Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Owen O'Neill]

Reading this thread prompted a check to assure this was still online
somewhere. And it is!
Random H.P. Lovecraft Story Generator:
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Mary Sullivan <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net
> wrote:

> Jonathan Smith wrote:
> >>>> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's
> >>>> Bedouin has recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept
> >>>> album for Rise Above based around Lovecraft's character "
>
> Although I don't agree with Mr. Lovecraft's attitudes toward women and
> black
> people I do like a good story, even though after a while the stories follow
> a similar pattern.  I'd think one would need to take care in that alternate
> universe, I wouldn't want to cross paths with that mad Arab he refers to so
> often.  A concept album would be really cool.  Vision Quest is such a great
> song.
>
> Mary
>
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>
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>
> > It would work for sure! :) The idea of Arabic psychedelia sounds
> > great. *
> > Bellymetal* (Kephra seem to be its sole band) sounds too good to be true.
> > There was Hassan i Sabbah....
> >
> > 2009/12/14 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>
> >
> >> On 14 Dec 2009, at 07:41 , Jonathan Smith wrote:
> >>>> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's
> >>>> Bedouin has recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept
> >>>> album for Rise Above based around Lovecraft's character "Abdul
> >>>> Alhazred". If only I could dimension hop to the right universe in
> >>>> order to hear it! :)
> >>>
> >>> I'd love to hear that! Not that anyone's sanity would be intact
> >>> after listening to it! ;)
> >>
> >> It would totally work, though, no?
> >>
> >> There's a list on MySpace of "oriental/arabic metal" groups --
> >> http://groups.myspace.com/orientalmetal -- though I kind of dig the
> >> label "bellymetal", which I hadn't encountered before but rather wish
> >> I had. :)  The genre seems heavy on death/black metal groups ... but
> >> I totally see a space in which psychedelically tinged doom, underlain
> >> by Alan's surging bass lines, could play ....  Well, in that
> >> charmingly alternate universe, anyway!
>
>        A long time ago when Bedouin were still touring and I had
> something to do with putting them on in Cambridge, I actually talked with
> Alan about something similar to this; he wanted to find a female vocalist
> who could do genuine Arabian-style singing for the next Bedouin album (I
> can't remember if there was even one then, I'm pretty sure this was after
> Sean Masset left but I'm not even sure of that, it was a *long* time ago)
> so as to make music that really lived up to the potential of the name.
> It's therefore kind of weird to find him collaborating with Bridget
> Wishart again now! That's almost the antithesis of that plan! I'd like
> to think that if he'd found the sinder, it would have been the album you
> envision, Carl, it could completely have worked, you're right. And Rise
> Above would have been a natural home for it; we've often commented here, I
> remember, on how strange it was that Bedouin never crossed the
> space/stoner divide, which really isn't that big.
>
>        Also, congratulations on parenthood, since I'm running in my usual
> message timewarp here. It's easier than it seems when you're actually
> facing it, you will soon find out. But you were always good with children
> anyway so really this is just an excellent excuse to indulge that tendency
> :-) Good luck, yours,
>                      Jon
>
> ObCD: Clutch - _Elephant Riders_
> --
>       Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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> opposite"
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