Baglamas - μπαγλαμάς

Dazzling in mottled sunlight, shadowed by moonclouds, moving through misty dockside streets – something under his coat- a miniature lute.  Overcoat-cautious he glances round, pencil-moustache and trilby hat.  Sunshine’s soon shaded as he takes an alley and then another.  Starlight sparkles fresh as he winds through the maze.  Then a door swings open and he steps into the teke…..  Now the Baglamas can chirp like a grasshopper…  

ΟΙ ΜΠΑΓΛΑΜΑΔΕΣ, ΣΤΡ. ΠΑΓΙΟΥΜΤΖΗΣ, ΣΤ. ΚΗΡΟΜΥΤΗΣ 1946

 

At the Teke – A Scene from the movie ‘Rebetiko’…

http://www.nine-eight.com/article3.html

Baglamas:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQPt1cziPxM&list=PLkMZb0s_TYEarjnbS1SAN4FkS2ufdDt9u&index=1

μπαγλαμάς

 

Nebulous Gazette

Brisk breeze blow autumnal bright below golden Gwinngala light – leaf-litter splatters showers bringing curtains of grey moisture ashore * * *  roads diverge and spin off snaking and sneaking through the country * * *  photon-streams play on the cottages – crystals glints spicule and speckled sparks glimpsed in a passing glance as a pale afternoon darkens***

                                                                                                                     

ΒΑΔΙΖΩ ΜΕ ΠΑΡΑΠΟΝΟ - 
ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΠΑΠΑΪΩΑΝΝΟΥ, 1939.

More Music…..

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Afterword:

A note to our readers:  Excessive exposure to unbridled verbalism can occasionally lead to an advanced case of glosalalia.  If tempted to speak in tongues untempered by considerations of glossary, lexicon, form, relevance, significance, meaning, communication, impartation, revelation, exposition and the great unfolding- do. 

It is not advisable to mix The Caterpillar Dub with other reading material without first consulting your librarian or your local poet.  If read accidentally, or otherwise ingested in excess, please flush through with some light, or preferably conceptual material as soon as possible.  If symptoms continue, consult a bard. 

Cassowary Chronicles

Crisp, crunchy and straight to the point – it’s journalism you can’t afford to not miss – conducted to you by chemico-mechanical channels, it’s the dagblat broadsheet samizdat tablet from Trebizond – further will not be found. 

The Caterpillar is a product of your own perception. 

ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ ΠΑΓΙΟΥΜΤΖΗΣ - ΜΠΗΚΕ Ο ΧΕΙΜΩΝΑΣ

If  words  could  talk……..

Minoan Mosaic Meniscus

These pictures show of the infinite variety of Amazon shells as amazing as Minoan Mosaic Mazes created from coral as Kronos crunches krogens and mists whirl, stirred by summer’s rattling grey breezes – snaking and weaving into the memories of imagery, particle, participle, particular, an atomic weave it is.  The Zephyr cools brows and as the breeze blows, frowzy through flyblown baked clay-image-tablets (cuniform- early Pre-Palatian period) so it sways and cools as it winds from Knossos to Illium, in zig-zag winding Zeibekiko ecstasis.  Rebetis at Elusis dreampt once of a Dublin pub, heard o’ the good grog from nautical meanderings around the watery globular.  The elderflower hid the bower of the ale-door-man as stealthy-like the bowler spun to the aeldermans acre of bookland, clacking the clogs of a Keltik Hypothesis.  There goes old Don Quixote charging madly up windmill hill, shattering beakers of bronze-age booze astride a Trojan horse – slow down!  But the Don charges on.  Cthonic, very early, a fine example.  I’m off for another one says the old ‘n and scatters quick to split.  (“You can get them in this style for ten and six!” whitters twittering hatter.) For, after all, what’s written on these shimmering Amazonian conches is merely the photogravure plates of curious advice from The Caterpillar, nebulous and diffuse though it often is of a summer’s evening as thrush warbles on sweet feathery wings.

The Termites – Love Up, Kiss Up

The Progressions – Fair Deal

Hopeton Lewis – Come Live It Up

John Holt – Ali Baba

Prince Buster – Dreams to Remember

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica

More Music…..

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 Aeld Englisc:

http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afodtramet

It wasn’t a Trojan Horse – it was a Greek Horse! 

Plates Full of Curious

Eat the bread – publish the bag – stick some stuff on it – call it a mag - 

Shawn Phillips & Donovan - Kingfisher

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Pachuco Cadaver

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Meitheamh Bolb Macalla

From Aphrodite to Zeus – it’s the paper you can’t refuse – Fast & Bolbos, Bolbic, also papered- it’s The Caterpillar Dub- The Shyre’s first Collage Magazine!  Forget Fleet Street, Forget Le Monde and The New York Times, and make way for a REAL newspaper – The Caterpillar Dub- it’ll change the way you look at news…   No other paper even bothers to report on what’s been going on in the rotting wharfside district of New Lynsmouth.  No other paper gives you the latest bulletins on the goings on of Lazarus Taxon, Elias Gillpington and their friends and associates.  No other journal dares to penetrate the murky maze of alleys and twisting, Minoan back-streets that writhe their way up Kyvounder Hill, overlooking the Old Quarter, where the shadow has started to fall.  What other paper will warn the people of the dread doom creeping towards their slumbering lives??  What other paper will raise the alarm, mobilize the populace and rid the towne of the eldritch peril that broods and leers, biding and abiding, waiting for the day;  the day when- (no time to continue – the shadow approaches – run – save yourselves – RUN)

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BOLB

Elias Gillpington 12 BOLB

Flying together on slumber’s winged horse, let us visit the drowzy and dream-bedrenched seaboard towne of New Lynsmouth, soaring over its beetling spires, spiraling chimneys, clambering cottages, lurching gambrels, juddering porticoes, nettled by-ways and shadowy arches of a foggy night, long ago, as lanthorns shimmered and fog-horns honked in earnest.  As we fly together, over the slated, tiled and thatched roofs of the nocturnal port, why don’t we take the opportunity to catch up on the activities of one of it’s most prominent scholars, sinologists and proto-orniphopterists, why, none other than the aforementioned Mr Elias Gillpington Esquire, &c.&c..    Thyngs have not stood still for our protagonist during our absence from the seaboard of West Kirnowe, for even now comes a shadow- and murmurs and whispers fill the air.  

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – 51^st Anniversary

   

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BOLB