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Thurston Moore, founder of rock band Sonic Youth, has a new CD boxset album on the way.
Called Spirit Counsel, the album from Moore’s Thurston Moore Group includes the extended compositions recorded between 2018 and 2019, and laid out on three compact discs, and will be up for grabs on International Peace Day, Sept. 21.
“This collection represents a period of reflection on spiritual matters, collective musical friendships, and a time and space universally, without words or languages to distract from meditation,” a press release explains.
The first CD, called Alice Moki Jayne, explores the noise guitar and honors female jazz greats Alice Coltrane, Moki Cherry and Jayne Cortez.
The boxset takes an orchestral turn with the second CD, Galaxies, in which a whopping 12 guitarists work as one instrument.
“Taking inspiration from a poem by Sun Ra ‘Galaxies’ ponders our place in the universe as we stare into imagery offered by satellites via space agencies,” the release tells us.
Last but not least, the final CD, 8 Spring Street, is Moore’s personal homage to avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca. The title of the CD is an address in New York City, the apartment where Moore first visited Branca, his mentor, to rehearse.
The set also includes a 20-page artist book of photos and captions edited by Moore that explain the creative process behind the set.
Spirit Counsel will be released by the Daydream Library Series, a new record label founded in 2018 by Moore and Eva Prinz.
So far my big thought on the book is that I really get this sentence, and I hope to read more and more like it:
I can still smell the barest trace of gas from the old 1950s stove, an invisible odor mixed with sunshine streaming in from the windows, and, somewhere, eucalyptus bathed in the haze of ambition.
I can't claim to remember that passage, but in general, yeah she's a good writer. Where before I considered her a musician who dabbled in other arts, now I think of her as an artist who dabbled in music.
Yeah, she says as much in the first few pages (I think in that chapter I just quoted.) I think you posted once about wanting more "Murdered Out" type stuff, post-breakup. I thought of the unlikelihood of that happening anytime soon after opening up this book.
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Sometimes you just need to stop in your tracks and appreciate the first couple of minutes of 'Cross the Breeze. Musically, it feels a lot like walking down a stretch of wildflower-lined train tracks and happening upon an abandoned warehouse that beckons. Once inside, it's all wreckage and piles of twisted metal, burying all sorts of forgotten treasure.
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That's a good list. I wouldn't even be able to attempt one, even though I think at this point SY has been my favorite band longer than Pearl Jam or even Radiohead.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
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And fine I'll bite on the top 5. Off the top of my head and in no order:
Washing Machine 'Cross the Breeze Wildflower Soul Unwind Schizophrenia
Likewise with your Brave Men Run and Shadow of a Doubt picks. I already had Schizophrenia on there and didn’t want to double up on your list toooo much.
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I forget which. Scizophrenia is essentially about Phillip K Dick, but it’s weird to hear Thurston sing it in character knowing more info about Kim’s family. The extent of her relationship with Keller that I knew about was all in that one song on Goo.
Thinking about Goo reminds me: Mote could make it on my list on a good day, but it would be weird to include that as a favorite Lee song on a list that didn’t also include Hey Joni or Skip Tracer.
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