{"id":20483,"date":"2021-04-03T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20483"},"modified":"2021-04-03T20:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T19:10:52","slug":"weekend-links-563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/04\/03\/weekend-links-563\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 563"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cover art by Jeffrey Schrier for the 1975 reissue of Zero Time by Tonto’s Expanding Head Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Malcolm Cecil<\/a>, electronic musician, and producer of Stevie Wonder, among many others. The term pioneer is over-used when discussing electronic artists, but it’s an accurate one when applied to Cecil and his partner in Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Robert Margouleff. The first Tonto album, Zero Time<\/em> (1971), was a collection of fully-realised all-electronic compositions recorded in the days when “electronic music” in the rock sphere usually meant rock-band-plus-synth-burbles. As I said in a post about Tonto’s debut album a few years ago, “Jetsex<\/em><\/a> sounds like an outtake from Kraftwerk\u2019s Autobahn<\/em> (albeit three years early) while Timewhys<\/em><\/a> wouldn\u2019t have been out of place on The Human League\u2019s Travelogue<\/em> album almost a decade later”. Cecil may be seen in this short film<\/a> showing off the bespoke synth gear that comprised The Original New Timbral Orchestra (aka TONTO), while he talks at length about his career in issue 4 of Synapse<\/em> magazine here<\/a>. Cecil and Margouleff parted company in the mid-70s shortly after releasing a second album, It’s About Time <\/em>(1974), a collection of jazzy instrumentals that’s overdue a proper reissue.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Every film production company they showed it to said it was ‘too weird’ to ever be made. ” Next month Strange Attractor publishes The Otherwise<\/em><\/a>, a script by Mark E. Smith and Graham Duff for an unmade horror film.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More horror: Predator’s Ball<\/em><\/a> by Uni; music video as horror scenario in which you can play spot-the-reference: Alice in Wonderland, Rocky Horror<\/em>, Leigh Bowery (?), Pasolini’s Sal\u00f2<\/em> (?)…<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Biblioth\u00e8que Gay: Narkiss<\/em> by Jean Lorrain<\/a>, another homoerotic classic newly translated into Spanish, and with new illustrations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The week in Gary Panter: Nicole Rudick<\/a> on Gary Panter’s Punk Everyman, and the man himself<\/a> writing about his life and art.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Wormwoodiana: Mark Valentine<\/a> investigates the connections between Charles Williams and Sax Rohmer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: New Age Steppers<\/a>, “the only ever post-punk supergroup”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: XLR8R Podcast 689, a feast of funk compiled by Steve Arrington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Public Domain Review: Agostino Ramelli\u2019s Theatre of Machines<\/a><\/em> (1588).<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Valentina Magaletti<\/a>\u2019s favourite music.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Louvre site des collections<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Narcissus Queen<\/a><\/em> (1958) by Martin Denny | Narciso<\/a><\/em> (1974) by Pierrot Lunaire | Narkissos<\/a><\/em> (2006) by Sadistic Mikaela Band<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cover art by Jeffrey Schrier for the 1975 reissue of Zero Time by Tonto’s Expanding Head Band. \u2022 RIP Malcolm Cecil, electronic musician, and producer of Stevie Wonder, among many others. The term pioneer is over-used when discussing electronic artists, but it’s an accurate one when applied to Cecil and his partner in Tonto’s Expanding … Continue reading “Weekend links 563”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 563","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,9,29,7,5,22,3,44,41,15],"tags":[11323,1993,2413,3109,6156,11320,157,5063,11328,5061,8704,2903,777,11321,3796,1493,11325,5062,11326,986,11322,5064,98,5060,11327,11324],"class_list":["post-20483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-painting","category-sculpture","category-technology","tag-agostino-ramelli","tag-bibliotheque-gay","tag-charles-williams","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-gary-panter","tag-graham-duff","tag-jean-lorrain","tag-jeffrey-schrier","tag-leigh-bowery","tag-malcolm-cecil","tag-mark-e-smith","tag-mark-valentine","tag-martin-denny","tag-new-age-steppers","tag-nicole-rudick","tag-pier-paolo-pasolini","tag-pierrot-lunaire-group","tag-robert-margouleff","tag-sadistic-mikaela-band","tag-sax-rohmer","tag-steve-arrington","tag-stevie-wonder","tag-strange-attractor","tag-tontos-expanding-head-band","tag-uni-group","tag-valentina-magaletti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}