Airway ‎– "Beyond The Pink Live" (Cortical Foundation ‎– organ of Corti 27) 2001

As, apparently Airway are performing today ,to mark the summer solstice,and we're still on a Los Angeles free Music society trip; here's the Airway live album from 2001,complete with two video's for your pleasure.
For those who know not what this collective sounds like; imagine a disaster movie where several jumbo jets are crashing into the mother of all garbage dumps, discarded detritus from a thousand modern households flying in unpredictable directions. Kitchen white goods colliding with dying aircraft engines,and crash landing in a landfill site full of metal cans of varying sizes.
A parable for modern times or what?
Its every man for himself kids, and its coming to your town!
unfortunately Airway will not be coming to your town any time soon, except if you live in Culver City, California, I suppose?


"Beyond The Pink Live" combines an assortment of past Airway alumni with some first timers. You should experience Airway at dangerously high volume while taking care to protect your hearing."

 Track Listing etc:

Airway -	Beyond The Pink Live	42:38
CD-ROM-1	– Airway	Airway	5:10
CD-ROM-2	– Airway	Mother-Daughter	3:39

 +1 PDF document readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader with:
- Airway Movie
- Beyond The Pink Poster
- Airway Poster W/ 7” Original (1977)
- Airway Lp Autopsy Cover Art (1978)
- Airway Discography
- Gallery Lumani Exhibition, Tokyo
- Select Bibliography
- Cover Art For Atelier Peyotyl (Japan) (1982)
- Poster For Airway Live At Otis Art Institute (1978)
- Airway Statement In Beyond The Pink Program
- Airway Live At Lace Announcement (1978)
- Photos Of Vetza And Joe Potts (1978)
- Ten Commandments Of Painting
- Airway T-Shirts (1978)
- Mother-Daughter Original Label Art (1979)
- Credits

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Various ‎– "Darker Skratcher" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#12) 1980

Classic American underground compilations are rather thin on the ground,but probably the best of them is the Los Angeles Free Music Society's “Darker Skratcher”.

It starts off with a bang, thanks to Boyd Rice and Daniel Miller (Non and the Normal), and a Rosicrucian Temple record set to a minimal electronic backing track.The Rosicruscian's were a quasi-religious sect who made records to hypnotise our children into good,clean, citizens.The best Boyd Rice track ever,and the second best thing Miller has ever done.(Don't ask what the best track by The Normal was!)

Other highlights are the Monitor track, 45 Grave's ,before they got too “gothy”, dark poppy effort,DennisDuck's Davey the Worm,and the repetitive synth-punk of Human Hands.

Amongst the more accessible material we get the usual bizarre mixed bag of strangeness from the usual LAFMS regulars, and a standard modern primitive outing from Jad fair,of Half Japanese 'fame'.

A hugely entertaining underground Californian variety show,and a great introduction for the uninitiated, into the murky darkly scratchy world of the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Enter at someone else's peril,because you won't regret it.

A1	– Boyd Rice & Daniel Miller	Cleanliness And Order	2:45
A2	– Jad Fair	XXOO	0:30
A3	– Vetza	Stale Puppy-Dog Tails	1:30
A4	– Rick Potts Band, The	Platform Swimfins	3:00
A5	– Monitor	Guardian	2:05
A6	– Doo-Dooettes	Pork Had Better Behave	2:05
A7	– 45 Grave	Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood	2:37
A8	– NON	NON-Watusi
B1	– Foundation Boo	Nap	2:10
B2	– Airway	Perpendicular Thrust	3:45
B3	– Dennis Duck	Davey The Worm	3:00
B4	– Le Forte Four	The Lowest Form Of Music	3:08
B5	– Human Hands	I Got Mad	3:00
B6	– Bpeople	The Other Thing	2:38

 

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Airway ‎– "Live At LACE" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#06) 1978

"The music is free, but you have to pay for the plastic, paper, ink, glue and stamps" (Dec. 1978)

The Californian equivalent of the Manchester Musicians Collective and London Music Collective, was the more intelligentsia populated Los Angeles Free Music Society. As the quote above reads, the music was Free, in all meanings of the word, but the product wasn’t. Which fits the criteria of this blog nicely, for there is No product here, just music, and its all free.

The first selection from this hopelessly obscure bunch of artists and experimental musicians is by the Free music monolith that is Airway, that included two of the society's mainstays Rick and Joe Potts.

Never to my knowledge captured in a studio, Airway stuck to creating a sonic whirlwind in live environments, such as The Lace Art Gallery, where this performance was captured in 1978.

Half an hour of recreating the conditions on the edge of a hurricane.They attempted to create subliminal messages beneath a continuous barrage of sound.Dunno what these messages were, or how successful the results,but this was common practice at certain 'Rock'n'Roll' events*. This is Noise without rules, except that there are no rules. There are moments when it all sounds like a close miked liquidiser, other moments when it could be a Dyson dual cyclone vacuum cleaner on max strength; but that only brings us back to Hurricanes, so i'll end the hyperbole's, and just simplify it by stating that its just a fantastic noise.

* I once sold a multi-track recorder to a Hypno-therapist ,back in the 80's, and he told me of an incident at a (omg) Cult gig,to which he had accompanied his son. Bored by the exceedingly crap music, he decided to take a look at the sound desk. spotting a reel-to-reel tape deck spinning by the mixer, he asked what was that doing? "I'm a hypno-therapist and do i suspect subliminal messages?" Caught red handed, the sound-man admitted that they were using subliminal suggestion, for the purpose of, not getting the kids to buy their shit records; but to act violently, to butch up this awful goth rock for the media!
Mind kontrol exists, even by and for Goths!?

Track Listing:
Side a Untitled
Side b Untitled

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