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Clinic Interview: Shambolic and Chaotic

Photo by Rhian Askins

BY JORDAN MAINZER

"It’s like they never left” is certainly an overused adage, but for Clinic, it’s remarkably true. The Liverpool indie rock band who broke out with their beloved debut Internal Wrangler in 2000 last released a record 7 years ago--before Friday, that is. Wheeltappers and Shunters, named after an absurd 70′s variety show of a similar name, is perhaps the best distillation of Clinic ever put to record, 60′s inspired in its aesthetic, uniquely British in its outlook. The album’s upbeat and fun to listen to, and from a broad standpoint, it allows Adrian “Ade” Blackburn and company to capture the spirit of England today, cynical about the future of the country but carrying on nonetheless.

Blackburn spoke to me over the phone last week about the new album, working with engineer Dilip Harris (Mount Kimbie, King Krule, Sons of Kemet), and looking back at the band’s old records. Read the conversation below, edited for length and clarity.

Since I Left You: How does it feel to release your first record in 7 years?

Ade Blackburn: It felt really good to release another record, because, as you say, it’s been 7 years. We’ve done a few other bits and pieces in between, but to get to the point of releasing a record is great.

SILY: You’ve talked about why you wanted to make the type of record you made in terms of the times that we’re in--you wanted it to be an escape and took the title from a 70′s variety show. What about the show made you want to name the album after it?

AB: The variety show was really chaotic. It was set in a working men’s social club. I thought that kind of summed up what the mood of things are like in Britain a bit. Shambolic and chaotic, but still, people try to enjoy themselves.

SILY: Having not released an album in 7 years, when the political climate has, in many people’s eyes, flipped on its head, did you feel like you needed to respond in some way?

AB: Yeah, I think that’s right. We didn’t want to directly make the album about that. But this has been building up for 20 years, so it’s naturally going to be something that crept into the lyrics.

SILY: Aesthetically, Wheeltappers and Shunters is even more retro in terms of your garage pop aesthetic. What influenced that?

AB: It is more so than Free Reign; that was a bit more of an electronic, jazzier sound. With this, one thing we were determined to do was make it fun sounding. With that, we probably went back to some old rock and roll sounds. A bit more carefree than thought out too much.

SILY: The first couple songs already released to the public, “Laughing Cavalier” and “Rubber Bullets”--did the label want those as singles, or was it you who thought they really encapsulated the feeling of the record?

AB: I think they cover a couple of sides to the record. One’s got more of a circus, variety, character to it. The other one’s a bit more punk, rock and roll sounding. Sometimes, in the past we’d only have one single, but when you have two, it gives people more of an idea of what the album is.

SILY: The album is not monochrome at all--it really has many sides to it.

AB: Yeah, we just wanted to keep the album short to a point, to not see it as a collection of songs but an entertaining half hour by any means.

SILY: What’s the story behind the video for “Laughing Cavalier”?

AB: The video came through Domino. It was [Joseph May] who did it in London. He had done the one for “Rubber Bullets” as well. It’s got almost a British sort of theme to it. They both have neanderthal elements mixed with some circus stuff.

SILY: “Fairyboat of the Mind” really stood out to me from an instrumental standpoint. Can you talk a little about the structure and instrumentation on that song? And who’s doing the vocal harmonies behind you?

AB: We hadn’t really done an instrumental like that for quite a while. We wanted to get back to mixing in clarinet and the harmonica. The spoken word bits on it are Jonathan Hartley, the keyboardist, and the backing vocals are Brian Campbell, the bass player. That again was a fun thing to do. It stops and starts where you don’t want it to.

SILY: It’s off-kilter.

AB: It’s quite a haunting melody. It reminds me of a David Axelrod song.

SILY: Do you have a favorite track on the record?

AB: I think probably “D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E” is my favorite. The more sort of full-on punk type songs are the ones I feel most confident about. Everything doesn’t have to be too precise. It can be rough around the edges. We could record it really quickly.

SILY: How did you come to work with Dilip Harris?

AB: That was through Domino. We always record ourselves in Hartley’s home studio. I spoke to Dilip, and he seemed to have a really good grasp of what we were going for. He wanted to be quite playful putting it together. He put more effects on it than we would have.

SILY: Had you heard any of his work before working with him?

AB: I hadn’t heard a lot, but I had heard some of it. It’s quite a mixed bag, isn’t it? He’s done some mainstream stuff and some lo-fi stuff. I liked the fact he had done both because we wanted a bit of both. We didn’t want it to be too lo-fi sounding.

SILY: What’s the artistic inspiration behind the cover art?

AB: That cover art was from an original album called The Sounds & Songs of Britain, which came out in 1975. That’s got various sorts of sound effects from the countryside, and it’s also got the town criers you hear at the end of “Be Yourself”. It’s got bits of dialogue and sound effects we used, and we realized the cover was pretty perfect for our album, so we just decided to use that.

SILY: Have you played these songs live?

AB: We played a BBC Radio 6 Music event in March. That was the first thing we had done. But we’re not playing live until June.

SILY: What’s the approach you’re taking in adapting the songs to the stage?

AB: We play quite a few off the new LP. It’s usually what you’ve been rehearsing. They sound a bit more raw and punky. They sound like they’ve got a lot of life in them.

SILY: When you come up with a setlist and you’re playing a lot of new songs, when you pick from your back catalog, do you play what fans want to hear, or do you pick songs that you think will go well with the new material?

AB: We always try to do quite a lot of what fans and people would want to hear. We do half a set of that, and then throw in a few obscure album tracks or B-sides, and then new songs. You always try to avoid making it difficult for the audience. It should be entertaining.

SILY: Do you have any U.S. tour dates coming up?

AB: Possibly. We’re looking at that at the moment. It would be in the autumn. It’s been 7 years since we’ve played, so we should get some dates together.

SILY: Is there anything you’ve been listening to, reading, or watching lately that’s caught your attention?

AB: The last book that I read were Room at the Top by John Braine, which is set in the late 50′s in Britain. I’m always drawn to those British writers. [laughs]

SILY: Does what you’re listening to when you write and record have any influence on what you’re writing and recording?

AB: What I find is that, say, what I’ve listened to in the previous year then would influence me when I’m putting songs together. Once I’m actually recording, it has the opposite effect. If I go in and record something quite melodic, I’ll want to go home and listen to something raw.

SILY: Looking back at some of your old albums, do you find you still connect with them? Is it easy to inhabit the headspace you were in when you made them?

AB: [pauses] I think I know pretty much a lot of the time what headspace I was in. Some of it, I listen to and can’t understand why I went in a certain direction. But the majority of the time, I can still relate to what the ideas were at the time. After we made the albums, we didn’t listen back to them. It’s only more recently we’ve listened back to them. I was really quite pleased. They were a good listen.

SILY: Do you think you would ever reissue or do a retrospective or tour a classic album like Internal Wrangler?

AB: Possibly. I do like that. I think we’ve got quite a lot of demos and different songs and alternatives and instrumental pieces we did for Internal Wrangler. So we could certainly piece something together.

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My WVUD playlist and stream, 6/18/2022

Kraftwerk - Autobahn Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies ISAN - Trois Gymnopedies: No. 3 - Lent et Grave Elizabeth Joan Kelly - Mysterious Grooving Gymnopedie Monolink - Gnossienne No. 1 (Monolink Score Remix) L'Exotighost - Quiet Gnossiene Disa - The Texture of Silence Salamanda - Melting Hazard Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion - Other Song The Utopia Strong - Shepherdess Kim Myhr - Up to the Sun Shall Go Your Heartache Szun Waves - New Universe Lotic - Apart Maria Chiara Argirò - Clouds Carl Turney - Requiem for the Lost John Surman & Ben Surman - Surface Tension Juçara Marçal - Odumbiodé Thus Owls - Above the Sun 7 Arrows - Emanations

(listen on Mixcloud)

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Listen to: Chthonic Cities by Folklore Tapes

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Clinic - Rubber Bullets

Rubber Bullets, is taken from the forthcoming new album, Wheeltappers and Shunters, which is released 10th May 2019 on Domino Record Co. This video was directed and animated by Joseph May. This will be the bands first album for seven years.

Clinic are an English rock band, formed in 1997 in Liverpool. Signed to Domino Records, they are noted for their use of vintage keyboards/organs and off-scale chord progressions. They are comprised of Ade Blackburn, Hartley, Brian Campbell and Carl Turney.

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CARL’S BLOG: ARKANSAS HILLBILLY

12-24-20, The Beginning of a New Life, PART 11

 I was partially right! The second, third, and fourth dates

were spent well supervised in Milbra’s home. As soon as I

arrived, she was enticing me with her magnificent apple and

peach fried pies. Wow! Could that lady cook! No sooner had

the pies settled in my stomach, when Milbra was up popping

popcorn. She was a good popcorn popper as well.

It didn’t take me long to realize what Milbra was doing.

She wanted to keep us where she could watch us. Food was her

enticement.

After Milbra regained her trust in me, she started letting

me take Lena to the movies again. I’m not sure she ever knew

about our dates when we would park at the Lone Pine Church

of Christ.

All during our dating years, Milbra switched the porch light

on and off as a means of saying, “Lena, get in the house and let

Carl go home!” It was always hard for me to understand why she

made such a big thing of us sitting in the truck in her front yard.

Did not she realize that if we were going to make out, we’d do

that at the Lone Pine Church of Christ parking lot? Little did she

know, her front yard was the safest place for her daughter to be?

From stories I have heard from Lena’s sisters, Milbra continued

to utilize this same routine of the flashing porch light all during

their dating years.

Lena and I dated on and off the rest of our high school years.

We loved each other but knew getting married would jeopardize

our chances of getting a college education.

My senior year at Quitman went well. Once again, I was

successful in making the starting lineups in both basketball and

baseball. My grades had improved tremendously at Quitman. I

was now an A and B student and was on the honor roll. I was

focused and ready to investigate college.

When I was a senior, several recruiters from different colleges

and universities came to recruit students for their respective

schools. I visited with the representative from Arkansas State

Teachers College in Conway and the recruiter from Arkansas

Tech, Russellville, Arkansas. Mr. Paul Fisher was the recruiter

from Arkansas Tech University. I liked him right off.

Since my parents were not financially able to pay for any of

my college, I had to have a job to help pay for my education.

Mr. Fisher headed up the work-study program at Arkansas Tech

and offered me a job in the school cafeteria. The work studies

program would pay for my room and board, but I still had to

come up with my tuition and some spending money.

Lena was in the same predicament with her finances. She,

too, was able to get a work-study job in the cafeteria at Arkansas

State Teachers College in Conway.

During our years at West Side and Quitman, Lena and

I was active in the Cleburne County 4-H club. When I

was a senior, I served as president of the Cleburne County

4-H Leadership Council. The president’s position allowed

me an opportunity to develop my leadership skills. I had

the opportunity to travel to the University of Arkansas for

state 4-H week where I participated in public speaking and

parliamentary procedures.

Because of our active participation, Lena and I made

applications for Rural Endowment Student loans. With the help

of letters of recommendation from Mrs. Myra Turney, Cleburne

County Home Demonstration Agent, and Mr. Howard Young,

Cleburne County Farm Agent, we both were awarded Rural

Endowment loans.

After graduating from high school, I spent the first summer

in St. Louis, Missouri, where I was blessed to be able to stay

with my brother Willie and his wife, Norma. They lived in an

apartment three blocks east of the busy Kings Highway.

After arriving in St. Louis, I applied for several jobs. I was

fortunate to find employment with the Gaylord Box Company

making four dollars and twenty-five cents an hour. That was

pretty good money in 1962 for a boy from the foothills of the

Ozark Mountains.

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Sports Shorts - February 28, 2020

Nailers Face Crucial Weekend

The Wheeling Nailers host the Maine Mariners for the only meeting of the season tonight at WesBanco Arena. Face-off is slated for 7:05 p.m. The Nailers are currently 10th in the Western Conference standings, two places behind the Tulsa Oilers who currently own the eighth and final playoff spot. Wheeling has 53 points heading into tonight while Tulsa has 59 and the Indy Fuel nestled in between with 57.  The Good news? Wheeling has a prime opportunity to make up some ground in the playoff hunt. The Oilers will hook up with the Rapid City Rush for three straight games starting tonight? Why is that a good thing? In five previous head-to-head meetings this season, Rapid City owns a 4-1 record against Tulsa, outscoring the Oilers 17-14 during that span. Tulsa’s one win came at its own Bok Center. This weekend’s three games are all at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, where Rapid City is 3-0 vs. Tulsa this season. That’s the good news. The bad news is Wheeling is facing a three-game slate against some of the better teams in the ECHL.  First are the Mariners, owners the fifth spot in the Eastern Conference with 65 points. Maine is 5-4-1-0 in its last 10 games and is led by Alex Kile. Kile has 48 points this season, including 16 goals and is a plus-9. Netminder Connor Lacouvee is 19-2-1 with a 2.67 goals against average and a save percentage of .919. The following night the Cincinnati Cyclones come to Wheeling. The Cyclones are third in the West with 74 points but are on a two-game losing streak.  The Nailers are 4-3 against the Cyclones this season, including 2-1 at WesBanco.  The Nailers are 2-5, however, vs. the Toledo Walleye and haven’t beaten Toledo since a 3-0 shutout at home back on December 20. Sunday, the Nailers travel to Toledo to take on the Walleye. Toledo is fifth in the West with 69 points, has won three in a row and is 7-2-1-0 in its last 10. The Nailers are 2-5, however, vs. the Toledo Walleye and haven’t beaten Toledo since a 3-0 shutout at home back on December 20.

Patriots in Excellent Shape After Day One

Wheeling Park trails favorite Parkersburg South by half a point in the Class AAA team standings at the W.V.S.S.A.C. Wrestling Championships after Day 1 action in Huntington. Cabell-Midland, Parkersburg and Riverside round out the top five. The Ohio County Patriots pushed 11 of 12 wrestlers through to the second round and are positioned to battle South for the team championship. Of those 11 wrestlers, six are either freshmen or sophomores as Park has only two seniors that won in the first round. A more telling stat is that two freshmen, Adam Angel at 170 and Erick Brothers Jr. at 182 were advanced in one of the heavier weight classes, far from the norm. Angel won via technical fall with a 17-2 score and Brothers pinned his opponent in 2:35. John Marshall had three wrestlers secure Day 1 victories and Brooke had one. The local teams didn’t fair quite as well in Class AA/A.  Oak Glen has five wrestlers advancing to the next round in the championship bracket, with Weir, Cameron, Magnolia and Weir each advancing one.  Point Pleasant is leading the pack with 52 points, followed by Braxton County, Fairmont Sr., Independence and Herbert Hoover. Oak Glen is the highest ranked local team in eighth place with 15 points. Team Scores and Local Winners AAA Top 5 South 41, Park 40.5, Cabell Midland 29.5, Parkersburg 29.0, Riverside 25 106: Quinton Velas, Wheeling Park (pin 1:04); Brandon Roberts, Parkersburg South (0:41); Ethan Cook, John Marshall (Maj. Dec. 9-1). 113: Cody Taggart, Wheeling Park (0:16); Nathan Ford, Parkersburg South (0:42); Carl Cochran (0:39). 120: Nate Shelek, Wheeling Park (tech fall 18-2). 126: Trent Jones, Parkersburg South (1:08); Jace Stockett, University (0:58); Bradyn Lucas, Wheeling Park (9-6). 132: Dom Parker, University (1:00); Gabe Carman, John Marshall (3:06); Brayden Johnson, Parkersburg South (MD 9-0); Trentin Thompson, Morgantown (1:01). 138: Andrew Shelek, Wheeling Park (0:23); Dakoyta Thatcher, John Marshall (MD 10-2). 145: Steven Mitchell, Wheeling Park (2:58); Gavin Quiocho, Parkersburg South (0:09); Joey Gidley, University (5:31). 152: Dakota Hagedorn, University (2:47); Billy Gooch, Wheeling Park (TF 15-0); Brayden Roberts, Parkersburg South (0:36). 160: Canon Welker, Wheeling Park (0:50); Elijah Wellings, University (8-6). 170: Casch Somerville, Parkersburg South (1:34); Max Camilletti, Brooke (2:23); Adam Angel, Wheeling Park (TF 17-2). 182: Erick Brothers Jr., Wheeling Park (2:35); Noah Buckalew, Parkersburg South (6-1). 195: Oscar Lemus, Parkersburg South (1:42). 220: Charlie Tamburin, Wheeling Park (2:38); Braxton Amos, Parkersburg South (pin); Josh Sanders, University (TF 18-3).  285: Corbin Turney, University (6-3). AA/A Top 5 Point Pleasant 52, Braxton Co. 32, Fairmont Sr. 20, Independence 20, Herbert Hoover 18; closest OVAC is Oak Glen at 8 with 15 106: Camden Barr, Oak Glen (3:53) 120: Clayton Lamb, Oak Glen (8-6) 132: Wyatt Conley, Weir (1:49) 145: Jonathan Creese, Oak Glen (MD 14-3) 152: Peyton Hall, Oak Glen (1:06) 170: Ian Bush, Cameron (0:35) 182: Kyler O’Conner, Oak Glen (10-4) 195: James Stillwagoner, Magnolia (MD 9-1) 285: Jordan Brueck, Weir

Bethany Sprinters Excel at PAC Indoor Championships

The Bethany men’s and women’s indoor track teams took fifth and sixth place, respectively, as Thursday’s Presidents’ Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Youngstown. Defending champions Westminster for the women and Geneva for the men both repeated. Shaylyn Gower won the 60-meter dash in 8.97 and followed that up with a 26.62 in the 200 for another first-place finish. Teammates Grace Chambers was second in the 200 and Riley Meyers fourth as the Bison took three of the top four sports. Chambers came back and won the 400 in 1:00.37 as the Bethany women swept the sprint events. Meyers added a third-place finish in the 60 hurdles and 60-meter dash. Danielle Williams finished in 7th in the 1-mile run and Shae Reinbeau of Bishop Donahue was fourth in the 5,000 meters, finishing in 19:21.30. Cameron’s Kelsie Meintel just missed placed in shot put. Her final throw of 10.31 meters was just behind the eighth-place winning throw of 10.4. On the men’s side, Chas Blango finished first in the weight throw with a toss of 15.82 meters. He was sixth in the shot put after scratching on his first and final throws.  Raekwon Wright captured the men’s long jump by leaping 6.96 meters. Hunter Klein won the 400 for Bethany in 50.53, Keyohn Thompson finished second in both the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles.

Sports on TV

For men’s college basketball, Ohio U hosts Kent State at 6:30 p.m. on CBSSN. Davidson travels to Dayton at 7 p.m. on ESPN2, with Texas State at Texas Arlington at 9 p.m. on ESPN and Washington State and Washington squaring off at 9 p.m. on FS1. For the women, Villanova plays at Creighton at 7 p.m. on FS1 ESPN is featuring Oklahoma City at Milwaukee at 8 p.m. Cleveland travels to New Orleans to take on Zion Williamson and the Pelicans at 8 p.m. on FSN and Ohio, also at 8 pm. Later on ESPN, the Denver Nuggets take on the Los Angeles Clippers at 10:30 p.m. A replay of the Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Baltimore Orioles at 6 p.m. on ATTSN. MLB Network will have the Colorado Rockies at San Francisco Giants live at 9 p.m. Those with either FSN Cincinnati or Columbus will get to watch the Minnesota Wild take on Columbus at 7 p.m. while the NHL Network is airing the New York Rangers at Philadelphia, also at 7 p.m. College hockey featuring Michigan State and Notre Dame is available at 7 p.m., on NBCSN. Later, the Penguins travel to Anaheim for a 10 p.m. faceoff on ATTSN.  Auto racing fans can catch Auto Club 400 practice starting at 4 p.m. on FS1, with final practice taking place at 5:30 p.m. Read the full article

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Del 2 al 6 de marzo, Children of Darklight estuvimos en Roma en una quedada internacional de lightpainters organizada por LPWA. La intención era realizar alguna que otra fotografía masiva en lugares emblemáticos de la ciudad. Nosotros hicimos nuestra propuesta, THE WOLF, y fue una de las dos que más aceptación tuvieron e iba por tanto a ser realizadas. Ya llevábamos nuestra idea más o menos planificada en función de una localización que aún no habíamos visitado. El diseño había sido creado por Sfhir, las herramientas customizadas por Edu Cajigal, Frodo coordinando la acción, y un gran elenco de lightpainters dispuestos a participar en nuestra creación.

La noche del viernes descartamos nuestra localización en plaza de España, puesto que no alcanzaba nuestras expectativas. Tras plantearnos el cancelar, dimos con una localización que nos devolvió la esperanza con nuestra foto, la Isla Tiberina.

Así pues, el sábado de tarde comenzamos la realización de THE WOLF, con un colosal trabajo de equipo. A continuación, Sergey Churkin dirigió THE PHOENIX, en la que Children of Darklight tuvimos un papel muy protagonista.

Os dejamos con ambas imágenes y el vídeo de Making of:

THE PHOENIX

Credits for Phoenix project (piazza di Spagna):

Location supervisor Maria Saggese

Creative support, special flame design by Bernhard Rauscher, CHILDREN OF DARKLIGHT/ Frodo Álvarez DKL , Luis Lafuente Medina,  and Patrick Collier.

Phoenix model by Vikthor Clarke.

Camera control by Ivan Lucio and Javier Jimenez.

Stuff support and management by Ivan Barco and Mirko Panzeri

Creative idea, wings design and direction by Sergey Churkin

Artists: Maria Saggese (Italy), Liliana Iadeluca (Italy), Gioele A. Rana (Italy), Luca Carra (Italy), Mirko Panzeri (Italy), Giulio Spagone (Italy), Ivan Barco (Spain), Vikthor Clarke (Spain), Iris Shyroii (Spain), Alexandra Lunar Perez (Spain), Carles Domenech (Spain), Adrian Rojo Parra (Spain), Javier Jimenez (Spain), Ivan Lucio (Spain), CHILDREN OF DARKLIGHT/ Frodo Álvarez DKL (Spain), Sfhir (Spain), Luis Lafuente Medina (Spain), Jan Pohribny (Czech), Adela Bartonickova (Czech), Alzbeta Moreno (Czech), Kirsten Borgelt (Germany), Franz Muller (Germany), Marcel Fuhrmann (Germany), Monika Sandel (Germany), Bernhard Rauscher (Germany), Gunnar Heilmann (Germany), Ulrich Tausend (Germany), Patrick Rudolf (Germany), Georgi Kasabov (Bulgaria), Maarten Takens (Netherlands), Stabeu Light (France), Diliz (France), Jean Christophe Aubert (France), Alberto Moser (Switzerland), Dan Chick (USA), Patrick Collier (USA), Roy Wang (China), Yasmina Cherkaoui (Morocco), Rob Turney (Australia), Sergey Churkin (Russia).

Volunteers: Kim Natassija Donato (Italy), Nancy Nguyen (USA), Joe Salmans (USA), Adriana Michima (USA), Diego Labonia (Italy), Emanuela Bellezza (Italy), Alessandra Grieco (Italy)

Special thanks to Furla shop on piazza di Spagna for cooperation. Order and peace by polizia Roma Capitale. Made in the night of March 3 2017 on piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy, while LPWA Roma Meet-up 2017.

THE WOLF

Credits for The Wolf project (isla Tiberina):

Location supervisor CHILDREN OF DARKLIGHT/ Frodo Álvarez DKL, Sfhir, Bernhard Rauscher

Camera control by CHILDREN OF DARKLIGHT/ Frodo Álvarez DKL, Luis Lafuente Medina, Bernhard Rauscher, Mafu Fuma, Gunnar Heilmann.

Tools design: Edu Cajigal

Creative idea, design, creative support and marking: Sfhir

Direction by CHILDREN OF DARKLIGHT/ Frodo Álvarez DKL

Co-direction: RIDERS OF LIGHT/ Iván Lucio

Artists: Maria Saggese (Italy), Liliana Iadeluca (Italy), Gioele A. Rana (Italy), Luca Carra (Italy), Mirko Panzeri (Italy), Giulio Spagone (Italy), Ivan Barco (Spain), Vikthor Clarke (Spain), Iris Shyroii (Spain), Alexandra Lunar Perez (Spain), Carles Domenech (Spain), Adrian Rojo Parra (Spain), Javier Jimenez (Spain), Ivan Lucio (Spain), CHILDREN OF DARKLIGHT/ Frodo Álvarez DKL (Spain), Sfhir (Spain), Luis Lafuente Medina (Spain), Jan Pohribny (Czech), Adela Bartonickova (Czech), Alzbeta Moreno (Czech), Kirsten Borgelt (Germany), Franz Muller (Germany), Marcel Fuhrmann (Germany), Monika Sandel (Germany), Bernhard Rauscher (Germany), Gunnar Heilmann (Germany), Ulrich Tausend (Germany), Patrick Rudolf (Germany), Georgi Kasabov (Bulgaria), Maarten Takens (Netherlands), Stabeu Light (France), Diliz (France), Jean Christophe Aubert (France), Alberto Moser (Switzerland), Dan Chick (USA), Patrick Collier (USA), Roy Wang (China), Yasmina Cherkaoui (Morocco), Rob Turney (Australia), Sergey Churkin (Russia).

Volunteers: Kim Natassija Donato (Italy), Nancy Nguyen (USA), Joe Salmans (USA), Adriana Michima (USA), Diego Labonia (Italy), Emanuela Bellezza (Italy), Alessandra Grieco (Italy)

  Aquí el vídeo de making of:

https://vimeo.com/209447392

 Otras imágenes realizadas por Roma por Children of Darklight:

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THE WOLF (LPWA Roma Meeting 2017 massive collaboration) Del 2 al 6 de marzo, Children of Darklight estuvimos en Roma en una quedada internacional de lightpainters organizada por LPWA.

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Folk Week: Folklore Tapes - Chthonic Cities

File Under: Underground//Rising

Folk music has always been strongly associated with a sense of place

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Clinic - Laughing Cavalier Laughing Cavalier is taken from the forthcoming new album, Wheeltappers and Shunters, which will be out 10th May 2019 on Domino Record Co. This animated video was directed and animated by Joseph May.

Following a seven-year hiatus, Clinic returned with their eighth album, Wheeltappers and Shunters, which borrowed its title from the obscure 1970s British variety program The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.

Liverpool's art punk four-piece Clinic formed in 1997 out of the ashes of Ade Blackburn and Hartley's previous band, Pure Morning. The duo added Brian Campbell and Carl Turney to the fold. Following a seven-year hiatus, Clinic returned with their eighth album, Wheeltappers and Shunters, which borrows its title from the obscure 1970s British variety program The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.

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CARL’S BLOG: ARKANSAS HILLBILLY 12-22-20. Coming into My Own, PART 2 Mr. Rowlett and two teachers helped us with our class assignments. Ella Mae, being in the ninth grade, would also be at the high school. I was happy that we would be staying in the same building. She was a little on the shy side, so I would be there should she need me. As it turned out, Carroll and I were in every class together. I was thankful for that! With Carroll’s help, it did not take me long to get oriented to the high school. I learned quickly that if one wanted to have more time for lunch, one had to sprint as fast as one could to the cafeteria. The cafeteria was about the length of a football field from the high school. Those students who got there early did not had to stand in line. They were able to get their food, eat, and have more time to socialize. The high school was unique in several ways. It was a long building with a hallway down the middle that separated classrooms on each side of the hall. The girls’ and boys’ restrooms were located at the end of the south entrance of the high school. Having outside restrooms made them hard to supervise. Lots of things went on in those restrooms that did not always comply with school rules, if you know what I mean! When the smoke got thick, I thought of a line in a popular song, “Fe-fi-fo-fum, who’s that smoking in the auditorium? Charlie Brown! He’s a clown!” There was a concrete sidewalk that extended all around the high school and played a major role in determining who was popular among the students. If one wanted to be among the most popular boys with the girls, he would invite a girl to walk around the school with him. If she accepted the invitation and they walked around the building three consecutive days in a row, they were considered going steady. There were some girls I liked, but I did not want to get caught up in that three consecutive day thing. Carroll and Tommy Bateman, another boy I became friends with, told me the girls considered me to be cool. I must admit, it did something for my ego. It made me feel good to be labeled a cool guy. The first conflict I encountered in Quitman was when I beat a hometown boy out of a starting position on the basketball team. The person had been a starter for two years. I can understand how he was feeling, but I felt I had earned the starting role. Jimmy Solomon was our coach, and he did not let community pressure determine who played or did not play. He was fair with all his players. If I had not earned my position, I certainly would not have been starting. Anyway, over a period we resolved our differences and became good friends. I worked hard, and, like my older brothers, I could put some points on the score board. I was a natural outside shooter. I became that outside shooter that Mr. Davies had said was needed for Quitman to have a good team. Coach Solomon worked us hard. We were in excellent shape. As time went on, our team developed into a county championship team. My old school, West Side, was traditionally strong in basketball and had won the Cleburne County Tournament more times than any other school in the county. But it was Quitman’s time to shine. We beat West Side at West Side in the finals of the Cleburne County Tournament in my junior year. I was named to the Cleburne County All-Tournament Team, an accomplishment I probably would not have received if I had stayed at West Side. My favorite class was agriculture. Since I grew up on a farm, I thought I had some knowledge of the course content. I loved the agriculture teacher, Mr. Reedy Turney, who right away showed an interest in me. He encouraged me and motivated me to do the best in everything I did. It was because of him that I learned to discipline myself when it came to academics and sports. It was not long before I went from a C average student to an A and B student at Quitman. The sense of achievement really did something for me. As I have mentioned previously, I was not an exceptionally good student prior to moving to Quitman, mainly because of my attitude. I also loved my American history teacher, Mrs. Ethel Groaner, who created a lot of interest for me. She made history come alive. She did not try to lecture a lot, but got her students involved by discussion. I always liked discussions better than lectures. Mrs. Groaner often called on me to help her get a discussion going on a particular subject. I think she knew I would not object, because I loved to talk about historical events. With Mrs. Groaner’s and Mr. Turney’s encouragement, I found myself in love with school. I even started thinking about the possibility of going to college. No one in my family had ever gone to college. My three older brothers, Willie, Jimmy, and Roy, were terrific basketball players and could have played college ball, but they all caught the love bug and got married instead. During the district tournament, Quitman got beat in the semi-final game by two points. We were all heartbroken. The district was full of strong teams like Greenbrier, Mayflower, Plumerville, and Southside Bee Branch. I really do not think there was a weak team in our district. Although we lost the game to Mayflower, we were still proud of our accomplishment. After we lost to Mayflower, Couch Solomon sat us down and gave us a strong pep talk. The first thing he said was, “I’m proud of all of you. Most of you will be returning next year. Let us set our goal to win the county and district tournaments and advance to state next year. Can we do that?” We were pumped up by his speech and shouted, “Win state, win state!” I was named a member of the all-district team, another honor I was quite proud of. In the following spring, I made the starting lineup in baseball, playing third base. It was at that time that I begin to think I might be joining my brothers in the sports arena as a good athlete.

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CARL’S BLOG: MAMIE, AN OZARK MOUNTAIN GIRL OF COURAGE

10-8-20, Carl’s talk with God, get me up off my knees

After school ended in May, Jimmy, Guiva Sue, and Carl traveled to Benton Harbor, Michigan, to work for Bud Piggott.  Mamie, Edward, Roy, Ella Mae, and Faye remained at home in Pearson to help Edward make a corn and cotton crop. This was the first time in fifteen years that Mamie had missed going to Benton Harbor.  It was not going to be the same without her. Jimmy, Guiva Sue, and Carl moved into a small house next to the Piggott’s’ home.  This house was the first house the Piggott’s lived in before building their new home.  It had a nice bathroom, two bedrooms, a living room and kitchen.  It was the nicest house they had lived in since first going to Benton Harbor.  Since Guiva was pregnant, the comfort of the house made it easier on her.  Mr. Piggott made Jimmy and Carl his right-hand men. Jimmy was good at driving the tractor and cultivating.  Carl was put in charge of hauling the Hispanics around to move the irrigation pipes. It was during strawberry harvest that Guiva Sue started spotting and cramping. Jimmy took her to the house and put her in bed.  Mrs. Piggott, who had six daughters of her own, knew what Guiva’s problem was.  She was trying to have a miscarriage.  Jimmy carried her to a local doctor in Benton Harbor who prescribed bed rest.  After a few days of bed rest things returned to normal for Guiva Sue.  She was blessed by not losing the baby.  On a hot day in early June as Carl was crawling on his knees picking strawberries, he had a good talk with God.  He was tired of the hot blistering sun and the sweat running down his forehead into his eyes.  He could not count the times he wiped his forehead with his long sleeve shirt.  He was tired of being a migrant worker.  He had done this type of work since he was three years old.  As he picked the strawberries, he thought about what Mr. Turney and Mrs. Groaner had said to him back in Quitman.  He had grown to admire and respect them for their genuine interest in him.  They were the only two teachers who ever encouraged him to do something different with his life. “God, I’ve been doing this type of work since I was three years old.  I am not complaining about how hard I have worked, nor the pain I’m feeling in my back and knees right now.   I am asking you, is there something else better for me than this?   God, if it be, you are will, please help me get up off my knees and make something productive of my life.  Please make it possible for me to go to college and chose a profession which will be both rewarding to you and me.  God, I haven’t asked you for much during my eighteen years, but I guess I’m asking you for something big now.  I do not quite understand what lies ahead for me in college, but if it does for me what it is done for Mr. Turney, Coach Solomon, and Mrs. Groaner, I will be happy.  If you will bless me, Lord, I will be indebted to you for the rest of my life. I will strive to do my best and to make you proud of me. Amen.” Carl felt a sense of relief after talking to God. For some reason, he felt close to God that day.  He felt confident God heard his prayer.

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CARL’S BLOG: MAMIE, AN OZARK MOUNTAIN GIRL OF COURAGE

10-6-20, Quitman Public School System, a new beginning for Carl

The summer in Benton Harbor went by fast.  In the middle of August, the family returned home to their new house in Pearson. Edward had made several improvements to the farm during the summer.  He had built a barn and some lean-to stables for the cows.  He managed to make a ten-acre corn crop and a good Irish potato crop. The Quitman Public School System no longer had a fall cotton season break, so the family skipped their annual trip to Leachville and Monette. They had made enough money in the fruit harvest in Benton Harbor to make the mortgage payment and the truck payment. In fact, they paid off the Ford pickup truck.  During the winter months, the family supplemented their income by cutting and selling wood.  Ed, Mamie, and Roy did most of the wood cutting.  Carl helped on Saturdays.  The Barger children enrolled in the Quitman Public School System.  This was a new school for them, and Carl, Ella Mae, and Faye were a little apprehensive during their first day of school.  Much to their surprise, they found they liked the school better than they thought.  They were a lot like their mother; they had never met a stranger.  It was not long before they made new friends and felt comfortable in their new environment.  To get to school each morning, Carl and his sisters walked a quarter of a mile to the regular bus stop.  The worst part about walking was the cold, and sometimes rainy and snowy weather. Carl and Russell Davies, the bus driver, became good friends.  Carl sat on the front seat behind Mr. Davies in the mornings.  Each morning he and Mr. Davies visited about basketball.  Mr. Davies was a big supporter of basketball. He was always complimentary of Carl’s performance on the basketball court.   Carl valued Mr. Davies opinion and learned from his suggestions.  Carl had a great year in sports.  His shooting ability had improved, and he was named to the All-County and All-District tournament teams.  He loved basketball.  He liked his coach, Jimmy Solomon, who became his idle.  The Quitman School System proved to be the best thing to happen to Carl.  His whole attitude about school changed.  The teachers at Quitman looked at him differently.  He was the new boy on the block, and he enjoyed the attention he got. Carl always felt the teachers at Westside did not think he or any of the Barger’s would ever amount to anything because they were poor.  Carl’s whole attitude about school and learning changed when he met Reedy Turney, the agriculture teacher, and Mrs. Ethel Groaner, librarian, and social studies teacher.    These two teachers made Carl aware of his potential.  They help turn his life in the right direction. They praised and challenged him to do his best.  Their motivation and encouragement caused Carl to want to do his best.  Mr. Turney was not only Carl’s teacher at school, he was also Carl’s Sunday school teacher at the Church of Christ in Quitman.   Realizing that Carl had potential in public speaking, Mr. Turney encouraged Carl to get involved in parliamentary procedures and other FFA projects.  Mrs. Groaner’s interest in Carl was both in the classroom and the school library.  She loved the way he participated in class discussion.  Carl loved history and was not afraid to answer questions in class. Mrs. Groaner also made him a librarian aide.  She and Carl had several interesting talks about his future.  She motivated him to think big.  

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9-16-20, The Barger’s return to their home in Arkansas

On August 15, 1952, the Barger’s said their goodbyes to Pearl, Henry and their cousins and headed home to Arkansas.  Loudeen had made her choice.  She returned to Arkansas with her family.  The Barger’s returned to Higden one day before school started.   This was the first year that the children attended the newly organized Westside School District.  During the previous year, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a new law to consolidate several small school districts into larger districts.  Under the new law, any school that had fewer than 350 students would be consolidated with a larger school district.  Mr. Tom Cowan, the county supervisor of public schools in Cleburne County was given a state mandate to consolidate several small school districts in the county. The new law ended one and two room schoolhouses in Cleburne County.  Dick Hunt, who owned the cotton gin and a large general store in the Westside area, donated forty acres for the new Westside school site.  The Westside School System was big compared to the one room school at Post Oak.  Every grade level had its own classroom.  Each grade had twenty to thirty students.  During the previous school year at Post Oak, Loudeen had completed her requirements for an eighth-grade diploma.  She decided not to attend the new Westside School.  It was a common practice in the Ozark Mountains for young people to drop out of school after obtaining an eighth-grade education.  Only a few ever went beyond the eighth grade.  To get to Westside School, Willie, Jimmy, Roy, and Carl walked down a narrow road which led from their home to the main road to catch a big yellow bus.  Riding their horse, Old Red, was no longer an option.  The Westside School was about five miles from their home.  This was their first experience riding a school bus. It was fun!  The new school offered competitive basketball.  This was a great improvement over the one-room schools in the county.  Students who had athletic ability now had an opportunity to use their skills.  Over the next several years, Willie, Jim, and Roy became exceptionally good at basketball.  Willie found basketball to be intriguing.  There was no one in the county who could stop him from scoring. If school records had been kept during his high school years, he would possibly hold the school record.  It was uncommon for him to score fewer than twenty-five points a game.  He had several forty-point games during his career.  He breathed, ate, and slept basketball.  During Willie’s basketball career at Westside his coaches were Gray Turney, Robert Anthony, and Elmer Gathright.   Coach Gathright went on to become the superintendent of the Westside School District.  Mr. Elmer Gathright Willie’s basketball coach, really liked Willie.  He liked his character most of all.  Willie was a leader on the basketball court as well as off the court.  Everyone on the team liked Willie.  They admired him for his basketball skills as well as his leadership qualities.  The girls liked him for his good looks!  He was popular with the girls.

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7-24-20:  Continuation of the killing of Walter Jon Barger.

Edward and Mamie made several visits to Higden during the crisis period. Mamie said, “It’s a shame that a killing had to occur to bring this family closer together.” She was right.

The Circuit Court in Cleburne County appointed a grand jury and they charged John Allen Turney with manslaughter. Since the trial was not scheduled for several months, the court allowed John Allen Turney to be released on a $2000 bond. The action of the court did not set well with Alice and John William.  They registered their complaint but to no avail.  Even during economic hard times and community and family turmoil, life continued to go on for the rapidly growing Barger family. On January 5, 1933, Mamie gave birth to her and Edward’s fifth child, another little girl. They named her Flossie Loudeen. Loudeen had brown curly hair and blue eyes.  She weighed six pounds and seven ounces.  When she was born, she had freckles.  

In February, 1933, the case of the state of Arkansas against John Allen Turney for second degree murder was taken up and finished.  The verdict handed down was that the defendant was justified in defending himself, and John Allen Turney was freed. The verdict caused bad feelings between the Barger’s and Turney’s for years to come.  On March 4, 1933, three and half years after the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President.  In his inaugural address he said, “I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” President Roosevelt immediately put his “New Deal” policies into effect with the help of the Democratic controlled Congress.  Although, President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” did not completely end the Depression, it did help relieve some economic hardships.

During the first one hundred days of Roosevelt’s term in office, he, and his advisors, known as the “Brain Trust,” passed several laws to help farmers and industry and to help lower the unemployment numbers.  Among the new laws was the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).  The Civilian Conservation Corps put men to work on useful things such as planting trees and building roads and dams.  The young men working in the camps were fed, sheltered, and paid hourly wages which most of them sent back home to their families. The WPA provided jobs for about 8.5 million people.  These workers built schoolhouses, city buildings, roads, and county projects. Even with these programs, the New Deal was not what brought the United States out of the Depression.  It took World War II to finally bring America back to the prosperity she knew before the depression.  

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7-23-20: The shooting death of Walter Jon Barger.

Several of the Ozark Mountain folk resorted to bootlegging to make ends meet.  The law officials found it hard to catch those who were making the moonshine, or maybe at times, they looked the other way.   The people who lived in the area knew who was making and selling moonshine but wouldn’t dare turn their neighbors over to the law.  They stuck to their own business and frequently indulged in some of the tasty stuff.   A lot of fighting was contributed to moonshine.  Most fights occurred on Saturday nights and kept the law officers busy throughout Cleburne and Van Buren counties.  One such fight resulted in the killing of Walter Jon Barger, Edward’s uncle.  On July 30, 1932, Walter Jon Barger was shot and killed by John Allen Turney, a blacksmith and farmer in Higden.  Witnesses who were present at the blacksmith shop said Walter Barger confronted John Allen Turney in a rage as though he had been drinking.   Some witnesses indicated they did not think he had been drinking.   No one truly knew the reason Walter Barger was so angry at Mr. Turney.    Some witnesses thought that Walter and John Allen were arguing over a share-cropping deal.   Others said they thought it was over a woman.  Anyway, a fight broke out.  Some witnesses said that Walter picked up a hammer and swung it at John Allen’s head. The hammer hit a post instead. Witnesses said that Turney pulled a gun and shot Barger three times in the chest, killing him instantly.  John Allen Turney was arrested and charged with second degree murder and was taking to the Heber Springs jail.

The news of the shooting traveled throughout both Counties.   The Cleburne County Times and the Van Buren County Democrat both carried stories of the shooting.  This was one of the biggest things to hit Cleburne County since similar events occurred in the early 1900’s.

John William Barger and his sister, Sarah Alice Barger Thompson were disturbed over the killing of their brother.  They demanded a full investigation into his shooting.   They were well-respected citizens in Higden.   They also felt responsible since they had been instrumental in getting Walter to come from Missouri to Arkansas in 1928.  

Sarah’s husband, Marion Thompson, was a postmaster in Higden. Tension ran high in the Higden area for several weeks.  The Turney family was upset because John Allen was still in jail for a crime, they felt was not his fault.  The Bargers were upset because the court had yet to act on the shooting.  

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5-29-20:  The Beginning of Cleburne County, Arkansas. Part 2.

In 1836, Arkansas was made a state, which made the unexplored hills more acceptable for establishing a home.

The government had gained title to all the land in the state and made attractive offers to the early settlers. The most popular of these offers were the land grants to veterans of the War of 1812.   The U. S. government gave a bounty of 160 acres to anyone who enlisted as a soldier in the war. There were millions of acres set aside for military bounties in Arkansas. There were several soldiers who chose not to use their bounty, and instead, sold their bounty to some of the earlier settlers of Cleburne County.

Other ways which earlier settlers acquired land was through the Preemption Act of 1841 which gave squatters rights to those earlier settlers who came before the government started given out land grants. These squatters had already built their cabins and developed a portion of the land for farming. Most of them had built close to the Little Red River or close to a spring.

One other popular way to acquire land was through the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act required the early settlers to live on the land for at least five years and make improvements to the land. After requirements were met, the government gave the settlers a deed for the land.

After the government completed their land surveys, state offices were set up in Clinton and Batesville, Arkansas. The settlers were able to purchase forty- and eighty-acre tracts of land from the government for as little as $1.25 an acre. This cheap land was a major incentive for the early settlers to move to the hills of Arkansas. They came seeking adventure and a new life.

Among some of the earlier settlers who came to Cleburne County (then Van Buren County) and stayed were: Allen, Allison, Bailey, Baker, Barnum, Bean, Birdsong, Bittle, Bradford, Brewer, Brown, Caldwell, McAllister, Carlton, Cato, Chandler, Chalk, Clark, Cornwell, Cothren, Crockett, Cullum, Davis, Dillon, Doyle, Draper, Dunn, Edmunds, Edwards, Farmer, Gadberry, Gainer, Galloway, Gentry, Gill, Goff, Goodloe, Goodman, Gray, Grimes, Hall, Hardin, Hawkins, Hipp, Hooten, Holmes, Horton, Hunt, Huggins, Kindle, Olive, Owens, Jackson, Jones, Kendall, Knapp, Lafferty, Magness, Miller, Morgan, Murphree, Nored, Patten, Potter, Presley, Ramer, Reeves, Roberson, Sanders, Spears, Stark, Stern, Smith, Stone, Swift, Tackett, Taylor, Turney,Versers, Weavers, Winfrey, Woods, and Young.

Tennessee and Kentucky accounted for over half of the early settlers who came to Cleburne County.

The first settlers in Cleburne County sent word back to parents, brothers, and other relatives to join them in the hills of the Ozark Mountains. In a matter of months relatives united with their kinfolks. It was not easy for the early settlers to get to Cleburne County. They used dim Indian trails and rode horse back until the trails could be widened for wagons. Even after the trails were widened it was still a difficult journey because of the stumps, rocks, water, and mud which cause frequent interruptions. There were no bridges so the settlers had to ford streams or use ferries to cross the rivers. When some lost their wagons, they questioned whether they had used good judgment in trying to ford rivers. Several settlers lost everything they had in their wagons. Disappointment caused several of them to return to the area which they had previously homesteaded.