Ken Nordine's Audio Mescaline
"The changing information which we experience as World is an unfolding narrative. It tells of the death of a woman. This woman, who died long ago, was one of the primordial twins. She was half of the divine syzygy. The purpose of the narrative is the recollection of her and of her death. The Mind does not wish to forget her. Thus the ratiocination of the Brain consists of a permanent record of her existence and, if read, will be understood this way. All the information processed by the Brain--experienced by us as the arranging and rearranging of physical objects--is an attempt at this preservation of her; stones and rocks and sticks and amoebae are traces of her. The record of her existence and passing is ordered onto the meanest level of reality by the suffering Mind which is now alone." (Tractates: Cryptica Scriptura #32)
Now imagine that read in a gravelly basso profundo - the erudition tempered by noir grittiness and existential angst - riding atop a throbbing, squirming soundtrack of ambient grooves.
That's Ken Nordine's Word Jazz.
The man himself (whom you'd know if you heard his ubiquitous voiceovers) has apparently been doing this since he began to free-style over the house trio at a Hawaiian joint on Wilson to keep his Beatnik clientele's jaded attention. Makes sense it's on the radio in the dead of Sunday nights. But how did it ever get on public radio?
If you intend to listen, don't be on any psychedelics or within 20 feet of a sensory deprivation tank.
Now imagine that read in a gravelly basso profundo - the erudition tempered by noir grittiness and existential angst - riding atop a throbbing, squirming soundtrack of ambient grooves.
That's Ken Nordine's Word Jazz.
The man himself (whom you'd know if you heard his ubiquitous voiceovers) has apparently been doing this since he began to free-style over the house trio at a Hawaiian joint on Wilson to keep his Beatnik clientele's jaded attention. Makes sense it's on the radio in the dead of Sunday nights. But how did it ever get on public radio?
If you intend to listen, don't be on any psychedelics or within 20 feet of a sensory deprivation tank.
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