Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Steve Swann]

Lovecraftiana is one of my other great enthusiasms besides
BOC/Hawkwind.  ;-)  This Holiday season I was listening to the "Scary
Solstice" albums by the awesome and wonderful H.P. Lovecraft
Historical Society:

http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=122

My friends and I have had these albums for a few years now, and some
of us have virtually forgotten the "real" lyrics to a lot of these
carols....  ;-)

Steve


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Mary Sullivan
<maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Jonathan Smith wrote:
>>>>> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's
>>>>> Bedouin has recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept
>>>>> album for Rise Above based around Lovecraft's character "
>
> Although I don't agree with Mr. Lovecraft's attitudes toward women and black
> people I do like a good story, even though after a while the stories follow
> a similar pattern.  I'd think one would need to take care in that alternate
> universe, I wouldn't want to cross paths with that mad Arab he refers to so
> often.  A concept album would be really cool.  Vision Quest is such a great
> song.
>
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Alan Davey Vision Quest Request
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>
>> It would work for sure! :) The idea of Arabic psychedelia sounds
>> great. *
>> Bellymetal* (Kephra seem to be its sole band) sounds too good to be true.
>> There was Hassan i Sabbah....
>>
>> 2009/12/14 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>
>>
>>> On 14 Dec 2009, at 07:41 , Jonathan Smith wrote:
>>>>> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's
>>>>> Bedouin has recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept
>>>>> album for Rise Above based around Lovecraft's character "Abdul
>>>>> Alhazred". If only I could dimension hop to the right universe in
>>>>> order to hear it! :)
>>>>
>>>> I'd love to hear that! Not that anyone's sanity would be intact
>>>> after listening to it! ;)
>>>
>>> It would totally work, though, no?
>>>
>>> There's a list on MySpace of "oriental/arabic metal" groups --
>>> http://groups.myspace.com/orientalmetal -- though I kind of dig the
>>> label "bellymetal", which I hadn't encountered before but rather wish
>>> I had. :)  The genre seems heavy on death/black metal groups ... but
>>> I totally see a space in which psychedelically tinged doom, underlain
>>> by Alan's surging bass lines, could play ....  Well, in that
>>> charmingly alternate universe, anyway!
>
>        A long time ago when Bedouin were still touring and I had
> something to do with putting them on in Cambridge, I actually talked with
> Alan about something similar to this; he wanted to find a female vocalist
> who could do genuine Arabian-style singing for the next Bedouin album (I
> can't remember if there was even one then, I'm pretty sure this was after
> Sean Masset left but I'm not even sure of that, it was a *long* time ago)
> so as to make music that really lived up to the potential of the name.
> It's therefore kind of weird to find him collaborating with Bridget
> Wishart again now! That's almost the antithesis of that plan! I'd like
> to think that if he'd found the sinder, it would have been the album you
> envision, Carl, it could completely have worked, you're right. And Rise
> Above would have been a natural home for it; we've often commented here, I
> remember, on how strange it was that Bedouin never crossed the
> space/stoner divide, which really isn't that big.
>
>        Also, congratulations on parenthood, since I'm running in my usual
> message timewarp here. It's easier than it seems when you're actually
> facing it, you will soon find out. But you were always good with children
> anyway so really this is just an excellent excuse to indulge that tendency
> :-) Good luck, yours,
>                      Jon
>
> ObCD: Clutch - _Elephant Riders_
> --
>       Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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