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|November 30, 2011 | Found Images
I don’t know why, just can’t stop looking at this headstock. Anyway, it’s this.
I don’t know why, just can’t stop looking at this headstock. Anyway, it’s this.
During a discussion the other night about the electric guitar, powerful music that’s not rock n’ roll, and the influence of American culture in the most remote parts of the world, I put on Group Inerane’s Guitars From Agadez album for a friend of mine, who referred to it as ” mind-blowing “. This was, in fact, the second time I’ve played this record for someone who said that exact thing about it. These are field recordings of Taureg tribesmen, playing cheap guitars through battery-powered amps in the Sahara desert, and I think there’s something that all that sand and sun does to people, because the vibe here doesn’t seem to me all that dissimilar to that of Kyuss’ generator-powered California desert trance-jams.
Group Inerane : Kuni Majagani
André Kertész : New York ,3rd Avenue, 1937. Undr.
A Cemetery In Kostroma : Riowang.
Another great BBC music documentary to watch for free on Youtube. If you’re already down, hail to the hawklordz! If not, here’s a first sighting of young Lemmy Kilmister, a few years before he started Motörhead.
” Photographer Arthur Bondar takes pictures of veterans of World War II to capture people who will one day disappear from this life. “ — from the always engaging English Russia.
Boy Jumping Into Hudson River by Ruth Orkin, 1948.