stellar regions (the panopticon) the blue world

recorded this day in 1967 but the tapes not found again until 1995 - stellar regions is john coltrane with alice coltrane on piano, with jimmy garrison on bass and rashied ali on drums but without pharaoah sanders. this makes it a more lyrical proposition.

some of the themes appear on the later interstellar space (the duo recording with rahied ali). the songs were titled by alice coltrane which helps to locate them.

there have been similar posthumous coltrane discoveries since (both directions at once for example, recorded 1963 with the classic quartet) and the 1964 blue world (recorded for a national film board of canada movie in three hours - the tapes spirited across the border and largely unused).

but while horsemouth loves the classic quartet he is even more enthusiastic about coltrane’s later years (he wants to see where coltrane is going).

The Cat in the Bag , Gilles Groulx, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

today is also the anniversary of the birth of the utilitarian jeremy bentham and thus of the panopticon (one of the clearest expressions of the total surveillance society but also critically of its internalisation by prisoners/ subjects/ citizens/ users of facebook). horsemouth went to visit his autoicon this week (where we can be revenged upon him for this).

while he was by no means as industrious as the parisian citizens discussed by balzac in his the girl with the golden eyes this week horsemouth worked the dayjob , he traveled to and from, he babysat, he read, watched various movies and listened to various musics, he made some attempts to learn new songs, he visited a museum. he’s not sure what he’s up to today but he’ll find something.