End Static

The static, harnessed at its ends, an electricity enabling the vocals, set as precedent, by Polly Jean.  It is the chaos between - the Push & the Pull; the Enigma & the Estranged; the Fly & the Fruit - watch the mold grow & diminish its skin to fold in to itself; the bend.  A contortion or plenty.  We are to then again to focus on the ends.  We polish this static & send it back through Ms. Harvey's conductivity to bring the musical helix intertwining a connection track-by-track.  I ask you to please focus...to focus...Podcast #36 End Static. 

End Static Track Listing:

    1.    (0:00:47) PJ Harvey & John Parish SIXTEEN, FIFTEEN, FOURTEEN - A Woman A Man Walked By is the second collaboration between these two creative souls.  John Parish is the ego behind the instrumentation, with I'm sure help from the ever-so-talented PJ helping, while Ms. Harvey comes back into her extreme comfort zone vocally. 
    2.    (0:04:13) The Duke Spirit DOG ROSES - Brit rock in the vein of My Bloody Valentine or Pixies.  This is off their 2008 release, Neptune. 
    3.    (0:07:14) Willis TAKE YOU HIGH - The second track I have featured in a mix from Come Get Some.  After earning high marks from the critics, this West Londoner stripped herself of a label and started her own company.  However, she has only released a couple of 7inch vinyls since 2003. 
    4.    (0:11:08) Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders JOURNEY INTO SATCHIDANANDA - Wife to John Coltrane after meeting him around 1963.  She replaced McCoy Tyner on piano in John's group in 1965 and played with him up to his death in 1967.  John and Alice had three of their own children, drummer John Jr., saxophonists Oran and Ravi, and Alice had a daughter, Michelle, before meeting John.  Alice was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan where she studied classical music and studied with the great jazz pianist, Bud Powell.  Pharoah Sanders was once described by the great Ornette Coleman as one of the best tenor saxophonist in the world.  He emerged from John Coltrane's group in the mid-60s and is still living today.
    5.    (0:17:05) Four Tet & Rothko RIVERS BECOME OCEANS - Experimental electronic musician, Kieran Hebden meets London-based instrumental ambient group, Rothko.  This is off the Rivers Become Oceans single.
    6.    (0:24:31) Immortal Technique LEAVING THE PAST - From Revolutionary Vol. 2, this Peruvian-born, New York City-raised rapper uses his time spent incarcerated and his university experiences to push his politically-charged lyrics through the underground.  He has refused major labels in order to stay true to his beliefs and and self-production. 
    7.    (0:28:47) Billie Holiday STRANGE FRUIT - Lady Day's extremely melancholy and powerful song from around 1939, comparing lynching of Blacks in the South to strange fruits dangling from trees.  The lyrics are based on a poem by Abel Meeropol.   Billie Holiday's life is quite unique and intense, to say the least, which can be often heard in her powerful vocal inflections and lyrics.  She was apparently raped as a child and later became a prostitute in the early '30s.  She said herself she spent time in prison for solicitation before she started singing at night clubs in Harlem.  Unfortunately, her later life was plagued by narcotics, arrests, and she died from cirrhosis of the liver.  According to Wikipedia, people swindled her earnings, and she died with $.70 in the bank and $750 on her. 
    8.    (0:31:51) Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli MY SWEET - French violinist, Stephane Grappelli, meets Belgian Gypsy jazz guitar guru, Jean 'Django' Reinhardt.  Together, they founded Quintette du Hot Club de France, once described as one of the most original bands in the history of jazz.  Django spent most of his youth playing banjo, guitar, and violin in gypsy encampments.  At 18, Django was badly burned in an accident, which paralyzed two of his playing fingers.  He was able to do 2-finger solos and use the two paralyzed fingers for chord work.  
    9.    (0:34:42) Marta Gomez LA RONDA - Again, here is another track from the absolutely beautiful, Marta Gomez, from Colombia.  I first heard this track on Putumayo's compilation CD, Women of Latin America, and I went and purchased any other albums I could find of hers!  This is a Colombian children's rhyme restructured for this song. 
    10.    (0:38:22) Babatunde Olatunji BABA JINDE (FLIRTATION DANCE) - Great Nigerian drummer, educator, and activist.  This is off Olatunji's extremely influential recording debut from 1959, Drums of Passion.  Santana has covered tracks composed of Olatunji's percussion sounds.  Olatunji toured with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and joined him on his March on Washington  where King, Jr. gave his 'I have a dream,' speech.
    11.    (0:43:35) Myka 9 SNAKE BITE - Another track off Myka's newly released 1969 LP.  Here he explores his more melodic side in a sort of ode to African chant or tribal lyrics.  Myka 9 (aka Mikah Troy or Mikah 9), is also a member of The Freestyle Fellowhip and Haiku D'etat from Project Blowed in LA. 
    12.    (0:46:43) Pole PFERD - German electronic musician, specializing in the glitch sounds and dub.  This is off his Steingarten LP released in 2007.
    13.    (0:50:39) Hot Chip (JUST LIKE WE) BREAKDOWN - British electropop band comprised of 5 members.  This is off their Grammy-nominated, highly acclaimed, 2006 sophomore LP, The Warning. 
    14.    (0:54:41) Clinic HARVEST (WITHIN YOU) - Another British band.  This garage rock quartet hails from Liverpool and has released 5 albums since 2000.  This track is off their 2006, Visitations, LP.   
    15.    (0:57:59) Desert Sessions CRAWL HOME - Along with PJ Harvey, Josh Homme, founder of the Desert Sessions and Queens of the Stone Age, rock and roll on Volume 9: I See You Hearing Me.  With angst, PJ shines through with her traditional rocker self, sexy and bold, while Josh rules the guitar and reverb. 

As a concluding thought, but not a conclusion, the end static will resonate & personify thematically a musical encounter as an absolute.  The systematicity of your soul will allow funk to set aflame and you will arrive here, at Being, over & over again...