excerpt from the exhibition
Top 100 2009: Lightning Bolt – Magic Mountain
Lightning bolt formed in 1994 by two art students, Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson in Rhode Island. The style could be described as psychedelic noise-rock and is found in the same corner of the music universe as the Boredoms
(with whom Chippendale once played) and Acid Mother’s Temple. That whole clan are the neighbors of musicians living in psychedelic noise-jazz land who’s major is John Zorn (also affiliated with the Boredoms). They all travel a lot, truly bohemian citizens. Not far away from them (just north) live the black metal tribes with whom they have a lot in common except for their bohemianism. These three male dominated geographical close entities make up half of the Top 100 2009, much less diverse than it has been.
Top 100 2009: John Zorn – Igneous Ejaculation
My best friend Wim saw John Zorn perform live twice last year and now he’s on top of his list and therefore being pushed into my Top 100 list as well. It worked as John Zorn is featured three times. Igneous Ejaculation however comes from a strand of Zorn’s music that Wim doesn’t care for much. That’s why he gave me Naked City, an influential CD featuring, among others, Yamatsuke Eye of the Boredoms. Our tastes in music have a lot in common and every year he influences the contents of the list. The differences in taste however are as striking as the similarities. His taste is much more formal than mine, lyrics are literature, and the music has to live up to the standards of art. Ascension through music, a path that I abandoned a long time ago for a descent into chaos. I’m still facing downward but as I go deeper and deeper into the abyss I still meet my friend at points where the two opposing paths miraculously meet.
