'the last words of one no longer among us' (dream chant)

we have arrived. it is stellar regions day. shortly to be followed by interstellar space day on the 22nd. this was the subject of a previous blogpost you will remember - saturday the 12th february's 'preparing for stellar regions'.

john coltrane - (tenor saxophone); alice coltrane (piano); jimmy garrison (bass); rashied ali (drums).

stellar regions was recorded february 15, 1967 but the tapes were put to one side and not found again by alice coltrane until 1994.

'stellar regions is the same composition as... 'venus' (from interstellar space) ... it was originally titled "dream chant" in the session log.'

'alice coltrane devised the titles, apparently not knowing that the title cut... is in fact 'venus.' I noticed this when I was sent a preview tape, but it was a week before the album's release, too late to correct the error.' - lewis porter. 

stellar regions is a great title. so is seraphic light.  and the music is all good. interestingly it is full of all that cosmic love/ cosmic sentimentalism that pharoah sanders and alice coltrane will do later. you can hear the continuities with alice coltrane's later work. rashied ali (as usual) gets it all to float (how does he do that?). but it is more exploratory because it is john coltrane.  

coming up on horsemouth folk archive

fahey week (feb 22nd to the 28th death to birth). so feb 22nd will be a double celebration. 

basho day (the 28th death),

jackson c. frank day (march 2nd to march 3rd birth to death)

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ok so no progress on the reading. horsemouth did listen to numerous podcasts (including the thoroughly blood boiling grenfell inquiry podcast) and he watched some instructional videos about outbreak management. he watched a documentary on william blake (curiously enough with daryll) - he loved the pictures and the self-publishing, jah wobble made an appearance, mark linkous (sparklehorse) was a fan too (horsemouth seems to remember), allen ginsberg. ok so this brings horsemouth back to his reading. 

tomorrow he is off to visit howard in sunny east ham to see if there is a viable live album to be had.