Spoek Mathambo - “Control” (a darkwave township house Joy Division cover).
Spoek Mathambo is a South African electronic musician and DJ who knows about things like township preachers and interrogation rooms. The kids in this video are part of a Cape Town dance troupe named - no lie - “Happy Feet.”
(Their mothers must be so proud.)
Mathambo was also one of GQ’s 10 Best Dressed Men in South Africa, 2010. I guess that was before he’d lost control.
As the war against spectres is so old, a variety of terms denoting it have arisen. The following nearly all occur in writings of the Han dynasty or previous to it:
jang, to drive off, repel, or fling back. It occurs in the sense of exorcism in the writings of Lü Puh-wei. In books of the Han…
Necessary ancient vocabulary for today’s tumultuous times. Click for the full glossary.
Seems like it’d be a joke, doesn’t it?
I should put this ordination to work. More than I already do, of course.
- Gamelan Cenik Wayah, “Tabuh Kreasi”. For pterodactyl’s woodblocks, gongs and airhorns. No airhorns in this one, but if you browse around, I bet you’ll find ‘em.
Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips, “Pie In The Sky”, also known as “The Preacher and The Slave,” written by Joe Hill in 1911.
Bembe for Babalu Aye, recorded about 50 years later in Desi Arnaz’s hometown.
The Chinese imperial family, maidservant and mandarins.
From Geschichte des Kostüms (The costume history) vol. 3, by Auguste Racinet, Berlin, 1888.
Via archive.org.
The Swans - “You’re Not Real, Girl”. They have COME BACK. Unfortunately, no Jane Jarboe. But still, playing the acoustic industrial on a new album (new tracks listenable at that link).
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