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LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney says it’s time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day. McCartney says he wants to release “Carnival of Light,” a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released. The band played the recording for an audience just once, at an electronic music festival in London. It reportedly includes distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and shouts of “Barcelona!” and “Are you all right?” from McCartney and John Lennon. McCartney said during a recording session at Abbey Road studios he asked the other members of the band to “just wander round all of the stuff and bang it, shout, play it. It doesn’t need to make any sense.” “I like it because it’s The Beatles free, going off piste,” he told the BBC in a radio interview to be broadcast Thursday. Extracts of the interview were published Sunday in The Observer newspaper. McCartney said he still had a master tape of the piece and “the time has come for it to get its moment.” McCartney, usually regarded as the most melodically minded Beatle, told the BBC he had a long-standing interest in avant-garde music. He said “Carnival of Light” was inspired by experimental composers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He said he had wanted to include the track on the Beatles’ “Anthology” compilation, but was vetoed by his bandmates. McCartney would need permission from Ringo Starr and the widows of Lennon and George Harrison to release the track.

A lot of people asked me how I made the gascan banjo. Then my friend Carla gave me this olive oil can. Said she thought I might make something good out of it. So I made the oilcan banjo, and documented it. The background music is from the oilcan. I think it’s got a nice sound, for an oil can.

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Mitch Mitchell, the legendary drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died in his sleep of natural causes, US medical tests revealed. Mitchell, 61, whose fusion style allowed him and one of history’s greatest guitar players to feed off each other, was found early on Wednesday in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon. His last days were spent celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix on the 2008 Experience Hendrix Tour. For nearly 4 weeks the tour travelled coast to coast in an 18-city tour in the US finishing in Portland. In addition to Mitchell the tour featured Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo, Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford, Hubert Sumlin, Chris Layton as well as Eric Gales and Mato Nanji. The Mitch Mitchell Trust has been established to manage the MMT Drug Rehabilitation Through Music programme based in Bettws, Newport in Wales.

RIP Mitch Mitchell

Music video for “Buncombe to Badala (B2B)” by friend of the radio program Toubab Krewe from the new album, “Live at the Orange Peel,” coming November 29, 2008!

Edited by Kurt Vincent.

Filmed by: Jake Frankel,Kurt Vincent,
David Suskind, Lee Ann Kornegay,
John Fernandez, Sasha Rubel, Rory Heller….

Mad Juana performs a new song, Bury Me Standing. Karmen Guy sings with Sami Yaffa on guitar, Fernando Rosario on bass, Maukka Palmio on percussion, Kiku Collins on trumpet, Danny Ray on sax and Marni Rice playing accordion. Video by Alan Rand.

2-20-2000-Merl plays 140 West in Missoula,MT

Jimmy Carl Black….Jimmy passed away peacefully last night Saturday 11/01/08 at 11:00 o’clock pm. Jimmy says hi to everybody and he doesn’t want anybody to be sad.

Merl Saunders, a phenomenal person and funky keyboardist who collaborated with artists of all shapes and sizes including Miles Davis and the Grateful Dead, has died at the age of 74. In a statement posted on Merl’s website from the Saunders Family reads as follows:

Merl Saunders stood for music and love – his smile alone told you that. We loved him very much – and we know that you, his fans, did too. Sad as we are to lose him, we’re very aware of being comforted by the affection coming from all those touched by that smile and that wonderful music. He was a special man, a beautiful companion, father, grandfather, and family patriarch, and the proof of that spirit is in the way you’ve reached out to us at his passing.

Keep on keepin’on,
The Saunders Family

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, October 29th, at 11 am
at First AME Zion Church, 2159 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco.

I send my thoughts and positive vibes to Jr and the entire Saunders’ family as well as those in the circle through the music. Rest In Peace Brother Merl.

Check out my conversation with Merl Saunders Jr a few years back right here.

man have I been exploding and exploring with sounds from all over, cannot always get them all on air but want to try to constantly make sure the names get out there as something I am appreciating, for whatever that is worth. The list is much greater than I will recall but here goes something:

ARTIST:ALBUM
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Mad Juana: Bruja On the Corner
Neco Novellas: New Dawn Ku Khata
OGOGO: Linden
the Voodoo Organist: Darwin Dance Hall Days
Buzzy Linhart: Buzzy
Dayton Flic: Takin’ you Back to the Music Suite
Grant Calvin Weston: Nassira
Dub Gabriel: Anarchy & Alchemy