Sunday, October 23, 2016

Alazarin Mobius and Photographs by Ansel Adams for a Strange Brew

Alazarin Mobius aka Alazarin Mondrian is a friend living in London and one of the regrets of Mister Toad's Wild Ride is I couldn't visit him since riding Haximoto, laden as she was, into the city was too foolhardy even when what I was doing was lunatic already.

Alazarin has been all-out prog rock forever and has produced at least twenty CDs.  You see he is highly prolific and here's an example of his work from a live show in Second Life.  Unknown how much if any of the music is pre-recorded so he can play live on top of it but the magic which is possible with sequencers and loopers is almost boundless.  As you will hear, Alazarin is a master at all of it.





Hang on for a hard turn in a different direction.

The segue to Ansel Adams is excellence in different media and both say more than the notes or the photographs alone.  Adams has left us some incredible photographs of people in the Japanese internment camps in WWII.  (Business Insider:  46 photos of life at a Japanese internment camp, taken by Ansel Adams)

Note:  every bit of unbelievably excellent you may anticipate from Ansel Adams is there.  All of them are so live they still breathe.  In the Rockhouse view, this is highly worth your time.



The photographs may be opposite prog rock in content but not in vision and maybe that's heresy to some but it rolls here at the Rockhouse.

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