FarFlung techincal question/Grenas apology?

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, mike coleman wrote:
> oh good, despite the timewarp my switched cd's didn't mess him up.
> I dropped out of 11 th grade Jon, but if Brian's still running around in
> Marina Del Rey, and releasing music I'm willling to chase him and Tommy too
> I don't have "when science fails" or "Nine Pin Body" so any comments as to
> how deep my food rations should now go- appreciated

 	I don't have _When Science Fails_--I must hunt it down for 
Kompletism reasons--but I do have _Nine Pin Body_. If you happen to have 
one of the boot versions of the never-released _Myth of Solid Ground_ 
there is very little on NPB you don't already have. If you don't have that 
though then there are several awesome crunchy heavy tracks about things 
coming through portholes, wormholes, dimensional divides, and so on which 
I would thoroughly recommend and not wish to be without, though there is 
also some filler stuff that sounds as if Tommy decided one day that Can 
wasn't minimalist enough and to make that point he'd record something with 
even less variation *really quietly*. Bracketed by the creeping 
riff-horrors from outer space, though, so you still finish the record with 
a grin on your face and a tendency to twitch at unexpected noises. does 
that help?

> On 1/5/10, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

 	<snip>

>> (ii) I had it `roughly right' that `Raven' as it stands is the correct full
>> track #1, `Sonic Evaporation' is the following track with the "I'm
>> disintegrating..." refrain as far as the unexpected multicoloured organ
>> cascade, which is `Helianthus', `Candied Electronic Atmospheres' is what
>> happens next and `Alius Orbis' starts with the crushing downwards riff that
>> we can also identify because it's been in a live set or two like the Strange
>> Daze CD-R. `The Way the Sky Is' is of course on _So Many Minds_ so we know
>> that one, and `(It's Not A Bad Dream)' refers to the forty-minute circus
>> organ outtro we all know and dread. (Dare *you* listen to the thing
>> carefully enough to see if it repeats anywhere? I'm not sure it's looped, I
>> think they may actually have played it.)

 	A postscript, on relistening to this it seems to me that really, 
the `disintegration' refrain must belong to `Candied Electronic 
Atmospheres' as the section that precedes it just has too much in it that 
doesn't relate to be one track. So now I would say `Raven' as far as the 
end of the female vocal section, `Sonic Evaporation' for what follows as 
far as the organ, which is `Helianthus' as I say, then the breakout and 
build-up from there `Candied Electronic Atmospheres'. The extra track 
number should probably be in `Sonic Evaporation' somewhere, if we agree 
that #8 is the outtro to `The Way the Sky Is'. I do wish I could have 
recovered what I originally thought and McGibbony's response though. 
Yours,
 	Jon (who seems to be closing in on real-time)

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