On February 28, 2010, Guru suffered a cardiac arrest, on March 2, he was reported to be recovering after surgery.On March 3, a press release to AllHipHop.com said that he had woken from his coma. On April 19, 2010 he died. (Source Wikipedia)
Detroit Issue Music Mix – Aaron Siegel and David Buick
We invited for this Detroit Issue two very talented minds to create the finest Detroit Mixes: Aaron Siegel (Side A) and David Buick (Side B).
Peter Harris/Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry/Adrian Sherwood: “Higher Powers”
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Last Thursday night, the legendary Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry took to the stage of Notting Hill’s legendary Tabernacle venue, creating a legendary night of musical performance. The occasion represented the latest culmination of the artist Peter Harris’s ongoing project, ‘Higher Powers.’ The project began in 2003 as a series of short film portraits which explore themes of mortality, meaning, power/powerlessness, and creativity through a spectacular lineup of guest stars: Uri Geller, David Icke, The Venerable Akong Tulku, Dave Courtney, Ken Russell, Boris Johnson, Peter Tatchell, and of course Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. The second incarnation is a series of paintings and drawings created by Harris and Perry in collaboration at Perry’s mountain hideaway near Zurich. For Thursday night Harris collaborated with animator Llyr Williams to create a video collage sequence using some of the images and themes from the earlier work. The video provided a captivating backdrop to Perry’s poignant musical performance, converting the old Victorian auditorium into a sight of heightened Jah, if only for one night.
©Morgan O’Donovan
‘Higher Powers’ can be viewed in its various forms at the Tabernacle until October 8th. For more information visit: http://www.leescratchperry-peterharris-art.com/
Issue 5 special mix by David Dorrell
David Dorrell is a self-confessed autodidact who has always found fascination poking around in the entrails of what passes as pop culture whether writing one line Situationist poems for The Modern World fanzine as a teen Punk, ushering the word Goth into popular usage as a writer at the NME during his twenties or mixing Dada ‘cut-up’ with Grandmaster Flash to produce ‘Pump Up The Volume’ as M|A|R|RS.
His obsession with language, meaning and symbology has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape. His recent solo show, ‘Roost’, at London’s MEN Gallery saw him spend the four days and three nights of Easter locked in the gallery with two chickens and a rifle as he echoed Beuys’ ‘I like America, America likes me’ action in the context of financial meltdown, artificial Global Pandemics, Pop Art, the fear of assassination in the Public Mind, Vodou ritual, Voodoo economics, the charade of the Vote and the advent of late-stage Capitalism.
He lives in London with his Messiah complex.
Mix by David Dorrell, engineered by Kevin Swain.
Read the David Dorrel’s own notes to the track listing here
Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
And one more…