black joker

black joker ~ outer planetary oasis (pacific city sound visions, 2013)

"recorded around during the the watch out! and shee-ro gateway sessions, comprised of mirage colored beats and star encrusted keyboard solos. "in every moments distance there can be, from a veranda, the captured outer galaxy's spherical alignment, a mirage set alight by a shifting hold of the sun's peering, that skirts across a clouded pattern, aboce prepared plateau to parallel the planet triamas' terrain with that of our timeline's mirage. an event entertaining a past relationship between two distant shere's evolution: a hallucination's forecast of an outer beings' arrival...never released 35 minute cassette." pacific city sound visions

  

"my snakes figure friend Spencer Clark is the Black Joker this time. Black Joker make pretty crop circles inside your head and disappears in the distant of moaning teepee chief outside the purple mayan temple under the glowing skies of pacific atmosphere bla bla wang chung mey kang toy ming sui!!!" sunflower chakra milk

¡fiesta! otra ración de música saltarina, delirante, de cascadas de percusión y energía tropical. de mundos imaginarios,  rituales, ocultismo, alucinaciones, espirales, espejismos, civilizaciones inventadas, de seres de otros planetas colonizando el nuestro, lsd, loros parlanchines, casios, bongos y farfisas. y eso es sólo una pequeña parte de la monopoly-fórmula milenaria de la que estoy tan enamorada. todo un mundo (cada portada es un tesoro, esos teclados llenos de vida imitando voces de niños de alguna tribu extinguida, emitiendo sonidos que sólo podrían salir de lieven moana cuando se transforma en duncan cameron) demasiado amplio, extraño, peculiar para abarcarlo. la experiencia es: escuchar primero 'modern dance' de craig kupka y después 'outer planetary oasis', cuatro canciones como cuatro soles grabadas casi al mismo tiempo que 'watch out' y que nunca, creo, habían visto la luz. además, la historia de 'make mine, macaw' de monopoly child star searches se repite: llevaba mucho tiempo queriendo oirla y sólo puedo decir (o más bien repetir como un loro) que charles berlitz aka spencer clark es uno de los seres más fascinantes e interesantes del planeta, de cualquier planeta, donde quiera que esté o haya estado. dicen que sus directos son una mezcla de 'temple inauguration and 50's ethnic folkways bootleg, and his myriad of recorded artifacts surf from devotional pyramid drone and celestial bamboo ritual to the tropical romance audio novel'...que no sabría traducirlo fielmente pero suena exactamente así, signifique lo que signifique. basta con pinchar este botón. en bucle, una y otra vez. 'essentially a drum-circle of little casios'.

pero lo mejor es que se avecinan muchas cosas emocionantes en pacific city sound visions, un sello que ya se ha ganado el cielo (tal vez, junto a la bill doob/inspired school of astral music, una de las páginas que más veces visito en busca de cualquier noticia, cinta, vinilo, canción o futuras y apetitosas ~windsurfing, skaters que viajan al mismísimo infierno para detener las señales de televisión que nos lavan el cerebro~ bandas sonoras de películas de los ochenta y los noventa...mmm!) 

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egyptian sports network

 egyptian sports network ~ interstitial luxor (new images / pacific city sound visions, 2013)

"brand new private press LP from the duo of Spencer Clark (Monopoly Child/Skaters) and Matt Mondanile (Ducktails) with a guest appearance from Mark McGuire (Emeralds): this is a stunning record and a high point in both players’ catalogues, approaching the kind of ecstasy sound that would marry the sensual body-gnosis and memory vague stylings of Dan Lopatin’s echo jams with the kind of celestial tone-world poetry of the Sun Ra Arkestra at its most plugged in and wiggy. the jams are massively infectious, with Spencer’s hallucinatory tropicalia phasing into the kind of motorik highs that would reconcile “I Feel Love” with Faust’s “Krautrock” while Mondanile sighs over the top in synthesized vocoder bliss. Indeed, Egyptian Sports Network feel like a technicolour riposte to late-period Throbbing Gristle. still, the mood is celebratory and high energy throughout, with irresistible rhythms piloted by aching/lucid keyboard melodies that are as nostalgic for the future as they are for all the past that’s yet to come. it feels like the triumphal resolution to definitive sides like the Skaters LP on the California box set or like a great yea-saying coda to Ferraro’s Marble Surf, a form of ascendant celebratory trance that borrows sci-fi and magickal imagery with a sound that truly travels the spaceways. plays at 45rpm for maximum body feel. This is the weirdo feel-good record of the year, very highly recommended!." volcanic tongue

"new Satellite transmissions recorded in Pacific City Sound Visions Studio by Matt Mondanile of Ducktails and Spencer Clark of Pacific City Sound Visions. This futuristic tale of a Zero Gravity Sports network's soundtrack being transmitted from the Olympic Space Station via Satellite feed, revealing an intuitive feel for the grace and immensity of space when brought into conjuction with the next advent in Transglobal Sports News Interstitial music. five pieces of high energy portal from the difficult listening and metallic abstraction of "2042 Zero G Olypmics" to the Global Space Station Club Hit "JAI-LAi Nightclub." a modern soundtrack to a film such as Carl Sagan's "Cosmos," Egyptian Sports Network combines the the tele-prompt madness of current Global Sports Network with that of the blissful repetitions of ‘70s Minimalism. Think Sportscenter, but Intuit the the stream of your consciousness fed through satellites as it breaks through into the ether. prismatic polyrhythmic flux and radiophonic freakery sounding like Bruce Haack's wildest dreams, or something that a future Jonny Trunk might dig out in fifty years time. a total charmer. "Like Christine Amanpour on Acid", quoted from BBC Analyst." new images

"to celebrate the release of Egyptian Sports Network, Spencer Clark has compiled a mix of upcoming Pacific City Sound releases. This mix originally came as an exclusive Volcanic Tongue-only bonus cd-r included with copies of Monopoly Child Star Searchers ~ The Garnet Toucan lp."

collages: ben giles

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monopoly child star searchers

monopoly child star searchers ~ the garnet toucan (underwater peoples, 2012)

"Monopoly Child Star Searchers aka Spencer Clark has masterfully assembled The Garnet Toucan, the final work in his Romance Audio Trilogy following both Bamboo For Two and Make Mine Macaw." underwater peoples

"coming down from his prior 2012 release Inner Tube with Mark McGuire Spencer Clark fills all our Living Room Visions with star-searching on the highest astral planes. I’m heavily influenced as a thinker by Spencer’s creative music and writing. I read The Garnet Toucan poem by Clark in a free zine called Linda (co-curated by me!), which originally came in an order from Tomentosa in April. Actually, all the releases I own by Spencer has some form of literature in them. As a companion to his musical works, his writing is spot on and presents the most neolithic science fiction creativity known to Earth." tiny mix tapes

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champagne's amazon friend (mp3) 
 nightflight in the southern hempisphere (mp3)

 monopoly child star searchers ~ make mine, macaw (pacific city, 2010) 

"Pacific City is a city outside of where I live, where my thoughts of hallucinations of landscape environments happen all the time. It’s an alternate place, and that’s where the music comes from. Visualisation is the zone for me. If the idea that any sounds can be acceptable in order to reach a new landscape or frame of zone, I am always up on that. The mind can spend forever imagining something and figuring out its detail, and to bring that to life is like creationism. The intention in these works lies in finding a symbolic, exotic, animal to unleash a psychoactive environment expression that leads one to an elaborate meeting with the natural world. The Garent Toucan completes the trilogy by uncovering the symbolic animal’s transfiguration into the outerzone of infinite space. The Parrot or Toucan is thought of as a mediator between human and nature…" spencer clark

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hace tiempo que necesitaba desesperadamente 'make mine, macaw', la segunda parte de la trilogía dedicada al loro de Spencer Clark aka Charles Berlitz y gracias a un alma generosa por fin he podido escucharla. hay un archivo circulando en algunos blogs y en el pájaro azul que en realidad no son las canciones de verdad de 'make mine, macaw', sino algún directo perdido de un grupo de noise que por algún extraño motivo se traspapeló. monopoly child star searchers, palabras mayores. si existe un artista mágico capaz de crear un universo propio (un entrañable tucán que para él representa el nexo de unión entre el ser humano y la naturaleza y Pacific City, ese lugar inventado donde da rienda suelta a su imaginación) ése es Charles Berlitz. compone canciones que son como toboganes por donde van deslizándose los sonidos más exóticos que puedas imaginar y a partir de ahí todo es como si fuera una monopoly-fiesta: los sonidos circulares, los ritmos en cascada, las farfisas o teclados que parecen tucanes que hablan y los bongos saltarines. qué alegría saber que cada nuevo disco de monopoly child star searchers sonará como un disco de monopoly child star searchers y provocará el despliegue de los anteriores.

monopoly child star searchers

monopoly child star searchers ~ bamboo for two lp (olde english spelling bee, 2010)

"A Night's Creativity. A Parroted Companions guided tour to the most Romantic details of a Jungle's sensbility. Imagine the elements of your most recent landscaped vision coming to life and allowing you to witness a hearts perception of the natural world. Charles Berlitz has reported this eventful experience in the form of a Romantic Poem, and the Star Searchers have invented the soundtrack. Olde English Spelling Bee and Pacific City Sound Visions invite the listener to experience the first Studio album in Pacific City's history! Featuring James Ferraro as Rocco Martini, Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into the Future, and Eva Van Deuren of Orphan Fairytale; Playing the most exotic keyboard melodies this side of a Parrots hotly lit Plumage. This album is the first in series of Romantic Audio recordings that will later include the titles: "Make Mine, Macaw" and "The Garnet Tucan". Do enjoy the excitement of this one of kind journey to Pacific City's Nightlife and relax your mind's physical limitations...." olde english spelling bee

estoy segura de que belafonte, el loro de charles berlitz, se sentiría feliz por haber inspirado estos cuatro poemas musicados de monopoly child star searchers. toda una sinfonía de detalles exóticos y tribales por la que desfilan percusiones repetitivas que laten con el corazón, bongos, bucles melódicos, aves tropicales, arrecifes de coral, cánticos y, claro, sintetizadores analógicos que parecen sacados de viejos documentales marinos. 'bambú para dos' es el tipo de música que consigue sacarte una sonrisa, el lado más alucinado y danzarín de los delfines del futuro y un festín de piscodelia tropical al que se unen encantados james ferraro, lieven moana y eva van deuren. por mucho que me gusten todos y cada uno de los discos de dolphins into the future (desde hace un tiempo escucharlos es una necesidad), lo que realmente me fascina es hasta qué punto charles berlitz o lieven moana son algo más que músicos, todo lo que hacen tiene 'algo', ese algo reconocible desde la primera nota y que siempre me emociona. imposible resistirse a compartir algo tan bonito, puro escapismo musical

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inner tube

inner tube (mark mcguire & charles berlitz) ~ s/t (pacific city sound visions, 2012)

"Emeralds guitar eminence Mark McGuire and original hypnagogia superstar and Skaters legend Spencer Clark aka Monopoly Child Star Searchers aka whatever, here operating under his newish moniker Charles Berlitz, with a 45-minute exercise of laid-back, fuzzed-out surf pop that arrives “just in time for the Aussie Summer” and that’s “devoted to sick beaches like Mermaids and Swami’s or Sunset Cliffs and Bondi”. Inner Tube is built around Clark’s slacker rhythms and sees him employing a nice blend of keyboards, drums, vocals and samples all delightfully muffled, while the real focal point of course has to be McGuire’s contemplative, yearning guitar play, a stupendous combination that results in the most incredible dreamlike melancholia musings this side of paradise. the record is inspired by their mutual admiration of surf culture, so it's not surprising that Inner Tube track "mr" is a tribute to the 1980's Australian surfer Mark Richards" nfop

'winner takes it all' es casi puro guitar hero style, ochentera, distinta...pero no te cansas de escucharla. un billete de ida al mundo de los jardines sintéticos de charles berlitz y las guitarras flotantes tan ducktails de mark mcguire. me encanta

foto: beata wilczek

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