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Free Jazz With Fred - on KAOS 89.3 OLYMPIA
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on monday nights i love Free Jazz with Fred. it's on KAOS radio, olympia's OG Kush freaky fried radio station broadcasting from The Evergreen STate College. the station's great, it's always hit or miss, sometimes downright terrible but it's all part of it. sometimes you turn on KAOS and they're playing First Voices Radio, which is indigenous news and views, pretty awesome, sometimes you turn on KAOS and they're playing the Melvins, sometimes it's some local folk band from 2002. well, sometimes it's monday night from 8pm to 11pm, and that's the best part cuz it's FREE JAZZ WITH FRED. what an amazing dj and an amazing show. special themes sometimes, sometimes fred hops on and gives a local anecdote about seeing anthony braxton up in seattle back in the day, sometimes he's delving into chick corea's discography, it's always great. you can listen to archived shows at the link above, or stream live on mondays from KAOS.org . some of my favorite drives around olympia in the volvo have been blasting Free Jazz with Fred. I think alex and abby introduced me to the show. we used to bbq on monday nights sometimes. best show on the airwaves.
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West Coast Fog - A Sea Of Sound Surrounds You
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West Coast Fog mixes!! my favorite right now. always pulling out new age music cd's and tapes from vancouver island, Newport Oregon, Death Valley, Colorado, lovely western vibes..so drippy. i like that on each show the host goes on a cross country ski ride in the mountains, or a hike, or goes swimming or is exploring some islands on a paddleboard, just kind of curating the show to the adventure. this one show hit pretty hard on my walk through some woods near my house last week. the butterfly track is my favorite. my friend anton introduced me to this program. blessings. ENERGY!
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i've been free-jamming in priest point park every week the last year with a group of comrades, people on saxophone, clarinet, synthetizer, guitar, keyboards, sitar, other weird instruments etc. we've maintained a pretty healthy distance from trying to achieve anything specific, in terms of coordinating the music compositionally, or in terms of publicly promoting it as an entity in the marketplace. one guiding light in this realm has been ornette coleman, totally open, exploring seriously but in a canal of freedom. the cacophony of ornette coleman's freer music really feels conversational between its members, but also in a modality of total expansion, collaborating with the universe, expanding outward. being in the flow of what wants to happen.
i've been into jazz for a couple decades now since junior high jazz band HA!, the coltranes, thelonious monk, miles davis etc. and the whole history of jazz is an incredible journey to delve into, that is also so political and inspiring. I feel like though, I haven't been ready for ornette coleman until recently. 'the shape of jazz to come', wait what? this album is incredible. anyways, ornette is just on another level, in terms of experimenting with polyphony, switching between different keys in the middle of sax runs, just so virtuosic at a kind of philosophical level more than even musical talent is concerned. and for me that's just where it's at, how can i stay away?
according to this book i read about him, he was pretty derided in his time, had beefs with a lot of New York hard bop people, though apparently leonard bernstein called him a genius and was one of the people trying to catch ornette's earlier shows in harlem. sounds contentious. i think people in the scene were jealous that he was down to get so far out and sound bad. also he was from dallas, so definite outsider. majorly relate!
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holly herndon - car
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i first met holly herndon in NY back in 2012, and her show was really above my head, she was playing really sparse heavy tones that were sweeping through a four way stereo system (two speakers in front R and L, two speakers in back, R and L.) totally immersive. coming from the wolf eyes / black dice experience of heavy electronic noise that was really visceral and punk in approach, i felt kind of less engaged with the movement toward everybody working with computers to make electronic music live, it just kind of felt less out-of-control than i wanted to experience music back then. but for some reason I just kind of kept following holly's music throughout the years and her approach is so special. this one is called CAR and i listened to it for the first time while doing the dishes. it's so heavy!
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Welcome :) to poetry time
ANGELS 4 CARROTS hq
Angels 4 Carrots - "What Is This" August 2023
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SHELTER MUSIC (supergroup & collective) August 2023 garden residencies:*****
SHELTER MUSIC quilcene, washington peninsula residency with FOUNTAINSUN (Japan) (flyer by travis)
GUN OUTFIT (LA) AMPS FOR CHRIST (CLAREMONT) GENERIFUS (OLYMPIA) FOUNTAINSUN (TOKYO) SHELTER (OLYMPIA) play in a garden (flyer by anton)
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6-27-23
happy belated solstice
the sun is so long in olympia right now
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was just driving through northern canada for a week
marshall macluhan so dope still
"the human brain is reorganized"
sacred geometry etc
No Neck Blues band!! so inspiring
Thank you Max Nordile for the deep dive
No Neck Blues band: great article / interview that was so inspiring about No Neck Blues Band
No Neck Blues band: Primitive Internet Representation of No Neck Blues Band fuck deep desktop level shit
6-01-2023
springtime is so beautiful right now
[Image of the Snake River, above] communications welcome: angels 4 carrots at gmail dot com
copyrighted by the molten loving core of our Mother Earth
cassette for Yard Sale For World Peace 2022: HERE
Anton plays flute on track 2
Field Recording of 'Free Jazz With Fred' DJ'ing Hank Mobley on track 6
Nancy does Mind Body Spirit meditation on track 8
02-15-2022
get lost .........
by Angels 4 Carrots:
FROG BONE
rough draft of tracklist:
1. Frog Intro
2. Windswept Wetland Morph After Civ
3. No Roads
4. Crystal Rain
5. Silent Snow Sky Stone
6. Driving up 4th Ave After Work Listening to Free Jazz w/ Fred
7. Sacred Creek then Walking
8. Frog Bone
9. Earthsong to Inner Heart
almost done with this project :)
02-05-2022
Free Sound Shelter System - "Live On The Oregon Coast" 2021
Recorded live at Tillicum Beach on September 11-12, 2021
Field recordings found at Tillicum Beach, Alder Dunes, and Yachats
State Park
Free Sound Shelter System has spent the last year in residence in the
forest outside of Olympia, WA. Hijacking the power source of a small
picnic shelter, Free Sound Shelter System sits in as collaborators with
the existing soundscape, engaging in experimental improvisations
exploring love of sound and the living world. Weekly two hour aural
meditations are followed by an extended period of discussion
surrounding personal/collective experience, observations of nature,
and the felt experience of interrelationship between the two.
Live on the Oregon Coast is a document of playing for love and joy,
recorded on the beach as a free form improvisation with the Pacific
Ocean.
All profits will be donated to EGYHOP, an all volunteer-run
organization that provides emergency supplies, services, and
resources to unhoused and street dependent people in Olympia,
Washington.
YARD SALE FOR WORLD PEACE bandcamp hear: https://ysfwp.bandcamp.com/
gratitude
11-01-2021
"the free sound shelter system" = Mother Earth-focused community sound project and conversation circle
participating in larger, community sound project and conversation circle
09-22-2021
a portal of possibility
This is the first project i have done via
the collective mutual aid multi-system
YARD SALE FOR WORLD PEACE (dot ORG)
It was screen printed by KJR
gratitude for life ... Let's Live NOW
07-11-2021
JULY LISTENINGS
02-01-2021
[excerpt from EDGU Meditation with Andrea, featured on forthcoming FROG BONE LP angels 4 carrots coming soon]:
As we open the heart center
We invite in the light
Carving a lateral figure eight
Always following the course of the hands with the eyes
Carving the sun mobius
Pausing
Reversing
Carving the moon mobius
And from carving the moon mobius
We go into
Carrying plates
And now having looked outside and seen this gorgeous day
We begin to unlock the doors
With a slight twist of the wrist
and as we make our way we realize that there's a current
guiding us
exactly where we need to go
and so we pause
and toss away the paddles
tossing
as we release
release
releasing and letting go
trusting that that current is guiding us
exactly where we need to go just in this moment
we release the need for control
as we do we bring our awareness into the present moment
as the pendulum ticks and tocks
as the pendulum says welcome
welcome to the here and now
welcome to the only moment that ever exists
[pause]
and as we breathe our way more fully into this present moment
we become aware of things we've been carrying with us in our canoes that we no longer need
and so with both hands to one side of the body
we reach in and unload
unloading anything that we no longer need
letting go of any angers
any resentments
any criticisms or judgments of self or others
any lack of self worth
any feeling of time pressure money pressure
any imbalances in health
whatever it may be for you
releasing
breathing it out
and as we release we make room now to draw in
reversing only the fingers
as we draw in
drawing in
drawing in that which you want
that which you need
and that which you so richly deserve
drawing in abundance in all its many and varied forms
drawing in perfect vibrant radiant health
a sense of peace compassion and unconditional love for self and others
Angels 4 Carrots at gmail dot com