Pynchon the Guest Musician - Footnote

[Chris Broderick]

the Insect 
Trust's most famous member was
writer/critic/ethnomusicologist Robert 
Palmer,

Interesting footnote: In 1973, Palmer toured Morocco
with Ornette Coleman, after whom Pynchon modeled the
character McClintic Sphere.  Coleman and Palmer did a
couple brief, astonishing recordings with the Master
Musicians of Jajouka (available on the CD version of
his album Dancing for Your Head.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004STMT/sr=8-1/qid=1153668126/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7842070-3069636?ie=UTF8

The Master Musicians are a caste of musicians trained
since birth, and exempted from work (but nevertheless,
living, at least back in the early 90s, in grinding
poverty).  They were a particular obsession for many
Western writers & musicians, including Byron Gysin,
William Burroughs, Brian Jones and Ornette.  The best
recording of the Master Musicians happens to be called
"Apocalypse Across the Sky".

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000GAO/sr=8-1/qid=1153668049/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7842070-3069636?ie=UTF8

-Chris

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