ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis) (12/01/84)
The Lost Music Network's magnificent `A-Z' project concludes this month
with the `Z' issue, featuring such swell diversities as John Zorn, Z Axis,
Z'EV, A.B. Zimmerman, Richard Zvonzar, Zamo, and even the Zimbo Chimps.
The last cover focuses on music from Zimbabwe. No mention anywhere of
that old fart Zappa...
For those who haven't heard, OP was the publication of the Lost Music
Network, a non-profit organization devoted to music recorded in garages,
living rooms, and grass huts everywhere, regardless of style (classical,
jazz, C&W, hardcore, reggae, industrial, blues, folk, international, &c.)
About the only kind of music categorically excluded is stuff you've
already heard about, epecially when it's released on a major label or
mass marketed in any way.
Anyone who feels that the various music scenes are stagnating will soon
realize, after checking out practically any of the 1000's of bizarre
recommendations from a typical OP issue, that the `lack of originality
in today's music' resides only in the huge mass focus of TV-brains,
$$$-hungry fat pig industry execs, and a tiny elite crowd of mediocre
talent whose egos and fame grow as their creativity declines.
The LMN people promise to continue with the first issue of OPTION in
January. Their work to date has been a wild, brilliant and uncompromising
salute to the true source of musical creativity on this planet.
DIY
-michael `you make me vomit' ellis