ambient" on Iron Man Records.
The record is over 30 minutes of ambient, chill out music from the
restless creative mind of Youth with some fine spoken word and poetry
delivered by John Sinclair.
John, has been described as an
Archetype of the 1960's art, music and literary synthesis, and who today
continues his work for cultural transformation.
Youth is one of
the UK's most influential producers and has been honoured, this year,
with an Outstanding Contribution Award by the Music Producers Guild. His
career spans more than 30 years and is one of the UK’s most consistent,
credible and influential producers, Youth has also hand drawn the
beautiful cover artwork.
The record features 4 ambient tracks
including 2 tracks completed in late 2015. Do it and War on Drugs were
composed and produced by Youth with words By John Sinclair and Howard
Marks. John Sinclair presents some illuminating words of wisdom on the
life of the artist in the opening track Do It, while Howard Marks
delivers some lost last words in War on Drugs on side B.
The Mood is
maintained by 2 extra ambient tracks taken from the Beatnik Youth album
simultaneously released by Iron Man Records on Double CD. The free-form
cinematic Brilliant Corners is a homage to Kerouac, Ginsberg and
Burroughs and the smokily atmospheric Sitarrtha reflects on the work of
John Coltrane. The record is a smoker's dream with the 4 ambient tracks
clocking in at just over 30 minutes.
From
Detroit to New Orleans and from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, John Sinclair
is still the king-size, psychedelic old-gangster poet, a living legend,
a veteran of the counterculture, a survivor of the Marijuana Wars, and
one of the last bohemians still standing. As a co-founder of the Detroit
underground newspaper The Fifth Estate, manager of MC5, and Chairman of
the White Panther Party described on Wikipedia in these modern times as
a far-left, anti-racist, white American political collective founded in
1968 and dedicated to cultural revolution his mark on the boho rock
& roll underground has been unique.
In
1969, with Richard Nixon in the White House, Vietnam in chaos in the
wake of the Viet Congs near-suicidal Tet Offensive, and American cities
still scared and scarred from urban riots, even the comparatively
harmless agitprop pranks of White Panther cultural revolution had those
in power reaching for their metaphoric and sometimes actual revolvers.
Authorities remembered how John had organized the MC5 playing outside
the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the only band
actually able to perform before Mayor Daley's rabid police department
violently derailed the massive anti-Vietnam war rally with teargas,
billy clubs, and helicopter support.
John
was deemed a danger to society and set up like a bowling pin. After
handing a couple of joints to a hassling hippie who turned out to be an
undercover narcotics agent, John found himself on the bad end of a ten
year jail term. At the same time though he became a cause celebre. Free
John Sinclair became one more battle cry in an embattled era. Protests,
propaganda, and a giant concert in Ann Arbor headlined by John Lennon
and Yoko Ono ultimately resulted in John s release in November 1971.
Lennon even wrote a song about him called 'John Sinclair' which he
included on his 'Sometime In New York City' album.
In
common with much that happens with John, a meeting with producer Youth
(Paul McCartneys 'Fireman', Primal Scream, The Verve etc & Killing
Joke bass player) that sowed the creative seeds was a matter of stoned
synchronicity. As former Track Records boss Ian Grant tells it, Alan
Clayton told me he had John Sinclair coming round tomorrow. I said "The
John Sinclair?" One night Zodiac (Mindwarp) was on the bill with the
Dirty Strangers and Youth was very taken with John. "I want to make a
jazz album with John" he said. Since then, the two met at Youths house
whenever he was home, and when John was in the country, and recorded the
album.
And
through the course of those recordings John, always so associated with
the 1960s, took a serious step into the ways of the 21st century, with
the same intoned poetry, but with melodic backing vocals, highly
inventive production, even a nod to hip-hop, but still remembering his
first loves of blues, be-bop, and classic rock & roll.
Beatnik
Youth Ambient is one more step in the Big Chief's long zigzag trip that
seems set to continue all the way to the far blue horizon. Summing up
John Sinclair, you can only say with certainty that the beatnik goes on.
Pre-order Police Bastard - Confined on VINYL
You can pre-order the Vinyl, T-shirts, hooded tops and more here:
 ARTWORK: CHU
WORDS: Robert Anton Wilson and Steve ‘Fly Agaric 23’ Pratt
MUSIC: Steve Fly, Tim Egmond, Martin ‘Youth’ Glover, Rick Rasa, Hagbard Celine, Garaj Mahal.
PRODUCED BY: Mark Sampson and Steve Fly Pratt
MASTERED BY: Simon Reeves at Framework Studios, Birmingham
Multibird EUROPEAN TOUR...
Seth
Faergolzia’s Multibird is a 4 piece superband comprised of members of
Seth’s projects Dufus, Heck Yup, Forest Creature, 23 Psaegz and
Faergolzia.
Autumn UK / German Tour
October 5 – Sebright Arms – London, UK – Info
October 7 - The Eagle Inn - Manchester, UK
October 8 - House of Verse for Oxjam @ Midas - Leicester, UK
October 9 – Rockaway Beach Festival – Bognor Regis, UK – Tickets
October 13 - Villa Nachtanz - Heidelberg, Germany
October 14 - Wohnzimmerkonzert - Kamen, Germany
October 15 - Silent Show - Cologne, Germany
October 19 - Cafe Vinyl - Wetzlar, Germany
MORE DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED AS THEY COME IN!!!
Other random tourdates:
September 24 - Multibird @ Alto Cinco - Syracuse, NY
October 3 - 23 Psaegz @ Otro Cinco - Syracuse, NY
 Vicente Pino - Guitars, Bass and Vocals
Steve Fly - Drums, Scratches
Miss Marshmallow - Vocals
Creature of Rebelmatic - Vocals (Let’s Go Get Em’)
Mark Sampson - Executive Producer
All Rights Reversed - Iron Man Records 2016
P.A.I.N - Gig Dates
Nightingales
label Iron Man Records
cat # - IMB6017
Police Bastard - Dead To The World
For a review copy of Police Bastard - "Dead To The World" and all Police Bastard bookings please email: ma...@ironmanrecords.co.uk
John Sinclair has a new release scheduled for 11th November 2016 on Iron Man Records but details to follow next time. John has also published a new book - It's All Good
Dieter Binninger - Dieter was an inventor and he was my godfather when I was growing up. He was killed in a plane accident. Read about Dieter Binninger here
Last Under The Sun - are recording a new album at Framework Studios, Birmingham. It's
taking ages. Don't worry, despite the constant interruptions we are
working on it.
"John
Sinclair - renegade poet, scholar and cultural revolutionary.....an
Archetype of the 1960's art, music and literary synthesis, still
kicking
with both feet on his trajectory for cultural transformation.
Mohawk
features ten tracks from his book of verse: always know: a
book
of monk.
Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflections of
the
Be-Bop jazz
persuasion, all flowering together."
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