microphones in the trees: spencer clark
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

new mexican stargazers


 

enigmatic (hypnagogic!) New Mexican Stargazers is a crepuscular cult of those who still deliver some juicy slices of the tropical utopia once discovered by Ferraro, Clark and Lieven Martens and many other heroes of this blog. a natural blessing, this project is a keeper of the portal to this fourth world dimension, through which our current cyberpunk dystopia doesn't feel that much overwhelming or forever lasting. there are oases in every desert, and you just found one. even if it turns into a mirage, your mana gets restored here.

direct cassette rip

be sure to check out two of his tapes for Not Not Fun
(sold out but some are up on discogs)

and the whole artist's bandcamp!

and if you're into vaporwave, then go here

Friday, May 24, 2024

monopoly child star searchers / dolphins into the future ~ tour dates

 

neo fourth world age post drone alien psychedelia living legends monopoly child star searchers and dolphins into the future are on tour which just started yesterday! 

25 cities in 12 countries:

23/5 Barcelona 🇪🇸  El Pumarejo
24/5 A Coruña 🇪🇸 Acefala
25/5 Vigo 🇪🇸 Radar Estudios
26/5 Porto 🇵🇹 Hotelier
27/5 Coimbra 🇵🇹
29/5 Parede 🇵🇹 SMUP
30/5 Lisbon 🇵🇹 Sala Lisa
31/5 Paris 🇫🇷 Cmptrmthmtcs
1/6 Ljubjana 🇸🇮 Niansa
2/6 Ravenna 🇮🇹 Magma
3/6 Palermo 🇮🇹 Epyc
4/6 Milano 🇮🇹 Caned Icoda
5/6 Roma 🇮🇹 Teatro Delle Belleze
6/6 Perugia 🇮🇹 Spazio Modu
7/6 Prague 🇨🇿 Punctum
8/6 Vienna 🇦🇹
9/6 Sofia 🇧🇬 Equipage
11/6 Tampere 🇫🇮 Telakka
12/6 Turku 🇫🇮 Himera
13/6 Stockholm 🇸🇪 Larry’s Corner
14/6 Ghotenburg 🇸🇪 Skjulet
15/6 Samsø 🇩🇰 Agerupgard
18/6 Brussels 🇧🇪 Atelier 210
19/6 Roubaix 🇫🇷 Ateliers Jouret
22/6 Antwerp (Monopoly only)🇧🇪 De  

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for infos check insta here & here

also, for the occasion Edições CN is producing 4 tour-only editions.
these will only be available at the concerts and Spencer just put 3 new tapes out along the HR Giger's Studiolo vinyl reissue!


Wednesday, December 27, 2023

monopoly child star searchers

 

 monopoly child star searchers ~ barbados wild horses (pacific city sound visions, 2023)

"Recorded on a Banana and Mango Plantation in Tenerife. Featuring Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw on Track 2 and 3. Recorded by Dani Tupper. Special thanks to Dani's Dog Unga for holding it down for the Pound Puppys forever! Stay High forever Unga! Dedicated to my minds response to the majestic Martian province of the great god Teide, and his shadowed reflection on the salted wild surf of WILD POINT PUNTA BRAVA. Dedicated to all Wild Beings everywhere and compassion for those locked down in this beast, trying to find solace and freedom within the MIND!"


"grabado en una plantación de plátanos y mangos en Tenerife". algo así solo podría venir de ese loco encantador llamado Spencer Clark, quien  lleva muchos años (y ahora con Sun Araw en dos canciones de las cuatro que forman el disco) acercándonos a su mundo desconocido, utópico, donde mezcla su pasión por la ciencia ficción con los sonidos tropicales de la jungla. el Cuarto Mundo, que diría Jon Hassell, para quien la idea de la música de ese Cuarto Mundo era como "un regreso y un paso adelante al mismo tiempo", el mismo en el que habita Spencer Clark, pero añadiendo sus peculiares tonalidades alienígenas.

"Barbados Wild Horses" es mi disco preferido de todos los que ha hecho hasta ahora (y eso es decir muchísimo) porque, sin entender nada de producciones, me parece el mejor producido, el más fluído, igual de lo-fi, igual de alucinado, pero cristalino, agradable, como si todo estuviera más cohesionado. una jam tropical sin fin. para muestra, 'upper romántico', juego de encajes múltiples de percusiones tropicales, loops, voces. las repite y las repite en busca de no se sabe qué, tal vez la puerta del futuro para reinventar un pasado que solo existe en su imaginación. 

"...seguramente me influenciaron las terrazas volcánicas y la sensación de playa natural, pero claro, es como cuando Max Ernst entró en Nuevo México y descubrió que algunos de sus paisajes mentales realmente existían allí. Hay una parte de mí que entiende que mi futuro siempre me ha estado llamando y que termino en lugares según el elenco de mis sueños."

me produce mucha curiosidad su persona, en su sello pacific visions edita los discos más raros y fascinantes que te puedas imaginar. tampoco sé cómo definirlo por mi falta de autoría en la materia (hay que entender mucho para adivinar sus singularidades!), pero es esa estética de los 80 y principio de los noventa, las cintas de vhs y miami vice que, no sé porqué, relaciono también con Palmbomen, lo que me llama la atención. en su sello ha publicado la banda sonora imaginaria de Tradewinds, por ejemplo, o un disco de Keith Fejeran que me tiene muy intrigada...algo me dice que es el propio Spencer dando rienda suelta a su vena más romántica. esa estética y esos teclados/percusiones a lo 'detective en hollywood meets spandau ballet meets devendra meets ariel pink. escuchad si no "closer to you". qué maravilla.

Monday, April 27, 2020

~ interstellar communications ~



"Timelash is the freshly erupted synthesizer & SFX duet of Embassador Dulgoon (Nonlocal Research) and Corum (Psychic Sounds / Million Brazilians). Together they reveal new sound forms by playing with primeval motifs contrasted sharply against unfolding futuristic developments. The result is a simultaneous listening experience of ancient and alien settings told through their unique rhythm of language by mood-driven atmospheres, exotic tones, and electrifying sci-fi Cumbia jolt." ~ hareakedod 

Even though the labels description gives away pretty much everything you need to know about the cassette, it also worth mentioning if you're still not a fan of both Embassador Dulgoon and Grant Corum, then this collab is a perfect entry point to a prolific output of both channellers of the alien wisdom. Just google their bandcamp pages and take a nice trip into holographic juxtaposition of archaic rituals, sacred geometry, modern technologies to proceed into psychedelic exploration and further development of the human race. Of course, you may talk to some McKenna or Leary entities along the way, probably visit Pleiades and receive some cryptic messages from Sirius star system ~ and definitely will be seeing more signs and repeating numbers ever since. But don't rush to the pyramids to meet your higher-density brothers, first you need to realize that due to the holographic nature of the Universe you are the pyramid (to some degree) and you are the spirit molecule (on a certain level) and many, many other things, including this very cassette. The fact that you're reading this (yes, this) and listening to these tunes is not a coincidence. There are no such things. Only patterns, and you'll see some in this music as well.  Watch closely, while the the portal is open.


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"This is shamane's first project in a series of healing albums. This music can be used for healing, meditation, reiki, or balancing chakras. Thank you so much for listening to it and i hope that it will give you guidance in your healing / meditation practice. Thank you for the love you give to the music that returns in infinite permutations. Thank you so much for the love in the music. Thank you so much" ~ shamane

One of the recent transmissions from the outlandish body of work by popular culture's shamane is a good entry point to his multi-faceted acid-warped world if you're mostly an ambient fan but don't mind discovering yourself enjoying heavy trap beats drowned in a perfectly zoned-out pools of vivid synths and half-cetacean / half-alien / half-pixie rapping over it all. Oh, wait it's three halfs, how is that even possible... well, here it is. Okay, on this very album it's all subdued into astral plane and all mostly just aftersounds of what shamane music can be, but believe me, this medicine can make you just a little bit prepared to anything else which can be heard on that bandcamp page. Yet even if you go no further, that short ambient work is perfect enough on its own. Gnomes playing flutes from a window of a flying saucer hanging over the crystal clear lake full of glowing fish... Just a glimpse, there's much more. Oh, and if you happen to know any cetacean language, that's an advantage!


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 ~ rejoice, people of planet earth! ~ pleiadian starships are coming ~ all starseeds are prepared ~ it's time for the transition ~ gpds

Next chapter of our journey leads us deeper into far out zones of the New Age mythology, where it was tightly merged with UFO cults and conspiracy theories... well, probably since the very beginning. Channelled wisdom of our space brothers and sisters radiates here through the short vignettes of hazy media taken off instructional tapes, home videos of UFO enthusiasts and new age apostles but also constantly gets interrupted with advertisements, creepy documentaries, news reports, weather channel muzak... Which obviously simulates an experience of watching the TV at some late hours and randomly browsing the channels ~ and all of them for some reason are UFO and New Age themed... Maybe that's just California in the 90s where Unarius Academy and Heaven's Gate are on the same street? Or it's some parallel (yet pretty close) universe, where society got into all that stuff much deeply? Maybe it's already ruled by Pleiadians in peace and harmony now, after their promised arrival in 2012? While our timeline is lingering in this absurd post-capitalist agony... Who knows, who knows. One may wonder. And wander ~ preferably in space.

listen ~ support

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star searchers ~ avatar blue (pacific city sound visions, 2020)

"A 30 Track 2 hour plus dive into our parallel hidden Earth Ocean World using the Previsual approach of Movie Making FX digested into a musical language that approaches the identity of the Swimming Motions of Earth's Aquatic Life." ~ pacific city


Okay, dear follower ~ if you got that far, then you must be ready for the next initiation stage. Of course, you must've been by now aknowledged with the teachings of the great starseed master Spencer Clark and his extensive exploration of the higher density worlds, starting from tropical utopias and hellish media entities ~ and now entering the watery realm of the Avatar Blue. Obviously rooted in the studies of our planet's hydrosphere and its meta-language, the waveforms on this document should be used carefully in order to operate harmoniously in the higher dimensional hierarchy. Technologies the neophite must perfect in order to proceed to the avatar realm, include sacred geometry classes, Atlantean channelings and meditation techniques, stable telepathic connection with cetaceans, and, of course, fully activated lightdobies. Exceptional bliss and epiphany awaits those who enter fully prepared. I'll say no more from now, the path is yours.

listen ~ support

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Monday, November 24, 2014

fourth world magazine vol. 2


"Fourth World Magazine Vol 2 presents: Pinhead In Fantasia LP + Magazine. music by Spencer Clark. features an article by David Keenan, “An Outer Gateway On ‘Pinhead In Fantasia’”: “to no longer think of ourselves as man is unthinkable and so becomes a fantasy that can live forever in pockets of the brain that serve as spontaneous centres of ecstasy when alone.” david keenan

 

'pinhead in fantasia' se grabó al aire libre en una caja de metal dorada en el Anfiteatro de San Diego y nace literalmente de los sueños de Spencer Clark, quien retoma para nuestra felicidad el universo de 'the spectacle of light abductions'. no hay tucanes granates como en monopoly child pero sí Facehugger (el monstruo de la trilogía de Alien) y un cenobita llamado Pinhead. casi tres horas de música y un fanzine de trece páginas con fotos y escritos y dos invitados muy especiales: David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue, The Wire) y A.R. Faust. y no puedo estar más enamorada de un Spencer Clark entregado a una visión surrealista y onírica de la música y la vida. todas sus reencarnaciones me apasionan: Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Black Joker, The Skaters, Egyptian Sports Network, Charles Berlitz o Vodka Soup, pero me podría pasar la vida escuchando 'female cenobyte's descent into Komodo Garden' de Fourth World Magazine, que es John Hassell y 'galop final à la cour du prince' de Jacques Lejeune y Mia Prce abducida por Lewis Carroll y Kurosawa. esas trompetillas como de séptimo de caballería y poso vintage que te llenan la cabeza de imágenes. Fourth World Magazine es un refugio de fantasía, una orquesta de euforia y trance en plena efervescencia sinfónica. todo rezuma fantasía, frenesí, irrealidad...todo parece creado en ese estado de hipnagogia al que se referia precisamente David Keenan hace años.

en 'lament configurations in Walt Disney' Spencer muestra su cariño por los espíritus que se convierten en monstruos en nuestra realidad y sueña con una canción de Shirley Temple pasada for el mágico filtro de Devon Folklore Tapes. 'the fanfare of the ascension of thee facehugger' es una banda sonora que encajaría a la perfección en uno de esos 'patch-works' fílmicos de ciencia ficción de bajo presupuesto creados por Ed Wood o en 'night on the galactic railroad', pura melancolía gatuna que vimos ayer y recomiendo de corazón. en 'frolicking and monsters' un teclado semi-clásico que parece un clavicordio (o el croac de miles de ranas) invoca la imagen de la primera foto. y luego todo lo demás... películas de mini-culto de los ochenta en VHS como poderosa fuente de inspiración (Pin), 'extraterrestrial free jazz casio-jams' (esos teclados acuosos parlanchines tan característicos de su sonido), dibujos animados de Disney y, como dicen en volcanic tongue, un aroma retro-delicioso a Sun Ra y Moondog. "my intention with Pinhead In Fantasia is to recast Pinhead, as well as Facehugger, and other Dreamgate monsters into the world of the Renaissance and a world of Pagan beauty." simple y fascinante serie b. 


"durante una semana en mis sueños aparecía sentado en una celda de oro en la que hacía mucho calor, con metales ardientes y humo, y las voces y la música. cada noche ese zumbido extraño leía mis pensamientos y me hablaba sobre el futuro. estos sueños, como le pasa a los demás, me invitaban a profundizar en ellos. mis sueños me están llamando para que me escriba con ellos, posiblemente mi subconsciente quiere ser una parte más grande que mi vida despierto. el Anfiteatro de Órganos en San Diego es un monumento realmente gigante. significa mucho para mí, es muy hermoso y todos los niños lo visitan en Navidad y ven a los ángeles cantar. en mis sueños he estado muchas veces allí, como ese sueño recurrente que tienes durante toda tu vida. además, justo detrás del teatro, en mis sueños, hay habitaciones con objetos extraños. este sueño es muy diferente del sueño de la cárcel de oro, pero los dos me han inspirado y me han ayudado a ver entre las sombras. decidí que el nuevo disco debí ser enterrado allí, para continuar la conversación que mis sueños quieren tener conmigo. es una forma de asentir en silencio a las fuerzas que desearías crear." un trocito de la conversación con ad hoc 

listen ~ buy the lp + magazine

Monday, April 28, 2014

black joker


"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!

sold out ~ download 

Monday, June 24, 2013

egyptian sports network


"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

listen ~ download ~ buy the lp vinyl here or here 

Monday, January 14, 2013

monopoly child star searchers


"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



"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

sold out ~ download
  
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.


Sunday, May 20, 2012

inner tube


"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