Thoughts Of A Head

I raise my soul I raise my fist I raise my lips for the gods to kiss      a mortal man I fade and die and melt back conscious to the sky

Stratos Pagioumtzys - O Psaras - The Fisherman


Hingala - here is a recording I came across over 30 years ago - back in 2000 my band Eastern Green used to play an instrumental version of Hingala -


A Life-Changing Album for me when I bought it second hand from a shop in Shepherds Bush Shopping Centre in 1982- a magic moment for me
Τραγούδια Και Χοροί Της Στεριάς 2 - Songs And Dances Of The Greek Mainland
introducing me for the first time to tunes like this:

ΤΑΣΟΣ ΧΑΛΚΙΑΣ -

Ο ΜΕΓΑΛΥΤΕΡΟΣ..Ο Λ Ω Ν

Μοιρολοι με γυρίσματα * Πετρολούκας Χαλκιάς

Or wander up to Romania and hear a world of amazing music from a magical land

Our laughter rings around the world a turquoise banner bright unfurled our love shines out to people far and near beneath the shiny stars -
Well I guess that just about covers everything - don-t forget to tune back in for the Dub Version - - -

The Archaic, The Brythonek - Inscribed on the Heart of the Land

*  Glyphs 'n' scriffs encrypted on slivers of silver mythological spliffs betwixt a Gryphon's lips exude ear-splitting licks, riffs 'n' silly tricks, still it's only with a smile so it helps to be sunny on a day like this.  **  Leaves fall - rain falls - stars fall - flesh falls - epochs fall - rains fall - seeds fall - dew falls - light falls - sun falls - radiance falls - breeze falls - a leaf falls -  ***  Hymns in homage to hunros, oneiro, reverie and dreams dream itself - lulled and hypnotized into hypnogogy by the feathery hands of Peristeris, the 9/8 rebetikou guitar-man with the mercurial rippling zeibekiko guitar runs - ****  So anyway, there I was, walking down the road  *****  Visions from another brother, visions of the yogic, the aethereal and the hypnotic sacred mystery awoken by the Shaman's rattling snare-drum - ******  

The Notorious Byrd Brothers...

Hear the great Greek guitarist and composer Peristeris (The Dove)....

Fougou!  Visions Bone Well Quercus robur QVENATAVCI IC DINVI FILIVS Druids  Mind itself

Lives of the Unknown

Many another life has brushed against your own - self and other appearing separate, most of the time, not always- 

merging-

Ephemeral Flim Flam That Fluttered Once Forth To Froth

So there I was, walking down the road, when all of a sudden-   
(Open a new tab and expand your image)  Ancient geometrical rhythms, patterns in the cloth, the march of the mountains, a faded colour-postcard, Kodachrome film flickering, people in outdated clothes, hats, newspapers clutched, streets bustling with gone-people, living-only-in-film-people, black-and-white-film-people gone drifting back in time.  

Τρυγόνα

Πήγαινα Το Δρόμο Δρόμο - Pigaina To Dromo Dromo

Μοιρολόι με γυρίσματα * Πετρολούκας Χαλκιάς

Γκάιντα Πυρσογιαννίτικη - Μαστοροχώρια Κόνιτσας (Ήπειρος)

Dream Yesterdays Summer

Ain’t always got the time to dream and slip into the summer meadows yesterday, dappled sunlight in the trees, through the meadow and into the tress, drowsy with summers’ torpor dropping like honey-flies from the leaves of the trees, glinting in the glade so cool.  Time to slip and slide to where stupas melt in time and fjords reflect the pure sky…  through the meadow and into the trees….   through the wildflower meadow, buzzing with insects of summer grass.  Into the trees, into the trees.....  

Scritti Politti – Doubt Beat

The Lyres – We Sell Soul

The Versatiles – Someone To Love

Junior Byles – If You Don’t Know Me By Now

ΜΑΡΟΚΟ, 1940, ΜΑΡΚΟΣ ΒΑΜΒΑΚΑΡΗΣ, ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ ΧΑΤΖΗΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ

Morocco – Markos Vamvakaris, Apostolos Katsichristos - 1940

ΕΛΕΝΗ ΜΙΚΡΟΠΑΝΤΡΕΜΕΝΗ, 1936, ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΗΣ

Slip into the dream of consciousness.....

How do you be lost in the Void?

How do you be lost in the Void?  How do you do it?  By not knowing that you are lost in the Void – this is the best way to be lost in the Void.  Do you be lost in the Void for lack of a valid ID?  Do you be lost in the Void when you think you are found and not in the Void?  Do you be lost in the Void when all the time you were really just lost in the Void?  Isn’t this a cause for laughter? 

Join Together – The Who

Let’s Get Together – H.P.Lovecraft

Let’s Work Together – Canned Heat

Monster – Steppenwolf

http://yecaterpillar.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-horned-whale-by-jeremy-schanche.html

https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernev-Veur

https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana

The same bucket that holds muddy water can also hold clear water.  The same mind-

Watchagonnado

Watchagonnado when the rain comes down – watchagonnado when the rain comes down – showers of words when the rain comes down – running down the page when the rain comes down -  watchagonnado when the dream wakes up – watchagonna do when you wake from the dream – moon in the clouds in a silvery dreamscape – sailing through gaps in a nocturnal moonscape – watya gonna do when you wake from the dream, what’re y’goin’t’ do when y’ wake from y’ dream?

Bowie – Toy (Album)

Pat Kelly – How Long

Pat Kelly – Dark End of the Street

Prince Buster – Dark End of the Street

Gram Parsons – Dark End of the Street

Ken Parker  - My Whole World is Falling Down

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Den xanapaizw zaria

Something in the sky, winging its lazy way along, summer drowze and cloud-tower crumbling cumulus cubist constructions loom - the breeze lively blows through plate-armour of the Stegosaurus stenops.......  and sun's rays echo through the cloud-caps' madcap aether

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Sideways Time Ripple

Changing perceptions of a forest wilderness - 

the years come and go - bringing new trees, new views, new creatures - how pleasant to sit alone in the forest, watching the years and the winds blow by.

  Watching the big fly jump on the little fly - watching the burs that stick to my glove - watching the long fly stand on the water - watching the water pour from the jug - light leaf flickers through droner - 

Big fly foot-wringing wing-warp - glas yw an ebrenn lemmyn - howlak ha brentynn hedhyw -  Ticky-Dyw ha bran-vrawze yn gwyd yw - gwynjak zephyrs puff from drowzy oceans - and lattitudes are sunken in the golden -

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  The raven and the butterfly - 

a most peculiar pair - ha tonnek yw an mor - and surge the slatey waves - 

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the raven honks his hornbill beak, hidden in the trees -

Olfactory Echo

Delyo Sivy, picking strawberries down Kernow way in the long ago old-time summer of brambles, swallows, hay-ricks and hedges, when mallows rattled sedges and mellow flowed the summer-clouds.  

                             

Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Special Issue Caterpillar May 2016

Some papers you can read, some papers you can hear, but there’s only one paper that you can actually smell – yes, it’s The Caterpillar Special Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Issue, coming to you from The Invertebrate Press, just down-wind from your local Oll Factory.  Other publishers may choose to neglect and deprive your senses – we prefer to entertain them…..

Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles

ΟΥΖΟ, ΧΑΣΙΣ, 1935, ΡΟΖΑ ΕΣΚΕΝΑΖΥ

ΧΑΣΙΣ... 

An Gath Vlewek Hedra 2015

Sitting in a field writing blog-blurb with glistening dew-drops on the swamp-grass as the busy-traffic roars by on the A-30 and old stag-horn the giant towers dead head and barkless shoulders above the halfling leafy woods of  Hedra's pale strained and diluted sunny rays.
  Leaves are falling, winds are calling, rustling, sighing, soughing, blowing, strewing, golden rays illuminating.  Howlyak yw yn Hedra.   * ~ ^ * ~ ^ * ~ ^ *~ ^  
  Sea of glass, lapping in the sun.  Glittering salt crystals sparkle on the rock.  Sea so, sky so still, feathering for whispy kommolek mackerel and aery brine-scalers.

ΤΑΣΟΣ ΧΑΛΚΙΑΣ -

Ο ΜΕΓΑΛΥΤΕΡΟΣ..Ο Λ Ω Ν

Μοιρολοι με γυρίσματα * Πετρολούκας Χαλκιάς

ΜΟΥ ΦΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ -
ΚΩΣΤΑΣ ΡΟΥΚΟΥΝΑΣ 
1935.

Howlyak yw yn Hedra

Two Sevens Clash

I'm alone in the Wilderness, I'm alone with joy....

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.....

Ghastly Otherness Dub

Well, here it is folks, splurging into your fat faces like a river of glorious, molten, shivering, jewel-encrusted vomit – hope you likes it…. 

STIFEK

Satie – Vexations (Excerpt 2)

The Caterpillar wishes Joy to the World.

A Forest Life

Twenty years in the forest –

watching trees grow –

watching trees fall down –

What have I learned from this?

That trees grow up –

That trees fall down.

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Blazing in the sun –

white glare off the grass blasts the eye.

Green light off the sun beams the sea.

Light through leaf and light through green –

The beetle shuffles.

Sing birds your chirpers to the sea’s boiling roar –

Drowning sunbeam’s silent rush through space.

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Chiff-chaff a chatterjack crackle -

Crow scaw a roeking mock in black –

Buzzy bumble a bee go gathering.

Leaf’s banner’s spread and Spring declared.

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Miles Davis - Ornithology

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Hi Marta!

Whirling Swirl 49

Clouds bilious accumulate towering and flimsy- blowing down the sky flits a scrap of newspaper- whirling and curling overhead, riding the seaward breeze- it’s The April issue of The Caterpillar Dub and it’s coming your way….. and it’s blowing away down the street… a gust picks it up and into the sky it’s whirled-

                                                   

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Swirling Whirl 49

                                               
Rolling on over golden fields of grain- sky blue haze casually drifts across-  spotted mottled cloud shadow today, rolling on the wind-  blowing down the day flies a scrap of paper- swirling and circling overhead, riding the breeze- it’s The April issue of The Caterpillar and it’s coming your way…..

                                                 

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Fields of Gold

Origin of The Universe- evolution of conscious life- the price of cheese- - - - it’s all in The Caterpillar- tried, tested and trusted by millions……….

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