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Comment and Review: Your pieces in The Crowning of Nature are cutting-edge sound pictures of the mind's ear. They are path-breaking additions to the Fuzz collection. Bleak, lonely, hypnotic soundscapes; but sounds demanding to be heard and, thus, springing to life urgently. Sometimes primeval, sometimes industrial. Ancient chaos, fire, earth, water, and air - all elements that make up our existence from beginning to end in endless cycle. Damn good stuff. Let's use the Fuzz...

My previous blog suggested that, at this stage in the ongoing Beta development of the Fuzz web-site, each participating user in the growing network should try to create AT LEAST 150 CONNECTIONS to generate energy and order [and even more connections as the network evolves]. In response, Maureen mentioned that, given the bedrock of the Fuzz manifesto for our community, the site provides new context to common threads at many levels and “the inherent order of the [Fuzz] platform takes the...

The Fuzz platform is an open platform for participants to make of it what they will. With that caveat, the more that I check out the dynamics of the Fuzz site as an ongoing matter, the more I think that, to generate a self-perpetuating level of (i) network energy and (ii) network order, one should power up network connections with AT LEAST 150 "FRIENDS." In this regard, to share with my own connections, I have taken the liberty to port over from Cameron Obscura's page my...

Campbell Natale’s CD, “Social Decay (Agnostic Concept Metal Anthem),” is about to be released and the Fuzz community has had the opportunity to preview this collection. It is not for this reason alone that the title song, “Social D K,” and other CN pieces deserve review and reflection. Let me, thus, follow up on "shrink’s" description of a timeless and wild Rock N’ Roll ride down memory lane with Campbell Natale [which review comments are apt], with a few observations...

Ben Miller has uploaded a treasure trove of songs at Fuzz. He describes his body of work as rock, jazz, blues, alternabluesrock, and progressive. Hey, baby, what more can you want. These songs rock! More on Ben and this space later. NB: a note to readers of my reviews: the text of my reviews at this site may change from time to time. As I listen for futher nuances in a song or body of work, I keep modifying or adding to my thoughts, making my reviews an organic "moveable feast"...

I just finished reading the 40th Anniversary edition of Rolling Stone and reflecting on this publication’s current, largely mainstream, position in the music ecosystem. I compare the Rolling Stone of today with its free-spirited origins in San Francisco in the heady but politically charged days of musician-led protest, counter-culture, and new age spiritualism of the 60’s. While even now and only at the best of times, it still has echoes of its original verve, like it or not, Rolling...

The Nightwatchman is more than a poetic vehicle of one man’s frustration with the existing order, it is a voice of fearlessness. It takes guts to become a one man revolution. As the Nightwatchman says, “Well I sang to myself…That I want to be free…But the road I must travel…Its end I cannot see.” Tom Morello’s inspiration comes from the powerful notion that if you take one step towards freedom, it will take two steps towards you. We should follow the lead of this artist who has...