YES DARLING, BUT IS IT MAGICK?

The Smell on February 5

2012-01-26T17:40:00.000-08:00

Here's a flyer for our next show at The Smell. We will be playing with such rad bandz like In Tents, Protect Me and Scape Native. There will also be an LA Zinefest booth and some other cool stuff to celebrate LA Zine Week!

'Origins Of Grinding' Cassette Tape Release @ HOMEROOM

2012-01-11T11:31:00.000-08:00

Magick Video Inspirations For FMLY

2011-12-21T19:07:00.000-08:00

So, we got asked to submit some video inspirations for the FMLY website.
And we did. Read it HERE. And the cassette tapes are finally here! We had some at our show last Monday at Pehrspace and we will have a record release soon as the new year comes in.

Twenty fucking twelve, baby!

And yes! FMLYFEST is gonna be happening soon! So you kids better check it outs coz a lot of amazing bands will be playing there and you should witness it!
More info on the fest HERE.

And here's some cool pics that our dear friend, Amy Darling took of our show in Homeroom a while back...

Tonite Michael Returns to LA to celebrate his 51st Birthday !

2011-11-11T12:28:00.000-08:00

FRIDAY IM IN LUV

2011-10-19T12:47:00.000-07:00

This Friday we will be playing with Geoff Geis and The Cobra Lilies at Pehr.

We still don't have a car so this will be the first time we roll in with our new minimal set-up.

Also, visuals abound our set courtesy of Andrew Lush.

Download magick ((())) orchids' BAD ACID Single

2011-10-19T12:36:00.001-07:00

Click HERE to download the first single from our upcoming cassette tape on Vanity Projects. The download also has remixes from friends, I.E. and Snorlax and other magick ((())) orchids tracks. The new tape "Origins Of Grinding" will be coming soon!

New Album Coming Soon

2011-09-25T23:54:00.000-07:00

WE OPEN THE NIGHT

2011-07-16T17:07:00.000-07:00

amazing flyer by walt! & champoy

Pehrspace Tonight!

2011-05-28T19:10:00.000-07:00

We are playing first tonight at Pehrspace. We will be playing a new set -one we are practicing for Telemagica! Sadly, this will be The Lingonberries final show but hopefully its as true as the rapture! Anyways, also playing will be touring band from Flagstaff, Arizona, Jacky Stone and his Ugly Bones and Heller Keller (members of Moses Campbell). We are playing first at 9PM so come early and have some Lingonberry Juice!

If you are one of those people with Facebook..you can check out more info about the show HERE.

Hope to see you!

GET YR TICKETS NOW!

2011-03-23T17:54:00.001-07:00

TeleMagica 2011: Save The Earth

starts June 10, 12pm, ends June 12, 6pm

3 days 2 nights

In 2010, we activated our unified field of LUMINESCENCE.

In 2011, we shine our radiance to SAVE THE EARTH!

Tickets are now ONLY $22-full event till April 1st, available ON-LINE ONLY at www.telemagica.com

FEATURING

50 LIVE BANDS on 5 stages and Perceptual Earthwork Sculptures throughout the natural landscape

see bands: http://www.telemagica.com/telebands.htm

see schedule: http://www.telemagica.com/telesched.htm

OPENING CEREMONY (June 10, Sunset, 7:30pm in the Sandwash) Everyone Invited for this Rites of Passage for Saving The Earth. by Light Artist PETER TEREZAKIS, who will be installing COLUMNS OF LIGHT in the Sandwash, to join Earth and Sky. In addition, dancers and musicians will guide you through an interactive Art Performance Transmission.

see: http://www.terezakis.com/jacumba2011/

THE OPERA (Everyone invited for Mass Energy to call in the Dream Emissaries)

"Save The Earth" by The "Custodians of Planet Earth" will be held on Saturday, 6.11.11, 11:11pm at the PYRAMID. This is a multimedia production that amps up the theme of "Save the Earth". BE THERE for the ultimate Mystical Magica Moment!

see: http://www.telemagica.com/teleopera.htm

OUTBACK CITY

Discover the RIDGE TRIBE of 40 Mystic Dj's overlooking the TeleMagica Grounds from the High Ridge. Brought to you by Hood Rich Radio. Also, starting Saturday night in the ArTrain, Hood Rich Radio Lounge presents electronica guest performers.

FASHION AWARDS SHOW with KIDS PARADE ( Our big Thank You Ritual for Everyone)

Continuing the tradition established last year, we will be giving awards to those who have been contributing to building our community for the past Eight Years. The ceremony will be accompanied by a FASHION SHOW andKIDS PARADE. Fantastic Music by the one and only HEAVY WATER EXPERIMENTS. Last year we were visited by a Being encased in an organic amber bubble floating over the proceedings. Hopefully this year we will welcome the entire Fleet!

WATERSIGHT

Natural mineral springs from our Earth Mother will be flowing at WaterSight to bath and purify the toxins gathered since last year. Our tubs are aligned for Maximum Dreaming, both day and night. You will be accompanied in your "Water Dreaming" by our various Trance Science Musicians.

PARTICIPATE

VOLUNTEER see: http://www.telemagica.com/telepart.htm

BECOME our friend on Facebook to keep updated: http://www.facebook.com/telemagica

PRINT our FLYER (attached here), and e-mail to all your FRIENDS!

(you can print higher resolution poster/flyer at: http://www.telemagica.com/PosterDownloads11.htm

"Only if one loves this Earth with unbending passion, can one release one's sadness. A warrior is always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the Earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts".

Don Juan Matus

Looking forward to seeing you for June Magica!

TeleMagica

Save The Earth, 2011
http://www.telemagica.com
http://www.facebook.com/TeleMagica

and not only will we be playing with magick orchids but our other project Mamas Joy will be rocking at this festival too! And lots of our homies from LA. Hope to see u there!

THE DANCE WITHOUT DANCERS

2011-03-21T19:38:00.001-07:00

and now, some words of inspiration for us all...

THE DANCE WITHOUT DANCERS

Frank Moore 2011

What we have here is

only the first smell of fresh magic.

Matter is hollow tubes

containing fibers

of packets of possibilities.

Matter is symbol,

is metaphor

containing possibilities.

These packets shape matter.

These packets, in turn,

are reshaped by

each body /object

they pass through.

We are affected

by the stars,

and the stars

are affected

by us.

We affect the Tarot cards
and the I‑Ching coins

we cast.

The physicists affect

the subatomic particles

they observe.

By reshaping

these inner packets,

the material reality is reshaped.

The inner rivers of possibilities

are two‑way on the linear level.

The magical effects are always

two‑way.

The light of the sun warms us;

but we affect the sun through

the same channel.

We have entered the level

of the dynamic web

of relationships

in which the individual

does not exist.
In place of the individual,

there appear points

of personal responsibility

in a dance.

It is not the sun that warms,

nor is it us who are warmed.

It is the dance of no dancers,

the dance of relationships

that warms,

and that is warmed.

Reality creation

is a dance.

We are the dancers.

But in truth,

it is a dance

without dancers.

If we really take

on personal responsibility

for the dance,

we surrender to the dance,

give up individual "control,"

give up individual linking

with the results.

By taking on the personal responsibility

for the dance,

we are the dance.

We melt with the dance.

We are only the dance.

We admit these facts.

It is not a question

of becoming,

but of remembering

and admitting.

It is a question

of being,

living,

dancing lustfully,

without controls

or limits

in responsibility.

The life dance

is beyond morals

or limits.

It joyfully digs

into the dance

to the juicy black core.

Frank Moore + magick orchids + Mikee Labash @ Flux53, oakland CA

COME THURSDAY

2011-03-01T20:41:00.000-08:00

our friend michael nhat is moving away from los angeles to philly of all places.

he will be playing his goodbye show at Lot 1 this thursday march 03. we are saddened by his decision but excited for him in the new adventures that he will face in the city of brotherly love...hopefully, the cold won't kill him...anyways, we will be playing this thursday too -unleashing new songs and and new set-ups chu-chu, with homeslices halloween swim team and so many wizards.

also, the LA Lottery League was a tremendous success. both of our bands managed to get away with such an awesome response from the packed warehouse. you can check out more pics and details about the show here.

Magick Orchids In The LA LOTTERY LEAGUE

2011-02-22T12:06:00.001-08:00

In case you havent heard already, Magick Orchids has been picked to take part in the LA Lottery League .

Each one of us has been paired with three other musicians that we haven't played with before and for three weeks, we all have to come up with some new material to perform on The Big Show.

Rhea has been paired up with Erik Anaya (of IE/Erik's Got It Covered), Warren Woodward (of So Many Wizards), and Ashish Sharma ( of Tiger Stripe) and their band is called
NO-NO JAMMERS

Champ is in a band with Margot Padilla (of IE), Brian Randall (of Poweraxe) and Tyler Sabbag (of Pizza!) and they are called
POSITIVE OUTREACH PROGRAM

You can find the information of all the other brand new musical pairings here.

There are twelve newly formed bands for this event and we are more than stoked to see what other bands come up with as much as performing the songs we've made with our new bands.

The Big Show which will be happening this coming Saturday February 26 at Project Infest in Downtown LA. Make sure to come check it out and dont forget to RSVP to the show.

Mamas Joy @ Lot 1 Cafe

2011-02-03T01:48:00.000-08:00

MAGICK NEWS NEWS

2011-01-22T02:03:00.000-08:00

magick orchids is almost done recording the new album and its gonna be called "THE BUFFERING GENERATION" which will hopefully be available by the summer. along with this, we are also releasing a dance tape which will be called "THE ORIGINS OF GRINDING" which will be available for limited copies on Open Mind Dead Distro.

we have considered not performing very much this year and direct our focus in doing more recordings and production. Also, we have been feeling great musical energies playing live with our new project, MAMASjoy who also has our friends denise on drums, adam on bass, ray on keys, and john on guitars/theremin. come check us out as we play with the amazing bands, howardAMB, white widow and EXTRA at The Smell on February 11 and at the Silverlake Lounge at February 12.

FUCKING TWENTY ELEVEN, BABY!

2010-12-27T01:01:00.000-08:00

Since we havn't been posting anything new in the last few weeks, we just wanna say that super-rad homeslices, Halloween Swim Team have posted a remix we did of their song,"Spaceship" some weeks back. You can find the whole post about it here. They will also be releasing their new LP, Antenaaa soon so you better watch out for that too coz we know, its gonna be blasting on everyone's speakers next year!

We have also been doing some recordings for a CD release of new magick orchids material
and a cassette tape release of minimal dance tracks. Our good friend and producer, Piry Echevarin also remastered "Sing Song Songs" which we will be posting here soon in full sonic power!

Also, we have no magick orchids shows until February 2011 to focus on other important things we are doing in life but you should definitely come check out the new cosmic dub noise project we've been doing with our friends called MAMAS JOY which features Denise on drums, Adam V on bass , Ray on keys, John on guitars/theremin and us on vox, loops and dubs. We don't really have any scheduled shows yet but who knows?

There's a video of the first show we ever played on Christmas Eve at Casa De Healthclub taken by our good friend Ashley Moon which you can view here.

TONITE @ CalARTS

2010-11-04T18:50:00.000-07:00

We will be playing at Cal Arts tonite for our friend, Elise Castillo's art opening. Also, the QAC group show and reception will be happening at the same time, which means there will be lots of art, music, dancing, cool people and good times. So, if you happen to be around Valencia or the Cal Arts way, come down and share some magickal moments with us...

WE ARE NHAT DOING THIS.

2010-10-04T11:25:00.000-07:00

After being back from NYC, we've been busy working on some new recording projects and we also just recently did a yet untitled song with Michael Nhat. Michael, who just recently released Swimming On Cambodia which includes some tracks we collaborated with and many other artists and friends . Nowadays, Michael is busy recording his next couple of albums. Talk about being prolific as fuck!

magick orchids in NYC

2010-09-14T19:49:00.000-07:00

So we played a show at NYC at the Yippie Cafe where we met the Pieman.
It was a fun show coz we played it with our good friends from LA, Manhattan Murder Mystery and champ played electronic drums for them too. Eric from Kill Kill Kill who was also in town played guitars for the magick orchids set too..its been great going around the city and exploring on our own. Hanged out with Katya of MMM/THC the other night and saw Excepter at the Silent Barn and the australian dude that plays with glass and that was lots of fun.

THE NIGHT BEFORE NYC

2010-09-07T14:19:00.000-07:00

Tonight will be our last show in LA before we head out to NYC!

Its gonna be a hip-hop show so there be a lot of beats and rhymes.

We will be playing last around midnight and MC's will be freestylin' to our tunes.

Come check it out at the Echo Curio!

A CLOUD BELOW AND THE SEA ABOVE

2010-08-26T19:03:00.000-07:00

This recordings are from last year when we went on tour and played with Frank Moore in Berkeley for his webradio show at LUVER. Thanks so much for everyone at LUVER for everything. Recordings and album art are done by Mikee Labash and theres a video of the performance available online at their website shot by Linda Mac. We will make higher quality physical CD copies of this for the distro but you can download digital copies HERE and print the artwerk yerself if yer up for it. DIY baby!

GUTTER TRUNK MAGICK

2010-08-24T00:40:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow night, we are so proud to be part of such an amazing line-up of artists.
We are so honored to be playing for this awesome tripped-out shows that badasses Walter Gross and Bizzart puts together at the Grand Star in Chinatown. If you haven't been to one of these, now would be a good time. We will be doing some new material..some old...just take a hit of some acid and come down...B)

We are also so excited to see Healing Mystical Science, Jon Wayne, and E. Super and hav our minds be blown by them!!!

SHOWS

2010-08-11T18:16:00.000-07:00

this coming saturday will be the SUPER Market at Meltdown COMICS brought to you by our lovely friends from False Start Distro. We will have lots of stuff there for sale from the Open Mind Dead Distro and from the many other self-publishing distros and comix and stuff, music and CD's and tapes. make sure to come down and check it out. This is in the afternoon from 2-7PM. magick orchids will be playing with our good friends, The Littlest Viking and another band called, Nopal.

Also in the evening, champoy will be playing drums with Kill Kill Kill at Spaceland at 11PM.

forgot to post this before so were just posting this for the memories, for posterity and for the art!

WEDNESDAY NIGHT!

2010-07-11T19:07:00.000-07:00

Tonite @ SYNCHRONICITY SPACE

2010-07-08T18:28:00.000-07:00

We are playing this last minute show tonite @ Synchronicity Space with Ostrich Eyes, Kim Fowley Is Dead, and Dub-Bum-Ba. If you guys have no plans you should come down to that. Or if you want options, like th Angeleno that you are..you can also check out our good friends Tan Dollar who are playing at The Smell with Dash Jacket, Weed Diamond and Nicole Kidman. Or if you are a hipster, you can go to both and show everyone how you can and be where the action is even if it means being at two places in one time. Either way, it will be a fun night!

KSPC Residency @ The Press in July

2010-06-29T16:02:00.000-07:00

So we are playing for the first show of KSPC's Residency at The Press and we are so happy to be playing this show with our friend Cory, who does W.H.I.T.E. (White Horses In Technicolor Everywhere). If you are from that area make sure to come out and have a delightful time with us as we make love to your senses. We are hoping that the show will be more fun than the last one we played at the Hip Kitty with the "Guy-In-A-Pink-Shirt" incident. Do you hear that, kids? That is the sound of Pan laughing!!!

light$leeper VS magick orchids

2010-06-29T15:55:00.000-07:00

our good friend ian laczi, who does music as light$leeper did an amazing remix of "What Grows In Yr Garden" which you can check out by clicking the image below. you can also check out some of his other work and projects with Sweet Sticky Sounds, a web label based in the Philippines by clicking here.

The Echo pics by Josh Clarkson

2010-06-25T14:42:00.000-07:00

TUESDAY NITE AT MIDNITE

2010-06-21T00:29:00.000-07:00

PREGNANT RELIGIOUS GIRLS MAGICK ORCHIDS

2010-06-20T16:08:00.000-07:00

Last night's show was amazing...it was a pleasure to play with such amazing bands like Pregnant and Religious Girls who were truly our kind of peeps...we are looking forward to play some shows with them in the future....heres a .gif file of the poster which was designed by champ and adam roth and screenprinted by rhea...anyways, thia coming tuesday will be the Seasons record release at The Echo for their upcoming album, Winter...make sure to come down and check us out. we play last at 12PM.

Betrayal In Babylon

2010-06-08T02:19:00.000-07:00

Here's a video for the first song we played at Bottled Smoke II Festival held at Synchronicity Space ...

Betrayal In Babylon from Champoy Hate on Vimeo.

B.Y.O.L.S.D.

2010-06-02T17:00:00.000-07:00

This Friday we will be embarking on a journey to play the Telemagica Festival.
There have been slight changes to the set we planned due to the circumstances that certain people cannot make it but as always, we will flow with the greater energy that made us want to do this together. Below are the maps and infos for the Festival.

We are playing at FRIDAY 7PM @ THE INSTITUTE OF PERCEPTION GARAGE

Harsh Practices CD Tracklist

2010-05-29T18:43:00.000-07:00

1 Mr Bigshot Clears The Room
2 The WIld Emulsion
3 Foreign Lights
4 What Grow In Yr Garden
5 No More Virgins
6 Lee Perry Is Dead
7 Readymade Pulse
8 Hynosis Gnosis

sax on tracks 1, 7 and 8 by Josh Crampton

WE PLAY 12:30 AM TONITE!

2010-05-29T13:41:00.000-07:00

TeleMagica Art & Music Festival JUNE 4, 5 & 6 2010

2010-05-29T10:51:00.000-07:00

http:../../..www...myspace...com/telemagica

About TeleMagica:

TeleMagica Art and Music Festival is an annual event in the pristine natural landscape of Jacumba CA, 1 hour East of San Diego.

TELEMAGICA 2010, "LUMINESCENCE: The Year We Ignite"
June 4/5/6, 2010
3 days/2 nights
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW ON-LINE ONLY: $40 by April 1st, $50 by May 1st, $60 by June 4.
A GATHERING FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT THROUGH THE ARTS.

The Promised Land: a landscape without limitations, where you can hear and discover music and performance art on stages, as well as in a rock cave or on a high mountain peak. A beach-like sandwash where your campsite is part of an entire tribal village celebrating each other, the expansive fresh air, as well as the full moon & a million stars at night. This land enhances magic, and your silent understanding! Within the sounds, the sculptures, the pyramid and the WaterSight Mineral Spring Dreaming Tubs, you awaken your senses.... you will find answers to questions that have gone un-..answered..... This is more than a festival gathering, this is about discovering your next level of creativity, with other brothers and sisters counting down to 2012.

TeleMagica provides a stage for painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, photographers, film makers, performance artists, neo-vaudville, graf artists and creative ritualists coming together for exchange of ideas and talents, for connectivity and collaboration on projects, and for rejuvenation in a world where the support for the non-commercial arts has been evaporating.

This is our 7th annual... in 09 we joined and Aligned the tribes and in 2010, en mass we will IGNITE from within to create LUMINESCENCE, straightening our individual emanations to connect with the emanations at large...

TeleMagica is put on by The Institute of Perception.
The Institute of Perception and TeleMagica are dedicated to the Evolution of the human spirit through the Arts.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO: TeleMagica.com

FOR SCHEDULE, GO TO: TeleMagica.com

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OF PERCEPTION, GO TO: instituteofperc..eption.com

http:../../..www...myspace...com/telemagica

ORGANIZING SOUNDS

2010-05-21T19:09:00.000-07:00

here is what we have been trying to work on for Telemagica:

60 DISEASES FOR AN OPEN WOMB
organized and conducted by magick orchids

"mystical states are those moments in which the Other, in its many forms, is absorbed into the One and the One is absorbed into the Other."

- William James

the whole piece is based on the ancient Babylonian myth of Ishtar, goddess of fertility, love, war and sex who descends into the underworld to bring back her lover back to life.

in this sound art performance piece we will be combining sounds smell visuals broadcasts, music, vocal performance and tape effects to configure and transform the space into an environment of shared experiences that delve into the realms of multi-sensory perception and performance.

we will conduct this performance in an enclosed space and each player will be positioned accordingly to their specific parts. the whole piece is divided into several parts. Each part will be outlined with an underlying theme that will correlate with everything else that is going on.

The performers will use different sound sources and situate each unit in specific areas to achieve a remarkable level of intuitive improvisation for their parts. Certain foods and oils will be heated through a certain temperature to evoke certain smells for each of the different musical piece.

players:

rhea, champ, josh crampton (luna is honey), isaac takeuchi (voice on tape, slumberbeast, cardiopulmonary), andrew felix (we dress good, sending service), oliver fritz kurt dammasch(deadArt, DRD, guppies) denise duncan (the transmissions, not so ghost) duck dongo (manhattan murder mystery),andrew lush (live video projections), dave aguilar (low end sounds) liz ngo (smells and oils), and st. paul (energy)

we are also trying to work out a video for the event with our good friend and filmmaker, josh clarkson.

there are four musical pieces that we came up with for the performance. a lot of them are minimal by nature but sounds are organized and layered depending on the positions of players.

piece no. 1 : SO SURREAL
(water, darkness, death, doom, despair, desert, dust, rusty gates, rocks, crying, wailing)

piece no. 2: BODY PIRATES
(fire, party, orgasmic, celebration, bacchanalia, orgy, hedonism, dance, anarchy)

piece no. 3: PEDRO ON A BIKE
(metal, plea, statement, platform, explanations, excuses, demands, hope, escape)

piece no. 4: GET YR EDUCATION
(earth, love, realization, redemption, resolution, return, illumination)

visual projections will focus on the underlying themes of each specific part and the elements referred to from the myth and everything will end with the wind blowing everything away...

(A PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE PERFORMANCE.)

So Surreal

2010-05-21T18:48:00.000-07:00

heres a clip of us playing at our house a few weeks ago...apparently we are not blessed with the best of cameras but we are lucky to have friends take footages of us regardless of the fact...great sax part from josh on this song called "So Surreal" which will be the first part of our sound art piece for telemagica festival. thanx charlene!

THIS SUNDAY, WHILE EVERYONE IS IN COACHELLA, WE GO HOLLYWOOD!

2010-04-14T14:20:00.000-07:00

THIS WEEKEND

2010-03-31T11:27:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow night, Friday April 2 our friend, David Wong asked us to play this show at Characters in Pomona.We are playing it with good friends Michael Nhat and Andrew Felix from We Dress Good. We haven't heard much of Phoenix and The Turtle but we're sure they're good too.

Then on Saturday our friends from Family Tree Analog asked us to play this show at the new location of Silver Factory. Our friend, Tony sez he is skeptical with bands who make flyers where their names are listed bigger than the other bands, meaning they better be worth their logo size. We don't really care but thats just Tony. B)

magick orchids @ Pehrspace

2010-02-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

with our amazing roomie Andrew Lush doing live video mixing!

TONIGHT TONIGHT!

2010-02-20T16:06:00.000-08:00

New Old Album: SING SONG SONGS

2010-02-08T15:12:00.000-08:00

Flooded with long overdue releases, we have decided to release some recordings online. SInce we do not believe in the system in which the whole record and music industry operate, we found it best to just have our music available for everyone to enjoy and experience. These are the songs we were working a while back with our good friend, Piry of Family Tree Analog. Feel free to make copies and share with your friends. Do come to the shows and check back every now and then for more downloads.

SING SONG SONGS

Baclayon

2010-01-20T09:44:00.000-08:00

TRAVEL TIMES TO THE PHILIPPINES!

2010-01-05T11:08:00.000-08:00

We had an amazing Capricornications 2010 house show party at the Malo Funhaus last Saturday, January 2. We had touring bands at the house and dang! those guys were loud as thunder! We are just glad there were no popo's on the scene otherwise, it would have been a bummer for all of us! It was a great night though with great energy. The bands that played were The Girl With Violent Arms, Starskate, A Pack Of Wolves, who were all from Santa Rosa. The Health Club laid down the law at 1:30 in the morning and those guys sure know how to play the room because at 1:30 in the morning you don't wanna play like My Bloody Valentine inside the living room of a house -coz that would be really SUPERFLUOUS! would't you agree? Michael Nhat was supposed to play but i guess the vodka got between him and his set. So, there ya go! Capricornications friends that celebrated their birthdays that night were Meagan, Champ, Ryan, Jen, Ray (from Seasons), Guy (fom Starskate) and I'm sure many others. We are just glad the house wasn't as trashed as before! Hells yea!

And in case you are paying attention, magick orchids, hasn't played any shows for the new year yet. We have held back the releases of two recordings, one with Frank Moore and the other from a live show we did at The Malo Funhaus. We have been so occupied with many other things and we've been slowly adjusting to all the changes going on in our lives at this point. However, the good news is that we will be sharing our soundz to the Republic Of The Philippines where Champ is originally from. We honestly don't know what to expect from this tourness but we will try to post some bloggings about this. We are more than excited than anything to be able to share what we do to whoever will listen, explore the outdoors, the food, the festival that they are having at this island where Champ went to school and bask in the wonderful white sand beaches of Boracay. Our friends Denise and Kat will also be meeting us later on and we will have a blast! Yay! Anyways, here's a cool pic from our New Years Hike over at The Valley Of Enchantment.

Magick L'Keg

2009-12-23T14:43:00.000-08:00

Magick Orchids @ L'Keg Gallery

Greetings To YOU From All The Deviants At The MALO FUNHOUSE!!!

2009-12-22T09:03:00.000-08:00

WE'RE A HAPPY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY!

MAGICK MONDAYS @ TRIBAL CAFE

2009-12-21T15:03:00.000-08:00

We're not really sure who else is playing tonite but magick orchids are playing for sure...so just bring yer asses over to Tribal Cafe because Lots O' Crap never disappoints. Right on!

THIRD NIGHT OF MAGICK

2009-12-18T09:22:00.000-08:00

The show at L'Keg with Guppies, Lost Lake and Manhattan Murder Mystery was great. We enjoyed playing with these bands of people who happen to be really great friends of ours...and we really enjoyed our set which Matt said reminded him of a score for a John Carpenter movie.

Tonite will be our friend Adam Roth's birthday and he is celebrating it at Casa De Health Club!
And we play with Andrew Fucking Felix, Fucking Voice On Tape and of course, The Fucking Health Club!

Whew!

Also, if you haven't RSVP'd to the LA RECORD Party on Saturday yet, now is the time!

We will be playing at the Echo Curio that night for the UBS Nite but do go afterwards because it will be fun and they have lots of cool going down!!!

Go to: www.larecord.com/RSVP

Magick Kissed Elbow Glove

2009-12-17T14:26:00.000-08:00

Last night was fun playing with the HM157 Church Of Fashion despite the show starting really late -but we sure felt the holidays caress us with its mangy hands...Tonite we'll be playing with friends and lovers at L'Keg. Awwww!

WEDNESDAY MAGICK!

2009-12-15T17:33:00.000-08:00

Just Go!

Magick Video Musick

2009-12-14T19:16:00.000-08:00

Terry Riley @ LA Phil

2009-11-30T13:29:00.000-08:00

It was quite an experience to see Terry Riley play a collab set with Kronos Quartet, Matmos and Andy Schlessinger. I dont think a lot of people knew what to make of the whole Eureka! experience with all these four artists playing together but we surely had a blast watching people slowly walk out from the music hall.

THE PRESTIGIOUS HOUSE OF VERMONT.

2009-11-30T09:14:00.000-08:00

On Saturday, November 27th was the LAST SHOW EVER at The Prestigious House Of Vermont. Magick Orchids played with The Girl With Violent Arms, Melted Cassettes, Voice On Tape, Michael Nhat and Slumber Beast. It was a fun crazy night with dancing and of course, coppers! But hell! A Vermont House show is still a party even if its the LAST PARTY there! Thanks to all our beautiful people there who has been making shit happen and letting us be part of all this...Scotty, Dustin, Josh, Isaac and to everyone else who has lived there and all the amazing bodies, heads and faces that has ever graced the place. Im sure they'll be making lots of shit happen in all the directions they will all take in their lives. Don't quote us on this but we know...yes we do...that the The Vermont House spirit will live on in EVERY house show that will be sprouting out all over Los Angeles in the years to come. So watch out, kiddos! The End of An Era Also Means The Start of A New One!

TOMORROW NIGHT

2009-11-18T10:05:00.001-08:00

Something to read by J.G. Ballard

2009-11-15T21:00:00.000-08:00

What I believe

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of the car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multi-storey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels.

I believe in the forgotten runways of Wake Island, pointing towards the Pacifics of our imaginations.

I believe in the mysterious beauty of Margaret Thatcher, in the arch of her nostrils and the sheen on her lower lip; in the melancholy of wounded Argentine conscripts; in the haunted smiles of filling station personnel; in my dream of Margaret Thatcher caressed by that young Argentine soldier in a forgotten motel watched by a tubercular filling station attendant.

I believe in the beauty of all women, in the treachery of their imaginations, so close to my heart; in the junction of their disenchanted bodies with the enchanted chromium rails of supermarket counters; in their warm tolerance of my perversions.

I believe in the death of tomorrow, in the exhaustion of time, in our search for a new time within the smiles of auto-route waitresses and the tired eyes of air-traffic controllers at out-of-season airports.

I believe in the genital organs of great men and women, in the body postures of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Princess Di, in the sweet odours emanating from their lips as they regard the cameras of the entire world.

I believe in madness, in the truth of the inexplicable, in the common sense of stones, in the lunacy of flowers, in the disease stored up for the human race by the Apollo astronauts.

I believe in nothing.

I believe in Max Ernst, Delvaux, Dali, Titian, Goya, Leonardo, Vermeer, Chirico, Magritte, Redon, Duerer, Tanguy, the Facteur Cheval, the Watts Towers, Boecklin, Francis Bacon, and all the invisible artists within the psychiatric institutions of the planet.

I believe in the impossibility of existence, in the humour of mountains, in the absurdity of electromagnetism, in the farce of geometry, in the cruelty of arithmetic, in the murderous intent of logic.

I believe in adolescent women, in their corruption by their own leg stances, in the purity of their dishevelled bodies, in the traces of their pudenda left in the bathrooms of shabby motels.

I believe in flight, in the beauty of the wing, and in the beauty of everything that has ever flown, in the stone thrown by a small child that carries with it the wisdom of statesmen and midwives.

I believe in the gentleness of the surgeon's knife, in the limitless geometry of the cinema screen, in the hidden universe within supermarkets, in the loneliness of the sun, in the garrulousness of planets, in the repetitiveness or ourselves, in the inexistence of the universe and the boredom of the atom.

I believe in the light cast by video-recorders in department store windows, in the messianic insights of the radiator grilles of showroom automobiles, in the elegance of the oil stains on the engine nacelles of 747s parked on airport tarmacs.

I believe in the non-existence of the past, in the death of the future, and the infinite possibilities of the present.

I believe in the derangement of the senses: in Rimbaud, William Burroughs, Huysmans, Genet, Celine, Swift, Defoe, Carroll, Coleridge, Kafka.

I believe in the designers of the Pyramids, the Empire State Building, the Berlin Fuehrerbunker, the Wake Island runways.

I believe in the body odours of Princess Di.

I believe in the next five minutes.

I believe in the history of my feet.

I believe in migraines, the boredom of afternoons, the fear of calendars, the treachery of clocks.

I believe in anxiety, psychosis and despair.

I believe in the perversions, in the infatuations with trees, princesses, prime ministers, derelict filling stations (more beautiful than the Taj Mahal), clouds and birds.

I believe in the death of the emotions and the triumph of the imagination.

I believe in Tokyo, Benidorm, La Grande Motte, Wake Island, Eniwetok, Dealey Plaza.

I believe in alcoholism, venereal disease, fever and exhaustion.

I believe in pain.

I believe in despair.

I believe in all children.

I believe in maps, diagrams, codes, chess-games, puzzles, airline timetables, airport indicator signs.

I believe all excuses.

I believe all reasons.

I believe all hallucinations.

I believe all anger.

I believe all mythologies, memories, lies, fantasies, evasions.

I believe in the mystery and melancholy of a hand, in the kindness of trees, in the wisdom of light.

Magick Orchids @ T.O.W.

2009-11-07T18:20:00.000-08:00

DOWNLOAD THE SET HERE, KIDDOS!!!

MAGICK THIS FRIDAY

2009-11-05T10:37:00.000-08:00

This upcoming Friday, November 6 -we are playing at the closing of this installation art show at T.O.W. in Downton Los Angeles. You should come and check it out and support the space. This is a fundraiser so its $5 to get in. This one is really cool there will be home-brewed beer and live screen-printing and we really suggest you go check it out, especially the big mammoth made entirely from busted tires. magick orchids will be playing first at 9:30ish. Also check out the bathroom mural that Champ did. Coolness!

And they also posted the event at LA RECORD. Yay!

"I FOUND IT" music video

2009-11-02T15:39:00.000-08:00

This is a music video for the song that we have on the LOTS O' CRAP #5 Compilation.
This is the Digital Delay Delay Version of that song though. Enjoy!

Magick On Delay: SPD-S Fest @ Betalevel with howardAMB abd Bobb Bruno

2009-10-31T21:25:00.000-07:00

Last Night The Magick Vikings Saved My Life.

2009-10-29T07:39:00.000-07:00

Great show last night at Que Sera in Long Beach with amazingly great bands: Swing Hailey, Family Tree Analog and Guppies! Though we got home at almost 3AM in the morning it was totally worth every sonic moment.

Anyways, here is a recording of the awesome split set that we did with The Littlest Viking last weekend at The Artshole in UCSB. Recorded by Maxwell Lewis? of The Artshole Collective. We really had so much fun playing this show. Yo will also hear the critical neighbor who was trying to be douche about the music. LISTEN AND ENJOY!

TONIGHT TONIGHT!

2009-10-28T08:29:00.001-07:00

TONIGHT, TOMORROW, TODAY, TOGETHER.

2009-10-23T15:29:00.000-07:00

Tonight we will be returning to Santa Barbara to play at The Artshole with the badass motherfucking duo of Ruben and Chris otherwise known as The Littlest Viking. Not sure who else is on the bill. Not sure of anything really.

Tomorrow night we are playing at the L'KEG Gallery with our homeslices from Irvine, Tan Dollar and Wonder Wheel and Jean Wilder and Concett 9 -all of which are badass motherfuckers too in their own right.

Happening at the same night at The House of Vermont is also Michael Nhat's record release which also has a great line-up of artists like Halloween Swim Team, Narwhal Party, Voice On Tape, Luna Is Honey, Blue Tape/Red Tape and Redeemer from Chicago. This will be an intense night. There are choices to make and brains to bake.

Now, just imagine how great would it be if all the people that go the The Vermont House met up with all the people that will go to L'KEG halfway through Figueroa and say, 3rd and do a dance battle to a Michael Nhat song stopping all of traffic. All the motorists will all later come out from their cars and join in on the dance battle that ends up becoming a dancefest and it all gets crazy and euphoric and everyone takes off all their clothes and starts fucking each other like wild animals, sweat and spit all over their bodies, then everyone explodes in one big collective earth-shaking orgasm and pass-out then everyone wakes up to a beautiful Sunday morning full of life. Whew!

Washington On A Bike

2009-10-23T15:27:00.001-07:00

Magick Orchids @ LUVER.COM

2009-10-21T11:00:00.000-07:00

Hey kiddos! Check out Magick Orchids' performance at Frank Moore's Shaman's Den that we did at the beginning
of our Northwest Tour last August. They just archived the performance at the links posted below. Just don't mind it
if we sound like such dorks -we are never good with these interview chu-chus but we always do our best. This was truly
a great experience! We will also be releasing a CD of these recordings with Frank Moore playing piano/vox, before the
end of the year. We are calling it "THE SEA ABOVE AND THE SKY BELOW" with cover art made by Michael Labash
who does a lot of art for Frank. Also if you have time, do check out most of the archived stuff at LUVER. They have
lots of interesting shit that can titillate your senses!



New on Frank Moore's Shaman's Den Archives
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html

Magick Orchids
http://www.myspace.com/magickmagickmagick

Listen to the performance:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/magickorchids-music.mp3

Listen to the conversation:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/magickorchids-talk.mp3

Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/magickorchids/index.html

TOMORROW NIGHT

2009-10-19T09:54:00.000-07:00

M is for Magick.

2009-10-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

APPROACHES TO IMPROVISATION

2009-10-08T09:27:00.000-07:00

Alright, kids...here's a really good read on improvising for many who still think that improvising is just like 'jamming' -it would be best to try and gain some knowledge about it if you feel its something you want to devote some of your precious time with..will ya? That way, we can work it out TOGETHER! Words! Words! Words!

APPROACHES TO IMPROVISATION
by Markos Zografos (February 2007)

(This is a transcript of a lecture presented at the Keys National Piano Competition,
Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia, 17 October, 2004)

1. Introduction

I'm going to be discussing improvisation and the various ways it can be approached. Some improvisational techniques will be briefly explored from the point of ideas and thoughts about how we can organise music.

This breakdown of a current understanding of improvisation will either be very obvious to someone sitting in a seat here, or it may be something completely foreign to someone accustomed to systematised ways of learning music. Essentially, we're talking about creating music within the limits of sound rather than limits of different ways we write down and understand musical structures and systems of thought in playing someone else's composition.

Though an overview of improvisational techniques, it will be no different to an overview of compositional techniques, as at the level of ideas, improvisation and composition are the same thing. The best definition that I've so far heard of improvisation is that it is "spontaneous composition."

So there's the difference between the two--improvisation is a spontaneous act, composition is a planned act. There is intermingling and all sorts of degrees between them, but we'll be talking about approaching this spontaneity, and different ways we may prepare for such a thing. It is thus similar to written composition; the difference being where the writing composer prepares a work by planning it, the improviser doesn't plan, but can prepare for the spontaneous act through various methods that I'll be discussing.

I am going to refer to the article "Elements of Improvisation" written by pianist Marilyn Crispell as a springboard to commentate upon, as she has given a concise and direct overview of the span of compositional techniques. For those of you that don't know, Marilyn Crispell is an active pianist working in America who combines improvisation with written composition and performs solo, and in various ensembles.

After going through these elements, I'll move onto a discussion about the "spontaneous" part of the improvising act, talking about some ideas on energy flow, timing, and degrees of control--issues to do with the moment of acting out an improvisation.

So it's a very simple topic. It falls into two parts: The first part will deal with materials, matter--the preparatory side of improvisation where you build up your base of musical "availabilities," your attributes; and in the second part we will get into some aspects of movement and energy--the action side of improvising, where you put your material into real-time flow.

So even though this is a talk about improvisation, here we do not make any separation between performance, composition, and improvisation. We just use the word "improvisation" to discuss these three as a single practical phenomenon

2. Elements of Improvisation

I'll now refer to Marilyn Crispell's article "Elements of Improvisation" (which can be found in the John Zorn edited book Arcana) because:

it outlines the variety of ways a musical composition can be constructed and developed,

and it does not refer to any specific kind of musical language, but it details what forms the base of anything that we can call "music."

The techniques outlined should be fundamental to any composer's understanding of musical workability, and I'd like to think that everybody who calls themselves "a musician" holds this basic understanding of how music can be constructed.

(I have added numeric points to statements in this article for points of reference to this discussion.)

Elements of composition:
1. The use of rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements and motives (two or more elements joined together to form a logical whole) in the development of an improvisation/composition
(Improvisation as spontaneous composition)
Adding together motives (as moveable ‘blocks', or permutations) to form compositions

A very simple yet broad statement, and one that stands as a foundation of all music and musical styles. Ask yourself:

"What level of interest do I have in rhythm?"
"What level of interest do I have in melody?"
"What level of interest do I have in harmony?"
"What piece/s of music (it could be either a single work or an entire style)
adhere to this interest in rhythm?
... in melody?
... in harmony?"

From these questions, there will arise in you a general partitioning of interest between the three elements. You can say: "from analysing my musical interests I have found that I seem to have more of an interest in rhythm than melody or harmony"...

and you go on...
"Why do I have more of an interest in rhythm than melody or harmony?"
...and you can come up with all sorts of answers.

The most important thing in this self-inquiry is to try to be as honest as possible. This is somewhat achieved by tracing your own personal experience to these elements; and this doesn't at all refer to only looking at technical musical issues. For example, "I like the sound of this percussion instrument because it reminds me of when it used to storm on the roof where I lived on Barry Street," etc.

So you list those things that form your personal interest...it may look something like this:

Notes on Personal Rhythm, Melody, Harmony Attributes

Rhythm	Melody	Harmony
high energy, intensity, non-tempo, broken/irregular rhythm but with continuous drive not discontinuous gestures, Cecil Taylor, Stockhausen, car accelerating/decelerating, bouncing ball, electronic artists with irregular rhythms yet sense of tempo (autechre, merzbow), verbal/spoken rhythm (Spanish, Japanese), rap, Rite of Spring movts. 2 through 6, Messiaen "Par Lui tout..."...	romantic song-like (Chopin, Scriabin), for fantasy-like feel usually like minor key orientation with chromatic movements & serial/clusteral harmonies, counterpoint, sequences, invention-like & fake fugues, 2-3-4 parts, funny/playful, (Makigami Koichi, Ruins, Sun Ra, Rodion Schedrin, Ornette Coleman), birdsong, that song on the radio the other night...	clusteral morphings (Scelsi, Xenakis orchestral works), piano serial music (Donald Martino piano sonata, Boulez and Barraqué piano sonatas), for sparsity & gestural power, almost romantic use of octaves with 9th and 2nd extensions (Ustvolskaya), always serialising/equalising materials, piano as 88-note sound continuum—textural approach to harmony mixed with traditional approach where it feels right...

This forms your "disposal" of personal attributes that you have the ability to use, your uniqueness. I say "disposal" because, for the sake of originality, it is an aim to have no clearly defined piece of information in your memory storage to reference. That is, if you are aiming toward your own style you do not want to simply riff out other people's styles. If you are not seeking originality then this is not so important. So at your disposal is your "junk heap" of musical information; a mud of experiences and imagination-entwined fodder.

Your disposal is something that will always reference your musical personality, so being as honestly aware of it as possible allows you to delve into certain areas more than others, to practice elements and build up this uniqueness however you desire.

This means, for example, that you don't necessarily have to only do physical practice at the instrument; it could be an analysis, for example, of the ways in which "Johnson" uses rhythm and adds together motives in his Symphony number whatever; or it could be just listening to the general feel of a few pieces in a row then trying to keep that same wavelength going—(this is an exercise which can be worked on by following a four-bar phrase in a given style by four of your own bars continuing it...demonstration on the piano)—either on your instrument or in your head; it could be imagining other instruments or people playing them (demonstration of Petar Gocic's saxophone playing)... all kinds of things.

The most important thing is to experiment. Try a lot of different approaches always with the focus of what you want to achieve out of it. For example, a short snappy rhythmic piece; a piece which expresses the mood of a particular scene in a film—after all, this is how my grandmother and others improvised in theaters in the days of silent movies: galloping rhythms when the hero rode to the heroines rescue, dreamy music as they kissed, wild as a fight was going on, etc. These are all good exercises-- they can be just fifteen seconds each.

This is the only way to keep in line with your potential, otherwise you stroll behind it. Improvisation has a very close link with experimentation and the expansion of musical vocabulary purely for the fact that its momentary exposition allows an opening for all sorts of unexpected avenues. So the more you experiment, the more pathways open up for you that you would never have expected otherwise.

2. Beginning with an interval (the most primal musical relationship), rhythmic figure, harmonic block (a ‘block' of harmony in and of itself, not necessarily related to traditional harmonic function within the major/minor tonality system—harmony used for purity of sound _(i), or any combination of these, and transposing them _(ii), adding imitative/continuous elements, or contrasting elements.

(i) relating to "harmonic block (a ‘block' of harmony in and of itself, not necessarily related to traditional harmonic function within the major/minor tonality system--harmony used for purity of sound)."

What Crispell is talking about here is a vision of harmony, not from traditional systems that we may all be used to, that differentiate consonance and dissonance, but harmony from a point of view aiming to perceive continuity in sound, rather than the expected musical outcome.

So what is harmony? Harmony is things put together that work, operating cooperatively, in balance. Notions such as consonance and dissonance are relative and non-existent outside systems that make claim to them, that is, subject to the one's perception. Harmony is achieved at the level of a sound-based musical approach by operating upon a common level of energy fluctuation--nothing else is needed. I will discuss this in a bit more detail later on.

(ii) relating to "any combination of these, and transposing them, adding imitative/continuous elements, or contrasting elements."

This comment begins to delve into what will be your second material disposal: the "how do I combine what is in my first disposal to form a developed structure?" disposal.

Once again, the question "what do I like?" arises:

"I like the way Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has a driving rhythmic intensity and how it builds up to these big climaxes. I also like the way I feel this kind of intensity in a lot of pop music--metal, hip hop, electronic stuff--but I prefer the way Stravinsky is able to fuse these elements this way rather than sticking to a repetitive motivic structure that the pop musics follow. I prefer the developmental method, continuous change rather than abrupt/contrasting change, so I am going to see how I can mix the kinds of rhythms I like with this kind of development"

...and from this decision come the experiments...study a score you like, listen to separate elements analytically, aural analysis, always listening to take what you learn into the practical context. Try out different methods... Do they work? Don't they? Why does it/doesn't it work?

"Eh, it sounds too much like I'm just trying to sound like Stravinsky..."

So once it's worked over to a point where you feel you want to move on, forget about it and move onto something else. The process here is that you research musical availabilities and test the results in a practical fashion, like a musical scientist. The more this process happens in the more varieties of ways, and depending upon the level of your self-critical awareness, the more you build up your musical uniqueness.

So to cap what we have so far: We have two disposals to work with and build upon--the first dealing with concrete musical elements, the second dealing with how to combine these elements.

Relating the methods of combination to a melodic context Crispell continues with:

Beginning with a melodic line and varying it in any possible manner (transposition, retrograde, inversion, etc.); melodic lines made by clusters _(iii); the importance of the shape of a line; modulation from one motif to another: can be abrupt/contrasting or continuous/evolving _(iv).
(iii) The point made about "melodic lines made by clusters" is defined by the delimited meaning of "scale" that Crispell describes in the next point:
3. Use of scales created from harmonic blocks to form melodies (i.e., the possibility of seeing harmonic blocks as scale fragments)

Here, Crispell describes a scale as simply a chosen selection of notes. You can create another disposal (version of a scale) here if you'd like to have a preparation of different scales. Styles that we're used to listening to, Western styles, Eastern styles, have prepared disposals here that you can use, you know, like a C-major scale or a B-minor scale... Or you can create your own. My friend Kahl (Monticone) who plays guitar created his own scales that he finds helpful to select from when he prepares to improvise.

The concept of "creating scales from harmonic blocks" shows how scales can be a momentary grouping of notes within an actual improvisation (demonstration on piano). It's a reductive technique that you can break up harmonic blocks into single notes to work with, any harmonic block into any break up of notes. We're used to thinking about this the other way around, where harmonies are created out of predefined singular scale degrees.

For example, from a clusteral, serial-like harmonic approach a scale can be defined as emphasizing the lowest and highest notes of the cluster as dominants, and giving them greater accent. Then, notes in between them can be treated with a variety of dynamic degrees to differentiate their roles in your "scale" (demonstration on piano).

Personally, I find this way of discussing this approach very complicated and prefer not to think of anything as "scales," but prefer to think of it as different intensities of what's available at a given time that simply feel right to play.

(iv) while the differentiation between "abrupt/contrasting" and "continuous/evolving" may seem very obvious, you know, like a sharp, rhythmic attack (slams piano lid down) as opposed to a long-held sound, say, like the ambient whirring of the air conditioning in this room. So, even though this differentiation may seem very obvious, when the point is made in relation to what Crispell means by harmony, that is, from a perception aiming toward continuous sound and not from a systematic understanding of music, then the differentiation between these two kinds of approaches must be examined as both being contained within the continuous/evolving approach.

First, we'll look at the main features of these. It could be said that a contrasting approach has more elements of surprise, more intense and pronounced "stand-out" gestures, more amounts of different information or motives packed within shorter amounts of time. Rather than elaborating upon one motif over a period of time, perhaps ten different motifs are stated as gestures without development--you wouldn't even think of them as motifs.

This is generally saying: One fixed idea to another fixed idea without evolution from one to the next:

Figure 1: Contrasting/abrupt approach

An evolving approach, on the other hand, is developmental. Idea 1 to Idea 2 are merged through development from one to the next.

Figure 2: Continuous/evolving approach

The word "continuous" that Crispell uses in contrast to "abrupt/contrasting" does not mean that abrupt/contrasting should be understood as "discontinuous." In the process of improvising, it is very important that both approaches are understood in a continuous fashion.

Why? Here is where we begin to delve into notions of movement and energy in the process of acting out an improvisation; that even when you are playing sudden changes from one thing to another, they should be approached with an implicated feeling of continuity. It's that undefinable thing in music that we try to define as the "groove," the "flow," the "zone," or whatever, where you essentially merge with movement and accordingly operate upon continuously fluctuating degrees of energy flow.

We call this an "abstract" notion simply because this arena of operation, where movement continuously fluctuates, cannot be described as some measurement, in notes and staves, and we can only receive some kind of apprehension of it at the time of merging with it, and afterwards, in the impression that it leaves on us.

So what does it mean to have an abrupt/contrasting approach within a continuous approach? It means that, internally, you constantly force yourself into the field of movement so that you merge with it. You may be playing sudden changes from one thing to another, but you always approach these with an implicated continuity. So from the exterior, it may seem like a change of gestures are two separate discontinuous entities, but you make these two somehow connect via keeping a constant internal movement going.

Think of, say, a golfer swinging his nine-iron to hit a golf ball. The contact point between the club and the ball is just one element of a greater envelope that must be concentrated on throughout for the most effective hit. If this focus on the continuity of the stroke isn't made, then the golf ball isn't going to go anywhere.

But in order to make an improvisation work in such a way, it may help to consider what we're doing as dealing with energy fields in space where being able to perceive intervals separated from each other by attacking moments gives us the sensation of time. This is why Crispell, early in the article, stated: "Beginning with an interval (the most primal musical relationship)."

So in the field of action, we are generally saying that timing is everything. We're not talking about "tempo" or "keeping in time" as it's generally thought, or rather, we extend these concepts to include everything within them.

Okay, that's another abstract sounding comment that may make what I'm saying sound more complex than it actually is, so here's an example:

It's like driving a car. The speed at which you drive is never one set speed, say, if you're going eighty kilometres an hour, you're not actually going eighty kilometres an hour, but eighty kilometres an hour is a general level you try to keep to in accordance with the road rules and the other cars on the road. The car's speed is always fluctuating in very small degrees around this eighty kilometres an hour mark, slightly accelerating and slightly decelerating constantly--and if the car in front of you whacks on the brakes, without thinking, you also hit the brakes.

So, at some level, you're always in a state of acceleration and deceleration, this being a principle of movement. Whether you are playing upon a set tempo and you have a continuous focus upon the phrasing of a single line that accelerates and decelerates in timbral and dynamic degrees, or whether you are playing not upon a beats-per-minute base and the whole gamut of your material disposals are in an accelerating and decelerating flux--this is simply what is happening in movement, and being aware of it allows you to focus upon whatever lines of acceleration or deceleration you want to focus upon at any given time to enter into the "groove," or "zone," or whatever.

An explanation of timing given by martial artist Joe Maffei actually explains the fundamentals of a continuous, implicated approach to timing. He says (demonstrating each point as its being said):

a beat is any time you make contact

timing is the interval between contacts

rhythm is repeated contact

broken rhythm is the repeated starting and stopping of contact at irregular intervals

speed is nothing more than perfect timing and rhythm--the most economical motion and the right technique delivered at the right range

The examples of martial arts and driving a car relate to a survival instinct in us that forces people to maintain continuous awareness, either in a spar or on the road, for the best reaction time and effectiveness, or, the most "perfect speed" possible, according to Maffei.

We can see from Maffei's summary of aspects of our perception of time into speed how it explains the process of building up your material disposals--techniques of combination and development--in order to train ourselves for an instinctive flow where we aim for "perfect timing and rhythm." Where he states that speed is "the most economical motion and the right technique delivered at the right range," it simply means an approach to improvisation where a trained knowledge and technical base is only there to serve the performing situation, where your material junk piles are thrown into a momentary composition. Crispell describes this as follows:

The development of a motive should be done in a logical, organic way, not haphazardly (improvisation as spontaneous composition)--not, however, in a preconceived way--rather in a way based on intuition enriched with knowledge (from all the study, playing, listening, exposure to various musical styles, etc., that have occurred through a lifetime--including all life experiences); the result is a personal musical vocabulary

Here we can summarize the point about improvisation as being part of an equal blend with performance and composition. Practicing for such a situation involves a mixture of listening, reading, writing, analysis of recordings, analysis of scores, awareness of sound environments, technical practice both of compositional writing and of performance techniques, analysis of music both by theoretical reductions and by practical performing applications such as memorization and/or sight reading, experimenting in countless amounts of ways, and also--something very important if you want to actually perform--jamming with other musicians and setting up gigs once you feel ready.

I didn't delve into the full extent of what could be available for discussion on the material aspect to give a bit of room to discuss some of the movement aspects; and it's tough bringing the momentary aspects of improvisation into a descriptive form, but I spent some time on them because even though they may seem a bit confusing for now, I have found research into that area of practice a lot more helpful and fulfilling in terms of improvising than the material aspects. The end goal of improvisation, as with all music, is pleasure, receiving pleasure, and that law of diminishing returns related to our nature of receiving pleasure--where we constantly seek more pleasure, different pleasure, to what we have already, since the pleasure once received diminishes in value--has led us into this stage of coming up with all these sorts of ideas to receive pleasure from music. So enjoy!

YES! THE RUMORS ARE TRUE.

2009-10-07T15:58:00.001-07:00

Smell The Magick

2009-10-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

This photographer, Aaron Twig took a band photo of us after we played The Smell last Sunday. Don't we all just look so adorable? Don't you just wanna kiss us all and make us your pets?

STA BARBARA/BIKO HOUSE Show Picture Picture

2009-10-04T19:35:00.001-07:00

FOUR SHOWS AND A LIL BITCHIN'

2009-10-02T15:35:00.000-07:00

We are off to Santa Barbara tonight to play at The Biko House w/ Railcars, Christmas, The Endless Bummer and Desolation Wilderness...we will be playing a set with our friend, Meagan. Hope traffic won't be as crazy and those UCSB kidz are all up for some partay!

Then tomorrow Eagle Rock (collab w/ peeps from Central Second) and Irvine (with Railcars, Tan Dollar and more...). Then The Smell (Railcars and more) on Sunday...wheweewee!

Also, the guy that lives on the studio part of the back of our house is a little whiny complainer and keps writing to our landlord who lives in Mississippi about really minute stuff. The guy can't just talk directly to us. We have decided to let him know what the word "NOISE" really means...we miss the guy that used to live there..good old Coogster...he made short films and is gonna be in the big time someday...and yes he had two bad-ass snakes too...

MAGICK MUSIC MARATHON

2009-09-29T12:48:00.000-07:00

We will be doing a musical collaboration with our friends from The Transmissions and Death To Anders for the Pehrspace showcase at the Eagle Rock Music Festival. We will do a musical piece that is dictated by the colors of screen projections that Christian from The Transmissions prepared. We did a test run of it on Sunday just to see how it all flows. All the musicians playing were divided into three groups and assigned different colors -everyone only plays when they see their color appear onscreen. And they can play in response to whatever visuals was going on the screen. This turned out really great. The word "playing" music has never made so much sense.

AND...magick orchids will be playing with the aid of some friends in some upcoming shows and trying out different fun stuff (think of the musical equivalent to anal sex).

Here's a flyer for the Eagle Rock showcase:

Anyways, we will also be playing at UC Irvine at this same night. Its our 2nd night in supporting Railcars North American Tour Dates here in Southern CA. The night before that, we will be in Santa Barbara then on Sunday, we will be playing at the Smell.
Then on the 9th of October, we hit the Echo Curio for Manhattan Murder Mystery' residency. Then another art show on the 10th with Halloween Swim Team and Michael Nhat. Feels like deva vu? Doesn't it?Well, for more updated info and updates on our tour dates with Railcars go and check out our myspace. We are so loaded with shows this month and to think, we were thinking of not playing any shows at all to focus on recordings but i guess Nancy Reagan was wrong... its just hard to say NO sometimes. But its all great and we will all have F-U-N!!!

We are also excited to announce that we will be releasing two new recordings soon.
One of it is the one we recorded with Frank Moore at the Shaman's Den which is called "A Cloud Below And The Sea Above". Mikee Labash, who does most of Frank Moore's art for his zines/recordings/website is making the album cover and that is making us super excited.

The other recording we are releasing is of the house show we played at our home, The Malo Funhouse a month ago when we came back from our tour. It was a really great set and Josh Crampton's sax magick was superb. We are so happya bout it that we decided to release the recording and share it to y'all. Now the best part is that our friend, Adam Roth is doing the cover. Adam does really great illustrations and we are such admirers of his style. We are just happy to know and be friends with such creative and talented people.

Anyways, besides the impending sense of doom that is to unravel in 2012, thats something to look forward to.

And last but not the least, Champ has been doing videos lately with magick orchids music and many others. You can check it out on his youtube page if you have the time.

LA RECORD LIVE REVIEW

2009-09-22T09:46:00.000-07:00

LA Record reviews the show we played with Grandpire, Halloween Swim Team and Michael Nhat.

"Closing out the night were Magick Orchids, who gave a great performance that walked a fine line between experimental noise and sound collage. The band played with chaos and control, building immersive soundscapes that could be simultaneously beautiful and disorienting. Their use of saxophone and processed sounds to create an unusual fantasy environment made them the perfect closer for the surprisingly great Werewolf party. Here’s hoping they return to the 4300 Loft for another round of art and music again soon." (click here for the full review)

Big up goes to Meagan Boyd, Dylan Doren and Josh Crampton for being the bad asses that they are!

WEEKEND.

2009-09-21T08:12:00.000-07:00

Last Friday's show for the Lots O' Crap Zine Fundraiser at The Bunny Ranch House was a blast. We had so much fun playing a "chilled-out" set. The cops came just after The Seizure and Manhattan Murder Mystery played but luckily they didn't stop the show. They just told us that if they got another complaint, they were gonna shut it down. We were happy they never came back. Josh did some awesome sax playing as always. Kid Infinity played a great fun set too, making sure things got bumping and moving. Afterward, there were lots of hanging out. Lots of drinking. Lots of smoking. Lots of talking. Lots of fun. Lots o' crap?

Saturday found us playing at The Werewolf Gallery art show at Jefferson Park. It was a pretty special night for us because of our line-up that night. Playing with the Orchids were our friends Meagan Boyd and Dylan Doren, who were both pretty bad ass playing drums and percussion in addition to the sounds and noises we make with Josh Crampton who was evoking some Peter Brotzmann-like sax work. It was great to play a different set that night and we are happy with how it turned out because we felt it reflected the urgency of the moment and it challenged the underlying expectations of people that go to the art shows and expect to be entertained. Michael Nhat and Halloween Swim Team also played some new songs that really rocked. HST's last song was total EPIC. You can tell those guys work so hard to develop their own sound. Michael Nhat wasn't feeling to good that night but still managed to make bodies move. There was a lot of interesting art that night. One in particular that i personally dug was the one with naked people with boxes on their heads -something about it just gave me a hard time to look away.

We wont be playing much shows in the next week. Gonna be working on some new recordings and video stuff. The next shows will be the shows we are playing in support for the Railcars tour here in Southwest CA. We have also been adding new stuff on the distro. Make sure to check it out, kidz!

And ahhh...Joseph Beuys

The Arboretum

2009-09-16T11:38:00.000-07:00

Last week, we went to the Arboretum for Rhea's birthday with our friends, Gabie, Michael and Liz, who took this really beautiful pic of us, You can check out more of the photos in her Flickr.

ART

To justify artist's professional, parasitic and elite status in society,
he must demonstrate artist's indispensability and exclusiveness,
he must demonstrate the dependability of audience upon him,
he must demonstrate that no one but the artist can do art.

FLUXUS ART-AMUSEMENT

To establish artist's nonprofessional status in society,
he must demonstrate artist's dispensability and
inclusiveness,
he must demonstrate the selfsufficiency of the audience,
he must demonstrate that anything can be art and anyone
can do it.

Therefore, art must appear to be complex, pretentious, profound,
serious, intellectual, inspired, skillful, significant, theatrical,
It must appear to be caluable as commodity so as to provide the
artist with an income.
To raise its value (artist's income and patrons profit), art is made
to appear rare, limited in quantity and therefore obtainable and
accessible only to the social elite and institutions.

Therefore, art-amusement must be simple, amusing,
upretentious,concerned with insignificances, require
no skill or countless rehearsals, have no commodity
or institutional value.

The value of art-amusement must be lowered by making
it unlimited, massproduced, obtainable by all and eventually
produced by all.

Fluxus art-amusement is the rear-guard without any
pretention or urge to participate in the competition of
"one-upmanship" with the avant-garde. It strives for
the monostructural and nontheatrical qualities of simple
natural event, a game or a gag. It is the fusion of Spikes
Jones Vaudeville, gag, children's games and Duchamp.

(Manifesto on Art / Fluxus Art Amusement by George Maciunas, 1965.)

FUNDRAISERS, ARTSHOWS, MUSIC FIX, and NAM JUNE PAIK

2009-09-15T10:23:00.000-07:00

We are gonna be playing a Lots O Crap Zine Fundraiser on Friday at The Bunny Ranch then on Saturday, an artshow with Halloween Swim Team, Michael Nhat, Grandpire and more.
Don't forget to check out the art! Yeah the kind that goes to the wall.. Ya know...

From Floats and Flyers

Been listening to a lot of cool shit lately made by people we know, bands we met, most of it are stuff that we recently got from friends, bands and whatnots for distro or just for listening purposes. We have been immersing ourselves in a lot of local stuff, fringe stuff, some stuff that the dominating mainstream culture could care less about...Anyways, if you have stuff that you need help distro and you think, we might dig it, please send it to us. PLEASE check the distro first and see what we are about...Yeah yeah yeah and don't give us all that nag about being open-minded just because we don't dig you sounding like your favorite band from the nineties.

also, Nam June Paik

NEWZ SHITZ

2009-09-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

FINALLY, WE ARE WORKING ON NEW SHIT!!!

We are happy to announce that we have some new improv recordings/collaborations with Oliver Fritz Kurt Dammasch (deadART, DRD, Guppies, capital animal) and Mark Ryan Mata (artDamagaed, DRD, United States Of Imperfections, Sexy Cola).

We also have improv recordings/collaborations with our friend and artist, Meagan Boyd and other friends which we will have available soon.

Besides that, we are working on some audio-visual stuff and more recordings for another cassette and a 7" vinyl release.

There is also an interview/feature of us on the upcoming Lots O' Crap Zine No. 5.

Then, we have hella upcoming shows which you should check out on our myspace shmalface! which starts off with this weekend's Project Infest Music Fest at some warehouse in Downtown LA. Lots of experimental electronic noise bands. It starts early at 4PM. Be there and get a CD-R of the Malo Funhouse show we did last Saturday!

MALO FUNHOUSE SHOW LIVE STREAM???? WHATTAFUCK???

2009-09-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

LIVE STREAMING OF THE MALO FUNHOUSE SHOW CAN BE HEARD BY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE WILL BE DOING THIS SO WE CAN'T ASSURE YOU A SMOOTH RIDE. HOWEVER, WE WILL TRY OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE, YOU GUYS GET THE JIZZ..OOPS! I MEANT GIST OF IT!

MALO FUNHOUSE SHOW on FRIDAY

2009-08-31T09:27:00.000-07:00

THIS SHOW WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED AS OUR TOUR KICKOFF SHOW BUT DUE TO UNEXPECTED CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAD TO RESCHEDULE IT. ANYWAYS, THIS NIGHT WILL ALSO BE A CELEBRATION OF RHEA's and OUR FRIEND, DAVE's BIRTH INTO THIS WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES, SO MAKE SURE TO SHOW THEM YOUR LUV THAT NIGHT. WE WILL ALSO BE LIVE STREAMING ONLINE -WE'LL ANNOUNCE MORE OF THE DETAILS ABOUT THAT LATER ON THE WEEK. TUNE IN.

MORE TOUR PIX

2009-08-31T06:48:00.000-07:00

VISIONS OF HENRY MILLER

2009-08-28T13:12:00.001-07:00

Got back to LA for a bit after the Northwest tour. We have forgotten how draining living in the city can be so after resting back into health after days of unrest and nights of sleep deprivation, we are going away to get inspiration for the next recordings/collaborations we will be doing with deadART. and this is where we will be.

Big Sur

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also
true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination
is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
— Henry Miller

SEATTLE, WA

2009-08-25T23:07:00.000-07:00

OLYMPIA, WA

2009-08-24T14:36:00.000-07:00

OLYMPIA, WA

2009-08-17T22:51:00.000-07:00

SEATTLE, WA

2009-08-17T22:45:00.001-07:00

OLYMPIA, WA

2009-08-17T22:37:00.001-07:00

PORTLAND, OR

2009-08-17T22:17:00.000-07:00

EUGENE, OR

2009-08-12T10:38:00.000-07:00

SACRAMENTO, CA

2009-08-11T11:01:00.000-07:00

SANTA ROSA, CA

2009-08-10T08:21:00.000-07:00

We didn't get to play last night but we went to the house show anyways. Apparently there were enough bands on the bill already and they wanted the show to end at a certain time. So no magick! Its all cool. We had so much fun though. The room was small where the bands played and it was hot as fuck but the music made up for it. We got there just in time to see The Girl With Violent Arms (STA ROSA) do an improv set with a drummer (at least the last part of it!). Universal Studios Florida (SEATTLE), Alaskas (SEATTLE) and Exasperation Missionary (STA ROSA) played afterwards. They were all such great acts and they all played such intense sets despite of the small room (imagine the funkysmell???)).

Rhea managed to interview some of the bands for the distro and this documentation we are doing about house shows and all-ages venues. We also got to meet Will, who volunteers at the local zine library and gave him some of our stuff. Then we pretty much just chilled and went back to Mario's (The Girl With Violent Arms) pad where we stayed overnight. And now its morning and today we are heading to Sacramento to see if we can talk to the Governor!

Fucking allergies!

BERKELEY, CA

2009-08-09T08:38:00.000-07:00

So we played last night on Shamans Den which is Frank Moore's show at www.luver.com
We played and recorded the set with Frank, who was playing the piano. Afterwards, Frank and his wife Linda did an interview of us and we talked about lots of stuff. I think you might be able to hear it archived at their website. They also gave us zines and CD that they wanna have available at the OPEN MIND DEAD Distro. Afterwards, we then met up with our roomie, Andrew and his BF, Joey to go and check out the great gay parts of San Francisco. Its so gay, rainbow flags are flying everywhere!

AUG 7 SHOW RESCHEDULED!!!!

2009-08-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

ALAS! The magick has been intercepted by powers beyond our control.....the tour kickoff that was scheduled for tomorrow, Friday August 7th has been CANCELLED. It seems that the owner of our Malo Funhouse will be in town for the weekend and is staying in the studio on the same property. This means that magick, bands, friends and fun will just have to wait until we get back. Don't worry - we WILL celebrate and have the show soon. Look for an update from us about the exact date of the rescheduled show, but we are aiming for the first weekend in September.

In the meantime, check out the amazing bands we were ridiculously excited to play with:
Tan Dollar, The Guppies and Michael Nhat.

And here's an image to sum up how we feel about all this:

by Salvador Dali

We hope to see some of you at our shows as we head north for the next two weeks!!!

MALO FUNHOUSE TOUR KICK OFF SHOW

2009-08-04T12:18:00.000-07:00

So we will be leaving for our little tour up the Northwest on Saturday. Still got some open dates but we are crossing our fingers and just going for it. IF IF IF there is any way you can help us with AUGUST 10(NORCAL, SACRAMENTO), 11(EUGENE, OREGON) 12 and 13 (PORTLAND) please let us know. We wo uld really appreciate it. Anyways, we're gonna have a kick off show at The Malo Funhouse where we live with Michael Nhat, Tan Dollar and Guppies, who just finished their new record. But just to make it clear, its not a party like usual, but a SHOW. Meaning it starts at 9PM sharp and we go on FIRST. We are also asking a 2 dollar donation to help us out on our tour. Its not much and its pretty much worth the music and fun you'll be having. And then after that, we'll be heading onwards to Berkeley on Saturday morning for Frank Moore's cable access show at 8PM at night.
We are getting stuff ready mostly for the Zine Fest too but we are also planning to stop by some college radio/web radio stations to drop by copies of a compilation we are making to promote the distro.

And heres a footage of us from last weekend taken by the badass, Mikey
Magik Orchids

THIS SATURDAY at THE HIVE

2009-07-31T09:20:00.001-07:00

Also, let the door know who you are coming to see...
...and wear black and yellow to get the $5 admission.
Look it up HERE for more info about the show.

NEW "HEXXES" Cassete Tape and SPD-FEST at BETALEVEL

2009-07-27T07:50:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday's show at Betalevel was so much fun. Despite a "mysterious" technical problem (Rhea's Space Echo Pedal for some weird reason was not working!), we managed to get the our set going. We have been so stoked about doing the show for a while especially since we get to play with howardAMB and Bobb Bruno, two amazing bands that also use the Roland SPD-S drumpad which was the common denominator of the all the bands in the show. It was also the first time that magick orchids both played the Roland SPD-S pads which turned out to be so rad especiallyw ith the samples Rhea had on her pad. howardAMb played a really amazing set and their songs were so captivating especially with all the different sounds bouncing all throughout the space. howardAMB just keeps getting more amazing everytime we see them, it was quite a feat having to play between them and Bobb Bruno, who performed with Light Array Orchestra doing really psychedelic visuals. Bobb was pretty badass as usual in his bunny suit. He shows you what the possibilities of playing the SPD-S are. He also has some pretty great samples, one even sounds like it was Rhea singing. Mmmmm.... Though the place was quite a challenge to find especially with all the other events going on in Chinatown, we were glad to see familiar faces. Betalevel is a really rad place that is located in an underground basement right in an alley behind Full House Restaurant on Hill Street in Chinatown. They have Karaoke Nights and Movie Nights and other interesting nights that will trip the hell out of you. Check em out!

Also, we just finished making the cassette tapes for our upcoming Northwest Tour. Its
called HEXXES and its pretty much a mixture of the different sets we have been doing and some other songs that we have been working on for the past few weeks. Here is the tracklist:

SIDE A:
mind over matters
bright evil goodness
far away look
vegan vampyrs
fak dat nu aidj shet!

SIDE B:
ghost of a dead medium
forbidden games
what grows in yr garden
seasick version dub
passionista (brenmar remix)
abort-retry-fail

We only have it available in 50 limited copies for five dollars at our shows, here in our blog, at our myspace page, and at the Open-Minded distro soon. It also comes with a free sticker.

Also, we are playing tonight at the Tribal Cafe for a Lots O Crap show...

EVERYONE HATES A TOURIST.

2009-07-23T09:41:00.000-07:00

We'll be leaving for the Northwest in two weeks and we've been busy getting our shit together. Already done with the recordings we did for our cassette tape release which we'll have available soon. Its gonna be called "HEXXES" and should be up on the Open-Minded distro soon or at or shows. And we'll be finishing the recordings with Piry tomorrow, its gonna be our last session, so hopefully we get that together to make copies for our tour. We are still trying to finalize some dates especially around the PDX area and we are thankful to many peeps and friends who've been very helpful.

Anyways, we are playing tonite at this new venue that our friends Josh and Isaac are starting. Its called Pantheon. Its gonna be in a spot called Tony's. Its actually near where we used to live on 7th and Santa Fe. We'll be playing with Cobalt Cranes and Voice On Tape and Sean Pineda. We play at 10:30 PM.

Also here is something for you..since you managed to click on this blog and read.

GROWING IN SPIRIT

He who hopes to grow in spirit
will have to free himself from obedience and respect.
He'll hold to some laws
but mostly he'll violate
both law and custom, and go beyond
the established, inadequate norm.
Sexual pleasure will have much to teach him.
He won't be afraid of the destructive act:
half the house will have to come down.
This way he'll grow virtuously into wisdom.

—C. P. Cavafy

THURSDAY NIGHT

2009-07-20T13:25:00.000-07:00

Friday Night @ Silver Factory Studios

2009-07-16T14:54:00.000-07:00

We are playing a somewhat last minute kind of show this Friday at Downtown LA. Though, we are currently finishing recordings this week -its pretty obvious that we couldn't say no to such an amazing line-up of bands. We will be playing a new set and hopefully some new songs called "Pedro On A Bike" and "Bull Of Heaven".

Also if you have the time to read this, I'm sure you'll have the time to vote for the fabric design we have up at Spoonflower Its called "BLUE MONDAY", and if you think it looks familiar, its because its the design we use as a background for our myspace shmyface. Its pretty quick. Just click and then thats it. You can vote by clicking here. Thanx.

Cheech And Chong Doing Tron

2009-07-15T07:14:00.000-07:00

Here's something that our talented friends, Lis Bomb and Casey worked hard on. Its a Cinemashup short of Cheech and Chong doing Tron. Its so funny especially the first part where they talk about the whole economy. You gotta watch this:

Mirror Magick

2009-07-13T15:49:00.000-07:00

best viewed infront of a mirror...

YES DARLING, BUT IS IT MAGICK?

The Smell on February 5

'Origins Of Grinding' Cassette Tape Release @ HOMEROOM

Magick Video Inspirations For FMLY

Tonite Michael Returns to LA to celebrate his 51st Birthday !

FRIDAY IM IN LUV

Download magick ((())) orchids' BAD ACID Single

New Album Coming Soon

WE OPEN THE NIGHT

Pehrspace Tonight!

GET YR TICKETS NOW!

THE DANCE WITHOUT DANCERS

COME THURSDAY

Magick Orchids In The LA LOTTERY LEAGUE

Mamas Joy @ Lot 1 Cafe

MAGICK NEWS NEWS

FUCKING TWENTY ELEVEN, BABY!

TONITE @ CalARTS

WE ARE NHAT DOING THIS.

magick orchids in NYC

THE NIGHT BEFORE NYC

A CLOUD BELOW AND THE SEA ABOVE

GUTTER TRUNK MAGICK

SHOWS

WEDNESDAY NIGHT!

Tonite @ SYNCHRONICITY SPACE

KSPC Residency @ The Press in July

light$leeper VS magick orchids

The Echo pics by Josh Clarkson

TUESDAY NITE AT MIDNITE

PREGNANT RELIGIOUS GIRLS MAGICK ORCHIDS

Betrayal In Babylon

B.Y.O.L.S.D.

Harsh Practices CD Tracklist

WE PLAY 12:30 AM TONITE!

TeleMagica Art & Music Festival JUNE 4, 5 & 6 2010

ORGANIZING SOUNDS

So Surreal

THIS SUNDAY, WHILE EVERYONE IS IN COACHELLA, WE GO HOLLYWOOD!

THIS WEEKEND

magick orchids @ Pehrspace

TONIGHT TONIGHT!

New Old Album: SING SONG SONGS

Baclayon

TRAVEL TIMES TO THE PHILIPPINES!

Magick L'Keg

Greetings To YOU From All The Deviants At The MALO FUNHOUSE!!!

MAGICK MONDAYS @ TRIBAL CAFE

THIRD NIGHT OF MAGICK

Magick Kissed Elbow Glove

WEDNESDAY MAGICK!

Magick Video Musick

Terry Riley @ LA Phil

THE PRESTIGIOUS HOUSE OF VERMONT.

TOMORROW NIGHT

Something to read by J.G. Ballard

Magick Orchids @ T.O.W.

MAGICK THIS FRIDAY

"I FOUND IT" music video

Magick On Delay: SPD-S Fest @ Betalevel with howardAMB abd Bobb Bruno

Last Night The Magick Vikings Saved My Life.

TONIGHT TONIGHT!

TONIGHT, TOMORROW, TODAY, TOGETHER.

Washington On A Bike

Magick Orchids @ LUVER.COM

TOMORROW NIGHT

M is for Magick.

APPROACHES TO IMPROVISATION

APPROACHES TO IMPROVISATIONby Markos Zografos (February 2007)

YES! THE RUMORS ARE TRUE.

Smell The Magick

STA BARBARA/BIKO HOUSE Show Picture Picture

FOUR SHOWS AND A LIL BITCHIN'

MAGICK MUSIC MARATHON

LA RECORD LIVE REVIEW

WEEKEND.

The Arboretum

FUNDRAISERS, ARTSHOWS, MUSIC FIX, and NAM JUNE PAIK

NEWZ SHITZ

FINALLY, WE ARE WORKING ON NEW SHIT!!!

APPROACHES TO IMPROVISATION
by Markos Zografos (February 2007)