Good morning with No Profit in Pain Gruff Rhys song created to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the British Nacional Health Service (NHS) created 70 years ago by Welshman Aneurin Bevan. Have a nice weekend.
Good morning with Brick Horizon our Middle of the Week Song taken from Post The Woolen Men‘s upcoming album. Have a nice day.
Hi with Pipevine Swallowtails taken from Deeper Woods Sarah Louise‘s new album. Have a nice afternoon.
Hi with Pipevine Swallowtails taken from Deeper Woods Sarah Louise‘s new album. Have a nice afternoon.
Lydia Lunch Performance, Galeria Municipal, Porto, 07.07.2018.

words: Guilherme Lucas (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos Guilherme Lucas
Lydia Lunch is one of the most important personalities of New York’s no-wave and post-punk music scene of the 1980s. Sheâs a pioneer and survivor of a passionate, literary genre, without aesthetic or ideological barriers, the best underground music has given us over the last few decades. She is part of a generation of geniuses and influential personalities when it comes to music, writing and performance, and for that very reason she is living history, or a legend, of popular underground music, depending on how you want to catalog her.
The artist presented herself to the public last Saturday at Galeria Municipal in Porto with her enthralling spoken word work named Dust and Shadows, following the exhibition O ontem morreu hoje, o hoje morre amanhÃŖÂ (Yesterday died today, today dies tomorrow) – an exhibitions of emerging local artists with works related to their nightlife experiences, using posters and images for electronic music events, DJ sets and others -, where the biggest name, and possibly the catalyst of this exhibition, is Raymond Pettibonâ the great American artist author of all the graphic aesthetics of the mighty Black Flag, one of the most important and seminal punk-hardcore worldâs bands. In short, the black and white aesthetics of grotesque and crude proportions, often minimal and naively “poorly drawn” is what unites all these artists. I strongly a recommend to the exhibition.
Lydia Lunch hypnotically led us to a mind-boggling performance of the word, transformed into a psychedelic device of rambling the urgent and depressing thoughts that plague the mind of the artist and which that is simply astonishing, and leaves no one indifferent. Because what confronts us over 45 minutes is simply a personâs Life in every possible and conceivable way.
Initially focusing on freedom in its more politicized understanding of how the state and corporations control us all, from the mere use of a Visa card to TV or the Internet, it immediately moves into a closed attack on the US and its varied idiosyncrasies that are fulminantly bare naked, resorting to her personal concept of chaos and its liberating power, taking us to her obscure world of ghost-emotions that torment our memories, warning us in advance, that, one day we will also become one of them. There is an ecstatic dark humor, a violent convulsion in everything the artist approaches, as if there was no salvation. She claims to be a survivor, of all kinds of lives and drugs, real and imaginary. But it is precisely in this apparent negativity that lies all the love for Life, For Mother Nature, and people by Lydia Lunch. When she reveals to us, in an aggressive and defiant manner, that the true and only rebellion is pleasure, it is more than obvious that we are facing someone with huge substance; a rare mind with important things to be listened to. At the end of her show, she writes, in the form of a poignant eulogy, chilling and distressing, about what can be said to someone who only has 30 days of live an ends up only having 30 hours to live and that quickly changes to only 3 hours and only 3 more minute, poisoned with medication, trying to fight for life, trying at all costs to save the hope for a life that is ending … and there are only three seconds left to live and the only thing that can be done is to hold hands with the dying person say that they will quickly become a king and that, in a vortex of light, will enter another dimension, turned into subatomic particles in the ether, in ashes … this is a moment one can never forget, because it a very strong thing, an intensely evident visualization of how the artist publicly exposes herself abour end of life. This moment of the show is very shocking, made with a feeling that hundreds of noisy rock bands of and others will never be able to cross to an audience. The word, when well used, is very powerful … overwhelming.
What I essentially retained from the artist (who has visited us several times in the past) latest performance is that ostensibly, Lydia Lunch is a kind of up-to-date and very peculiar upgrade of the great blues and jazz singers of the past, a diva of debauchery and chaos, pleasure and lust; owner of a powerful voice with a great timbre reach, that proclaims freedom in a way that is neither obvious nor common sense. That is what makes her unique: one among billions. In addition, she is also someone with active political consciousness; always finding a way of relating eminently literary themes and emotive subjects with a hard and crude social reality, attacking in an vitriolic way what in her view of reality has to be destroyed.
Therefore, I believe, that watching one of her performances is always an unforgettable life experience, one of those that will last forever in our memories. At least that’s what happened to me.
Texto e fotos: Guilherme Lucas
Lydia Lunch Performance– Lydia Lunch Ê uma das mais importantes personalidades do meio musical da no-wave e do post-punk de Nova York dos anos 80. à uma pioneira e uma sobrevivente de um gÊnero apaixonante, literÃĄrio, sem barreiras estÊticas e ideolÃŗgicas, do melhor que a mÃēsica underground nos deu ao longo destas Ãēltimas dÊcadas. Faz parte de uma geraÃ§ÃŖo de gÊnios e de personalidades influentes, tanto a nÃvel musical, de escrita e de performance, e por isso mesmo Ê histÃŗria viva, ou lenda-viva, da mÃēsica popular de pendor underground, conforme se a quiser catalogar.
A artista apresentou-se ao pÃēblico, no passado sÃĄbado, na Galeria Municipal do Porto, com o seu apaixonante trabalho de tipologia spoken word de nome Dust and Shadows, no seguimento da exposiÃ§ÃŖo âO ontem morreu hoje, o hoje morre amanhÃŖâ (uma mostra de artistas locais emergentes com trabalhos orientados dentro da temÃĄtica das suas experiÃĒncias de vida noturna â atravÊs de cartazes e imagens para eventos de mÃēsica eletrÃŗnica, DJ sets e outros), e onde o nome maior – e eventualmente o catalisador desta exposiÃ§ÃŖo – Ê o enorme artista norte-americano Raymond Pettibon, o autor de toda a estÊtica grÃĄfica dos grandiosos Black Flag, uma das mais importantes e seminais bandas do punk-hardcore global. De forma muito resumida, a estÊtica do preto e branco de proporçÃĩes grotescas e cruas, em muitos casos minimal e âmal desenhadaâ de forma naÃf, Ê o que une todos estes artistas. Uma exposiÃ§ÃŖo que recomendo vivamente para ser visitada.
Lydia Lunch conduziu-nos de forma hipnÃŗtica para uma alucinante performance da palavra, transformada em qual artefacto psicadÊlico de divagaÃ§ÃŖo dos pensamentos urgentes e depressivos que assolam a mente da artista e que Ê simplesmente assombrosa, e nÃŖo deixa ninguÊm indiferente. Porque o que esta nos confronta ao longo de 45 minutos Ê simplesmente a Vida em todas as vertentes possÃveis e imaginÃĄveis do indivÃduo.
Inicialmente focando-se sobre a liberdade no seu entendimento mais politizado, de como o Estado e as corporaçÃĩes nos controlam a todos, desde o mero uso de um cartÃŖo Visa atÊ à tv e internet, de imediato passa para um ataque cerrado aos EUA nas suas mais variadas idiossincrasias que sÃŖo, de forma fulminante, postas a cru, recorrendo para o seu conceito pessoal de caos e do seu poder libertador, levando-nos ao seu mundo obscuro dos fantasmas-emoçÃĩes que nos atormentam as memÃŗrias, avisando-nos de antemÃŖo, de que um dia mais tarde, seremos tambÊm um deles. HÃĄ um extasiante humor negro, em violenta convulsÃŖo, em tudo o que a artista aborda, como se nÃŖo houvesse salvaÃ§ÃŖo. Ela afirma-se uma sobrevivente, de todos os tipos de vidas e de drogas, reais e imaginÃĄrias. Mas Ê precisamente nesta aparente negatividade que reside todo o amor pela Vida, pela MÃŖe-Natureza, e pelo IndivÃduo por parte de Lydia Lunch. Quando nos revela, de forma agressiva e desafiadora, que a verdadeira e Ãēnica rebeliÃŖo Ê o prazer, Ê mais do que Ãŗbvio que estamos perante alguÊm com imensa substÃĸncia; uma mente rara com coisas importantes para ser escutada. No final do seu espetÃĄculo, disserta, em forma pungente de elogio fÃēnebre, arrepiante e angustiante, sobre o que se pode dizer a alguÊm que sÃŗ tem 30 dias de vida e que passa sÃŗ a ter 30 horas de vida e que passa rapidamente a ter 3 horas e sÃŗ mais 3 minutos, envenenado com medicaÃ§ÃŖo, a tentar lutar pela vida, a tentar a todo o custo salvar a esperança para uma vida que se apagaâĻ e sÃŗ restam mais 3 segundos de vida e a Ãēnica coisa que se pode fazer Ê dar as mÃŖos a quem morre e dizer que rapidamente passarÃĄs a ser um rei e num vÃŗrtex de luz entras numa outra dimensÃŖo, feito em partÃculas subatÃŗmicas no Êter, em cinzasâĻ este Ê um momento que jamais se esquece, porque Ê algo muito forte, de visualizaÃ§ÃŖo intensamente evidente da forma como a artista se expôe publicamente nesta temÃĄtica do fim da Vida. Este momento do espetÃĄculo Ê muito impactante, feito num sentimento que jamais centenas de bandas barulhentas de rock e afins alguma vez conseguirÃŖo fazer passar para uma audiÃĒncia. A palavra, quando bem usada, Ê muito poderosaâĻ avassaladora.
O que retive essencialmente desta mais recente performance da artista (que jÃĄ nos visitou por diversas vezes no passado), Ê que de forma ostensiva, Lydia Lunch Ê uma espÊcie de upgrade atualizado e muito peculiar das grandes cantoras de blues e do jazz do passado, uma diva da devassidÃŖo e do caos, do prazer e da luxÃēria; senhora de uma voz poderosa e de grande alcance tÃmbrico, que apregoa a liberdade de uma forma que nÃŖo Ê Ãŗbvia nem do senso-comum. à nisso que Ê uma fora de sÊrie; uma entre biliÃĩes. Para alÊm disso, Ê tambÊm alguÊm com consciÃĒncia polÃtica ativa; encontra sempre uma forma de relacionar temas eminentemente literÃĄrios e emotivos com uma realidade social dura e crua, atacando de forma ÃĄcida o que tiver de ser destruÃdo na sua conceÃ§ÃŖo do real.
Por isso, estou em crer, que assistir a uma sua performance, Ê sempre uma experiÃĒncia de vida inesquecÃvel, daquelas que perdurarÃŖo eternamente nas nossas memÃŗrias. Pelo menos foi isso que aconteceu comigo
Good morning. Our Middle of The Week Song was replaced by Untitled Original 11386 from Jonh Coltrane’s Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album. Have a nice day.
Hi Worms from Fuzzil‘s Holy Woods Balcony. Have a nice afternoon.
John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album

by Raquel Pinheiro
How come a fifty five years old, previously unreleased album, is better than pretty much everything being currently released? And that is to say a lot. There has been no shortage of excellent, some even great jazz records, as well as of any other genre of late.
The simply answer may be there is only one John Coltrane and the musicians of his Classic Quartet – Jimmy Garrison (double bass), Elvin Jones (drums), McCoy Tyner (piano) were amazing, if not extraordinary, ones.
Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album story is the stuff of tales and myths. Forever thought lost, the master tape was destroyed by Impulse Recordings because they needed storage space. Coltrane had given his wife, Juanita Naima, a recording of the tracks. For years, those too were missing. Until her family found them and gave them back to Impulse. The tapes were in good enough state, and, this time, the album was released.
Recorded March 6, 1963 at Van Gelder Studios, New Jersey, Both Directions At Once is exactly that. There are two directions in the record, one towards what was (or is) and one towards what is to come. The songs are superb, from Impressions to Untitled Original 11386 to Slow Blues or Villa, it is rather difficult, if not impossible, to single out one. Having to, I would say Original 11386 gets to be it. There is something in its breaks, freeness, melody, and general groove that make shine even brighter than all the other brilliant pieces in the album.
(Impulse Recordings)
Hi and Happy Sunday with Love You I taken from Till You Lie In Your Grave Miss Ludella Black new album.
