the death of marion brown (towards november cotton flower)

marion brown died in an assisted living  home in fort lauderdale florida on this day back in 2010.  

the fact was announced by his son djindji. 

this album was recorded around the summer solstice 1979 at sound ideas studios, new york city.  it features versions of two songs from earlier albums november cotton flower and sweet earth flying both feature guitar.  marion brown didn't move to new york until he was 30 so his music heavily influenced by the rural south rather than the urban north. 

we move from the equinox towards the celtic quarter day that is halloween. we move towards november. we are moving down the dark half of the year, the long dark tunnel that is the journey down to the winter solstice and then back up towards the light. 

the hemisphere takes time to cool so the winter drop in temperatures lags behind.

yesterday horsemouth and his mum were out picking apples. in the evening they watched a documentary on the british housing crisis - not enough has been built and money has been cheap to borrow so this has inflated asset prices (such as house prices) to the point where people can no longer afford to buy them to live in but only to rent them out (this is because wages have not risen to keep pace but this fact was not mentioned).  horsemouth thinks there is another one next week. 

as the montage at the start of the program shows every prime minister promises to build more housing (but strangely none does). there is a battle over where the new housing should go and the tories lack the guts to fight it  (but then so do the labour party). 

horsemouth is unsure how much of this is deliberate (a scheme to keep rental income high, a hoover to transfer wealth up to the rentier rich) and how much is down to the utter useless of the british ruling class and their utter indifference to the consequences of their actions (because by and large they are those rentier rich). 

horsemouth watched the viy (the boring 3D modern remake of gogol's viy) and outlaw bookseller (a pontypridd boy) wittering on about the soundtrack albums he owned. one he bought in the carrefour in caerphilly (which opened in september 13, 1972 – attended by local dignitaries and serenaded by the  ystrad mynach jazz band).

... and he went to the castle cinema too.

from his time in caerphilly horsemouth mainly remembers rain.