dance of the inhabitants of the invisible city of bladensburg (a year on the killing streets)

(again, in part, fahey with the titles). inspired by rimsky-korsakov’s opera legend of the invisible city of kitezh, a city which became invisible when attacked by the tatars, a legendary city of beautiful people with gracious hearts. fahey eventually renamed this one dance of the inhabitants of the palace of king phillip XIV (er... and then named it back again). how much any of this resembles the real bladensburg horsemouth really couldn't say. the outro (on the version from the yellow princess) is played by Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes from Spirit apparently - not a lot of people know that.

horsemouth is back in b'more with david simon's homicide: a year on the killing streets - the murder rate is two every three days - the forward is written by richard price (who wrote clockers - horsemouth's other guide to the underside of america). strangely enough horsemouth would probably add jerome charyn's isaac series of novels (though they'e clearly old new york / kojak style fantasies). 

it's bright and sunny out - horsemouth is up early so he can read a bit more and blog a bit before he goes out. yesterday he played a little guitar with andrew (he took the resonator) - there are moments when they're managing some rough-hewn harmonies he swears. he should probably take the nylon guitar though - it's just better and clearer and easier to pitch to.

flatwise - he should get some more compost and begin planting stuff out on his balcony (or at least starting stuff off on his windowsill).


horsemouth listened through to alabama by john coltrane - mcoy tyner vamps away on an Aminor chord while coltrane runs around a scale - this states the major themes - two descending notes lead it back into single notes backed by chords that lead it back to A minor (not once but twice) - that's the head of the piece, they return to it at the end, the band are then off onto the second page of the music (where horsemouth cannot follow them without paying). at the start it's not so much a drone as a churn - horsemouth will probably have to learn the initial melodies from the recordings (his reading is not so good) - once it's into the chords he's better.