The Humors in Four Parts

<p>Four reflections on medieval humorism. Like Rick Wakeman said of his “Six wives of Henry VIII” , these are not meant to be taken as literal representations of the four medieval temperaments… rather a contemporary redressing of an imbalance of humors.</p> <p>Part One – Sanguine.<br /> Laughing the loudest and wearing the flashiest outfits, a courageous selection of tracks. Ultimately lending themselves to sketches, life drawings, and rustic scenes. The humor of Sanguine is usually treated with leeches.</p> <p>Tracklisting 01:</p> <p>01 A Love Supreme – Alice Coltrane<br /> 02 Zulu Nation Throwdown – Africa Bambaataa<br /> 03 Contort Yourself – James White & The Blacks<br /> 04 One more night – Can (Ege Bamyasi)<br /> 05 Ubu Dance Party – Pere Ubu (Dub Housing)<br /> 06 Take Yo Praise – Camille Yarborough<br /> 07 To – Tom Ze<br /> 08 Dearest Friends – Von Südenfed (Tromatic Reflexxions)<br /> 09 Yield to Total Elation – Matmos (The Civil War)<br /> 10 Love in Outer Space – Sun Ra (Out There A Minute)</p> <p>Part Two – Choleric.<br /> BILE BILE BILE a fiery YELLOW grouping. There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. A natural superabundance of the choleric.</p> <p>Tracklisting 02:</p> <p>01 Structure – Glenn Branca (Ascension)<br /> 02 Kebabtraume – DAF (Mute Audio)<br /> 03 Egomaniac’s Kiss – DNA (DNA on DNA)<br /> 04 On Sadism – Material (Temporary Music)<br /> 05 Yahsar – Cabaret Voltaire (2×45)<br /> 06 Horizontal Folds – This Heat (This Heat)<br /> 07 11,000 Volts – Mars (Mute Audio)<br /> 08 Get Up & Use Me – Fire Engines (Codex Teenage)<br /> 09 Poptones – Public Image Ltd (Metal Box)<br /> 10 Fuckaz – The Bug (London Zoo)</p> <p>Part Three – Melancholic.<br /> Semper Dowland, semper dolens. Melancholy Dane. Indolent dreaming wistfulness. Where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain?</p> <p>Tracklisting 03:</p> <p>01 Don’t have to be so sad – Yo La Tengo (Summer Sun)<br /> 02 I Can’t Live Without You – Mulata Astatke (Ethio 4)<br /> 03 Trieste Bahia – Caetano Veloso (Tramsa)<br /> 04 Hold On – Tom Waits (Mule Variations)<br /> 05 We Have a Map of the Piano – Mum (FInally we are no one)<br /> 06 Blue Thunder – Galaxie 500 (On Fire)<br /> 07 Blossom Time – Danil Grubbs & Loren Connors (Arborvitae)<br /> 08 Sobbin’ Blues – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band<br /> 09 Dark was the night, Cold was the ground – Blind Willie Johnson<br /> 10 Untitled Blues – Albert Ayer</p> <p>Part Four – Phlegmatic.<br /> Get up late in the morning; Dorian mode on C; Take a nap; Eat; In this case the mode is the Phrygian; Take another nap; Go to bed. Hey Mr Pharmacist!<br /> This is one for those availed of a superb set of headphones—frequency spectrum junkies, medotists, nanologicians, monkish gong ritualists—communicate with the insect kingdom: Phenomenon, certainly but without the Iron Maiden.</p> <p>Tracklisting 04:</p> <p>01 Pax – Philip Jeck (Stoke)<br /> 02 Quarto quardo – Luciano Cillio (Dell’Universo Assente) 08:00<br /> 03 Trance 2 – Angus Maclaise, Tony Conrad & John Cage (The Cloud Doctrine) 16:45<br /> 04 Water Gong – Annea Lockwood (Early Works) 20:44<br /> 05 Gentle Fire – Earl Brown, John Cage & Christian Wolff (Gentle Fire) 26:30<br /> 06 Analogos – Akio Suzuki (Odds & Ends) 36:44<br /> 07 Part 1 – John Wall (Hylic) 49:15<br /> 08 Untitled – M.E.V. (Rome) 58:12<br /> 09 Soup – Gruppo D’Improvisazione (Nuova Consonaza) 01:07:17<br /> 10 Unfamiliar Winds – Brian Eno (Ambient 4: On Land) 01:14:25</p>