A quick check in from somewhere else.
A lightening storm in the scared valley, and an hour of power choirs in Cuzco, Peru.
from the bell tower
Island
Anslem Douglas (Who Let the Dogs Out) + Smoked Solid Dairy (anime punk band on Maui.)
Music:
Roots Connective by Yclept Insan
Doggie (Who let the dogs out) + Stick Fight by Anslem Douglas
Tidal Wav Master by Yclept Insan
Also, Make sure to check out Yclept Insan's new EP on Soundcloud HERE
A big thank you this week to Anslem Douglas, Crona Aukerman, Request Records, Sierra Jickling, Kent Irwin, and Steve and Rachael Holton.
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Postcard #6 - Tijuana Jukebox
Van Sounds Postcards - quick audio check-ins from somewhere else.
#6 - Tijuana Jukebox, songs and sounds from a recent day trip to Mexico.
American Music
https://vansounds.bandcamp.com
This episode is dedicated entirely to a new compilation called "American Music."
American Music
presented by Van Sounds (podcast) and People with Bodies (band)
Gato Negro - Tus Amigos Nuevos (Chile)
Identidade Apagada - Decurso Drama (Brasil)
Me Movo - Aloizio (Brasil)
Finder - People with Bodies (USA)
Crecer - Las Ligas Menores (Argentina)
Memorias de Un Fracaso - Los Lagartos (Perú)
Caught the Song - David Dondero (USA)
Animales mal Disecados - Lolabúm (Ecuador)
Siesta Española - O Tortuga (México)
Dig a Hole - Freak Heat Waves (Canada)
Quién te Llama - Espinoza (Colombia)
Demain Sera un Jour Meilleur - David et les Playboys (Canada)
Summer Breeze - Las Kellies (Argentina)
Find American Music online at Vansounds.bandcamp.com
Contact us at peoplewithbodies@gmail.com
Or @Van_Sounds on Twitter
Photograph by Christian Michael Filardo
Cover by Anton Anger
Mastered by Tea Haze
Being There
Talking various forms of presence with: Helen Fillmore who recently returned from Standing Rock, Jason Moore of Zero to Travel, & Brad Bynum of Elephant Rifle.
Photo courtesy of Helen Fillmore
Brad Bynum on stage - Photo by LUKA STARMER (intentionalrealities.com + @starmerl on IG)
Jason Moore hosts the travel podcast ZERO TO TRAVEL
and has recently launched the project TREKKING NEPAL
You can subscribe to both on iTunes, or check them out through the links above.
In early November people at Standing Rock built a bridge across a tributary of the cannonball river. Elders wanted to pray on a specific piece of land across the water.
Hale Fillmore in the water. Photo by Helen Fillmore, 2016.
MUSIC:
Roots Connective by Yclept Insan
Party Child by Elephant Rifle
Ratios by Yclept Insan
Underwater Calm by XYR
KRX by Yclept insan
I Am a Wipeout by Baseball Cap
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Postcard #5 - Juneau, AK
July in Alaska. Mendenhall Glacier. Sleep above a bar.
July in Alaska
Music was a excerpt of "Peasant Song" by high sierra shadowlord, VOLCHITSA
That's Politics
This election cycle seems louder than before.
Small highway, crossing the Idaho/Washington border. Kent Irwin, Mark Nesbitt and myself are on tour with our band, People with Bodies, and we're packed into my pick up truck.
Joe Exotic - 2016 Candidate for President of the United States of America.
Protecting Nevada’s Children is the group that made these commercials -
Hey, that's politics.
On the way home, after touring in my pickup truck for probably way too long, the band bought a tour van. A 1986 Toyota named VAN.
MUSIC:
Church - Porteur
Lights in the Sky at Night - M i l l e r 6 i x
Got my Head Spinnin' - Tea Haze
I'll Getcha Hy - Squeek Nutty Bug
Traveler - ODYSSEE
As I walk you to Your Death - Yclept Insan
You can Find Kent Irwin at HowlsRoad.com
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before now
On this episode, looking back.
Tijuana, Mexico
Japanese artist Yoko Honda creates imaginary versions of California's past. More cool work at @yokopium on Instagram
Music:
An unnamed track by me (Not online, I'll email it to you if you want it)
Vampire - Dani Shivers
17 - Kent Irwin (Not online, comment and I'll email it to you)
Summer Night - Esprit
Postcard #4 - Poughkeepsie, NY
#4 in the Van Sounds Postcard series. This time, a quick check in from Poughkeepsie, NY.
We set out on Black Creek in a small Craigslist rowboat but we didn't have any oars. So we made some. Patrick's out of a broken piece of particle board screwed to a wood rod and mine a grocery bag wrapped around a rake.
Free Jazz $5
Brazil on Fire
São Paulo is a bed of coals right now for Experimental music, and has spawned a new genre called Samba Sujo or “Dirty Samba” - which is a mix experimental rock, punk and avant-garde, informed by one of Brazil’s national styles, Samba.
Elza Soares
"The Woman at the End of the World"
Elza Soares is an iconic singer - like, a household name - and on this new record (A Mulher do Fim do Mundo) she is matched up with a band of young, experimental, cutting edge brazilian musicians.
On our first night in the city, Kent and I got locked in a graveyard.
We had walked in after dark, and when we came back the gate was closed, and the whole place was surrounded by an 8 foot wall covered in razor wire.
As we looked for a hole in the wire, I started thinking about impermanence. People had lived out entire lives here before I even knew it existed. And what was left, was the whole thing. The city, the food, the music. All of it.
In the movie Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee has a brief scene where he is training with a student and at the end of the lesson he points to the sky.
“It is like a finger pointing away to the moon.” he says “Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.”
Sitting in the woods, looking into the fire, you notice the same thing. If you focus on every piece of wood, you miss the heat. But if you focus on the heat, you realize the wood is just there to sustain it. And it will inevitably crumble into self, and you’ll simply add more wood.
We found a hole in the wire and climbed out of the graveyard.
Pinheiros translates to Pine Trees. Before it was a neighborhood, it was a pine forest.
Winter solstice in São Paulo
Music:
The Bell Always Toll for Them ** - Dpsmkr
Firmeza, Luz Vermelha and Maria da Vila Matilde - Elza Soares
Not from Concentrate - Yclept insan
** Episode correction: I credited the Dpsmkr song "The Bell Always Toll for them" as "For whom the bell tolls". Sorry to Jonas of Dpsmkr -- It is linked above!