30 years ago Occult Science was:
Javier Hernandez-Miyares – Electric Guitar
Alberto Hernandez-Miyares – Bass
Ralph Garcia – Synth Loops
Donald Johnson – Organ Drone
Joe Nocilla – Drums
Tommy Shaw – Synth

This song was written by Bill Laswell and arranged by Javier Hernandez-Miyares

This is live and recorded on cassette…Play It Loud!!!

Read a description of Lewis’s prescient novel here.

Bigotry is beginning to reenter our “Mainstream” discourse, and it puts the polity of the United States in peril.

Drawing By JHM

I doggy paddled finished finally this tune now. I squeezed my nose on the verse vocals to create that odd but intimate vox delivery (a snorkeler singing), and under water everything is strange; If you listen until the chorus you will hear my beautiful voice as natural as the birds that chirp in the background. I wrote this song for Diana Vargas Trent who is my co-conspirator, and this is an homage to her.

Diana
my song begins this way:
i’m floating on an open flame,
the hercules are far behind.

Diana
if i only knew three chords,
i would have drowned before i got
to this place in our song.

Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and your mermaid pinata hides your siren song.
I’m Listening.

Diana
when i learn how to sing.
my voice will reach you far away,
from this place that i’m in.

Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and my demon pinata is a man of war.
I’m singing.

JHM plays guitar, hand claps, rain stick, Bells, Voice, jangling keys, and mellotron.
The birds singing track was recorded at the end of the session at the break of dawn in Forest Hills NYC.

I agree with Mr. Adams on all his points except the last one. The United States is not the best country to make art; It may very well be the best country for a bourgeoisie artist to make a good living, although at the expense of abandoning a dialectical relationship with history. In my opinion the best art is the finest art that challenges, and transforms the public mind: it transforms our sense of ethos. The best art today is available on the internet, and most of the artists that make it, have to work a day job to make a living. They live in every country on the earth.

17 Frost from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

I awoke from a sleep;
Mad men and fools,
And other long lost pals.

Zoetrope like pictures:
Beethoven, Bach, Brian Wilson,
Like a choir of dumb angels,
And Javier called me.

Designed by Borges

Why don’t you come down to the spot?
Frost…It’s cool.

Poem by Alex Itin

This song needs a few more sonic details before i master mix it.
The voice on the chorus is a keeper and next i will record the verse vox.

Diana
my song begins this way:
i’m floating on an open flame,
the hercules are far behind.

Diana
if i only knew three chords,
i would have drowned before i got
to this place in our song.

Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and your mermaid pinata hides your siren song.
I’m Listening.

Diana
when i learn how to sing.
my voice will reach you far away,
from this place that i’m in.

Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and my demon pinata is a man of war.
I’m singing.

JHM plays guitar, hand claps, rain stick, and mellotron.
Bird song was recorded during the session at the break of dawn in Forest Hills NYC.

Drawings By JHM

Diana
my song begins this way:
i’m drifting on the open seas,
the hercules are far behind.

Diana
if i only knew three chords,
i would have drowned before i got
to this place in our song.

Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and your mermaid pinata hides your siren song.
I’m Listening.

Diana
when i learn how to sing.
my voice will reach you far away,
from this place that i’m in.

Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and my demon pinata is a man of war.
I’m singing.

JHM plays guitar, hand claps, rain stick, and mellotron.
Bird song was recorded during the session at the break of dawn in Forest Hills NYC.

The Voice was written by Javier Hernandez-Miyares for Mary K. Bua, and Fee Fi Fo Fum. This video is of a rehearsal at the Hunter Street Loft in Los Angeles.

What’s in the air tonight?
The boy who lost his voice
to the cricket king.

There is nothing here but news;
nothing but news.

Song dedicated to Federico Garcia Lorca, Che Guevara, and Roque Dalton.

Thinking ’bout You And The Wind from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Where the Pieces Fall looks forward to presenting Alex Itin’s future creations. He will always be one of our “artists in residence”.