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Neutrinos Detected Going Faster Than Light ?

The picture bellow is the very first of a neutrino in a hydrogen bubble chamber .

In September, researchers from the OPERA collaboration in Italy announced the measurement of neutrinos flying faster than the speed of light. If neutrinos were indeed observed to be doing this, then Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which establishes a cosmic speed limit of 186,000 miles per second (the speed of light), is not entirely accurate.

I will be playing in Madrid, New Mexico tomorrow with my friend Josephine Foster and her husband Victor Herrero at The Mind Shaft Tavern, Saturday-January 21, at 5pm. We will be playing all the new material for Josephine’s next record.. We start recording next week.

Josephine Foster (Vocals, Guitar)

Victor Herrero (guitar)

Paz Lenchantin (bass, violin, indian flute, vocals)

Heather Trost (violin, Jews Harp, Vocals)

Jeremy Barnes (Drums)

Albert Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

No more bees, no more pollination … no more human race. Entomologists around today agree that the sudden and mysterious disappearance of bees from their hives poses serious problems!

Bits and pieces of information about farmers’ concerns for bee disappearance (or colony collapse disorder) in 24 states around the U.S. have bubbled up to the surface, over the last year and a half, but hardly any large-scale media attention has been drawn to this potentially serious problem. Recently bees have gone missing from hives around Europe as well. The East Coast of the U.S. is reporting a 70% loss in commercial bee hive habitation, the West Coast 60%…

An article in The Independent discusses a theory that cell phone radiation seriously interferes with bees’ ability to navigate through the air. Regardless of the cause, the implications of this phenomenon are enormous – and it is alarming how rapidly this is occurring. From a NYT article on 2/27/07: “…one study says that honeybees annually pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops in US, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.”

Etta James- (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012)

Burn all the trees in the once wild world

I will crawl on my knees while the smoke rings unfurl

and I cry mother nature but she don’t say a word

mother nature is the holiest

-Josephine Foster

(lyrics from the session in Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 10-30)

THE ENTRANCE BAND- We will be posting new tour dates, finishing our latest LP (label undetermined) , making a short film from our last tour, releasing an instrumental EP on Spiritual Pajamas records and we are due to release a 12” Latitude Series out on Southern records UK….. all very soon! …Thank you for helping us keep the fire going.

I played a show a few nights ago with my friend Josephine Foster in Albuqueque, NM to rehearse some of her new songs for her next record we are doing together at the end of the month here in Albuquerque. The show we played was at a small art loft space. It was cold but soon warmed up by the good amount of people that showed up. I also helped with sound and lighting. All acts were exceptional and esoteric. It started off with music from Spain by Josephine’s husband Victor Herrero. He playied original spanish songs that made you dream of basking in the basque.. following him was French abstractionist, Thomas Bonvalet de Cheval De Frise, playing songs off his new album L’Ocelle Mare Porte d’Octobre. I’ve never heard music contorted quite like this. Take a Realist painting for example but “abstract” all the realism out of it. Thomas plays to a metronome that clicks like a clock as he taps on a block while fiddling a banjo. A fundamentalist- abstractionist.

Finally following Thomas was Josephine and her band (which includes her husband Victor, myself, Heather and her husband Jeremy, who play together in A Hawk and a Hawksaw). Josephine’s set was beautiful. Her voice tells fortunes that sings to the breeze ..she takes you and you let her like surrendering your sails to the wind.. I really enjoy playing with her.

It would be great if THE ENTRANCE BAND and Josephine Foster did some shows together in the future…

Silûetler

Kivanc Kaytanli of Turkey wrote to me today in response to my Siluetlers post. He traslated the track list and further informed me on Turkish-Psych bands of the 60’s.

Thanks Kivanc!

Read Kivanc’s letter:

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Silûetler- I found this record last year searching for regional Armenian Psych-music of this time period. This album would make a great reissue.

Silüetler (self-titled Turkish-Psych- 1967 )

Ali Baba
Bana Sıla da bir Gurbette
Dede Efendi
Ezilip
İki Seven Deli olmazmı
Kasap Havası
Kaşık havası
Leb u leb
Lorke
Sirto
Sis

Words from Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

Last summer I took a solo trip in my band’s School bus. On my way down the coast of California I stopped in Big Sur. By luck of a horseshoe I met and spoke with 8 of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers… these are some of their words:

“My church is the earth and the sky. And I pray for all in between the sky and the earth. We are all part of the fabric.” -Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Confederated Tribes of Siletz

“My hope is that that this new era beginning to open, be an era of understanding for fundamental questions of health.That this period be an era of love and friendship between humans and among all peoples.” -Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot

Read more about the origins of the Grandmothers Council, and review the Council accomplishments.