Where is Kodwo?

Capper

Member
Derrick May does indeed seem to be a bit of a tosser in this - trying way too hard to be cool. But according to Reynolds, he hates acid house, jungle, etc.

Where as Gerald comes across as gentle, vulnerable even.

The thing about that doco is that it's all about music... but there's not that much music in it.

However Mad Mike (assuming it is him) in his ninja gear lurking behind Juan Atkins is bloogy hilarious.

And what did happen to Goldie's career anyways?
 

noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
Mad props to my mate Dave for returning my signed copy of More Brilliant after eight years or so. Cheers Dave.
 

Ach!

Turd on the Run
I have a question about the chronology of Eshun's work. How influential was he by the time of the publication of More Brilliant Than The Sun? Had he been known since the days of jungle, or before, or was it with this book that he made his mark? When did people first become aware of his writings? Apologies if this is a naive question, it's one that I've never been quite clear on. The book came out in the summer of 1999, correct? Was there any criticism of it, or was it basically greeted with universal praise (which is the impression one gets from online dance music people)? How did Africanists react to it? Thanks in advance.

He also used write for Melody Maker in the mid90s, often in the Orbit dance music section. His jungle 12" reviews, along with Reynolds', were always excellent.
 

stelfox

Beast of Burden
i have at least two copies of MBTSS, so anyone who want them. they're yours for a round £800. i like the book, but reckon i could bear to live without it for that much money.
 

nomos

Administrator
very generous dave, but it looks like tesco's undercut you by over £790 ;) i guess no one told them it's made of martian gold.
 

lazybones

f, d , d+f , p.
but it says 28 days shipping so i reckon youd just get an email saying out of stock...

found my copy again at least!

is that docu available anyplace?
 

labrat

hot on the heels of love
hat and beardby Kodwo Eshun (to be published Summer 2007)
The star attraction of the 1967 Legalise Pot Rally was beat patriarch and American sadhu Allen Ginsberg. Astride a stepladder, he is caught on camera delivering his speech to five thousand hippies. Lurking beneath the stepladder, barely visible in the frame, is the pensive face of a man preoccupied with his own thoughts. He, though, is not thinking about legalising marijuana. He is somewhere and someone else entirely: Michael de Freitas, Michael X, Abdul Malik: a figure whose multiple names indicate a predilection for metamorphosis. From this oblique point of departure, Eshun charts an inventory of becomings, a series of moments from an era of embarrassments and enchantments that constituted the dawning of British Black Power. Excavating fragments and poetics from sources that range from Godard’s ‘One Plus One’ to the Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation, from Soft Machine’s ‘Rivmic Melodies’ to the radical newspaper ‘Black Dwarf’, Eshun assembles a constellation of unlikely coincidences, second hand futures and inoperative dystopias that collectively exert a pressure on the certitudes of the present.

Hat and Beard is printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies.
ISBN 1870699 95 5 — Price TBC
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LRJP!

(Between Blank & Boring)
If you scroll through this you can get a look at the picture mentioned in that synopsis. Book Works has two dates listed for publication on the main site, both super-vague; - "2007"/"2008" - i assume that the catalogue is the most accurate...?
 

ether

Well-known member
saw kodwo give a lecture in nottingham last week, as part of a lecture series on slavery,
from what he said he seems to be mostly curating and making films (film essays) these days,
interesting talk, not what i expected at all considering the theme,
talked alot about the similar themes to MBTTS i.e science fiction, afro futurism and rave culture. chose to talk about Drexciya mostly

Drexia biog taken from wikipedia-

Drexciya combined a faceless, underground, anti-mainstream media stance with mythological, sci-fi narratives, to help heighten the dramatic effect of their music. In this respect they were similar to artists within and close to the Detroit collective Underground Resistance.
Their name referred to a myth comparable to Plato's myth of Atlantis, which the group revealed in the sleeve notes to their 1997 album "The Quest". "Drexciya" was an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women thrown off of slave ships that had adapted to breathe underwater in their mother's wombs.

mentioned the likes of basic channel and burial along the way.
 

Mr H

Active member
I read Kodwo's review of Paul D. Miller's Sound Unbound collection in The Wire over the weekend. Looks like they had a disagreement over an interview with William Gibson that Spooky decided not to include. Interestingly, Kodwo criticises it for neglecting theorists of globalisation like Hardt & Negri and Paolo Virno. I wonder if he's turning more Marxist in his old age.

Anyone bought the book yet?
 

neupunk

Active member
Looks like they had a disagreement over an interview with William Gibson that Spooky decided not to include.

Not only do I wish there was another Gibson interview to read, I would wholeheartedly welcome a Kodwo Eshun / Paul Miller grudge.
 

mos dan

fact music
yh i noticed that! surprised the hell out of me. presumably kodwo discovered his music via bizarre ;)
 
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