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Music IS Rapid Transportation: from the Beatles to XenakisEditor: Daniel Kernohanby Lawrence Joseph, Dan Lander, Donal McGraith, Bill Smith, Alan Stanbridge, Scott Thomson & Vern Weberphotos by Gordon Bowbrick, Herb Greenslade & Bill SmithA truly alternative look at music lists, not one that merely includes the obvious but shows the connections of popular music to the avant garde, the obscure, the experimental, the quirky, and the adventurous.This book leads the curious reader towards new musical experiences hitherto unknown to them. Whether a fellow traveling musical obsessive or one to whom much of this is uncharted waters, the book maps out paths to exciting sonic adventures. The direction is not from low art to high art, but from the familiar to the unfamiliar. From musicians who are known to all, to artists who are known only to a few. Along the way, new moments of joy.This book is in three parts. The first includes seven idiosyncratic journeys from the popular to the farthest regions of music. These listening autobiographies explain the importance of artists of both international renown and almost complete obscurity. The second part has over one hundred small essays describing personal musical epiphanies, exploring not only the contributions of each artist, but also providing connections to other related artists for further listening. The final section of the book consists of seven lists of what each writer considers the most important recordings in their own listening education. While perusing these lists, one will find hundreds of routes to use in the search for a musical northwest passage.The book is lavishly illustrated with 34 fine photographs.....from the introduction by Daniel Kernohan:"One other very important characteristic of our musical journey is that it took us far afield, into areas where many folks do not usually go. Our trip leads from the Beatles to Xenakis. It is not a one-way trip from the popular to the avant-garde. It does not necessarily say that the 'end' of the trip is the highest ground achieved. It does not forsake Woody Guthrie for Stockhausen, as though the journey going from A to B is from lesser to greater value. While all of us have spent plenty of time investigating the farther reaches of musical vanguardism in the 20th century, we do not rest there, kick the ladder away and bask in the thin air of musical extremism.It is not progress. Neither is our trip from lowbrow to highbrow, from simplicity to complexity, from the vapid to the profound. It is a post-modern dilemma of the most typical kind, which is to say it is really the nature of modernism we are exploring (because post-modernism is just modernism in its latest moment of self-reflexivity). Because of recording, everything has become available. Pieces from the history of music, like Bach or Jannequin, were not instantly available to anyone in the 19th century. Neither was Korean farmer music, Indonesian gamelan, pygmy hocketing or Tex-Mex music. Recordings make the history of music simultaneously present and collapses any distances that would impede hearing the breadth of music in the world.It is not progress. Neither is our trip from low brow to high brow, from simplicity to complexity, from the vapid to the profound. It is a post-modern dilemma of the most typical kind, which is to say it is really the nature of modernism (because post-modernism is just modernism in its latest moment of self-reflexivity) we are exploring. Because of recording everything has become available. The history of music like Bach or Jannequin, was not instantly available to anyone in the 19 th century. Neither was Korean farmer music, Indonesian gamelan, pygmy hocketing or Tex-Mex music. Recordings make the history of music simultaneously present and collapses any distances that would impede hearing the breadth of music in the world."

Untitled DocumentRant & Dawdle is a fictional memoir comprising thirty-eight interwoven stories from the perspective of a grumpy old man living on a small island off the west coast of Canada and an expectant young boy born into the poverty of WW2 English working class. The old man dreaming in retrospect, the young boy living a developing history, both to eventually rendezvous in the eighties. Filled with the humour and history of a post war generation nurtured on comic books, the Goon Show and jazz. William (Bill) E. Smith is a British Columbia-based musician, writer, editor, graphic designer, photographer, and record and film producer. With John Norris, Smith co-produced the Canadian jazz periodical Coda Magazine, Sackville Recordings and its subsidiary label Onari Records from 1976 until 2001. Smith was a founder of a succession of Toronto-based groups integral to the Canadian improvised music community in the 1970s, including Canadian Creative Music Collective, and New Art Music Ensemble. The latter became the Bill Smith Ensemble in 1980; they recorded five albums, including collaborations with Joe McPhee and Wadada Leo Smith. Smith has also recorded with, among others, Birdyak, Wolfgang Fuchs and The Six Winds. Smith initiated a series of projects with the title Imagine the Sound in the '80s, including a book of his writings and photography and the acclaimed documentary film directed by Ron Mann. Now residing on Hornby Island, Smith currently works with Arthur Bull and Tony Wilson, Comments on the self-published limited edition from fellow artists: "You covered an enormous territory and gave new life to an era of history and ideals that we all need to remember. There were so many things that rang a bell, I wished I'd taken notes. And so many times I laughed!" -Renee Rodin: Writer, Visual Artist, and Cultural Worker (Vancouver, Canada). "It's bleedin' brilliant. It's not a book, it's an achievement. Bravo." -Art Lange: Writer, Producer, Former editor Downbeat Magazine (Chicago, USA). "Fantastic! I started reading and found it was almost impossible to stop! What is so great is that I can relate to a lot of things you write about. Thank you very much. And what a brilliant edition!" -Leo Feigen, Leo Records (Newton Abbott, UK). "I laughed out loud many times. And the jazz stuff. I think it's very important that you have written it all down. Unique and insightful." -Jim Munro: Musician, Bricoleur (Richmond, Canada). "A wild bit of synchronicity today ...overburdened with work-related stress i closed my office door and on impulse dialed up You Tube to watch the Chuvalo-Ali fight, which i have never seen (it's there). Later that same day I come home to my little apartment, pour myself deep glass of scotch, open your book randomly for a read, only to find, not only the wonderful evocation of the mystique of the Colonial Tavern, but your beautiful account of that very same fight. And so it goes..." -Arthur Bull,:Musician, Poet , Chinese Translator (Digby Neck, Canada).

"Louis had a keen, intuitive understanding of the metaphysics of a knife in the back."The door-darkening and nomadic Louis sweeps into town to take Ida, his on-gain off-again, away on holiday. When the long-suffering and law-abiding Ida discovers that Louis only wants her along to help him rob a bank, she comes up with a plan of her own. She will have the money and set up Louis for the fall. But soon it is Ida who the police decide is the criminal mastermind and, after Louis's supposedly long dead brother shows up with an axe in him, she becomes a murder suspect as well.By turns bleak, fast-paced and laced with dark humour, The Aching Lust for Crime is an ingeniously plotted crime novel of exiles from the land of social and consumer success who are seduced by the lure of crime to make their dreams come true. If they will only begin to co-operate they might have a chance.The Aching Lust for Crime is reminiscent of Jim Thompson's novels with their marginalized characters, but there are also elements of the absurd, impossible coincidences, dark humour, and social satire.