Music in Ten Dimensions --- Hex Breaker Quintet, Live on My Castle of Quiet, 4.28.2010

The spectacles witnessed and heard through the double glass on WFMU's fourth floor during the My Castle of Quiet broadcasts continue to amaze me, and shape my consciousness with their intensity, their power, and their generosity. Everyone tends to do a good—nay great—set on the Castle. All I do is say, "come." 

The Hex Breaker Quintet were no exception—they were, in fact, the RULE, as Telecult Powers and Grasshopper are the two bands that helped carve the Castle landscape quite early on; it only makes sense that their combined energies should return to rattle these walls and break the hex. And rattle they did. And the hex was in fact broken.     

Ultimately, this is monumental music; grand-scale, slow-burn improvisations for your head. As I wrote on the playlist, "Sweetly sad, eerily monumental ... from Jon Hassell swamp nightmares into spaghetti-western Elysian fields...." 

Set one shows you the grapes --- the desert, the wobbly horizon, the rocky alleys between buldings of soft stone, and the few chittering insects that manage to survive just under the hot crumble; while set two, clocking in at just under a half hour, makes the wine --- the bugs come out in force, hectic, but pipers are piping, and you drive through the swarm to the square, and see something unbelievable there—something otherworldly. You're glad you came. You rest and have a drink, but the spectacle continues, and your skin tingles.

Thanks again to Josh, Jesse, Witchbeam and Mister Mattews for their luminescence. Thanks as always to Glenn, the mighty knob twiddler, and to Tracy, Castle photostepper, who said of this session, "...Repeat listening will be required." Indeed!

Hex Breaker Quintet will be playing NY Eye & Ear Fest III on May 22nd.

Comments

[icastico]

Lovely. Thanks.

[Brad Miller]

I've seen Telecult play five times, Grasshopper twice and Hex Breaker once. Always by far the most interesting acts on their respective bills. Telecult always takes over the situation they are playing in, not unlike cosmic monks that are there for the specific purpose of turning people on to some intergalactic forces. Real pros.

[DrBOP]

Didn't know how to do this otherwise so here goes: Tomorrow night at 7pm; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seminar at 40th Anniversary of Kent St killings; live stream at ksutube.kent.edu/live/ . Keep on chooglin'!

[K.]

But Bill, what of the teenage Haitian prostitutes? And the authentic Brooklyn Hip Hops??? There can be no music without these needed things...