The Earth Hotel

A week brings us a new grasp on life's softer corners and murkier motions, and this week in particular is full of music that moves all bright and sharp and full of warmth. See BELOW:

Miss Mojo:
http://www.missmojonola.com/about/
Bandcamp
Youtube

Miss Mojo are: 
Jenna Winston VOCALS *** Piper Browne VOCALS *** Cody Greenstein RHYTHM GUITAR ***
Rob Kellner KEYS *** Leo Skovron BASS *** Mack Major DRUMS *** Ashton Hines TRUMPET ***
Jeremy Phipps TROMBONE ***

Fuiste the band

Fork and Spoon Records - Panama City, FL (Non-Occupants: No Traveler Hath Returned):  

UPCOMING DATES
Nov. 5 -     the Dizzy at the Moss Rock Festival
                 Radio Cult and Pure Ed with Dos Amigos at the Syndicate
Nov. 18 -     the Dizzy appears at Charlemagne Records + Release of Fuiste's "Iceman"
Dec. 1 -     the Dizzy with Loy Loy and Sun Eyes (Stare into the Winter Sun)
Dec. 6 -     Bham Antifest
Dec. 19 -     the Dizzy at the Nick with Steel City Jug Slammers + Poppy Fields + Queen Ten Faire Dance Party

Sat. Nov. 11 - Wax Fur w/ Virgo Sadness + The Pierres + The Mcryatts @ SRB
Sat. Nov 18 - Lee Bains & Glory Fires + GT + Dommel Mosel + Bad Example
Tue. Nov. 21 - Loi Loi  "Viva la Vulva" Tour at Syndicate with

0.00.00 - The Earth Hotel Sonata acoustic demo //
0.01.07 - Opening Message and Dates/News //
0.13.13 - “I Could Be Free” (improv from Boothouse Halloween 72) //
0.18.49 - “mini hands” from Fuiste’s new EP Iceman //
0.21.47 - “Feel My” - Miss Mojo //
0.26.07 - Piper and Jenna from Miss Mojo //
0.58.31 - “Woman” - Miss Mojo //
1.03.43 - Up Next Recap //
1.05.28 - “Steppin’ Out” - All Boy/All Girl Live! at the Syndicate Lounge //
1.09.33 - “Collapsing Reticulum” (improv from Boothouse Halloween 72) //
1.13.33 - “No Traveler Hath Returned” - Non-Occupants //

Last week, in the times before the second (third) coming of Flusnoix to the Earth Hotel, I spoke with the fellow that books the shows at the Soft Rock and the lovely folks that live within it. The next week, I fell violently ill and found time between my migraine visions and yelling at the moon to conduct a savage ritual to contact the astral secretary of Joel Nelson. I was rewarded with a inspired improvisation piece submitted from Horseysauce, California, whom we thank for their graces. You will spectacle upon a track from the doomed Cahaba recording bout, charred and wounded by my slowly melting computer, and a tingly release from The Murder of Jane Crow. Welcome again. and again. sleep. again. again. welcome again. again.

0.00.00 - "Nein - A Cautionary Tale" //

0.01.31 - "Paralyzed" - The Murder of Jane Crow //

0.05.29 - "that good good" - Horseysauce (Joel Nelson, git diddler/Dylan Burchett, laptop/Breonna Taylor, voice and electronics - Live from the Anus of Mills) //

0.15.04 - Conversation with Daniel Reagan of the Soft Rock Bungalow //

0.33.43 - A Spissial Message from Born with Catheters //

0.35.14 - +Daniel Reagan continued+ //

1.17.51 - "Recovered Blackberry Jams X I/72" - Cahaba //

1.21.08 - Soft Rock Bungalow Folks (Shannon, Issac, Hugh, Daniel, and Tony Leon) //

1.50.03 - "Recovered Blackberry Jams pt.2" //

1.53.13 - "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley //

Earlier this month I ventured to a secret spot in Birmingham for a last-minute show swap with Dead Neighbors from Atlanta finishing up a recent tour, and two groups from our home beat; Frozen Yogurt, a raucous boom bap noise group, (from what I heard, arriving near the end of their set), and the joyously vicous Wax Fur.

Tuesdays are for live show sessions and mix-match listening! More to come.

0.00.00 - Seance with Dead Neighbors

0.07.25 - Frozen Yogurt (excerpt)

0.09.36 - Dead Neighbors

0.36.30 - Wax Fur

Find the bands here:

https://www.facebook.com/DeadNeighbors/

https://deadneighbors.bandcamp.com/

https://waxfur.bandcamp.com/

https://froznyogrt.bandcamp.com/releases

Frozen Yogurt are: Kenneth Noah and associates - - -

Wax Fur are: Jacob Boyd: Vocals/guitar; Jahad Cole: Bass/vocals; Sam Strickland: Traps/Vocals

Dead Neighbors are: Sebastian Marquez: Vox/guitar; Alex Addington: Bass; Sam Strickland: Drums

Friday the 13th brought the Soft Rock a collection of players exquisite and serene. Flusnoix headmistress Jess Marie Walker gave the floor to her fellow members of the improvisation collective, and welcomed renowned, expressive players in their wake.

This time, Flusnoix was: Jess Marie Walker (fluxsound, vocal), Walker Yancey (drums), Rodney D. Hasty (submitted recording), Brent Stauffer (bass), Brad Davis (electronics), and Davey Williams (guitar).

Second came Sailing Rumpus, a trio comprised of world-traveling virtuosos Misha Feigin (acoustic guitar and balalaika), LaDonna Smith (violin), and Davey Williams (electric guitar).

Our third act was A Picture, the pairing of Majid Araim and Will Lackey, composers and meta-instrumentalists who performed two pieces: "Homage to Those Taken By Death" for violin and bowed percussion, and "Once in the Forest" for violin, banjo, extended marimba, vocal, and sound objects.

To close the night, I joined the night's players with my saxophone to level the house with distinct and precise noises.

Many warm thanks to all participants, and good luck to them on their travels of sound.

0.00.00 - Welcome, Opening Monologue

0.12.12 - Flusnoix

0.33.06 - Sailing Rumpus

0.59.13 - "A Picture"

1.36.19 - Full Ensemble

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www.ladonnasmith.com

http://the-improvisor.org/transmuseq/davey/dwbiography.htm

https://mishafeigin.free-jazz.net/

https://majidaraim1.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/will_lackey

Enjoy the music from me and my friends and the talking from a car outside everyone's favorite gently-patina'd bar in Birmingham. Check out A Place Both Wonderful and Strange's new album below! Join us on Friday for a sparkling fascinating conversation I had with Birmingham's media wizard Charles.

https://aplaceboth.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/aplaceboth/

http://www.theearthhotel.org/born-with-catheters-1/

"Sedation" - Kyle Weems and JC

A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, Post-Show @ The Nick (Aug. 15)

"W*tch (Mevius remix)" - APBW&S

"Split Heirs" - w/ Rolfe Briney III

"Javier Javier!" - a song from Born with Catheters

The man is sometimes behind the camera and sometimes behind the guitar but always behind Birmingham's musick-ers. Daniel Hargett joins us to talk about the webseries Welcome to Monotonia, which he created and directs. Their first season is airing every Sunday on the Earth Hotel network, and his groups Future Primitives and The Secret Midnight Band can be found all over Birmingham and the Southeast. This week's short episode is full of strange feelings, music from another floor, and reverberations of the weeks we've had before. Thanks for being one.

​​​​​​​Future Primitives: https://www.facebook.com/FuturePrimitives123/

Secret Midnight Band: https://www.facebook.com/secretmidnightband/

Welcome to Monotonia on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i-jJkwGCNI

0.00.00 - Welcome again

0.01.09 - "Bhaisajyaguru भैषज्यगुरु Mantra (of the Medicine Buddha)" //

0.02.09 - "I Got a Heart" (demo) //

0.04.37 - Daniel Hargett //

0.40.04 - "The Eternal Now" - Future Primitives (At Analog on 3rd) //

0.44.28 - "Goo" - Secret Midnight Band //

0.47.39 - "Love Under Will" Future Primitives (Live from MONO BHAM) //

(Rectilinear: contained by, consisting of, or moving in a straight line or lines)

SEASON THREE BRINGS THE NOISE AND THINKING STUFF

Our compatriot Joel Nelson is the guest on this first episode of the new season. We have a long exchange about his new habitat in Oakland, CA, what performance and audiences are like out in the West, Maggie Nelson's The Art of Cruelty, and the function of art in making some sense out of this mucky world we have here.

Thanks to everyone for returning anew, we have a stew for you.

Format's the same, style and sound are turned up a few screws, and the guests this jaunt around are gold.

We have a long backlog of sounds and oddities to reveal to you as this train pulls away from the station, please remain on the line.

00.00.00 - Welcome from Jake Easter //

00.00.21 - Season Three! (feat. "Heave(n)" demo by Jordan Rickerson) //

00.05.08 - Gamelan Composition #3 - Joel Nelson et al. //

00.09.02 - Conversation with Joel Nelson //

01.59.58 - "A Structure of Wholeness in a Simple Case" by Dylan Burchett - Joel Nelson et al. //

02.07.57 - "Bebop Fake 1, in G?" (JC and al-Qaeda the Gun!) //

If you can see this then we're back. Don't turn around, don't look behind your phone. There's nothing under there. 
This is a Pre-Season 3 Special Episode to bring us into and through August to the sweet Autumn. 
I speak with Russ Marshalek of the raving occult freak-out trio A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE, and we cover ground like witches cover ground. He tells me about his personal relationship with the occult, how it pervades his music, and the depth of psychological goodies to be found in the places yet unscoured.

More to come in the aftermath of our show together at the Nick with The Murder of Jane Crow, contemporary to this special. 

Stay neatly frosted while we compose shows. Watch the tail of August for a whistling stream of new releases and big developments from the Earth Hotel propaganda conglomerate. 

Thank you all. 

http://www.aplaceboth.com/
https://aplaceboth.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/aplaceboth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csHJXNsX4Gk
(Keys to Open Doors: The Hidden Life of Laura Palmer)

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/soliloquies/isthisadagger.html
https://mckittrickhotel.com/sleep-no-more/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_No_More_(2011_play)

"The sound of a place both wonderful and strange is that of a heady paganistic fever dream that keeps the waking world slightly at bay, a warm and heavy hand across your eyes. It is the sound of sleep paralysis, a darkness shaking and ravaging your psyche with unease, mystery and wonder. However, it’s not just about what you can hear. Often, if you’re hearing it, it’s too late.

a place both wonderful and strange exists in a world hyper-influenced by the occult, David Lynch and Janet Jackson, damaged by witch house and pop culture in equal measures."

0.00.00 - Welcome Baa-aack //
0.03.16 - "Cinder (Ft. Okti)" (APBW&S, excerpt) //
0.04.36 - Interview with Russ Marshalek of APBW&S //
0.48.36 - "Hex and the City" (APBW&S) //
0.54:19 - "Bit Warble"  //

0.00.00 - Welcome to the Earth Hotel //
0.07.50 - "Old Life" - Dommel Mosel //
0.11.31 - Interview with Adam Measel //
0.29.21- "Marco Polo" - Dommel Mosel //
0.33.17 - Interview continues //
0.38.18 - "Creeks" - Improvisation, AM and JC //
0.41.16 - "Of Mice" by MEMS //
0.44.13 - Dommel Mosel Live! at Fight Club 2 //
0.51.22 - Bobby Rock n Roll Live! at FC2 //