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| | | locust (usa) #locust 39 cd henry flynt / the insurrections “i don’t wanna” compact disc - uncle sam do (2:52)
- good by wall st. (2:59)
- go down (2:55)
- corona del mar (3:00)
- missionary stew (4:30)
- jumping flynt (3:03)
- sky turned red (2:33)
- i don't wanna (3:18)
- dreams away (7:29)
| | henry flynt
i don't wanna
locust 39
cd
2004-01-20
our man flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived basement rock protest band, the insurrections, from 1966. let there be no doubt in anyone's mind: flynt's version of protest music isn't your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. it's aggro and flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than lou reed).
imagine a mix of sky saxon (of seeds fame) with a dash of roky erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the cramps' scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage pussy galore and you get an idea what flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. features legendary sculptor walter de maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist there's a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. photos by george maciunas.
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although native north carolinian cum downtown new yorker henry flynt maintained associations with celebrity artist yoko ono, performed with john cale & lamonte young, sat in with the velvet underground and took part in numerous happenings throughout the 1960s, for some 30 years the violinist /guitarist /wild man vocalist feverishly produced and documented a perplexingly large body of work in relative obscurity. save for an art ghetto style cassette release by a german gallery in 1981, henry flynt's many-headed musical vison went largely unpublished until the 21st century set in.
he's made his mark with his brand of ecstatic north indian raga inspired minimalism on c tune (locust3), the full bodied experimentalism anthologized on raga electric (locust6) and the avante-hillbilly bumpkin fiddle joyride on the two volume back porch hillbilly blues volume 1 & 2 (locust 16 & 14), & last year's agro punk i don't wanna ? with his 1966 garage rock protest band, the insurrections (locust39). purified by the fire is the 6th in locust music's ongoing archival releases of henry's work.
the psychedelic sounds of musical pioneer henry flynt's drone works with collaborator c.c. hennix are quietly becoming the stuff of legend. over some 40 plus minutes, we are treated to a true tour de force that's part hindustani inflected musical miasma and part warped hillbilly vibrational swing that sways in and out of auditory focus. this is vertiginous music for the third ear. |
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