More Music: Help with Radiohead, 6FS. And a recommendation!

[Allen Ruch]

Hello Pynchon fans!

I have been trying not to use the List to flog my Pynchon site, but the fact is, this group of “fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev’ry Radius” is really an unparalleled resource, so I hope nobody minds if I come here once again, cap in hand, to seek help in revising/updating Spermatikos Logos’ “Pynchon on Record” pages. Specifically, help with two groups: Radiohead and Six Finger Satellite.

1. Radiohead
http://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/sl-music-radiohead/

I know that a few years back, some hackers stole and released a wealth of Radiohead recordings from the “OK Computer” sessions. Radiohead retaliated by placing these recordings on their Bandcamp page They have since been removed. On Disc 3 (MD113: Soundchecks and Samples), at the 22:27 mark is a keyboard demo entitled “Thomas Pynchon.”

I believe this was the piece that would later be premièred as “Alligators In the New York Sewers,” and then retitled “Fog” and released as a B-side on versions of the “Knives Out” single. However, I am not sure, and I have not heard this “keyboard demo.” So my first question is: Does anyone on the List have a copy? Or at least, can anyone confirm that “Thomas Pynchon” was the working title of “Fog?”

2. Six Finger Satellite
http://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/sl-music-six-finger/

On their 1998 album “Law of Ruins,” 6FS have a song called “The White Visitation.” (The album was produced by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, an avowed Pynchon fan). Unfortunately, the lyrics are so deeply buried in the mix they’re unintelligible, and I can’t find them anywhere online. I bought the album on FLAC, but I am loathe to pay extra for a now-deleted CD copy, just in case the lyrics are printed as liner notes. (Which I don’t think they are anyway.) So my second question is: Does anyone have any information about the lyrics to “The White Visitation?”

If anyone can help me out with either of these questions, please email me off-list.

Thanks!

—Quail

PS: Oh, and here’s the recommendation: After hearing about this guy from Christian’s work, I really got into Kyle Bruckmann. His 2014 album “Wrack….Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire” is amazing. I don’t know if you guys have heard this, but this is some of the best Pynchon-related music I’ve come across. So if you like wildly inventive free jazz, you should toss $10 to this guy on Bandcamp. It’s worth it!

Info here:

http://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/sl-music-kyle-bruckmann/

Direct to Bandcamp here:

https://kylebruckmann.bandcamp.com/album/wrack-awaits-silent-tristeros-empire