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25th July 2011

A fistful of sky

(And again)

Whenever Philip K. Dick looked out of the window of his house in the suburbs, he saw an Eye in the Sky, unblinking, terrible. He toiled under its gaze, on paranoid symphonies to give the eye voice.

20jazzfunkgreats have it way easier, for they see a mouth, the mouth opens, its breath is frosty, it drools pearls of music upon our garden, wherein lay parcels from very far away, packed with ready-made hallucinations. Last night, it was Aguirre. We don’t know the coordinates of his satellite, but we suspect the vistas from there must be rather phenomenal.

JD Emmanuel’s Ancient Minimal Meditations thump and a crawl, rocking a Martian Appalachia groove that digs into the fertile primeval soil that Laurie Spiegel first charted.

Its Evening Devotional describes a vast movement of life across red deserts that your accidental tourists are at a loss to interpret; they sit in their vantage point at the lowest possible Lagrange orbit and inspect with powerful sensors, documenting what could be a pilgrimage, the retreat of a defeated army, a seasonal migration, the wedding procession for a cosmic engagement.

JD Emmanuel – Evening Devotional

If the above celebrated a marriage, then what lies below concerns birth, or perhaps more accurately, its possibility – the configuration of a space where all the factors conducive to life are at hand.

Anthropomorphise the dynamics and processes leading to inception (it looks like the druggy bit in the Tree of Life in case you were wondering) into a 1970s progressive outfit jamming in ecstasy at some theoretical hub describing the core principles of physics, biology and population dynamics, and watch it all click – atoms bonded in a ponderous dub bassline, the antecedents of the double helix swirling to a Jaco Pastorius solo.

Stellar Om Source – Sequentia

As featured in Stellar OM Source’s Heartlands Suite.

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  1. JD Emmanuel is playing the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Sept 11 http://sfemf.org


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    George Chen

    7th August 2011


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