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The Feathered Night

from Moon Fear (double album) by Bill Boethius & Guests

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Definitely a smoother side of Bill here, loving the crazy wetness of this one.

the splintered groove holds this one together, provides a handrail, the passage of time...hints of blues-jazz licks, nostalgic memories ...definite dream quality, unthreatening
... my stuff is like an enactment of a half forgotten scenario in a post apocalyptic world which could be an idyll or it could be a hell

nice jazzy start- a late night session!
yeah - come to think of it - I've listened to so much jazz ... and always at night ... I can listen to blues in the morning, but not jazz ...
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inventive and inspiring stuff!
great bluesy-vibe into the unexpected
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Surreal visual scaping, Bill..compelling!

Nice added drama from the additional Dean and super wah bursts..feeling the building intensity
Beautifully light and yet multi-layered. I get a strong nightscape feel, with multiple little narratives and movements

somehow a horn enters the stage
: that was my Dean guitar, if you are referring that passage where your commentis [I know the comments can sometimes get misplaced] - anyway, gives me an excuse to bore you with my eulogy for the Dean - a metal axe which actually feels very like a blues guitar - and really, Metal is just a mutant form of blues - look how the blues players were the first to use the guitars that metal players like - Albert King with the Flying V - Gatemouth Brown with the Firebird [I think] this Dean s like a hybrid of a V and an Explorer - and it gives out blues like nothing else

fabulous busted up blues quality
: actually this was a solo slide guitar blues piece which I posted last weekend, but I took it done after a few minutes as it wasn't ... interesting enough ... So around that slide guitar frame work I hung the rest of this, which is more interesting to me, but still has that delta blues underpinning

The line 'feathered night' is from a Jim Morrison poem. I must be rare amongst guitar players to be a Jim Morrison fan. Most musos don't like him - but I like Morrison the old blues man of Morrison Hotel and LA Woman, rather than the Lizard King - I like his poetry - I rate it.

- this piece, like some of my others is about communicating somehow with the birds - the Beefheartian Messiaen thing

Isn't it strange - I kept thinking about Zoot Horn Rollo these last few days - listening to Lick my Decals, and also Zoot's solo album, a Bozo Under the Sea - have you listened to that? It's quite incredible - he has gone into jazzy things, but still has a very strong Tele type sound
That is one guy who never rested on his laurels. I read his Lunar Notes too - quite riveting. Let's face it though - the Magic Band were brilliant and should have got the credit which was withheld by Don - but without Don they would never have played that way. Don was the evil catalyst, like Miles Davis

they come and gather
disparate flocks start to convene - , multi-directional - but they start to find a common cause

Liking this multi-directional journey. Great drum track. Brings it together nice.

Fire! Plumes of smoke rise from the nest.
nest is a good metaphor - and plumes too - great poetic response

Las Campanas !
bells and birds!

Crisp! Excellent sounds, marvelous VIBE!
I was looking at getting more space in between the sounds, so making the sounds more transparent and pellucid, rather than the usual thick and dark sounds I use

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The feathered night

Vicious rumours encircle your sleepless head.

A murder of crows cawing ‘I wish you wuz dead’,

As that woman’s brow haunts your dreaded bed

Bugs crawl and claw at your clammy goose-pimpled

Flesh, beating like the wings of the death’s head

Moth, Saturnian.

Thinking about Zoot Horn Rollo

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from Moon Fear (double album), released August 24, 2016

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