Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Mary Sullivan]

Thanks, Steve for the link, I'm going to check it out now.

Mary

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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
>
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>
>
> 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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