The Green Man Trilogy and reflections at the Burnal Equinox
March/16/2008 Filed in: afterburn
DJ Playaduster just posted the third and final installment in The Green Man Trilogy podcast series -- you can stream it over at the podcast page right this very moment!
The story starts with the mix entitled DISORIENTATION, a sonic sound collage made up of DJ sets, conversations and weird late night soundings that were wild-harvested from Black Rock City and the open playa using a digital soundstick during Burning Man 2007. The piece represents the blissful confusion and spun-out enlightenment that can occur when one travels the city, on foot or bike, through the night until daybreak. It attempts to recreate the mad mash-up of noise that engulfs you everywhere you travel.
REORIENTATION follows, naturally, and it charts a musical course meant to symbolize the soul-navigation that must occur when one leaves the playa, with dust in one's pockets and new fire in one's heart, and begins to reassimilate back in to your daily life at home, work and in relationships. Featuring sporadic commentary from Hekter McElliott, as he attempts to explain his Yvonda version 2.0/Marsupial Thumbdrive theories, this mix also reflects the musical evolution that Playaduster underwent at Burning Man (to sample the range of influences, see DISORIENTATION!)
And so, finally, we arrive at the third chapter, REINTEGRATION. While careful listening will reveal the musical landscape to be in kinship with the groove of REORIENTATION, the tone and tenor of the conversations and philosophizing takes a distinct turn as Playaduster and Edubious look back and reflect upon the crucible experiences of the Burn.
So far as we can tell, the release of REINTEGRATION contains the last dusty tidbits of field recordings left from Burning Man 2007, and also pretty much taps the last drops of insight and inspiration for creating Green Man-themed art projects: musical podcasts, essays of reflection, movies, photo slideshows, etc. etc. DJ Playaduster is feeling, well, done. Moving on to what's next. Grateful, satisfied and grounded.
Just so happens that the release of this last bit of Green Man juju comes near the Burnal Equinox, or the pivot point on the opposite end of the year from the Burn. It was on the Burnal Equinox, 2007, that DJs Playaduster and Edubious dropped the first musical podcast mixes (which you can still access here and here). A nice bit of unintentional cosmic harmony, and entirely not surprising.
Upon sharing these notions with Edubious, the Doobsauce responded by saying, "You know, it took us six months to build it all up, and then it took 6 more months to tear it all down again." Well put. The Burn is a 10-day event in the desert, but Burning Man is a feeling, a groove, a beacon that shines in to lives all around the planet regardless of time or place. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
DJ Edubious, upon listening to the last chapter in the Green Man Trilogy, also had this to share:
Wow. I just finished my first full listen to REORIENTATION. My body is here at work, and I am trying to look like I am doing some kind of work that is related to the paycheck that I receive bi-weekly. Internally, my mind is cruising through past landscapes between here and the Black Rock Desert.
I am circling over the towering cliffs and ox bow bending river at Smith Rocks State Park.
I am standing amidst the circle of the Australian goddess tribe, reeling from a kiss that was shared through the electric buzz of a medicinal cocktail.
I am striding across the Playa toward the man, in full regalia, amidst the Love and friendship of the Boogie Universal Crew.
I am in the kitchen at Sunnyland, uttering the prophecy of the Pure Power of Possibility and Potential.
I am gone. Lost in the jumble of electro-nurf Ikea beats; thankful for the reprieve of Bob Marley and Sufjan Stevens. I can feel the cold winter air and welcome isolation of Snow Flamingo Studios through the haze of ganja smoke, belly-warming whisky and Juble Ale sippin'.
I see the tears glistening in your eyes and revisit in me the gift of clarity and commitment that you shared with me on my birthday.
I feel the closure of the Green Man/Burning Man 2007 Archival Project. It's all in the bottle. Waiting for us pick it up, dust it off and release the genie that will take us back to those many fading moments of bliss, creativity, collaboration, challenge, beauty, community, music and Love.
I am moved from this place toward the flame that continues to Burn inside of me.
It's been quite the journey. Thanks for sharing it with us during the past year. Who knows what will go down over the next...
Lots of love,
The Four Broke Dudes
ps. DJ Playduster wants me to recommend to you another podcast channel produced by his compatriot DJ Fundi; check out all of the goodness over at the Podcast Cafe, featuring Podcast Cafe episodes, a channel devoted to live music bootlegs, a direct transglobal link to Radio Free Fundi and the Fundiblog.
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