A.R. Kane - Americana
A.R. Kane - Americana
A.R. Kane - Americana
A.R. Kane - Americana
A.R. Kane - Americana
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 Note: This version was made in the U.S.

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Greg Tate on A.R. Kane (10/2021):

In the beginning there was only Black Noise. As in every sound Western European ears heard emitted from an enslaved African lung, on either coast of the Black Atlantic, was considered barbaric yawp, barely human let alone musical dissonance. 

James Brown, Albert Ayler, Aretha Franklin and Jimi Hendrix recovered the blackest screams hauled off the auction block, the whipping post, and the lynching tree, as race-memory recalled and replicated necessities for any Black musician attempting resonant and authentic Black and blue expressionism in the 1960s. Hendrix drove his livid Marshall amplifiers and the most advanced studio technology of the era to provide him with a psychedelic palette and scriptural canvas for what he called “sound-paintings”; graphically detailed illustrations of his vivid dreams, hauntings, night terrors, extraterrestrial visitations and lysergic hallucinations. His deployment of harmonic feedback created lyrical consonance from electronic Black noise and opened up the cosmos for his Stratocaster’s infinitely barbaric yawp. As infinitely and cosmically representative as multiphonic horn sections and synthesizers were for Sun Ra and his Interstellar Myth-Science Arkestra.

These desires for more hoodoo, juju and muon headroom in modern Black music-making found their way to Jamaica and the outlier outposts of King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry’s dubwise reggae factories, and to the Columbia Records operation, the temple where Miles Davis and Teo Macero would deploy a bevy of ‘mugicians’ well-versed in what Ornette Coleman called ‘The Art of the Improvisers’ to stir up his own hybrid of jazz, funk and psychedelia, Bitches Brew.

Not long after, George Clinton and Eddie Hazel blessed the omniverse with their implosive supernova homage to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Jimi’s ‘Machine Gun’’ and called it “Maggot Brain.” Next up: Bad Brains, the original hardcore autocthonic dubwise Rastafari Afropunks.

And then came A.R. Kane.

 

1. A Love From Outer Space
2. Snow Joke
3. Baby Milk Snatcher
4. The Madonna Is With Child
5. In A Circle
6. Miles Apart
7. Green Hazed Daze
8. Water
9. Long Body
10. Up
11. Super Vixens
12. Spook
13. Crack Up
14. And I Say
15. Sperm Whale Trip Over
16. hidden instrumental from Sixty Nine