V4 --the album

[Kairos8 at aol.com]

One aspect overlooked, in the musings on the fantasy release of Pynchon's
music,  is who is going to produce the damned thing  If can be agreed that
the fifth Beatle who brought the Beatles to the forefront of popular rock
music (an issue worthy of about 12-zillion e-mails itself) was their producer
George  Martin, who brought a post-modern touch to their recording from Sgt.
Pepper 'right on' through Abbey Road.

In my opinion, the only producer, with the suss, vitriol, and synoptic reach,
several quanta beyond Don Was & Malcolm McLarnen, is Hal Wilner. Besides
producing complations from the canons of such artists like Kurt Weil, Walt
Disney, & Thelonius "The Loneliest Plunk" Monk, his work, MEDITATIONS ON A
NIGHTMARE: the Music of Charles Mingus, makes him a strong contender for such
a task. On MEDITATIONS, Wilner assembled a cast of writers, singers,
musicians & composers which includes: Gunther Schuller (consultant), Don
Alias, Leonard Cohen, Robbie Robertson, Elvis Costello, Henry Threadgill,
William Burroughs, Henry Rollins, the Uptown Horns, Keith Richards, Diamanda
Galas, Dr. John, Ray Davies, Vernon Reid, Charlie Watts, Chuckie D, Hubert
Selby jr, among others. The engineering of this release is nothing short of a
modern miracle in recording technology--multi-layered montages of sound,
texture, rich in hue and timbre and utilizing a variety of instruments
including didjeridoos, core gongs, marimba tubas, kazoos, slide whistles,
cloud chamber bowls, whirley tubes, chromelodeon pump organ, BBC broadcasts,
samples from all sorts of shit, harmonic canon resonantor boxes and other
estoreric mediums to create this strange, bitchin' brew.... Anyway, that's my
two penny riff on this subject... geo. scombulis