roachboy

i think this is one of the great political poems/tracks ever.

gil scott-heron: b-movie


he saw all of it.
all of it.
the record came out in 1981.
by the end of the decade, he wasn't on a record label any more.

fela saw it too, but from a different place, one where avoidance was harder to pull off.
this came out in 1977 but i only heard it in around 1983.

fela anikulapo kuti and afrika 70: colonial mentality (excerpt)


the cut-off is brutal.
but so's everything else.

art ensemble of chicago: theme de yoyo



this is from 1969, but again it only drifted into my world in the early 1980s.
i saw them in 1978.
that show altered everything--i've never been the same as i was before that.
i worked my way into their stuff bit by bit.
this is awesome.

not all dreamtime is retrograde tho.

chameleons uk.
monkeyland


don't fall (live)


meanwhile, somewhere else entirely:

model 500: night drive through babylon

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite