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#5660 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Fri Sep 3, 2010 12:12 pm
Subject: Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of The…
mondobongos
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"The recordings are lo-fi, a mix of circular, chorus-effected guitar
with a drumbeat like a circus carousel (up, down, up, down, up, down).
The vocals crash in and out like a warbled Emo Philips singing about
dogs and cantaloupe. It’s epicly damaged, the stuff of outsider music
fans’ wet dreams."

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5942

Al

#5661 From: dustin drase <ddrase@...>
Date: Fri Sep 3, 2010 2:05 pm
Subject: Re: Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of The…
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Oh sweet!
I actually wrote that piece. 
Thanks so much to this mailing list for bringing RTC to my attention.

Dustin

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Telstar <aclark23@...> wrote:
"The recordings are lo-fi, a mix of circular, chorus-effected guitar
with a drumbeat like a circus carousel (up, down, up, down, up, down).
The vocals crash in and out like a warbled Emo Philips singing about
dogs and cantaloupe. It’s epicly damaged, the stuff of outsider music
fans’ wet dreams."

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5942

Al




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#5662 From: "Marco Kalnenek" <marcokalnenek@...>
Date: Fri Sep 3, 2010 1:58 pm
Subject: RE: Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of The.
weirdomusic
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> "The recordings are lo-fi, a mix of circular, chorus-effected guitar
> with a drumbeat like a circus carousel (up, down, up, down, up, down).
> The vocals crash in and out like a warbled Emo Philips singing about
> dogs and cantaloupe. It's epicly damaged, the stuff of outsider music
> fans' wet dreams."

One track of the album is available for free from my website
Weirdomusic.com:
http://tinyurl.com/2fd2nc3

(with kind permission of the label of course)

best wishes,
Marco

http://www.weirdomusic.com

Weirdomusic.com
PO Box 26
6400 AA Heerlen
The Netherlands
marco@...

#5663 From: james lindbloom <jalindbloom@...>
Date: Sat Sep 4, 2010 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of The...
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There's an animated video to go along with that song now, too :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwZxbnv2JVw

James 
www.roaratorio.com


#5664 From: mark_r_hazen@...
Date: Sat Sep 4, 2010 10:52 pm
Subject: Re: Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of The...
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Does anybody remember the "Rotato"?  One of the best infomertials in my books.

--- On Sat, 9/4/10, james lindbloom <jalindbloom@...> wrote:

From: james lindbloom <jalindbloom@...>
Subject: Re: [outsidermusic] Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of The...
To: outsidermusic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 4:52 PM

 
There's an animated video to go along with that song now, too :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwZxbnv2JVw

James 
www.roaratorio.com


#5665 From: Lee Rosevere <leerosevere@...>
Date: Wed Sep 8, 2010 4:54 pm
Subject: request: Sooty and Sweep
leerosevere
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Does anyone have an mp3 copy of Sooty and Sweep's single from the early 70s
"Super Sonic Sooty Spug"?

Thanks!
~LR

#5666 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:55 pm
Subject: Gary Wilson, Reigning King of Outsider Music
mondobongos
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"In 1977 Gary Wilson famously released a uniquely bizarre and personal
album titled You Think You Really Know Me..., full of electro-funk,
proto-new wave, noise collage, and avant-garde jazz. Despite the fact
that the album's fans included Beck, Questlove from The Roots,
Simpsons creator Matt Groening, and Stones Throws' Peanut Butter
Wolf,widespread fame and notoriety eluded Gary Wison until the 2002 re-
release of his debut album. Soon after media outlets like Pitchfork,
The Village Voice, and The New York Timeswere talking about the
lecherous outsider artist, remarkable as much for his idiosyncrasies
and DIY aesthetic as his edgy and creative music."

http://tinyurl.com/28wyn2a

Al

#5667 From: "jalindbloom" <jalindbloom@...>
Date: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:55 pm
Subject: A Tribute To Bad Lyrics
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just wanted to pass the word along on a new CD, compiled by the cartoonist Pat
Moriarity: "A Tribute To Bad Lyrics."  Details here:

http://patmoriarity.blogspot.com/

My personal favorites are Daniel Davies (Dave Davies' son) covering the infamous
song-poem "Gymanasium Girl" as an aching Jeff Buckley-esque song of longing, and
Tim Gazaway turning Rodd Keith's "Space" into a 100% convincing piece of
Southern-fried boogie rock.  It's a great package, and totally worth your $$.

cheers
James

#5668 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:48 am
Subject: South Korea Turns the Music Back Up Along Border with North Korea
mondobongos
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Incorrect music dept:

""When South Korea last blared propaganda and obnoxious music from 11
sets of loudspeakers along the border with North Korea, the North
threatened to turn Seoul "into a sea of flame." So Seoul is cranking
the music back up again."

http://gawker.com/5657852/south-korea-turns-the-music-back-up-along-border-with-\
north-korea

Al

#5669 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:49 am
Subject: Catherine Christer Hennix: The Electric Harpsichord
mondobongos
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"Hyperbole and silence wrap around Catherine Christer Hennix’s music
like the black and white of yin and yang. La Monte Young and Henry
Flynt have praised her merger of music and mathematics for decades
(well, initially his merger — Christer Hennix was born in 1948 and
took the name Catherine when she adopted the female gender in 1990).
Hennix hasn’t exactly promoted herself; while she’s lived and
occasionally performed in Europe since the early ’90s, until now she
hadn’t made any records. Until the release of this volume, the only
way to hear Hennix was in person, on certain Henry Flynt records (C
Tune, Purified By Fire, and Dharma Warriors) and via Ubuweb."

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6008

Al

#5670 From: matt love <mattlove1@...>
Date: Fri Oct 8, 2010 2:36 am
Subject: Re: South Korea Turns the Music Back Up Along Border with North Korea
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What a bunch of assholes.  They should just leave those starving, miserable people alone if they aren't going to persue policies of reconciliation.

And I love how sound torture is cute and funny now (americans that approve of torture is approaching 50%).

One person had a very reasonable and informed comment:

I actually don't think it appeared "pretty obvious" the North sank the South's warship, and a lot of intellectuals and scholars have wondered, if rather quietly, if it wasn't some sort of false flag operation. The evidence was pretty flimsy and controlled by the South, who turned the whole event into a 9/11 style media blitz, taking over the television channels and cancelling regular programming for weeks. I don't dispute that North Korea is literally insane- it is a nation of brainwashed citizenry who are nuts, who are ruled by a leader who is himself completely nuts. But don't forget that South Korea has a leader who is extremely conservative and has undone a lot of the reforms and burned a lot of the bridges that the previous presidents and their administrations worked very hard to establish, and isn't a modern man at all. This is a country that requires every male to be in the military, while also making it literally illegal to engage in gay sex and be in the military, effectively making being gay illegal for a span of every man's life. Just as we find out everyday that our own government has committed atrocities through the ages under the pretense of absolute blatant lies and feel extremely skeptical even of a liberal administration, so too do South Koreans who have had a really difficult history with poor leadership and despots who will cling to power and oppress the citizenry to maintain the status quo at all costs.

So of course my fucktard fellow americans jump in with aggressively hostile comments, ignoring what he actually said, setting up strawmen, introducing logical fallicies into the discussion, etc etc.



On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Telstar <aclark23@...> wrote:
 

Incorrect music dept:

""When South Korea last blared propaganda and obnoxious music from 11
sets of loudspeakers along the border with North Korea, the North
threatened to turn Seoul "into a sea of flame." So Seoul is cranking
the music back up again."

http://gawker.com/5657852/south-korea-turns-the-music-back-up-along-border-with-north-korea

Al




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#5671 From: matt love <mattlove1@...>
Date: Fri Oct 8, 2010 3:53 am
Subject: Re: South Korea Turns the Music Back Up Along Border with North Korea
valis2001us
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Sorry, I'll take that back. How could I miss the obvious red flag of the term "false flag" operation - a phrase that says "conspiracy theorist" like acne signifies teenager.

I tried to post the following a couple of times, glad it didn't work, because of course im2fools (and I'm at least one) was accusing yearscomeandgo of doing what he at least darkly hinted at.

Still, I maintain there are other explanations, and serious flaws with the official story - as is so often the case, from the Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, on through the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman stories

@im2fools: "Having served in the U.S. Navy, and worked with the South Korean Navy, the idea that they sunk one of their own ships and killed their own sailors is highly offensive to me." I guess as a military man, you must find the idea that the US military people killed one of their own (Pat Tillman) and then the government made up a story that he died under enemy fire "highly offensive"  - but that's exactly what happened.  But let's not let my analogy cloud the issue; yearscomeandgo never suggested such a scenerio in the case of the Cheonan sinking, you are setting up a straw man to knock down, appealling to emotion, poisoning the well, etc etc.  I guess it's too much to expect a reasonable debate in the comment section of a fairly poorly written article on the internet... particularly when Americans are involved.

At any rate, there are other possibilities besides the official story, and the conspiracy theory you (offensively) try to attribute to yearscomeandgo. Some are discussed, as well as flaws in the official story, here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/elich07282010.html

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:36 PM, matt love <mattlove1@...> wrote:
What a bunch of assholes.  They should just leave those starving, miserable people alone if they aren't going to persue policies of reconciliation.

And I love how sound torture is cute and funny now (americans that approve of torture is approaching 50%).

One person had a very reasonable and informed comment:

I actually don't think it appeared "pretty obvious" the North sank the South's warship, and a lot of intellectuals and scholars have wondered, if rather quietly, if it wasn't some sort of false flag operation. The evidence was pretty flimsy and controlled by the South, who turned the whole event into a 9/11 style media blitz, taking over the television channels and cancelling regular programming for weeks. I don't dispute that North Korea is literally insane- it is a nation of brainwashed citizenry who are nuts, who are ruled by a leader who is himself completely nuts. But don't forget that South Korea has a leader who is extremely conservative and has undone a lot of the reforms and burned a lot of the bridges that the previous presidents and their administrations worked very hard to establish, and isn't a modern man at all. This is a country that requires every male to be in the military, while also making it literally illegal to engage in gay sex and be in the military, effectively making being gay illegal for a span of every man's life. Just as we find out everyday that our own government has committed atrocities through the ages under the pretense of absolute blatant lies and feel extremely skeptical even of a liberal administration, so too do South Koreans who have had a really difficult history with poor leadership and despots who will cling to power and oppress the citizenry to maintain the status quo at all costs.

So of course my fucktard fellow americans jump in with aggressively hostile comments, ignoring what he actually said, setting up strawmen, introducing logical fallicies into the discussion, etc etc.



On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Telstar <aclark23@...> wrote:
 

Incorrect music dept:

""When South Korea last blared propaganda and obnoxious music from 11
sets of loudspeakers along the border with North Korea, the North
threatened to turn Seoul "into a sea of flame." So Seoul is cranking
the music back up again."

http://gawker.com/5657852/south-korea-turns-the-music-back-up-along-border-with-north-korea

Al




--
I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends. 
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands



--
I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends. 
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands

#5672 From: Sveinar Aase <sv-aas2@...>
Date: Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:53 pm
Subject: Norway's leading outsider artist Arvid Sletta
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Check out these playlists made up of his 1990 solo debut Statement and
his stunning Credibility (2006), respectively.


http://www.youtube.com/user/SteinarSol#g/c/36B2AA7180C6076A

http://www.youtube.com/user/toodrunktomakelove#p/u

#5674 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:29 pm
Subject: Jim Sullivan
mondobongos
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"Jim Sullivan wrote one amazing – and as it turns out oddly predictive
– record, and then disappeared while traveling from CA to TN. Leaving
behind his car, guitar, wallet, and countless questions we will most
likely never know what happened to Jim…. but we will always have the
lore and music that he left behind."

http://lightintheattic.net/artists/292-jim-sullivan

Al

#5675 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:23 am
Subject: Gary Wilson Wants to Talk to You
mondobongos
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"It was 1977 when twenty-three-year-old Gary Wilson released You Think
You Really Know Me. He recorded the album in the basement of his
parents’ house, bestowing upon his songs hormonal titles like “Groovy
Girls Make Love At the Beach” and “6.4 = Make Out.” In turn, his
tracks reflected the oddball nature of their creator, coming together
as a wonderful mess of cabaret jazz, squashed funk, chaotic new wave,
and teen idol fawning. Similarly, Wilson’s performances drew heavily
on his love of avant-garde theater and art—things that piqued his
interest when he was twelve-years-old—and he frequently played wrapped
in various items that obscured his face. While his shows were
unpredictable, their outlandishness was not. To the wonder of his
audience (and to add to the peculiarity of his performance), he often
threw flour (or paint or chocolate milk) in his face. Wilson’s music
demanded a strong response from anyone who came across it. Hardly
anyone did."

http://www.waxpoetics.com/2011/01/gary-wilson-wants-to-talk-to-you/

Al

#5676 From: "stan" <singhamloudsinghamclear@...>
Date: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:51 am
Subject: Rotate the Completor: R.T.C-E.P
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A few months back I was told about a new release from Rotate the Completor from
a fan who had ordered `Completed Rotations of the…' from the man himself by
sending as recommended a self addressed envelope containing a blank 90 minute
audio cassette tape to R.T.C's Tauranga P.O Box number. Upon its return
contained within the package was a press release for the follow up – titled,
`The Completed Rotations.'. A copy of this can be seen in the photos section of
the Rotate the Completor Fan Page.

Excited about the prospect of a follow up to one of the strangest debut albums I
have ever heard and eager to hear some new material having been a little less
than two years since first receiving a copy of `Completed Rotations of the…' I
immediately sent a tape of my own to P.O Box 2000, Tauranga, New Zealand (His
only known contact detail if you wish to write to him).  A month or so after
doing so I received my return package (and first reply!) however due to having
been out of the country for the past month I have only just been able to fully
investigate the contents of this.

Addressed to Fan Ingham, a pun on my name – Stan, the package contained a
booklet called `Rotate the Comdeors: Comedic Rotations of the…' . This is a
small comic charting a stand up comedy performance by a series of crudely drawn
pictures of a long haired, goateed comedian who is presumably meant to be Rotate
the Comedor/Completor (though as the hair is drawn very long it makes me curious
to know when this was drawn as no date is marked. For when I met him his hair
was shaved very close to the skin and even looked to be thinning!) annotated all
in type written lower case letters (except for the cover title) with a mixture
of disturbing/humorous/silly observations on himself and life in general.
Contradicting my original belief that he was an idiot savant here he proves
himself to be quite a sharp, insightful but highly misanthropic, neurotic type
with possible personality disorders.

Personal favourites include:

"if one meditates for a long time, it is possible to open up the 3rd eye…leaving
you with an all knowing glow of inner peace. However if one masturbates for only
a very short while they will definitly open the japs eye…leaving you with a ball
blowing white flow and thinner piece."

"supposedly girls are becoming more sexually adventurous at a younger age…but I
would disagree, why just ask yourself what is slag when it is spelled
backwards."

"growing up, girls want horses, boys want horse dicks. Grown woman are paid to
have sex with horses, men pay to watch these ladies having bestial intercourse.
Is the horse therefore the truly dominant species?"

"I don't like sex, the first time I was ever naked and inside a vagina I had a
bad experience…I was born"

As a fan it's really quite remarkable to read this because up until this point
apart from the admittedly dodgy analysis I had done upon meeting Rotate the
Completor many moons ago we really have no idea still as to who he is even
though his album is available world wide. But reading this I can see his
intelligence, depression, laziness, hatred, passion, flaws all through this
booklet and even if comedic licence is to be ignored it still paints a picture
of an artist very unique in his way of thinking if not a tad mentally disturbed.
If you write to Rotate the Completor or order his music off him directly then I
would highly recommend requesting a copy of `Comedic Rotations of the...' as it
seems to offer more insight into his psyche than his music allows due to the
lo-fi nature of it.

Which leads me to the next item of my package, one cassette tape titled
R.T.C-E.P on the index of the inlay card, the cover as seen in the pictures
section of the Fan Page is a photo copy of a rather dark, abstract (crayon?)
drawn picture of a closed gate, with a road leading up a hill. The back of the
inlay card continues his apparent distaste for song titles by continuing the
tradition of not naming any of the 6 songs contained on this E.P. They are
instead numbered as such; 1.)a , 2.)b, 3.) c etc. Only one direction is provided
for listening to this work – `listen outside'.

R.T.C-E.P you may be wondering but what has happened `The Completed Rotations.'?
Good question and one that I cannot fully answer but if the press release to
`The Completed Rotations.' is fully analysed it seems to give a very vague
indication as to when it would actually be released citing that it's release
date would be `within time' and more tellingly these lines from the very end of
the press release "and so he stowed. till which time. the demand grows. then he
will release. the completed rotations. his masterpiece…" Being that he sent me a
copy of the press release with R.T.C-E.P one can presume he is still not ready
to release `his masterpiece' to his fans yet but I will send another tape to him
just to be certain.

But getting back to R.T.C-E.P. For this release but hopefully not forever Rotate
the Completor has ceased operating as a one man band, playing for the most part
un-assisted except for a finger slide on some songs and possible reverb an
intriguing and dare I say more mature version of the folk/delta blues that
`Completed Rotations of the…' ended on with song 11.) . The songs here are
incredibly stripped back and sound very pained and lugubrious in parts.
Refreshingly without the clamour of the drums his lyrics to some degree can be
deciphered – and seem to relate to trying to leave but being unable to which
would help to explain the album covers winding road and closed gate. His voice
while still containing an endearing wavering quality but sounds more seasoned
and at times highly aggressive. Musically the songs seem to verge on a bluesy
style but played in a highly idiosyncratic style unlike anything else that has
come before it. The first couple of songs seem like natural progressions  on
from `Completed Rotations of the..' (though I presume this is the unofficial 3rd
release) but it is as the E.P nears its end that it really impresses with some
magical and very frail songs. Song 6.)f must rank as the finest crafted song
I've heard in a long while.

This tape continues to grow on me with each listen, the songs while technically
perhaps less adventurous than on `Completed Rotations of the…' have a beauty and
emotional resonance that is incredibly addictive and over powering (especially
when listened to outside, however don't try this in the northern hemisphere if
you want to avoid frostbite, wait till your summer rolls around!). I thoroughly
recommend ordering a copy yourself via the P.O Box number but as I'm a good
friend I have posted two of my favourite songs on the Fan Page (Love the slide
guitar!) for your listening pleasure. Let us know what you think…

#5677 From: "stan" <singhamloudsinghamclear@...>
Date: Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:13 pm
Subject: Re: Rotate the Completor: R.T.C-E.P
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Forgot to say, for those that don't know the group is located at
www.myspace.com/rotatethecompletorfanpage.

#5678 From: matt love <mattlove1@...>
Date: Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:34 pm
Subject: Re: Rotate the Completor: R.T.C-E.P
valis2001us
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I saw the review in Wire magazine, and the reviewer openly wondered the same thing I've silently wondered all this time - is this a hoax?  It is the only time I can recall ever reading a review in Wire where the authenticity of an item is questioned. They never ask - Jandek, is he for real?  John Fahey, was it all just a big put on?  Did Barry Manilow, in fact, create Metal Machine Music?

Emboldened, I ask -  will we learn some day that Stan and Rotate are one and the same person?

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:51 AM, stan <singhamloudsinghamclear@...> wrote:
 

A few months back I was told about a new release from Rotate the Completor from a fan who had ordered `Completed Rotations of the…' from the man himself by sending as recommended a self addressed envelope containing a blank 90 minute audio cassette tape to R.T.C's Tauranga P.O Box number. Upon its return contained within the package was a press release for the follow up – titled, `The Completed Rotations.'. A copy of this can be seen in the photos section of the Rotate the Completor Fan Page.

Excited about the prospect of a follow up to one of the strangest debut albums I have ever heard and eager to hear some new material having been a little less than two years since first receiving a copy of `Completed Rotations of the…' I immediately sent a tape of my own to P.O Box 2000, Tauranga, New Zealand (His only known contact detail if you wish to write to him). A month or so after doing so I received my return package (and first reply!) however due to having been out of the country for the past month I have only just been able to fully investigate the contents of this.

Addressed to Fan Ingham, a pun on my name – Stan, the package contained a booklet called `Rotate the Comdeors: Comedic Rotations of the…' . This is a small comic charting a stand up comedy performance by a series of crudely drawn pictures of a long haired, goateed comedian who is presumably meant to be Rotate the Comedor/Completor (though as the hair is drawn very long it makes me curious to know when this was drawn as no date is marked. For when I met him his hair was shaved very close to the skin and even looked to be thinning!) annotated all in type written lower case letters (except for the cover title) with a mixture of disturbing/humorous/silly observations on himself and life in general. Contradicting my original belief that he was an idiot savant here he proves himself to be quite a sharp, insightful but highly misanthropic, neurotic type with possible personality disorders.

Personal favourites include:

"if one meditates for a long time, it is possible to open up the 3rd eye…leaving you with an all knowing glow of inner peace. However if one masturbates for only a very short while they will definitly open the japs eye…leaving you with a ball blowing white flow and thinner piece."

"supposedly girls are becoming more sexually adventurous at a younger age…but I would disagree, why just ask yourself what is slag when it is spelled backwards."

"growing up, girls want horses, boys want horse dicks. Grown woman are paid to have sex with horses, men pay to watch these ladies having bestial intercourse. Is the horse therefore the truly dominant species?"

"I don't like sex, the first time I was ever naked and inside a vagina I had a bad experience…I was born"

As a fan it's really quite remarkable to read this because up until this point apart from the admittedly dodgy analysis I had done upon meeting Rotate the Completor many moons ago we really have no idea still as to who he is even though his album is available world wide. But reading this I can see his intelligence, depression, laziness, hatred, passion, flaws all through this booklet and even if comedic licence is to be ignored it still paints a picture of an artist very unique in his way of thinking if not a tad mentally disturbed. If you write to Rotate the Completor or order his music off him directly then I would highly recommend requesting a copy of `Comedic Rotations of the...' as it seems to offer more insight into his psyche than his music allows due to the lo-fi nature of it.

Which leads me to the next item of my package, one cassette tape titled R.T.C-E.P on the index of the inlay card, the cover as seen in the pictures section of the Fan Page is a photo copy of a rather dark, abstract (crayon?) drawn picture of a closed gate, with a road leading up a hill. The back of the inlay card continues his apparent distaste for song titles by continuing the tradition of not naming any of the 6 songs contained on this E.P. They are instead numbered as such; 1.)a , 2.)b, 3.) c etc. Only one direction is provided for listening to this work – `listen outside'.

R.T.C-E.P you may be wondering but what has happened `The Completed Rotations.'? Good question and one that I cannot fully answer but if the press release to `The Completed Rotations.' is fully analysed it seems to give a very vague indication as to when it would actually be released citing that it's release date would be `within time' and more tellingly these lines from the very end of the press release "and so he stowed. till which time. the demand grows. then he will release. the completed rotations. his masterpiece…" Being that he sent me a copy of the press release with R.T.C-E.P one can presume he is still not ready to release `his masterpiece' to his fans yet but I will send another tape to him just to be certain.

But getting back to R.T.C-E.P. For this release but hopefully not forever Rotate the Completor has ceased operating as a one man band, playing for the most part un-assisted except for a finger slide on some songs and possible reverb an intriguing and dare I say more mature version of the folk/delta blues that `Completed Rotations of the…' ended on with song 11.) . The songs here are incredibly stripped back and sound very pained and lugubrious in parts. Refreshingly without the clamour of the drums his lyrics to some degree can be deciphered – and seem to relate to trying to leave but being unable to which would help to explain the album covers winding road and closed gate. His voice while still containing an endearing wavering quality but sounds more seasoned and at times highly aggressive. Musically the songs seem to verge on a bluesy style but played in a highly idiosyncratic style unlike anything else that has come before it. The first couple of songs seem like natural progressions on from `Completed Rotations of the..' (though I presume this is the unofficial 3rd release) but it is as the E.P nears its end that it really impresses with some magical and very frail songs. Song 6.)f must rank as the finest crafted song I've heard in a long while.

This tape continues to grow on me with each listen, the songs while technically perhaps less adventurous than on `Completed Rotations of the…' have a beauty and emotional resonance that is incredibly addictive and over powering (especially when listened to outside, however don't try this in the northern hemisphere if you want to avoid frostbite, wait till your summer rolls around!). I thoroughly recommend ordering a copy yourself via the P.O Box number but as I'm a good friend I have posted two of my favourite songs on the Fan Page (Love the slide guitar!) for your listening pleasure. Let us know what you think…




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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends. 
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands

#5679 From: josh tennant <joshua_tennant@...>
Date: Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:23 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Rotate the Completor: R.T.C-E.P
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Red Wire



From: stan <singhamloudsinghamclear@...>
To: outsidermusic@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 18 January, 2011 12:13:45
Subject: [outsidermusic] Re: Rotate the Completor: R.T.C-E.P

 

Forgot to say, for those that don't know the group is located at www.myspace.com/rotatethecompletorfanpage.



#5680 From: "stan" <singhamloudsinghamclear@...>
Date: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:21 am
Subject: Re: Rotate the Completor: R.T.C-E.P
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You know whenever I read about the myths surrounding so called outsider
musicians I often questioned their legitimacy as well. Even the
accepted/irrefutable ones such as Daniel Johnston, Syd Barrett, Jandek - it has
always played on my mind that these musicians could very well be in control of
their musical destinies and were creating their stories and myths as they went.

But with Rotate the Completor it is even more subject to question and intrigue.
When I met the guy busking in Tauranga I thought it was the silliest most
ingenuous  thing ever, his songs were the perfect mix of ineptitude, insanity
and originality that seemingly only the socially or mentally removed are capable
of creating. Coupled with the fact that Tauranga is a self conscious city that
stifles and actively prevents those that are different from the norm (due to its
own ignorance) lead me to believe that this guy was a possible candidate for the
outisider genre.

And for that I am to blame more than anyone. Rotate the Completor for all I know
never wanted his music to be heard anyone outside of myself. But due to being so
astonished by the contents of 'Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of
the...' and so appalled by the lack of any decent local music I decided to make
it my mission to foist it upon a wider audience. Difficult, lo-fi, bizarre album
that it is, it seemed apparent that the only market for his music would be
within the outsider music community so to there I turned and with an admittedly
romanticised retelling of my encounter with RTC I helped start something that I
still don't if RTC appreciates or wants.

His avoidance of me firstly when I met him and later via my letters was I
believed due to extreme introversion or insanity but reading his comic 'Comedic
Rotations of the...' he comes accross as an insightful, intelligent yet
misanthropic chap. So who knows? Is he a Jandek wanna be or just a man that is
and was trying to avoid me because he finds me to be a leacherous, intrusive,
little parasite riding the coat tails of his own creativity that he didn't want
to encourage? Is he embarrassed by his music and hiding his true identity to
hide from the shame (unlikely, he never would've granted permission for it to be
released to a greater audience if that were the case)? Incredulous by the
success of it, but aware of the power of a good story and thus keeping the myth
going by remaining hermetically sealed to his fans? Does he even know that his
music is successful? Or is he a true outsider? Does he even hate being labelled
as an outsider? Until the man reveals himself we may never truly know...

#5681 From: michael retter <retter2critical@...>
Date: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:50 am
Subject: Space G: the last rapper
retter2critical
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Recently shown at the Mercury Cinema. Space g is a new fourteen minute doco
about the Australian rapper/outsider artist who battles mental illness to get
his album made. See it here- http://youtube.com/retter2critical

#5682 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:22 pm
Subject: Film Review: Wild Man Fischer, Derailroaded
mondobongos
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Wild Man Fischer
Derailroaded DVD
(MVD Group, 2011)

"I first ran into Larry “Wild Man” Fischer on Haight Street during the
Summer of Love. He was wandering though the crowds of hippies and
clouds of marijuana smoke with a manic gleam in his eye and his mouth
hanging open. He was tall and moved with a curious gait, all elbows
and knees. People instinctively shied away from him, although he was
dressed in the usual brightly colored garb of the day: Yellow dashiki
and jeans. Suddenly, he’d turn on his heel and stick his face into
yours and shout, “Want to hear a new kind of song? Only 10 cents.” If
his intended customer pulled away, he’d increase his volume. “Only 10
cents. All original. Come on. What have you got to lose?”"

http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2011/01/21/film-review-wild-man-fischer-derai\
lroaded/

Al

#5683 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:52 pm
Subject: Off the Charts
mondobongos
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One week only:

"What are song-poems? Filmmaker Jamie Meltzer answers that question
and takes a look at the eccentric characters surrounding them in this
funny documentary."

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2527-off-the-charts/1

Al

#5684 From: "just john" <pumi4v802@...>
Date: Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:51 am
Subject: Cod Goblet album, available online
just_john_jj
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"If you weren't such a dickhead
  If you weren't so completely unapproachable
  If your rage was remotely normal
  We'd have nothing
  Nothing in common at all." -- DG

The 1998 album of my late best friend, aka Decorous Garth, is now available
online.

http://www.archive.org/details/CodGoblet

It tells the tale of a guy who returns to the family house after the death of
his father, and who is driven so nuts by bad job prospects and lack of water and
such that he finds himself resorting to making computer music.

Produced by yours truly as a bootleg / surprise Xmas gift back then.  (I made
him 50 copies at the time.)


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* Radio Free Entropy: http://just-john.com/jjMusic

#5685 From: "jason" <reallyunavailable@...>
Date: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:31 am
Subject: Ken DeFeudis
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Hi Everubody. I looking for information about where i could acquire the music of
Ken DeFeudis. Thanks.

#5686 From: wlt4@...
Date: Fri Mar 4, 2011 2:04 am
Subject: WFMU marathon
langfour
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http://wfmu.org/

Time for their annual fund drive marathon and I think this will be of interest
to everybody on the list.  Check out the shows and the swag for donations.  (I
wear WFMU t-shirts all the time.)

#5687 From: wlt4@...
Date: Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:50 pm
Subject: Zoogz Rift 1953-2011
langfour
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#5688 From: Telstar <aclark23@...>
Date: Sun Apr 3, 2011 3:17 pm
Subject: American Idolatry: So Bad You Just Gotta Be Good
mondobongos
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"Those tone-deaf belters humiliating themselves for our amusement help
explain why we think we’re better than the experts."

http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/american-idolatry-so-bad-you-just-g\
otta-be-good-28198/

Al

#5689 From: Jon Bernhardt <jonb@...>
Date: Tue Apr 5, 2011 6:27 pm
Subject: Fwd: Channel Zero and the Bad Poets Society return this Friday Night
jbernhardt1964
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This is the first I've heard of this production so I can't vouch for its quality.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: eliasnugator <eliasnugator@...>
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Subject: Channel Zero and the Bad Poets Society return this Friday Night


Channel Zero
Proudly Presents
"Wesley Willis's Joy Rides" (2008)
Directed by Kim Shively & Chris Bagley


The Wesley Willis story, IS ROCK-N-ROLL!

See the incredible but TRUE story of the homeless man whose lyrics &
fearless singing style took the Chicago music scene By Storm!
Composer of such songs as "I Whupped Batman's Ass", "Kris Kringle was a Car Thief" and countless others, Willis was the ultimate Outsider
Artist.
"Wesley Willis's Joyrides" is a unique documentary experience about one man's journey out of homelessness and schizophrenia to Rock-n-Roll Redemption.

Friday April 8th at 8pm (sharp!)
Admission 6.50 (Cheap!)
The Somerville Theatre, Screening Room
55 Davis Square.
Somerville Ma 617-625-5700
CHANNEL ZERO, Boston's Cheapest Entertainment Franchise now in it's
sixteenth year of genteel video transcendence.

www.channel0.blogspot.com


#5690 From: mark_r_hazen@...
Date: Wed Apr 6, 2011 3:24 am
Subject: Re: Fwd: Channel Zero and the Bad Poets Society return this Friday Night
mark_r_hazen@...
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I saw this as part of the Hot docs film festival in Toronto a few years back and spent some time with Chris Bagley afterwards.  The film is a wonderful labour of love and Wesley was 100% into it. 
 
I loved it.   Too bad Wesley never got to see it.
 
-Mark


--- On Tue, 4/5/11, Jon Bernhardt <jonb@...> wrote:

From: Jon Bernhardt <jonb@...>
Subject: [outsidermusic] Fwd: Channel Zero and the Bad Poets Society return this Friday Night
To: outsidermusic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 6:27 PM

 
This is the first I've heard of this production so I can't vouch for its quality.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: eliasnugator <eliasnugator@...>
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Subject: Channel Zero and the Bad Poets Society return this Friday Night


Channel Zero
Proudly Presents
"Wesley Willis's Joy Rides" (2008)
Directed by Kim Shively & Chris Bagley


The Wesley Willis story, IS ROCK-N-ROLL!

See the incredible but TRUE story of the homeless man whose lyrics &
fearless singing style took the Chicago music scene By Storm!
Composer of such songs as "I Whupped Batman's Ass", "Kris Kringle was a Car Thief" and countless others, Willis was the ultimate Outsider
Artist.
"Wesley Willis's Joyrides" is a unique documentary experience about one man's journey out of homelessness and schizophrenia to Rock-n-Roll Redemption.

Friday April 8th at 8pm (sharp!)
Admission 6.50 (Cheap!)
The Somerville Theatre, Screening Room
55 Davis Square.
Somerville Ma 617-625-5700
CHANNEL ZERO, Boston's Cheapest Entertainment Franchise now in it's
sixteenth year of genteel video transcendence.

www.channel0.blogspot.com


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