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ALICE MOKI JAYNE

from SPIRIT COUNSEL by Thurston Moore

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ALICE MOKI JAYNE

This piece was composed for two afternoon concerts, June 16 and 17, 2018 at Cafe Oto in London, during Summer Solstice.
Initially presented as New Noise Guitar Explorations, and featuring four electric 12-string guitars and percussion, the composition was formulated from a meditation on a simple melodic line from a recording of Alice Coltrane, using her Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, of Hindu devotional songs.
The title evolved from a consideration of Turiya Coltrane's sound world in relation to the spirit conscious artwork of Moki Cherry, a woman who exhibited utopian ideals of love and creative energy through visionary, and glorious, pieces of handsewn textile and appliqué. And to the poet and activist Jayne Cortez who wrote, performed and published poetry as a political and benificent practice.
While all three women are historically recognized through the profiles of their partners (John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman) their vocations seemingly did not necessitate celebrity and ego, regardless of the patriarchal attention lauded to the men in their lives. Their personal faiths and feminist energies, their relationships with each other, their communities, and their marriages, all evince a personal resonance to the creative energy of love life, and a love-for-life, as a resolute meaning for art.

Alice Moki Jayne, written for electric 12-string guitar, can be played solo or with chosen accompaniment. This particular recording is of three electric 12-string guitars, one electric 6-string baritone bass guitar, electronics and percussion.


ALICE MOKI JAYNE
for electric 12-string guitar
D# - A# - D - F – A# - C

1.) SPACE - pick - stairs 7th fr▲>5thfr▼ > lead

2.) PICK - 6th fr > 6th, 7th fr > 8th, 7th, 6th fr > 8th, 6th, 8th fr > 8th, 7th fr > 7th, 7th fr >
PULSE 7th fr, 6th str > extend to 3rd str 9th fr > 7th fr, 6th + 4th > 5th fr Open x 1 Close x 2 > build - employ distortion, lead

3.) DISTORTION: Open 6th str > Open 6th + 5th str (x 2) > 20th fr build > 5th fret pick > bend > crunge > GLASS: ▼▼ > ▼▲ > 7th fr ▼▲▼▼ > 10th fr triangle > triangle + > 12th fr triangle > alternate > REST 12th fr 3rd str > ROMANCE riff > REST 15th fr 4th str > RADAR dots > REST 3rd fr 4th str > ALICE riff > Open 1st str

4.) FILE 15th fr > employ distortion > pull out > 21st fr swoop x 3 > amp lean > chug > 15th-17th fret rock > 12th fret herald > 12th to 9th fret 3rd str calm > 7th fret 6th thru 2nd string harmonic > 5th fret 1st string harmonic


Thurston Moore / London UK 2018

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from SPIRIT COUNSEL, released January 6, 2021
Composition by Thurston Moore

Recorded at Les Ateliers Claus,Brussels BELGIUM, MMXIX
12-String Electric Guitar Army:
Thurston Moore, James Sedwards and Jen Chochinov (Schande)
Baritone Bass: Deb Googe
Magick Drums: Jem Doulton
Electronics: Jon Leidecker

Engineer: Christophe Albertijn

Mastered by Lasse Marhaug

Special thanks to: Radieux Radio and Tommy De Nys, Les Atelier Claus and Steve Shelley

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Thurston Moore London, UK

thurston moore born 25 july 1958 coral gables florida usa, teenage years bethel connecticut then nyc 1977, joins The Coachmen plays cbgb, max's + downtown art-rock dwellings,sonic youth 1980-2014, then chelsea light moving, immigrates to great smoke, foreva love, solo group action, further free scenes, ecstatic peace library, daydream library, animal liberation ... more

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