This is the Samizdat

Extraordinary and perplexing phenomena manifesting in molten hypogeal flux up at Chy-an-Brae in the granitic hinterland of Penwithershins, clasped within the clutching claw of Cernyw.  Chapter 24, the penultimate chapter of ‘The Journal of Elias Gillpington’ is featured in Issue 70 of ‘The Caterpillar – A Visionary Ghetto Tabloid’.  Enjoy irresponsibly.  

Debussy – Arabesque 1

Kevardhu Dasson

Kheera Kai Mangas – Rita Abatsi, Kostas Roukanos, Iakovos Montanaris – 1933.  The sinuous 9/8 sound of this meandering zeibekiko speaks for itself and says plenty.  

Ballet Mechanique - 1924



Cobwebs & Strange - The Who - 1966

ΧΗΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΓΚΑΣ – 
ΡΙΤΑ ΑΜΠΑΤΖΗ, ΚΩΣΤΑΣ ΡΟΥΚΟΥΝΑΣ 1933.



Zeibekiko .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

The Journal of Elias Gillpington, Part 23. An Gath Vlewek 69, Kevardhu 2014.

What is sweeter than mead? – Intimate conversation.

What is blacker than the raven? – Death.

What is whiter than snow? – Truth.

What is swifter than the wind? – Thought.

What is sharper than the  sword? – Understanding.

What is lighter than a spark? – The mind of a woman between two men.

From the ancient Irish tale, The Wooding of Ailbe.

Bardhonieth . . . . .

Dearbhla Ni Bhroin  - Uirchil a Chreagain.



The stunning beauty and Music of Aran Isle, Ireland.




Entr’ Acte -  Erik Satie, Rene Clair, 1924.



Εχει η νύχτα θάνατο - Γρηγόρης Μπιθικώτσης

Yammas!  

An Gath Vlewek Dasson 68

DUB 68 – It must be DUB – Horace Andy Dub’s Psalm 68.  ‘Sleepy’ sings of The Bible, Psalm 68, Verse 4:  “Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:  extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.”  

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In 1935 - ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ ΠΑΓΙΟΥΜΤΖΗΣ (Stratos Pagioumtzis) recorded the great rebetiko song ΣΑΝ ΕΓΥΡΙΖ' ΑΠ' ΤΗΝ ΠΥΛΟ (San egyriz’ ap’ tyn plio).  Whisper a hwystra  smuitiuil, niwllaw,        llwydnos – a misty, drizzly twighlight and a Cath   Gath  Hath     -  it’s  the nebulous, dubhfhocal tewlwolow world of The Caterpillar Dub - dubh    duibh    duibhe   dubha .  .  .  .             

Horace Andy – Dub 68



The Mighty Diamonds - Jah Jah Bless The Dreadlocks

ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ ΠΑΓΙΟΥΜΤΖΗΣ - 
ΣΑΝ ΕΓΥΡΙΖ' ΑΠ' ΤΗΝ ΠΥΛΟ   1935.
Stratos Pagioumtzys – San Egrys' ap' tyn Plio - 1935

O Psaras (The Fisherman) – 
Stratos Pagioumtzis / Yorgos Mitsakis

Mary From Dungloe – The Johnstons

Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair - The Johnstons

Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore - The Johnstons

The Mabinogion

http://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm

Plethyn - Golau Tan Gwmwl

Brenda Wootton - Delyo Syvy (Strawberry Leaves) A song in the Kernouak language of Kernow (Conrwall, Britain.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delkiow_Sivy

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. 1, 
by William Bottrell  -1870.

http://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/swc1/index.htm

In next month's issue of The Caterpillar, the tale continues, with Part 24 of that most eldritch and gothique saga of Cornique gull-duggery, The Journal of Elias Gillpington.  Hhmmmm. . . .  as singular as it is perplexing!  

Learning Keltek

Some chords of jazz piano - heard through a door on a damp November night - started a rhythm, in the fog - kicked off a revolution one wet night -

Psalm 68 – Horace Andy

http://www.magakernow.org.uk/

http://www.learn-welsh.net/

http://www.rte.ie/easyirish/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/

http://www.learnmanx.com/

http://www.loecsen.com/travel/0-en-67-2-9-free-lessons-bretone.html

http://www.speakjamaican.com/

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - by W.Y.Evans-Wentz, 1911.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/

Glawak yw yn Kernow.....

Summer of Dub 67

Multicoloured memories fade to monochrome echoes.  Images change – perception continues.  Awareness reflects impartially like a looking-glass.  

Hello Goodbye – The Beatles



The Notorious Byrd Brothers



Soft Machine - Jet Propelled

Judy Collins - Wildflowers



Love & Peace...........

Sixty Seven

Issue 67 of your globalocal paper floats by on the winds of change, a polychromatic ephemeron, remembering a twentieth-century renaissance through some of its music.  The times have changed, but the spirit of the times lives on.  

Also:  issue 67 of The Caterpillar brings you Part 22 of our ongoing gothick novella from West Cornwall, The Journal of Elias Gillpington.  

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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – I Put a Spell on You



Judy Collins – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today



The Byrds – Eight Miles High



If You’re Going to San Francisco – Scott Mckenzie



Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn



The Beatles – Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band



The Rolling Stones – The Satanic Majesties’ Reuqest



The Kinks – Autumn Almanac



Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe



The ‘oo – Pictures of Lily

http://countryjoe.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_press


……..Human Kindness is Overflowing…..