here we see a clip from an italian film production based on the invention of morel with the music of robbie basho from his debut album (seal of the blue lotus 1965) underneath it.
basho is (or was) not a takoma park boy (he was from baltimore). he meets fahey at the university of maryland together with ed denson (the early co-owner of takoma park records), and max ochs (early american primitive guitarist). it is important to remember they are all young when they create this. they are of the generation that grew up in post-war prosperity in the suburbs but were not comfortable with this. henry 'sunflower' vestine of canned heat was another takoma park boy with a similar interest in the pre-war blues.
like all of them he goes in a slightly different direction when he has his wings (only fahey is truly american primitive). this is from an early album 1965 so he hasn't moved that far from the blueprint yet, but he will, he had seen ravi shankar play in 1962 and you can hear his interest in indian music.
he will start singing and his lush, romantic view of the world will come out. he will make the journey to california too. a scene will begin to crystalize about them. at UCLA fahey will meet harry taussig and al 'blind owl' wilson, booker t. 'bukka' white. fahey will begin to assemble a roster of artists.
ok that about wraps it up for fahey week this year. horsemouth will try and have a day listening to basho.
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mc skibadee (king of the double time MCs) has died. while it can't be claimed he originated the style he was one of its most able practitioners. there was a whole raft of these guys beginning with stevie hyper D and mc det, continuing on through riddla, funsta, shabba D.
it looks like it could be a decent day out and it's a monday (start of the week). later this evening a meeting of the communal endeavour (over zoom).
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