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Brian Eno's ambient music, like Ambient 1: Music for Airports, is designed to lurk in the background, but right now it's at the center of my attention. That bag of Cool Ranch Doritos looks awfully tempting, but I don't want crinkling and crunching sounds to dilute the experience. This music produces visions-an idyllic, scrolling landscape on "1/1"; a great cosmic mouth opening and closing on "2/1"; a piano tumbling gently through space on "1/2." Besides the intermittent chk of the lighter, it's all the sound in the universe.
Now, Antony & The Johnsons' "Hope There's Someone" is just about perfect for that. Antony's voice is literally out of this world; it sounds like a signal flung through deep space. That vibrato gives me goosebumps even when I'm dead sober. I don't even remember to breathe until the stormy piano part at the end reminds me to. I wonder what Antony thinks of "Trapped in the Closet"? I'd love to hear him make something like that. It could be about a bunch of moths and butterflies who all hook up after a serendipitous night at the same chrysalis. ...Of course, I like to imagine "Isis" and Bob Dylan rolling down the highway of my baked mind, just after their fifth day of May marriage. Dylan's delivery is all about the ironic irritation of love here, making tension of what should be pleasantries: "Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child, what drives me to you is what drives me insane/ I still can remember the way that you smiled on the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain," he practically spits in the last chorus, just as I reach for another shot of [Neil Young]. Dylan's 1975 gem juiced my flow, and I'm feening more for the growl of Neil Young's Ol' Black guitar than the trusty hum of his Martin dreadnought. Oh, the electric rip of "Cortez the Killer," epically stated on Live Rust. How could it pierce anymore?See the full content of this document
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Musical Inhalation
As a term, 4.20 is often believed to be the number of chemicals contained in marijuana (actually, the number is just over 300). In the early 1970s, a group of California teenagers created and popularized the term as part of their secret stoner language. Now, millions of people across the world smoke pot on April 20 in honor of that magic, mythical number. This year in the Triangle, several bands often tied to jamming or to pot culture will make appearances on that sacred day or shortly thereafter (because you're always late when you're stoned, eh?).
The bands include: Government Mule (Disco Rodeo, April 20), The Disco Biscuits (April 20 & 21), Widespread Panic (Alltel Pavilion, April 21...See the full content of this document
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