Fiery Bentleys Invade the Moon...

Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating: Welcome back friends of the Strange! I have prepared a show of electro jazz noise, ambient piano ships, and moon children possessed --- So if your ears are ready to resume then I will give them a jolt of fun!So it is in the resuming that we begin again. What is a few months in the grand schematic of the wiring diagram? You were busy as was I and the past days slipped away like so much sound. Yet a bit of reassurance was found in watching the steady stream of downloads of past episodes continue to flow from the Strange Music archives. The momentum continues to fuel the creature but it's time for some fresh food, so feast!Lets refresh our ears with a taste of The Fiery Furnaces The song is called "Oh Sweet the Woods" off of Bitter Tea. Heres a taste of the lyrics to set the mood..."I was in Tahoe, on the California side,waiting in the lobby at 665 1/2 Frontage Roadwhen two extra-blond short-sleeve button-downwhite-shirt blue-tie mystery Mormonscame in and put this music on:"....So imagine the music they would put on and then twist it around your mind until it spirals back again. Envelopes of dimensional spirit...reflectors of inner eyes...ritualized and fanatacized in glorious harmonies of Excellence.Sound is ours. When we find our ears heading into a bit of ambient meets rocking sea vessel. Artist/ComposerMagician M. Bentley shares an excerpt from his piece Piano Ship. I see far off shores and echoes of ports in the sky. Free falling like dreams in an echoless sphere. Influencing the random exzubberence I share with you these elements of reverential Space.An episode of extremes has reinitiated the SMSD download. Yes I once again mine the seemingly endless variety of sounds contained in the John Zorn library. Not just another bit of disturbing sonic artifacts, not this time. Here we have something special. A communication of reunion and unity. A prayer to the sky.To the moon children of humanity not living.Mr. Zorn did get one of those genius grants so we must listen ever so closely for the hidden subtext of magick and ritual in the sound of "Possession" from his recent CD Moonchild. With the likes of Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron , and Michael Patton's roaring vocalisations. Zorn more or less set the space for them to sonically carve out a magick ritual to the moonchild. This piece of course is take out of context, only available for those brave enough to allow the harking harmonies of the entire Cd to enter through participative listening.