Monday, August 13, 2007  3:32 pm 

This is what happened humans

450 Million Before the Present- Throughout the aeons the elder things have continued their creation and exploitation of primitive life forms. When some of their experiments escape, the Elder things deign to allow them to evolve on their own, resulting in the creation of the first vertebrates- fish- and other life forms.

How it happens, an inorganic molecule floats whimsical in that primeval soup which will one day become sea, not crystaline enough to reflect the swirling constellations in the black sky, its jelly-like bosom absorbs the music floating down from them through the ever so thin, nascent, atmosphere, a melody from the void which activates an irreversible process which ends on yesterday’s post, but wait, some things happen in between, read on.

Eric Copeland- Hermaphrodites

Black Dice have been busy building the sonic equivalent of the Aztec Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Bermuda Triangle and Area 51 all compressed inside a slab of black vinyl, ther eerily, strangely beautiful music throws blue bolts of feeric energy which turn your stereo into a feline alien, sometimes it purrs, sometimes it roars. Member Eric Copeland continues the research with ‘Hermaphrodite’, although the antennas of his tribal SETI program seem to be targetted the other way around, at the bottom of the sea, where enchanted melodies float with the blind scaly behemoths who live in the Herzogian abyss, then penetrate rock and lava to get through to that hollow core inhabited by beautiful & fierce crimson dinosaurs, Jules Verne was right, your geography teacher better shut his mouth.

190 Billions Before the Present- a great east-west crack appears across Pangaea, separating Laurasia in the North from Gondwanaland in the South. The remnants of Valusia are plunged beneath the waves, into what will one day be the Mediterranean Sea. A separate Antarctic/Australian landmass has drifted free of Gondwana towards the South. About this time India breaks loose from it and heads north towards Asia.

What the chronist of times ancient fails to identify is the mysterious shadow of a dark skinned hand which end in sharp claws, some say that of Kali, perhaps another manifestation of the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, which cuts through the crust of the Earth sending the genetic code of the song which began it all in so many different directions, it will take Aeons for its beautiful fragments to be reunited again, in a dingey basement, in NYC of all places…

Or wasn’t Nyarlathotep the Sphynx too, in that wonderful spoof piece ‘Imprisoned with the Pharaohs’ which H.P. Lovecraft ghost-wrote for Harry Houdini?

Gang Gang Dance- The Earthquake that Frees Prisoners

Gang Gang Dance, one of our favourite experimental outfits come back in breathtaking form with ‘the Earthquake that Frees Prisoners’, a dense piece of throbbing organic psyche dub included in their forthcoming Rawwar EP, it swirls & coils crazy, dizzee and free summoning scents of perfume, sweat, sometimes rotting flesh, always sex, smoke, flash, mirrors, and the hardhitting drums which reverb in the back alleys of dark streets where the djinn roam, north and east, more, south and west, if you ever happen to look in their direction you’ll see but a black cat jumping in the arms of a small girl lying in the shadowy threshold of a house, her eyes shine for an instant before the door ajar slams shut, another secret the Kashbah won’t reveal.

25000 Before the Present Age- The Serpent Men raise their Second Kingdom on the Thurian Continent, which has arisen in the Atlantic from the ashes of Lemuria and Atlantis. They are Eventually overthrown by Humans.

As you might know if you read Hyperborean transmissions from times past (i.e. King Kull, Conan the Barbarian and other documents summoned by telepathic authors) the Serpent Men were never completely exterminated, they still roam the Earth, and thanks to their shape-changing spells they have managed to infiltrate government, church and corporations, you can hear their evil hissing in those high places where far reaching decisions are made. We should thank noble warriors of the proud lineage of Kull, Brule the Spear Slayer, Conan as well as some 20th Century Marvel Super-heroes for fighting these gnarly creatures with the sharp edge of noise and a righteous heart, if it wasn’t for them, we would be in a world of shit. I mean, even more shit.

Enter Medicine and Duty

Medicine and Duty- Travis Click

Lord Nuneaton Savage and Andy Puffinboy have been turning Brighton into rubble for a while (incl. support in one of the gigs of the year, Dan Deacon, read about it here), both in their initial incarnation as Raised by Wolves and now, their bad-ass krautrock improv skeleton of sex voodoo chaos enhanced by the synth spasms of one Mr. Jack Cooper. Bursts of beautiful fury to make Oneida do the Spirit jig do swing and spill wild like the wicked witch of the East riding a broom which to be honest is also drum-stick and axe, there she floats in the eye of the black hurricane a stern childhood priest might have given you nightmares about, don’t worry, they’re here to free you from all the linguistic barriers standing between you and magic powers with the acid pendulum of a true psyche stomp.

In Travis Click, off their last album ‘Cloud Burns Slowly’ they sound like Liars masticating a metronome made of razorblades to summon with the blood they drool the Insect Loa Baron Zaraguin, kind of scary but hey, no pain no gain. Really, someone release their stuff on vinyl, put them in the spotlight, the teenagers of today could do with more paganism and samba.

Medicine and Duty- Live in the Studio Set

Some excerpts above taken from the 6th edition of the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

labels >> Horror, drums, gang gang dance