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	ENIGMA = vision +sound+thought: DCD Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Red Krayola formed in 1966 when frontman (and sole consistent member) Mayo Thompson and a cast of talented oddballs began playing music together solely for their enjoyment.
		The band was a pure product of the social and cultural upheaval that was the Sixties, and went on to release a series of obscure but critically well-received records that bore absolutely no resemblance to the regional breakthrough hits and popular AM radio ditties of the times.
		Although 'Singles' is an undeniably wonderful compendium for dedicated Krayola fans and a seemingly perfect primer for curious gourmand types, this is fundamentally challenging and profoundly uncommon music that most casual listeners and other non-fans simply won't expend the effort it requires to absorb, understand and appreciate.
	www.enigmaonline.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:903 (564 words)

	Open source record label - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open source record labels are a reaction against what some musicians see as corporate control of music via means of copyright.
		Open source record labels hold that the fight over free, libre, and open content and media is a struggle over the freedoms of expression and speech, with the goal of radically opening up the possibilities of media.
		To this end, open source record labels attempt to release music under so-called "copyleft", a license that enables musicians to develop music collaboratively and equitably and then release it into the same licence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source_record_label (166 words)

	marathonpacks: now with more zeitgeist!: The Red Krayola "Psy Ops"
		For those that need a Krayola primer, they were originally "Red Crayola," but duh, had to change that shit, and came up in the same Texas-psych swamp as 13th Floor Elevators (same label too, I think).
		They released two records before breaking up; one I've never heard, and the other (God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail WIth It) (buy) holding twenty sub-three minute tracks of sparsely populated folk-rock (psych-jazz) minimalism.
		I've been a fan of Red Krayola for more a decade - though they can definately be taxing to listen to at times, the moments of brilliance make it all well worht the effort.
	www.marathonpacks.com /2006/09/red-krayola-psy-ops.html (475 words)

	Ink 19 :: Jim O'Rourke
		I was doing records of electronic music, improvised music with folks like Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost of AMM, etc., and producing other records, and I continued to do it during Gastr.
		Hazel [by Red Krayola] sounds the way it does because of the group, that's why the first Drag City record Red Krayola sounds so different than Hazel and Amour And Language, the "band" was more of a reality on the latter two.
		Producing other peoples' records always gave me the outlet for the pop-arranging side of me, but I thought it was time to do it on my own.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_02/ink_spots/jim_orourke_nf.html (2461 words)

	Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance -- Ink Blot Magazine
		Pere Ubu formed from the ashes of Rocket From The Tombs, a little-known Cleveland avant-garage band led by vocalist David Thomas and guitarist Peter Laughner.
		The two, intent on preserving a couple of RFTT songs, convened a handful of fellow rock and roll misfits to record a single.
		This is the soundtrack of intelligent men lost in the wretched cultural wasteland of the 70s, aware that their city was rotting around them and in love with its corroded rusting beauty.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/PereUbu_Modern_Dance.htm (365 words)

	THE RED KRAYOLA - Red Gold - Inertia
		Behold 'Red Gold', the new EP by THE RED KRAYOLA in which they pump out more dark matter from that deep pool of elemental, benchmark crude to lubricate the wheels of history, and rub in your hair.
		Red Krayola are a band that originally formed at the University of Houston way back in 1966 (yes, you read it correctly!) and front man Mayo Thompson carries on long after the band split up.
		If your Red Krayola catalog is completed and well-listened, we recommend one loops 'ed Gold'for more complete immersion.
	www.inertia-music.com /catalogue/42315/The_Red_Krayola/Red_Gold (303 words)

	* Dusted Features [ Broad Strokes - An Interview With Red Krayola ] *
		The Krayola’s aim of using pop music as a critique of mainstream ideologies has been pervasively influential in the forefront of the counter-cultural movements of any number of successive generations.
		A love-letter solo album, politically and linguistically-charged post-punk records and the deadpanned execution on Thompson’s Drag City work all give the sense of an artist that is incredibly calculating and self-aware.
		The Red Krayola is touring Japan, France, Italy, Germany, and England and preparing a new EP of cover songs tentatively titled Taking the Hits Away for release in March.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /features/353 (1937 words)

	dallasobserver.com - News - Thompson's twins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His delight in the story isn't surprising: Its air of intellectual combativeness, and the tension between its cerebral set-up and colloquial punchline, are also features of the records that Thompson, the band's co-founder and sole constant member, has released under the Red Krayola banner over the past 35 years.
		The Red Krayola's new double positive, Fingerpainting, may surprise -- and initially frustrate -- fans of the band's guitar-driven, song-centered work on Chicago indie Drag City, which started releasing Thompson's records in 1994, about the time he took a teaching position at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design after two decades in Europe.
		But the recordings of the songs are all contemporary versions, handled in a certain way.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1999-06-17/music_1.html (917 words)

	Krayola Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Krayola Records is a record label that offers music, draw-it-yourself covers and videos.
		Works can be downloaded for free under Creative Commons licenses.
		Krayola Records music is mostly ambient, drone, but also electronica, space rock and noise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krayola_Records (102 words)

	David Grubbs interview
		Because we were trying different approaches not only from record to record but from track to track, it never struck me as much of an evolution.
		The first solo recording that I did, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange, thus was born of the strict conceit that it be a record of solos.
		I'm just not sure of how expressive records I've made are of me, or to make a broader statement, how expressive records are of their makers.
	www.furious.com /perfect/davidgrubbs.html (1946 words)

	Red Krayola offers something new for fans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mayo Thompson's Red Krayola has been shattering musical preconceptions since the late `60s when the band, (then known as Red Crayola) recorded a legendary mixture of free-form noise and groundbreaking psychedelia, titled Parable of Arable Land.
		A few of the tracks make it sound as though the Red Krayola has sold out and tried to record an album of commercially acceptable pop.
		But after a few listens, the band's familiar high level of risk-taking emerges, and it becomes clear that by using pop conventions, the band is subverting them, just as it has subverted traditional notions of album and lyrical structure on all of its previous records.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V130/N05/04-red.05d.html (591 words)

	mayo thompson/the red crayola discography
		it's a recording of the last concert the red krayola performed in paris, back in '78: it's a limited edition of 500 copies and it's a great line up: mayo thompson on gtr & vocals and mr jesse chamberlain on drums!
		- the red krayola is featured in a segment of this dvd-magazine; the red krayola section includes an interview piece, two fl and white segments from the art & language with the red crayola "nine gross and conspicuous errors" performance video, and a photo gallery.
		as he himself wasn't a musician and as a fan of red krayola, he asked mayo thompson (who lived in germany at that time) as well as these two other guys.
	white-rose.net /redcrayola (2533 words)

	Mayo Thompson Interview Part 1
		Whether with the noise-psychedelia of the '60s Red Krayola, the scratchier-than-a-flboard guitars of his late '70s English edition of the band, or a current lineup that falls somewhere between those extremes, he's remained resolutely outside of both pop and "counterculture" trends.
		We recorded a second album, Coconut Hotel,which the label didn't like at all, which was this abstract music, the most extreme version of the logic that we could conceive of at that time, and also answered to our needs.
		It wasn't electronically reprocessed--it was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird.
	www.richieunterberger.com /mayo.html (3783 words)

	The Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Currently in residence in the leafier reaches of Edinburgh's south side, Thompson's latest collaboration isn't as unlikely as it first sounds, even if it was brokered in the very un-rock'n'roll confines of an afternoon barbecue, where the men's wives – both scientists – introduced them.
		Abel may be a recent affiliate to the ever-changing Red Krayola, but Thompson's life with – and indeed as – the band began in the mid-1960s alongside two friends, Steve Cunningham and Frederick Barthelme.
		Their strategy was extreme from the off, and their two albums, The Parable of Arable Land and God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It, marked them out as being well outside the burgeoning peace-and-love generation.
	www.theherald.co.uk /features/62283.html (936 words)

	Browse by Label: DRAG CITY
		What we have is another beautiful record, a second LP from the young talent who has learned to call herself Cynthia Dall.
		Recorded between 1994 and 1997, Aluminum Tunes is the companion piece to Stereolab's two most popular records, Mars Audiac Quartet and Emperor Tomato Ketchup.
		But with the flood of material recorded in their recent extended studio sessions, it was possible to think in terms of releasing not one, but two Ghost LPs, all at once.
	www.forcedexposure.com /labels/drag.city.html (5055 words)

	Ink 19 :: David Grubbs
		I use the harmonium on Apertura, a record of improvised duets with Mats Gustafsson, and Pauline Oliveros' Primordial/Lift.
		The response to that record has been quite polarized, with free-jazz adrenaline junkies in particular being up in arms, thinking Mats' reserves of firepower wasted, etc., etc. I love hearing Mats play in a style that's unique among his recordings, and Apertura is a favorite of mine.
		Sure, I had listened to lots of records with drones, but I had never experienced the drone itself as the sustaining center or wellspring of a music.
	www.ink19.com /issues/november2000/inkSpots/davidGrubbs.html (1884 words)

	WhosWho Chicago: Jim O'Rourke : CenterstageChicago.com - Chicago City Life in Chicago, Illinois
		Currently is one of the main members of alternative rock troupes Gastr del Sol and Brise Glace, The Red Krayola, and Yona-Kit.
		Has recorded albums for rock bands such as Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Edith Frost, Brainiac, US Maple, Ex-Chittle, and has also collaborated with countless jazz and classical musicians.
		His recent Bad Timing (on Drag City Records) is named after Nicholas Roeg's 1980 art film Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, about which O'Rourke has lectured at the University of Chicago.
	centerstage.net /music/whoswho/JimO'Rourke.html (253 words)

	Corky's Debt to His Father - Mayo Thompson - Music Reviews
		Although this, to put it mildly, is not a record for mainstream tastes, it nevertheless may be more palatable to pop ears than any of Thompson's numerous Red Krayola records.
		With a folkier bent than his group projects, Thompson projects himself as a lovable oddball of sorts, stringing together...
		With a folkier bent than his group projects, Thompson projects himself as a lovable oddball of sorts, stringing together free-associative, non-sequitur lyrics against chord progressions and time signatures that, as is his wont, refuse to adhere to accepted norms.
	www.mp3.com /albums/42501/reviews.html (370 words)

	Record Review (Detroit Metro Times) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After more than 30 years of crusading as the Red Krayola, the man is still pushing the limits of the anarchistic song structures that lie somewhere between rock and art.
		On Fingerpainting, sole survivor Thompson resurrects old compositions by the Red Krayola and mixes them up with archival recordings of the band from each decade of their incredibly long existence.
		This latest edition of the Krayola features a healthy balance between gentle little songs, distorted sonic mania and ambitious audio collages which seem influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up methodology.
	www.metrotimes.com /19/46/Reviews/musFingerpainting.html (245 words)

	Pitchfork: Red Krayola Kick Off Rare Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With Introduction (their latest full-length on Drag City) outta the way, the Red Krayola is reacquainting with the road for a six-date tour, starting tonight in New York City.
		As previously reported, Drag City is prepping a Red Krayola documentary, showcasing live footage and archived ephemera gleaned from the last 40 very colorful years of the band's existence.
		And now with a tour and a split seven-inch with We Are Scientists, a new record in the works for an early 2007 release, and a new UK label, it's safe to say Art Brut are taking over the world at an astonishing clip.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /page/news/37700/Red_Krayola_Kick_Off_Rare_Tour (2870 words)

	Krayola Records - Wikipédia
		Krayola Records est un label indépendant qui offre de la musique, des pochettes à dessiner et des vidéos, téléchargeables gratuitement sous licence Creative Commons.
		La musique de Krayola Records est surtout ambient, drone, mais aussi electronica, space rock, noise.
		Krayola Records a été créé en automne 2004.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krayola_Records (105 words)

	mayo thompson/the red crayola discography links etc.
		official the red krayola biography available as a pdf download at drag city the red krayola site circa 2004 as part of the promotion for 'singles'
		and then i had to take these tapes back to texas, give them to the record company, and then bust up, that was the end of that." [mayo thompson, from 1996 interview with richie unterberger on www.richieunterberger.com]; john fahey does appear on live 1967
		-recorded in 1966 at walt andrus' studio; recorded for "a label run by keith stefek, a local man in houston who had made some money, and he was investing making records.
	white-rose.net /redcrayolalinks.html (2083 words)

	Amazon.com: Hazel: Music: The Red Krayola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Red Krayola's resurgence (two albums, an EP, and two singles in the mid-'90s) came when--for only the second time in their 30-year career--someone noticed.
		i had only heard other red krayola albums that were older, and was thus a lttle bit nervous as to this one.
		seems to be a good blend of earlier thompson work, mostly his solo album, a bit more structured early red krayola, and of course that chicago thrill jockey scene, good, and i type that nodding heavily is the best recommendation i would give.
	www.amazon.com /Hazel-Red-Krayola/dp/B0000019QR (1296 words)

	Overpass
		Like the veterans they are -- Overpass is 3/4 of SST band Slovenly -- Tom Watson and co. constructed, with Manhattan (Beach), an album of impeccable sonic detail - a mature rock-wallop as precise as a machete through Country Crock.
		What's more, the album was produced by legendary Texan psych hoodoo-master Mayo Thompson, majordomo of the Red Krayola.
		His is a subtle but sure touch, since with a brain trust as developed as Overpass, a "producer" merely needs to harness, not hold hands.
	www.smellslikerecords.com /overpass (94 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Red Crayola (Red Krayola)
		God Bless the Red Krayola is a considerably more subdued but qually eccentric effort, with an emphasis on very brief, acoustic-based numbers; "Ravi Shankar: Parachutist" and "Tina's Gone to Have a Baby" are among its memorable titles.
		Recorded by a collective of seven (including guitarists David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke and Tom Watson, drummer John McEntire and German synthesist Albert Oehlen), The Red Krayola is a potent modern exposition of Thompson's Beefheartian musical inventions and wickedly offbeat lyrics.
		Unlike the cagey complexities of The Red Krayola (and despite the admonition to "play extremely loud"), the "The Ballad of Younis and Sofia" and "Luster" — which use only skeletal bits of guitar and organ for accompaniment — are typical.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=red_crayola (1135 words)

	Bar/None Records: EPIC SOUNDTRACKS / Change My Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whether wielding a guitar, pounding a drum kit, or packing a pen, Epic Soundtracks has always been on the edge.
		The late '70s and 1980s saw him play drums for a veritable Who's Who of modern rockers including These Immortal Souls, the Red Krayola, Crime And The City Solution, and the Jacobites.
		With the 1992 release of Rise Above, Epic Soundtracks emerged from behind his drum kit to become a piano-playing songwriter and singer.
	www.bar-none.com /bios/epic_change.html (381 words)

	Warped Reality: December 2005 Archives
		In honor of the news that the folks at Drag City are hard at work on a documentary about the Red Krayola’s Mayo Thompson, I’m reposting an interview Susan and I did with him for the print version of Warped Reality.
		1995 was a veritable Summer of Red Krayola, with a whole slew of reissues courtesy of Dexter’s Cigar (including Thompson’s effortlessly charming solo debut, Corky’s Debt to His Father), and culminating in the first RK tour in a small forever.
		It’s a record of what we were able to do with that piece of music at that time.
	www.warpedrealitymagazine.com /2005/12 (3237 words)

	San Francisco Bay Guardian \| Arts and Entertainment
		His band, Red Krayola, has consistently challenged notions of what counts as music, whether it's the clamorous pop damage of Parable of Arable Land, contemporaneous with 13th Floor Elevators' dirt psych, or the '90s reemergence of Thompson with the Drag City all-star band, including the likes of David Grubbs.
		Tonight's show is one for the cross-generational record books, a hands-across-America-type gathering for outer-edge explorers.
		Perhaps the band's most unique feature is that all three members contribute to a style of vocal layering that twists, turns, and changes pitch on a dime – ultimately leaving rock-, folk-, and country-exclusive audiences frantically searching for the shattered pieces of their one-track minds.
	www.sfbg.com /40/01/x_8days.html (1893 words)

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