aworks links etc. :: november 25, 2008 /creative journeys/

Image via WikipediaHurdAudio: Aside from the tracks filled with midi-esque timbres and the sometimes difficult vocal intonations of Terry Riley (not to mention the hippie overtones) one finds these hardened, well arranged gems that are revealed within the symmetrical sequencing of tracks.

• Riley's vocals are definitely a taste I'm still trying to acquire. It will take some more time but I'll get there.

Alex V. Cook: ...I did not see the actual film [Star Wars] until its last week in the original year-long run in the theaters, but I had the comic books and action figures and could talk the talk even if I'd never been on the actual sidewalk. I have to think that experience prepared me for a lifetime of being a quick study in subculture.

Anecdotal Evidence: All my life I’ve marveled at avian iridescence without knowing it had a name, and certainly never guessing it shared a name with a doctor’s crow bar (a nice avian echo).

daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra MySpace page: Sounds Like - A time machine picks up Charles Mingus and Peruchin at a craps table in 1955 Havana. they go on this "Bill And Ted" Adventure and land in Vienna in 1770, Brazil in 1960, and the South Bronx in 1980. On each stop they load up with pirates, and land on a stage in Los Angeles today.

• Via Africa Is a Country

Reckon: Radiohead vs. Dave Brubeck

• A video mashup including the always creative and quirky Thom Yorke. Are Yorke, Riley, Mingus, and Brubeck all of a kind?