Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's Eternity's Pillar TV show (1985) from dublab on Vimeo.
ok so horsemouth just missed the anniversary of the golden glow he co-curated with howard from 6 years ago . it features some alice coltrane (from the ashram years) and what should he find yesterday but an alice coltrane public access tv show (which is marvellously strange). it's almost like a piece of early video art. yesterday horsemouth listened to her ptah el-daoud (with pharoah sanders and joe henderson).
he's up, he has his coffee, it has just gone 8am. it will be considerably later by the time he finishes writing this (because he likes to polish his efforts and because he's waiting for the material to occur to him). it's another week.
yesterday the anniversary of the death of mark linkous today the anniversary of the birth of townes van zandt (about whom horsemouth knows even less). today is also the anniversary of the recording of altruvista by alice coltrane.
it was recorded at rudy van gelder's studio, englewood cliffs, new jersey from the sessions that resulted in john coltrane's expressions.
horsemouth's reading of new media in art is producing some strange things. the cover of the strawb's deadlines (1978) shows a man upended in a phone box full of water (horsemouth realises you might have to explain phonebox to the young) this is (it turns out) a lift from various bill viola installations (stations 1994 for example). except that the timeline is wrong and it may be the other way round.
horsemouth supposes that the actual source (for both) is harry houdini's water torture escapology tricks but, in the strawbs album cover, it is meant to symbolise anxiety (that drowning on dry land sensation - this was a very mid-to-late 70ies sensation).
it is two weeks to the equinox. horsemouth should hurry up and practice (and he should get out his guitar and write more songs). he has been playing through you turn me on (I'm a radio) by joni mitchell.
there, he has re-arranged the material, it's about 9 o'clock. (but now it's nearly 11.30 and he is still re-visiting it).
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