#savaker

[dustedmagazine]

SAVAK — Flavors of Paradise (Peculiar Works)

The song “Up with the Sun” jangles and tumbles, guitars splaying out in rainbow chords, drums rumbling in continuous pummeling rolls, voices joined in harmonies — think R.E.M. early on or the Sadies in a not-so-country psychedelic mode. “Two Lamps” by contrast lurches along on clawed bass, stopping and starting in dank post-punk style, like E the band or FACS. Both songs raise a joyful clangor, but they are fundamentally different.

That’s because SAVAK is a band of post-punk lifers, headed by two songwriters with distinct styles. Sohrab Habibion comes from DC’s post-hardcore underground. He’s played in Edsel and the late, much lamented Obits. It is likely from him, a man of Iranian heritage, that the band took its name, which it shares with the Shah’s dreaded secret service. Michael Jaworski, by contrast, was born in Omaha, came of age in Seattle’s post-grunge underground where he fronted The Cops and Virgin Islands. The trio’s third permanent member is Matt Schulz, who played drums for Holy Fuck and Enon. Each of them has decades of experience. None of them have much left to prove. Flavors of Paradise is the sound of three guys locking in on the sounds that please them. If you like it, fine. If you don’t, it’s your loss (but really, why don’t you like it?).

The band’s egalitarian practice has been to alternate songs—one of Jaworski’s lush psychedelics, then one of Habibion’s jagged off-kilter anthems. And so we fall under the spell of the sspiraling, ruminative “Will Get Fooled Again” for a little bit (nice nod to the Who’s trippy power chorded aesthetic) and then head for the bristling propulsion and rough shouted energy of “Jump into the Night.” But look, here’s the thing. These guys have been playing together long enough that, even the headiest psychedelic jangle has a hard, rhythmic core, and even the bumpiest post-punk salvo culminates in shimmering guitar overload.  Two different sensibilities don’t exactly merge, but make room for each other, adapt to each other, and emerge all the stronger.

And in the end, what difference does it make who wrote what and who’s singing? These are tight, well-constructed punk rock songs, played with joy for the love of the game. Flavors of Paradise, for sure, if your idea of heaven has sticky floors and piles of amps.

Jennifer Kelly

#SAVAK #flavors of paradise #peculiar works #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #punk #post-punk #rock #Sohrab Habibion #mike jaworski #matt schulz

[bandcampsnoop]

5/17/23.

Pardoner is a San Francisco, California based band that sound much more like an East Coast band. San Francisco music these days often bring to mind reverb-heavy indie pop, but Pardoner have a crunchy rock sound - this song is "My Wagon"...how can that not bring to mind Dinosaur Jr.?

Other touchstones are Big Dipper, The Men or Savak. Bar/None Records (Hoboken, New Jersey) is releasing this in June.

#Pardoner #San Francisco #California #Bar/None Records #New Jersey #Dinosaur Jr. #Big Dipper #The Men #Savak #Bandcamp

[mossadegh]

SAVAK’s ability to ruin young Iranians’ professional and personal lives (known as “living death”) was all-pervasive. Fearing not only for himself but for the Shah’s survival, the Associated Press’ Tehran bureau chief confided to a U.S. spy that Iran’s merciless police state could backfire badly.  

The Mossadegh Project

#parviz raein #iran #SAVAK #iranian #tehran #shah of iran #associated press #dictators #dictatorship #police state #tyranny #oppression #middle east #fascism #AP #state department #1970's #nixon administration #foreign policy #foreign affairs #us foreign policy #cold war #history #political prisoners #US #us embassy #us empire #iranians #iranian protests #iran protests

[omegaplus]

# 4,164

Omega Radio for August 13, 2022; #323.

Casual Hex: "New You"

Body Type: "Bouyancy"

Keg: "Heyshaw"

During: "Birds Of Juneau"

Landowner: "War Leads To War"

Media Jeweler: "Helicopter"

Straw Man Army: "Day 49"

Kneeling In Piss: "I Am A Patsy"

Spread Joy: "Ow" + "Contrition"

Snooper: "Come Together"

Smarts: "Smarts Theme"

Debbie Downers: "Man In A Panic"

Argument?: "I Just Wanna' Have Some Fun"

Maraudeur: "Robot Machine"

Clear History: "Solar Death Ray"

Stoner Will & The Narks: "(The Externality Of) Cheap Beer (Is Tacit Consent To Empire)"

Cagette: "Scatty Man"

Kaputt: "Hi! I'm The Wasp"

Doc Flippers: "Terrible II"

Bodega: "Thrown"

Pinch Points: "Am I Okay" + "Reasons to Be Anxious"

BB Eye: "Poke You In The Eye"

Desperfecto: "Olvide"

Trash Kit: "Shyness"

Tyvek: "We're Back"

Unschooling: "Shopping On The Left Bank"

Traps PS: "CCTV"

Rips: "Mirror"

Nicfit: "Fuse"

Handle: "untitled demo #2"

Spllit: "Heavy Handed Time"

Pardoner: "Bunny's Taxi"

Screensaver: "Static State"

La Jungle: "Hyperitual"

Pamphlets: "Flowers"

Savak: "No Blues No Jazz"

Last Night: "Magnetique"

Splitting Image: "Hard To Reach"

Sarcasm: "Conceptual Forms"

Marbled Eye: "Laughing Sound"

Mystic Inane: "Josephine The Singer"

Krimi: "Vicious Cycle"

Hypoluxo: "Sometimes"

Post-punk, d.i.y., and city sounds.

#post-punk #d.i.y. #city #Hypoluxo #Krimi #Splitting Image #Savak #Rips #Traps PS #Unschooling #BB Eye #Kaputt #Debbie Downers #Meraudeur #music #mixtapes #reviews #playlists

[sonicziggy]

"Up With The Sun" by Savak https://ift.tt/Ez96a7O

#IFTTT #Spotify #Savak

[goldsan25]

havuz savak ızgarası

https://www.goldsan.com.tr/havuz-izgarasi

#havuz savak ızgarası

[omegaradiowusb]

AUGUST 13, 2022 (#323)

Casual Hex: "New You" Body Type: "Bouyancy" (***NEW) Keg: "Heyshaw" During: "Birds Of Juneau" Landowner: "War Leads To War" Media Jeweler: "Helicopter" Straw Man Army: "Day 49" (***NEW) Kneeling In Piss: "I Am A Patsy" Spread Joy: "Ow" + "Contrition" (***NEW) Snooper: "Come Together" + “Powerball” (***NEW) Smarts: "Smarts Theme" Debbie Downers: "Man In A Panic" Argument?: "I Just Wanna' Have Some Fun" Maraudeur: "Robot Machine" Clear History: "Solar Death Ray" Stoner Will & The Narks: "(The Externality Of) Cheap Beer (Is Tacit Consent To Empire)" Cagette: "Scatty Man" Kaputt: "Hi! I'm The Wasp" Doc Flippers: "Terrible II" Bodega: "Thrown" (***NEW) Pinch Points: "Am I Okay" + "Reasons to Be Anxious" (***NEW) BB Eye: "Poke You In The Eye"  Desperfecto: "Olvide"  Trash Kit: "Shyness" Tyvek: "We're Back" (***NEW) Unschooling: "Shopping On The Left Bank" (***NEW) Traps PS: "CCTV" (***NEW) Rips: "Mirror" Nicfit: "Fuse" Handle: "untitled demo #2" Spllit: "Heavy Handed Time" Pardoner: "Bunny's Taxi" Screensaver: "Static State" La Jungle: "Hyperitual" Pamphlets: "Flowers" (***NEW) Savak: "No Blues No Jazz" (***NEW) Last Night: "Magnetique" Splitting Image: "Hard To Reach" Sarcasm: "Conceptual Forms" Marbled Eye: "Laughing Sound" Mystic Inane: "Josephine The Singer" Krimi: "Vicious Cycle" (***NEW) Hypoluxo: "Sometimes"

We didn’t forget about one of our favorite types of deluxe broadcasts. Finding lots of sounds and intense auditioning for all of our Summer broadcasts seemed like we almost forgot about post-punk and d.i.y. Not so. With 47 tracks, it’s our most dense broadcast of its kind. It's all the deluxe post-punk / d.i.y. money can buy, and tonight all of our listeners will get their worth.

There’s still more we have yet to showcase for our Summer broadcasting season. Thanks to all of our followers and supporters of Omega and WUSB.

August 15, 2022 (11AM New York City): bonus Omega

August 22, 2022 (11AM New York City): bonus Omega

August 27, 2022 (10PM New York City): final deluxe Omega

August 29, 2022 (midnight New York City): bonus Omega

August 29, 2022 (11AM New York City): final bonus Omega

#post-punk #d.i.y. #omega #music #playlists #Hypoluxo #Krimi #Marbled Eye #Splitting Image #Savak #Pardoner #Spllit #Nicfit #Rips #Traps PS #Unschooling #BB Eye #Pinch Points #Bodega #Kaputt #Debbie Downers #Spread Joy #Landowner

[humansofnewyork]

(13/54) “In Germany we started a family. When our first daughter was born we named her Ahang. Ferdowsi uses the word a lot in Shahnameh. It means melody, but it also means willpower. Eighteen months later our son Maziar arrived. After the children were born Mitra said it was time to choose a normal profession, and secure the life that we had. At university I studied mechanical engineering. But wherever I am, I think of all of Iran. There were many Iranian students living in Germany, so I started my own version of Niroo called the Assembly of Kaveh, after one of Shahnameh’s greatest champions. Kaveh is a special champion. He was a normal man. An ordinary blacksmith. But he rallies the people to defeat Zahak—the most evil king in all of Shahnameh. Our meetings were held in the back room of a local tavern. The meetings were more cultural than political, each week we’d lecture on a different topic. But I was outspoken about my support for the White Revolution. We’d lost half our family’s land as part of the land reform, but still: I supported it. I wrote my father a letter. I said: ‘Today we can hold our heads higher, because there is more freedom in Iran.’ One day we were in the middle of a meeting when the door was kicked in. Two hundred angry men rushed into the room. They were mainly members of a leftist group, but they’d also been infiltrated by The Shah’s secret police, SAVAK. Their agents had been tasked with creating conflict between student groups. The men went around the room, knocking over furniture. One of them broke a coke bottle against the table, and wielded it as a weapon. I stood up from my chair and rolled my papers in my hand. I said: ‘Please, sit down. Let us discuss. Let us use our words.’ One of them was dressed exactly like Fidel Castro. He picked up a chair and jabbed its leg directly into my eye. Blood started streaming from my face. My friends picked me off the floor and helped me to the basement of the tavern. After a few minutes a police car arrived to take me to the hospital, and I was loaded in the back. I began to lose consciousnesses. The last thing I remember was a horrible, sharp pain in my eye. Then everything turned to black.”

 میترا و من در آلمان صاحب دختری شدیم. نامش را آهنگ نهادیم. این واژه‌ای‌ست که فردوسی در شاهنامه بارها به کار برده است. به معنای نغمه و آواز، به معنای اراده‌ی راسخ نیز هست. هجده ماه پس از او پسرمان مازیار پا به دنیا نهاد. پس از به دنیا آمدن فرزندان‌مان، میترا از من خواست که پیشه‌ای معمولی برگزینم. آسایش و آرامشی داشته باشیم. در دانشگاه، مهندسی مکانیک می‌خواندم. ولی هر جا باشم، ایران با من است. از آنجا که در آلمان دانشجویان ایرانی بسیار بودند، پس از رایزنی با دوستان بر آن شدیم که سازمانی فرهنگی-سیاسی برپا کنیم. نامش را «انجمن ملی کاوه» نهادیم، به افتخار یکی از نامدارترین پهلوانان شاهنامه. کاوه پهلوانی‌ست ویژه. او از تبار آزاده مردمان بود. آهنگری ساده. ولی بر ضحاک، پلیدترین شاه شاهنامه شورید. دیدار هفتگی‌مان را در اتاقی ویژه‌ی نشست‌ها و گردهمآیی‌ها در میخانه‌ا‌ی محلی برگزار می‌کردیم. هر هفته به جُستار متفاوتی می‌پرداختیم: تاریخ، شعر، ادبیات، معماری و جز آن. گردهمآیی‌هایمان بیشتر فرهنگی بود تا سیاسی. ولی من انقلاب سفید را نیز پشتیبان بودم. با اصلاحات ارضی نیمی از زمین‌های خانوادگی‌مان از دست رفته بود ولی من با خرسندی به پدرم نوشتم که: «امروز می‌توانیم سرمان را بالاتر بگیریم زیرا عدالت، آزادی و آسایش بیشتری در ایران پدید می‌آید.» شبی در میانه‌ی گردهمآیی‌مان ناگهان در اتاق باز شد. چند سد تن از مردان خشمگین به اتاق ما یورش آوردند. ما بیست‌و‌‌‌چند تن بودیم. آنان اعضا و هواداران کنفدراسیون دانشجویان ایرانی بودند. کنگره‌ی سالانه‌شان را در شهر ما برپا کرده بودند. ساواک درگیری میان دانشجویان ایرانی را به سود خود می‌دانست. بیشتر آنان طرفداران چپ وابسته به سیاست‌های شوروی و دیگر کشورهای کمونیستی بودند و با ناسیونالیسم و انقلاب سفید مخالفت داشتند. یکی از آنها بطری نوشابه‌ای را شکست و به هوا برد. یکی که مانند فیدل کاسترو لباس پوشیده بود دور اتاق چرخید و پس از پرسیدن نام من روی میز جلوی من نشست. کاغذهایم را لوله کردم و از جا برخاستم. گفتم: «خواهش می‌کنم بنشینید تا با هم گفت‌وگو کنیم.» او صندلی را برداشت و پایه‌ی آن را یکراست به چشم راست من کوبید. دوستان، مرا به زیرزمین میخانه رساندند که ایمن‌تر بود. مهاجمان آمبولانسی را که برای بردن من رسیده بود، واژگون کردند. ناگزیر مرا در ماشین پلیس به بیمارستان رساندند. آرام آرام هوشیاری‌ام از دست می‌رفت. آخرین چیزی که به یاد دارم، احساس دردی شدید در چشمم بود. دیگر چیزی به یاد ندارم

[daggerzine]

My 10 current favorite songs!

Savak- up with the sun

Good Looks- if it's gone

Love Child- wait and see

Lunchbox- dinner for two

Bloodstains- public hanging

The Infinites- guilty man

Mary Timony- the guest

R.E. Seraphin- bound

The BVs- i can't stand the rain

Seasonal Falls- used to be fun

#Youtube

[alain-keler]

Mardi 13 février 1979.

« La révolution iranienne a commencé.

Armés en quelques heures, les jeunes révolutionnaires ont assuré le pouvoir à l’Ayatollah Khomeiny et à son gouvernement. Cette première révolution islamique, que les observateurs sentaient couver depuis longtemps a éclaté brutalement quelques jours après le retour du chef religieux chiite. Morts, blessés, arrestations, bras tendus vers la victoire, tel est le spectacle qu’offrait Téhéran le 13 février 1979 ». Légende Sygma.

Je suis tombé par hasard sur des arrestations de membres présumés de la Savak* ( Sazman-e Ettel at va Amniyat-e keshvar, organisation pour le renseignement et la sécurité nationale), la police politique du shah, redoutée par la population. Elle avait virtuellement tous les pouvoirs illimités d’arrestation et de détention dans le pays.

Il y a, après une guerre ou une révolution, un court moment d’euphorie pendant lequel la presse peut travailler librement. Mais rapidement les nouvelles autorités, une fois un semblant d’ordre rétabli, bloquent toutes les initiatives des journalistes qui ne sont pas jugées conformes à l’intérêt de ces nouvelles autorités.

Ces réactions n’ont font qu’empirer au cours des années, pour maintenant laisser des pans entiers de l’information entre les mains de policiers ou de propagandistes officiels. Ce mouvement a même atteint certaines « démocraties occidentales ». Il est fort à parier que les récents succès de politiques d’extrême droite finiront par influencer toutes les classes politiques confondues, avec comme résultat un renforcement de législations restrictives à l’égard de la liberté de la presse, pourtant encore une liberté fondamentale garantie  par la loi dans le cadre de la liberté d’expression que permet la démocratie. 

[wildiesong]

Minden mosolyod, mozdulatod, szavad, őrzöm, mint hulló tárgyakat a föld. Elmémbe, mint a fémbe a savak, ösztöneimmel belemartalak, te kedves, szép alak, lényed ott minden lényeget kitölt.

József Attila - Óda 3. (részlet)

#József Attila #Óda #részlet #idézet #mosolyod #mozdulatod #szavad #föld #elme #ösztön #kedves #szép #lényeg

[bandcampsnoop]

2/4/24.

Cult Figures first appeared on the scene in the late 1970s and released a few singles on Swell Maps' label Rather Records. "Zip Nolan" is the best of their early work (reminds me of a weirder Mission of Burma). It shows a bit more traditional structure and sound than Swell Maps, but this is still pretty avant punk.

Much like some cicadas, Cult Figures went dormant for over 30 years. When they hatched again, they sounded less avant punk and more post-punk, punk pop. "The 166 Ploughs A Lonely Furrow" was their comeback LP, and last October "Between Us and Heaven" was released on Gare Du Nord Records.

Now they have a Soft Boys meet SAVAK feel. And the cover art looks like something Micah would have drawn.

#Cult Figures #UK #Gare Du Nord Records #Swell Maps #Rather Records #Mission of Burma #Soft Boys #SAVAK #Micah #Bandcamp

[radfembri]

Iran. Many Iranian women opposed the Shah's autocratic rule and his use of a cruel secret police, SAVAK, which tortured many women who joined underground anti-government guerrilla groups. In 1978, militant Muslim supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini incited massive demonstrations against the Shah. To placate the religious leaders of the revolutionary movement, he banned abortion.

But in 1979, the militants drove him out. Khomeini, who had been propagandizing from exile in Paris, returned to Iran in triumph. In March 1979, 100,00 women gathered at the University of Tehran to celebrate the overthrow of the Shah and the Ayatollah’s victory. But almost at once, Khomeini suspended reformed family laws, barred women from becoming judges, issued his first order on the veil, passed a series of laws to segregate schools, buses, beaches, and other public areas, and established theocratic rule.

Disregarding women's support, the Ayatollah abolished all laws granting women rights and showed no reluctance to kill women who upheld them. He established a ‘morals police’—made up, in a rare exception, of women, called the Zeinab Sisters—to exercise surveillance on women's dress and behavior and harass or arrest them. One of his first acts was to prosecute the first woman member of the Iranian cabinet, Farrokhrou Parsa. Tried by judges in hoods, allowed no defense attorney and no appeal, she was in fact declared guilty before the trial began. Parsa was charged, writes Mahnaz Afhjami, with ‘expansion of prostitution, corruption on earth, and warring against God.’ Her actual offenses were to direct schoolgirls not to veil and to establish a commission to revise textbooks to present a nonsexist image of women. In December 1979, Khomeini had Parsa executed; she was wrapped in a sack and machine-gunned.

Women protested the new rules in massive marches in Teheran and other Iranian cities; men beat, stoned, and even stabbed them as they marched. Men purged women from the public realm, then passed laws severely restricting them from taking jobs and making it almost impossible for them to talk to or deal with men at work. In 1981, Khomeini had fifty schoolgirls shot and thousands of girls and women arrested for ‘counterrevolutionary’ or ‘anti-Islamic’ activity. None were given trials, and reports indicate that 20,000 women, including pregnant women, old women, and young girls, were executed. In 1982, Khomeini set the legal minimum age for execution at ten years (or puberty) for girls and sixteen for boys, banned women from most sports eventsand launched a new campaign of arrest, executing 15,000 people. That same year, he intensified government persecution of religious minorities, especially Jews and Baha'is. In 1983, he made veiling compulsory for women, and had ten women hanged for refusing to convert from Baha'i to Islam: three were teenagers; others included the first Iranian woman physicist, a concert pianist, the former personnel director for Iran Television, and nurse. He recruited children to clear minefields during Iran's war against Iraq; hundreds of thousands were killed.

In 1989, a woman interviewed on a television program said she would rather model herself on a contemporary woman than on Muhammad's daughter, the self-sacrificing Fatima who has been held up as a model for women for thirteen hundred years. Ayatollah Khomeini ordered those responsible for the program arrested and executed. When his advisers assured him the producers had made an innocent mistake, he granted pardons—but by then Iranian women had surely gotten the message.

“The War Against Women,” Marilyn French

#the war against women #marilyn french #radfem #radical feminism #radfem reading

[aynodndr]

Derler Bizde!!!

Davete “OKUNTU” yengeye“ GUMA”,

İnceden açılmış ekmeğe “YUKA”,

Saciçinde “KÖMBE”, üstde “BAZLAMA”,

Savrulan buğdaya “CEÇ” deller bizde.!!!

Babaanneye “EBE”, halaya “BİBİ”,

Amcaya “EMMİ” der, çocuğa “SABİ”,

Uzağa “IRAK” der, yakına “BERİ”,

Birin çağırırken “HİŞ” deller bizde.!!!

Hastalığa “MARAZ”, öksürüğe “ÇOR”,

yabancıya “EL”,

acemiye “TOR”,

Hanıma “AVRAT” der konuşmaya “ŞOR”,

İşler kötü ise “YAŞ” deller bizde.!!!

Büyük kaba “HELKE”, küçüğe “ŞİTİL”

Tohuma “BİDER” der, fidana “ŞETİL”,

Şakaya “YARENNİK”

girmekse “DIKIL”,

Leğen demezlerde “TEŞ” deller bizde.!!!

Düğmeye “İLİK” der, eşarba “YAĞLIK”

Yayılmış yoğurdun suyuna “KATIK”,

Ayrana “ÇALKAMAÇ”, yayığa “YANNIK”,

Avşar pilavına “AŞ” deller bizde.!!!

Çukurlara “YARIK”, bedava “BELEŞ”,

Hayvan ölüsünün adına “ÜLEŞ”,

Güzele “GÖKÇEK” der, bir adı “KELEŞ”,

Rüya demezlerde “DÜŞ” deller bizde.!!!

Herhâlde “ELLEHAM ”bir adı “ZAHAR”,

Ameleye “IRGAT”, koyuna “DAVAR”,

Tazeye “ACER” der, yokuşa “BAYAR”,

Koş gel demezlerde “GOP” deller bizde.!!!

Kırmızı “TOKADALI”, pembeye “ŞAYAK”,

Amcaya “EMMİ”, kibâra “KIYAK”,

Az önce “DEBİYAK”, demine “BAYAK”,

Otun samanına “KERS” deller bizde.!!!

Dünürüne “HISIM”, düşmâna “HASIM”,

Gömleğe “İŞLİK” der, ilmeğe “DÜĞÜM”,

Havluya “PEŞKİR”, bakraca “GÜĞÜM”,

Yetmemiş armuda “KEŞ ” deller bizde.!!!

Gezmeye “HALAKA”, zarara “GAREZ”,

Nüfusa “HORANTA”, murâda “MURAZ”,

Biçilmiş Ekinin yerine “FİREZ”,

Bahardan önceye “GIŞ” deller bizde

Okula “MEKTEP” der,Tokada “ŞAPLAK”

Tarlaya su akan Yerlere “SAVAK”

Esire “YESİR” der,Üşümek “BUYMAK”

Ağaç kırılınca “HAŞ” deller bizde

Fasulye ye “PAKLA” der,Pencereye “PENEK”

Havuca “PÜRÇÜKLÜ” Yıkanmak “ÇİMMEK”

Çiftçiye “İREÇBER, bakmak “DEANEMEK”

Bayat yumurtaya “CILK” deller bizde

İşarete “IŞMAR”, tavıra “ZAVIR”

Önceye “SELEF” der,Geçmişe “BILDIR”

Lüzumsuza “VETSİZ”, kahıra “GAHİR”

Anlaştık demezde “HE” deller bizde

Elbiseye “ASBAP”, Yıkanmış “YUNUK”

Yanağa “AVURT” der,Surata “DULUK”

Civcive “CÜCÜK”, Hindiye “CULUK”

Kümese sürerken “KİŞ” deller bizde

Değneğe “MESES” der,balkona “ÇARDAK”

Sipariş “ISMARIÇ”, Kızmak “SOKRANMAK”

Uzaklaşmanın adı bizde "IRAMAK”

Eşeğe binerken “ÇÜŞ” deller bizde

Çukur taşa “GAKLIK”, Dolaba “GAPLIK”

Tavaya “ELLİCE”, Yemeğe “AZZIK”

Testiye “CERE” der takıya “BEKLİK”

Karnın yemiyorsa “ŞİŞ”

Evet yerine kısaca "HEYE" deller bizde

[thecasualbookreviewer]

How could he fear anything with them all at his back? What could he regret when he still felt Andrew's kisses on his mouth?

The kings men, Nora Savakic

#the kings men #nora sakavic #book quote #favorite quote #booklr

[omegaplus]

# 4,403

May 28, 2022 Playlist.

The opportunity to attend Sacred Bones’ 15th anniversary presented itself pretty quickly. Tickets were released for sale four weeks before the show and I grabbed them right away. I missed out on both Sacred Bones’ 10th shows because of nine months of stay-at-home recovery and now their 15th was a chance to redeem myself.

The build-up was getting heavier as the show drew closer. I had anxiety like never before waiting to attend a New York City show. The 28th came and it started on a dim, greyscale note. Long Island had a string of wet days with Saturday no exception. Rain arrived at the Central Islip station before I had with no telling when it’d stop - if it did. Halfway from my home station to Woodside did the storm subside to nothing.

By the time I transferred from the 7 line to the Q39 bus had the clouds open up to welcome in the blinding basking sun and matching sweltering humidity. The Q39 raced, whipped, and turned wide all throughout Sunnyside and ultimately Maspeth to drop me off in a dense neighborhood of hazy, white 75*F temperatures. I’m in the middle of an unfamiliar yet dense neighborhood. I walk a few blocks into a suspiciously silent area of shackled-up factories, closed warehouses, and shipping centers closed for the weekend; all by myself not knowing or worrying about any rogues waiting in the wings to start trouble. I drew closer to the new activity of open businesses, moving vehicles, and the pedestrians walking through the gauntlet to the Knockdown Center.

Nothing that I could ever imagine would conjure up a would-be dream-state that would become a magical reality.

I was in New York City (Queens) associated with preferably some of the best people in attendance. Surreal dreams I’ve always had now become a reality. The way showgoers sat outside the Knockout Center felt like I was on another college campus. People sitting on the floor silently observing Constant Smiles play as the rays peeked through during sundown. A hypnotized crowd witnessing Anika and Spellling’s mesmerizing performances. A super-colorful closing set by Black Marble, and a sit-down lecture about time - at a music festival? Whether Sacred Bones gamed it themselves or by sheer coincidence, this event had some unusual moments that made for a truly unforgettable experience.

The next day’s opening shift was in the back of my mind; more apparent as midnight approached. Regrettably, I leave the Knockdown Center a little earlier than desired and hitched a ride to Woodmere’s train home and guarantee six hours of sleep. I’m stunned. Bedazzled. My mind is processing the last five hours of what just happened. I’m organizing and interpreting the swirl of feelings, the sights, the colors, the sounds, the crowd, and the happenstance of everything that unfolded as I wait for the rail’s arrival. I take a seat facing direction to the Jamaica stop where I had only one minute to race and take the double-decker train’s upper-lever seat for the rest of the way home.

Spring is over. Summer has officially started.

Offset, The: Spectacles: “Colour”

Smile, The: “You Will…”

Aeges: “Who Are You”

Black Dresses: “Angel Hair”

Iguana Moonlight: “V”

Antonio Sanchez feat. Nine Inch Nails: “I Think We’re Past That Now”

Better Living: “Kid”

Ritualz: “Reintegration”

Feels Fine: “Washed Out Blue”

Doc Hammer: “Commanche”

Kaputt!: “Highlight!”

Grimes: “Shimigami Eyes”

Muslimgauze: “Qom” (edit)

Jade Hairpins: “Mary Magazine”

Totally Unicorn: “Filmed Before A Dead Audience”

Dead When I Found Her: “Dry Bed”

Beauty Pill: “At A Loss”

Savak: No Blues…”

Kaputt!: “Parsonage Square”

JK Flesh: “Urge”

Luca: “Undertow…”

Pink Siifu: “Wayans Brothers”

Alchemist: “Broken Bottles”

Henry Mancini: “Men’s Room Rock”

Principe Valiente: …

Smirk: “Irrelevant Man”

A Number Of Names: “Sharevari”

Daniel Johnston: “In A Lifetime”

100 Proof: Aged In Soul…

Kaputt!: “Accordion”

Kae Tempest: “Salt…”

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