Странная запись за авторством то ли Xxenogenesis, то ли Sexxenogenesis, или просто Enogenesis, а, впрочем, какая разница, хотя, думается, что правильное название альбома всё-таки "I Am That I Am". Есть предположение, что под одним из этих нарицательных наименований скрывался некий парень из Флориды, вследствие неумеренного употребления кислоты возомнивший себя эдаким гуру, который на этом частном релизе без маркировки произносит претендующие на философичность, а порой вполне реалистичные фразы и религиозно-психологические тексты под редкие звуки и музыкальные экзерцисы да ещё иногда выкрикивает это самое "I Am That I вперемежку с навязчиво повторяемой цифрой "666". Между тем, любители подобной психо-болтовни, наверняка, будут в восторге, ведь этот диск, оригинал которого, судя под указанному адресу на обложке, можно была заказать за 6 долларов, сегодня на аукционах доходит ценой до 600 ❗
Rydgren was head of the TV, Radio and Film Department of the American Lutheran Church and an ordained Lutheran minister. He created and hosted the progressive FM rock radio show Silouettes. Additionally he hosted some of the "What's It All About?" series with Bill Huie and TRAV.
Lost 1968 masterpiece from USA. Incredible hip and over the top recordings with a weird twist. In style of Ken Nordine, narrated by John Rygden, but backed by super GROOVY music, sound effects, cut-ups...An incredible Journey to Hipsville...Good to hear a clergyman not taking himself too seriously. This is absolutely marvelous. DJ's, radio stations, sampling maniacs and 60's fans should take notice. One of my most out there records!
When Liz played Pastor John Rydgren's Rinky Dink last Tuesday, I was reminded of just how great and weird Rydgren's radio spots were, and what a strange confluence of events created the country's only Psychedelic Christian format back in 1967.
Heading into the Summer of Love, Rydgren was the crafty head of the TV, Radio and Film Department of the American Lutheran Church. , the straight-looking Rydgren created a daily radio show called Silhouette in which he became the reassuring, resonant-voiced Hippy for God. Rydgren wrote, announced and programmed Silhouette, taking his musical and cultural cues from The Electric Prunes, Herb Alpert and the cover of Time (Is God Dead?), with a vocal delivery that was straight out of the Tom Donahue / Scott Muni / Ken Nordine school of breathy baritone radio seduction. Silhouette dropped all the counter-cultural codewords of the day into a heady mix of Peace, Love, Sex, Drugs and Jesus. Not to mention Fuzzy Guitars.
Pastor2New York's WABC-FM picked up Silhouette on a daily basis after the FCC forced them to stop using their FM station to re-transmit WABC-AM, their Top 40 powerhouse. Faced with an immediate need for a new format, ABC signed on to Rydgren's Psychedelic Christian thang, at least for part of the day.
The FCC rule in question - the non-duplication rule - sent stations all over the country scrambling for formats at a time when youth counterculture ruled the zeitgeist. Yes, the same rule that created the Psychedelic Christian format also gave birth to the Pastor3_1commercial freeform radio movement in the US.
ABC quickly dropped Silhouette from its lineup, and flailed around for three more years before finally changing the station's call letters to WPLJ in 1970 and finding their calling as one of New York's eminent Album Oriented Rock stations throughout the 70's.
But Rydgren and the American Lutheran Church aggressively syndicated the show beyond New York, and in that effort, they issued a double LP in 1967 called New Life Radio Spots and Cantata, which distilled Rydgren's swinging message of redemption Pastor4into bite size bits for other radio stations to play. If they liked the Silhouette segments on the New Life LPs, they could pick up the whole show, as American Armed Forces Radio did in 1968. The 2-LP set was issued to radio stations only, but the segments were later reissued a few years ago on a single LP called Silhouette Segments. That reissue wisely omitted the LP-length Cantata, which was along the lines of (but far worse than) The Electric Prunes Mass In F Minor, as I recall.
Лютеранский проповедник Джон Ридгрен в 1967-68-м годах вел христианскую психоделическую ежедневную программу "Silhouette" на нью-йоркской ФМ-радиостанции WABC-FM. Обращаясь к молодой аудитории, он касался таких тем, как наркотики, свободная любовь, одиночество. Он разыгрывал короткие ироничные скетчи и произносил своим глубоким голосом прочувствованные монологи. И все это на фоне то утяжеленных гитар, то ситаров, то лаунж-джаза, создавая действительно странный микс.
На полной компиляции его выступлений Silhouette Segments в итоге насчитывается 64 произведения музыкально-проповеднического жанра
1–Jim NayderJim Nayder Says Hello To You!
2–Santa ClausSanta Claus Says Hello To You Too!
3–Barry TiffonA Candy Bar For Elvis
4–John "Bowtie" BarstowDo You See What I See?
5–Jamie GlaserDisco Columbus
6–Petty BookaMaterial Girl
7–Randy Roberts (9)The Pilgrim/Thanksgiving Song
8–Santa ClausSanta Claus Consumes Too Much Caffeine
9–John "Bowtie" BarstowJingle Bells
10–Gefilte Joe & The FishHappy Hanukkah!
11–Larry HagmanGood Luck Charm
12–Santa ClausMaster Storyteller
13–Rod TerriGod Bless Richard Nixon
14–Dan BlockerDeck The Halls
15–Lucia PamelaIn The Year 2000!
16–Santa ClausMaster Storyteller
17–Clark BellTribute To String
18–Bette DavisOn Old Broadway
19–Jeff St. PierreRubber Band Christmas
20–Larry NestorSanta Doesn't Smoke Anymore
21–Carol HenselExercise To John Lennon
22–The Templeton TwinsMacArthur Park
23–Singing Sisters Of SyracuseHarvest Moon
24–Santa ClausMaster Storyteller
25–Anthony QuinnWhat Is Love?
26–John "Bowtie" BarstowSilent Night
27–KilldozerOne Tin Soldier
28–Ken NordineThe Coolest Voice Ever!
29–Jim NayderReally Super Exclusive Bonus Track! 2000
1–Jim NayderAn Important Message From Jim Nayder
2–Abdala BucaramJailhouse Rock
3–Lorne GreeneAs Time Goes By
4–No ArtistPhone Call
5–American Standard CompanyMy Bathroom Is A Private Kind Of Place
6–Manfred VossMindsticker
7–No ArtistPublic Service Announcement
8–Tiny Tim & Bob DylanI Got You Babe
9–No ArtistWhat Is A Pedestrian?
10–The Fabulous Conti FamilyHey Jude
11–Jeanne & JohnDates Dates Dates Dates
12–The LundstromsWhy Doesn't Daddy Come Home?
13–Kelly DawnTie A Yellow Ribbon
14–No ArtistPhone Call
15–Singing Sisters Of SyracuseChloe
16–The Chute Middle School OrchestraMacArthur Park
17–J.R. CorvingtonJuanita Banana
18–Unknown ArtistTheme From 2001, A Space Odyssey
19–Eilert PilarmAll Shook Up
20-United States Navy Steel Drum BandMrs. Robinson
21–John "Bowtie" BarstowJoy To The World
22–Ken NordineUntitled
23–No ArtistReally Exclusive Bonus Track 1999
1Introduction
2Cogitate Loop I
3Cogitate Loop II
4Go With It Loop
5Cogitate Loop With Music
6Cogitate Loop II With Music
7Go With It Loop With Music
8Cogitate Loop With Music II Cogitate
American physician and psychoanalyst (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001), a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using tools such as the isolation tank, dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, he was a member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers of late 1960s and early 70s.
1Вступительное слово
СТИХОТВОРЕНИЯ РАЗНЫХ ЛЕТ:
2Всякие разные стихотворения
3Письма Иерусалимскому другу
4Стихи о советском насморке
5Мелодрама
СКАЗКИ НА ЗАСЫПКУ:
6Поэтесса
7Юбилей
8Каннибалы и самоеды
(Other):
9Пушкин мой (фрагменты из поэмы)
10Из записных книжек
11Сказочка для деточек (маленькая опера)
12Детская рулетка (цикл стихотворений)
13Заключение Арбенин
Выступление Константина Арбенина в Квартире-музее Александра Блока (Санкт-Петербург 2003г.) в рамках фестиваля искусств "Могучая кучка - 2003".
