My local shop now has Harry Flynt - Raga Electric (Locust No6) Their mail list says: The tracks featured here epitomise the most extreme recordings Henry Flynt made. In fact he said 'I was really reaching. Those were the heroic years'. In the early 60s, fresh from his years at Harvard, Flynt was undergoing rapid ideological shifts, performing at Yoko Ono's loft and recording with that other doyenne of experimental music, La Monte Young. Still searching for a new musical language he arrived at 'audact' (auditory acognitive cultural activity) and this collection has material from 1963 to 1971 using this technique. "Raga Electric" is seven tracks of wierd Hindustani vocalese, ululating threnodies, jarring vocal attacks and blistering alto sax mayhem. The title track is a twisted, howling fake hindustani rag with staccato untuned guitar and bleating screams recorded at his home just a few short hours after seeing Pandit Pran Nath in concert. Howling orgasmic, visionary yodels that will snap your cerebral cortex. Anybody know this? Is it worth getting? Cheers Richard Gardner
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Richard Gardner