March 14, 2009: A few weeks back I thought that the new Violence and the Sacred CD, ‘You are Planning to Enjoy the Apocalypse’, was complete, but after several listens, advice from Ted, several conversations, and a bit of introspection (because the answers are obvious, why introspect on obvious things where there are so many unobvious introspection topics?) I’ve decided I need to rework several pieces and reorder the tracks.
Yapteta Cover
Hopefully this will take 3 or 4 days, but getting those days might be a challenge with all the other non-musical requirements that seem to exist. Yesterday when driving home, I saw a large flock of Canada geese flying north, a common site this time of year. Beautiful, but it reminded me that they will be here, still flying north long after I am gone … I should find the continuation of the natural world to be encouraging, trying as best it can to ignore us pained humans. But it was my irrelevance to the geese that bothered me. Twenty years ago I revelled in our irrelevance and randomness; now it bothers me.
On the bright side, work on a video release is days away from completion. My colleague, Gordon Belray has done a wonderful job in preparing a DVD of a Violence and the Sacred concert at the Music Gallery in Toronto from March 1991. I’ll make about 20 copies to mail around and try to sell. The concert was a particularly abrasive outing and would likely only interest fanatics, if such exist, but the video of it looks very nice. More such concerts will follow.
VATS at the Music gallery
March 20th, 2009 at 21:33
Was this the infamously painful performance that drove the crowd out of the room, but that planted a huge grin on curator Rob Olver’s face? BTW, how is Rob doing? Haven’t heard from him in ages.
March 20th, 2009 at 21:36
Also, I think “The Apocalypse” should be capitalized, because it will be such a spectacular event. Hopefully, it will be televised.
March 21st, 2009 at 1:14
Hello …
Yes, it was very load and bit cruel. The only time we ever used played just the Korgs (except for a wee bit of Ted’s Guitar). The following act that night was Borbetomagus who were loader than we were. I had to cover my ears when they played! Robert Olver sounds like he’s doing OK …
I’ve been fighting with capitalization on the cover but I think I’m going to stick with LC, partly because the font is so large. Isn’t the apocalypse televised every day and night?