08.24.10

Cornellaraga (For Joseph Cornell)

Posted in Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Music, Video at 8:53 pm by mbumba

music composed, performed and recorded by javier hernandez-miyares.
This piece is dedicated to Joseph Cornell

JHM played the following instruments:
Kurzwiel Piano and Organ
Waldorf Pulse Synth
Proteus 2 Bell Sounds
Roland V-Drum
Electric Guitar

Cornellraga is a segment of a composition which is in progress.

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08.14.10

Unsettling Economics (Michael Perelman Explains Why Our Economy Is Screwed Up)

Posted in 21st Century Socialism, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Video at 5:11 pm by mbumba

I found Michael Perleman while i was doing a furtive Google search for economists with a Neo-Marxist perspective. That was two years ago. His blog Unsettling Economics then became for me a trusted source of information on this elliptical science.

When i contacted him, he took the time to respond to my query, and thus demonstrated how humanity transcends the economy of scale.

View my post with haiku from 10-15-08: It’s The Economy Stupid.

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08.05.10

Donald P Johnson Sings Painted Skin At Where The Pieces Fall

Posted in Music, Video at 7:15 pm by mbumba

Painted Skin

Mama can you tell me why pretty bird has wings but still can’t fly, high or low, thick or thin, beauty goes as deep as painted skin.

Hear my story from of old, every true and righteous soul.
Saints and sinners side by side, no difference, no great divide.

I dreamt about a ghostly flightless bird, sang the strangest song I ever heard.

Mama can you tell me why pretty bird has wings but still can’t fly, high or low, thick or thin, beauty goes as deep as painted skin.

I ain’t gonna cast no stones, you got yours, I got my own.
We all come from the same place, don’t go preaching in my face.

I dreamt about a ghostly flightless bird, sang the strangest song I ever heard.

Mama can you tell me why pretty bird has wings but still can’t fly, high or low, thick or thin, beauty goes as deep as painted skin.

Painted Skin lyrics and music by Donald P. Johnson
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Brief interview with Donald conducted by WTPF:

WTPF – You have described yourself as a writer of “Work Songs”. What Aesthetic and philosophical criteria do you consider when you are making one?

Donald P. Johnson – Primal, rhythmic, keep you going, vent frustrations, connect you to the bigger picture.
The collection is dedicated to the Petits; What they went through was horrific and undeserved. the whole collection is called “work songs” and is dedicated to the petit family/a microcosm of society.
This particular song addresses superficiality.
The collection is a continuum, like “leaves of grass”

WTPF – Thanks.

Watch Donald’s Propaganda video here.

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07.25.10

Occult Science Band Performing The Zu Song 1980 (Psychedelic)

Posted in Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Music, Video at 12:23 am by mbumba

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!!!

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07.11.10

Fee Fi Fo Fum Live At 23 Press Party (Los Angeles 1988)

Posted in Art Rock, Fee Fi Fo Fum, Video at 12:15 am by mbumba

Fee Fi Fo Fum / Americana (Painting On A Car Hood By Keith Greco)

I have cobbled together the similitude of the live performance of Fee Fi Fo Fum for a benefit for 23 Press. 23 Press was an underground L.A. magazine that published vanguard poetry. Unfortunately nothing exists of that publication now.

Fee Fi Fo Fum was:
Donald Johnson / Keys and Vocals
Javier Hernandez-Miyares / Guitar and Vocals
Alberto Hernandez-Miyares / Bass
John Millspaugh / Drums

All songs were written by Donald Johnson and Javier Hernandez-Miyares

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07.09.10

The Bifurcation Of Capitalism And Democracy (Michael Parenti Explains)

Posted in 21st Century Socialism, Anti-Imperialist, Video at 6:38 pm by mbumba

Michael Parenti is an American intellectual that you have probably never heard of. If you watched the video, you will know why.

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06.28.10

Skills And Balls (Aakash Nihalani: “Stop, Pop And Roll”)

Posted in Street Art, Video at 11:58 pm by mbumba

Aakash Nihalani will be exhibiting at the Bose/Pacia Gallery From November 5th to December 18th. At the same time he will have an exhibit at 17 Frost.

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06.23.10

John Adams And WTPF With Something To Think About (The Bifurcation Of Pop And Art)

Posted in Video at 11:55 pm by mbumba

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.

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06.12.10

All Tomorrows Parties (Fee Fi Fo Fum 1985)

Posted in Art Rock, Fee Fi Fo Fum, Images, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Music, Video at 11:52 pm by mbumba

Drawing By JHM

The video was shot at Cats Paw recording studio in NYC, and the tracks were recorded at Spectrum Studios in Mineola. Most of this song was recorded on new years eve in the hours that arced between 1985 and 1986.
The song was written by Lou Reed and this version was arranged and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares

This is the High Fidelity version:
All Tomorrows Parties

Fee Fi Fo Fum will always be:
Alberto Hernandez- Miyares – Bass
Donald Johnson – Vocals
Javier Hernandez-Miyares – Guitar
John Easter Mills – Drums
Mary K – Keys and Vox

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06.05.10

Silvio Rodriguez Live at Carnegie Hall June 4th (Te Doy Una Cancion)

Posted in 21st Century Socialism, Anti-Imperialist, Cuba, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Music, Video at 8:30 pm by mbumba

Pic by Diana Vargas Trent

Very moving it is to be in an audience, where it is the custom to sing with the master.

Silvio Rodriguez Is the Walt Whitman of the Cuban revolution. His songs are deeply rooted in the humanism which was described by Che Guevara in El Socialismo Y El Hombre En Cuba
Our utopia is still very far away, but its music has always been with us.
It is better to be Brechtian than Manichean.

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