°pan's
El
Nino Buy
An infrasonic journey of
catastrophic events...
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BOOK OF
REVELATIONS - Chapter 12
12:1-2 -
Then a huge sign became visible in
the sky - the figure of a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her
feet and a crown of twelve stars upon her head. She was pregnant, and
cried out
in her labor and in the pains of bringing forth her child.
12:3-4 -
Then another sign became visible in
the sky, and I saw that it was a huge red dragon with seven heads and
ten horns,
with a diadem upon each of his heads. His tail swept down a third of
the stars
in the sky and hurled them upon the earth. The dragon took his place in
front
of the woman who was about to give birth to a child, so that as soon as
she did
so he might devour it.
12:5-6 -
She gave birth to a male child who
is to shepherd all the nations
"with a rod of iron". Her child was snatched up to God and to
his throne, while the woman fled into the desert where she has a place
prepared
for her by God's command. There
they will take care of her for twelve hundred and sixty days.
12:7-9 -
The war broke out in Heaven.
The
Book of Revelations may or may not be prophetic but it is most
certainly a
journal of things already come and gone, and come again.
Mother
Earth, clothed by The Sun everyday with the satellite known to us as
The Moon
under her feet, periodically gives birth to a child in pangs of birth.
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Creation
of Pop Tart! -
Germination of a percussion track created with VirtualDrummer
freeware. Continued amplification
and distorted on the beats. Jimmy
James Franzen was recorded playing trumpet to the track.
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Creation
of Figyur's horns - This
track is actually recorded entirely by nearly swallowing
a lavaliere microphone and humming.
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Creation
of Easter Island paean - Besides
a light piano, the textures evolved from
recording the sounds of a vintage violin uke from the 1920s that I
found in a
Chicago antique store.
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The
inaugural horn of The Fifth Angel sounds and is followed by the
brooding pipes
of a church organ. It is now
known that the lower frequencies of church organs can induce people to
have an
unsettling feeling and even cause hallucinations, perhaps inducing the
sensation that there is an ethereal or otherworldly presence.
It's
been cited for a fact that Church organ builders have been using
infrasonic
pipes for centuries in order to help create a sense of awe among Sunday
morning
congregations. Hmm... pretty tricky.
Creation
of Introduction of - A cheap
Casio keyboard put through a massive reverb filter on
the spur of the moment.
The
Fifth Angel opens the key to the bottomless pit. Charles
Manson claimed to be the Fifth Angel, but if it was
anyone in modern times, it was probably Albert Einstein, who's
knowledge, for
better or worse, opened a Pandora's box of creations and discoveries,
including
the nuclear bomb, that would forever change the world and the way we
see it.
Creation
of The Fifth Angel - The
seed of track is a recording of the first time I ever
tried to play the violin (thankfully, it was the last as well.)
BOOK OF
REVELATIONS - Chapter 9
9:1 - The
fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw
a star, that had fallen down from Heaven to earth, and he was given the
key to
the fathomless pit.
9:2 -
Then he opened the pit and smoke like
the smoke of a vast furnace rose out of it, so that the light of the
sun and
the air itself grew dark from the smoke of the pit.
9:3-5 -
Then out of the smoke emerged locusts
to descend upon the earth. They
were given powers like those of earthly scorpions. They had orders to
do no
harm to any grass, green thing or tree upon the earth, but to injure
only those
human beings who did not bear the seal of God upon their foreheads.
They were
given no power to kill men, but only to torture them for five months.
The
torture they could inflict was like the pain of a scorpion's sting.
9:6 - In
those days men will seek death but
they will never find it; they will long to die but death will elude
them.
9:7-11 -
These locusts looked to me in my
vision like horses prepared for battle, On their heads were what
appeared to be
crowns like gold; their faces were like human faces, and they had long
hair
like women. Their teeth were like lion's teeth, their breasts were like
iron-breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of a
host of
chariots and horses charging into battle. They have tails and stings
like
scorpions, and it is in their tails that they possess the power to
injure men
for five months. They have as their king the angel of the pit, whose
name in Hebrew
is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, (meaning the destroyer).
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Apparently,
a particularly melancholy day. One
that has already taken place or one that has yet to occur is still a
mystery.
Creation
of Blue Thursday -
Recordings of a vintage grand piano and the infamous broken
$15 Spanish guitar.
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Creation
of La Nina -
Pixy-led remixed with mucho flange.
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Creation
of Pal
- The combination of pitch shifting Jazz bass string hits and
resurrected
samples from the "Reborn" track on °pan's previous self-titled CD.
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Creation
of Things to Come - DJ Tony
Wallace asked me to remix a track for his exploratory
drum and bass
Some
of the tracks on El Nino contain infrasonic frequencies.
While elephants use infrasonic
waves to communicate with each other lovingly, man uses them to
manipulate
congregations and as military weaponry, even killing other human beings
with
powerful sound waves.
Infrasonic sounds are also incorporated into many Hollywood
productions
as well in order to manipulate emotions.
On
the other hand, scientists can monitor infrasonic waves around the
world and
give advanced warning of impending catastrophic events, perhaps saving
many
lives in the process.
The
concept of the CD is a dichotomy between the destructive behaviors of
human
beings and how Mother Earth roars back, cleansing the world over and
over.
Under
the current regime, the militaries of the world have murdered hundred's
of
thousands of innocent people while just as many have died needlessly in
times
of hardship or natural disaster.
Truly
peaceful plans and corrective measures that could be used by our
governments
are always squashed down and cited as being too unrealistic and
expensive. Yet once the final human and
financial
cost of war has finally been tabulated it always far surpasses the
estimated
cost of peace.
There
are so many other plausible options that could make the world a better
place in
times of war and human injustice, but we first must work with Mother
Nature,
not against her.
Recorded
at various times from 1997 to 2000.
Mixed
at various times from 1998 to 2001.
Released
into the atmosphere in Spring 2001.
Performed,
Recorded and Hosted by Anthony Kern * **
*Except
"Things to Come" which is a remix of Tony's Wallace's "Intro" for his
Greenlight - Remixed CD (DnBv2) and is intended to be a link between
the stormy
El Nino and Wallace's bright and catchy Greenlight material, which is
available
at
**"Pop
Tart" includes extra percussion by the one and only Jimmy James Franzen.
El Nino stands as an extension piece to the original Pan CD while paying homage to the re-occurring storm cycles that periodically wreak havoc around the globe. Given birth from Mother Earth, supposedly just a few hundred miles off of Easter Island, and eventually dispersed into space, when it's cycle is in full effect it does in fact seem to "rule over all the nations with a rod of iron."
Part
of Pan's Labyrinth of Music and Noise
All
Tracks (c)2001 Ambitious Productions/Mythopolis
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