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Saturday, September 20, 2003
The seventh annual Edgefest is almost here. It begins Oct 2 . If you are anywhere near Ann Arbor Mi., and love experimental music, it will be worth your time.
Frank Pahl and the Scavenger Quartet - Reviews I just returned from seeing these guys perform tonight at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor MI. They play a very curious and engaging style of music utilizing an unusual array of instruments, many of them homemade (eg. automatic zither). Unique and enjoyable.
The Beatles Strip Spector Off Let It Be Yet another way to re-market the Beatles. I have to admit though, I got to hear this one. The album contains some great songs and the addition of Lennon's Don't Let Me Down is a real plus.
Gurdjieff and His School Although there is an increasing recognition of the importance of G. I. Gurdjieff in the spiritual landscape of the twentieth century, his name continues to evoke a variety of reactions throughout the world, ranging from awe and reverence to suspicion and hostility. It will no doubt be some time before a general cultural consensus appears, and in this brief account we shall attempt only to survey those aspects of his life and teaching that are of signal importance for anyone approaching this influential spiritual teacher for the first time.
The Cat Inside by William Burroughs "The septuagenarian beatnik would seem to be the least likely author of a cat book, but Burroughs has clearly mellowed some and here celebrates his favorite ``psychic companions.'' Full of sentimental anecdotes and bizarre pseudo-scholarly lore, his slim essay is, in his view, ``an allegory, in which the writer's past life is presented to him in a cat charade.'' "
Surrealist Subversions: "From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist Group -- and the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it -- have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt while playfully igniting the sparks of Poetry, Freedom and Love in the crucible of the Unfettered Imagination."