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His massive body of work in music, video and art continues to trickle out to the world like he never stopped. The Frank Budgen record has been available from Specific Recordings for a few months now. The Exploding Corpse Action LP should be out soon from Armageddon Records. Many other projects are bubbling towards release…
I just wish he were here to work on new stuff…
Photo by Aaron Smith
Frank Budgen
The Legend of Frank Budgen
Specific 10″
“Totally weird one. I get the idea that this is a jape, but if so, it’s a jape so beautifully and elaborately crafted that it stands as a wonderfully crazy art project in its own right. Packaged in a Folkways-style 10″ sleeve with accompanying booklet, this is said to represent the recorded legacy of a drifter named Frank Budgen, about whom little is known, except that he called Troy, NY home for a while, early in the 21st century. There are six tracks, with heavy blues guitar, drums and vocals in a blown style reminiscent of Michael Yonkers, George Brigman and even The Workdogs. It’s wild lo-fi style, regardless of its actual provenance. And the care taken with the presentation is certain to appeal to cultists of most known stripes. Released in a numbered edition of 99, it’s a real brain rattler, which features one of the screwier Beefheart covers you’ll hear in this lifetime.”
-Byron Coley
The Wire - May 2008
The Legend of Frank Budgen is still available from Specific Recordings.
The full 23 minute video of what happened when the artist Wafaa Bilal visited Troy, New York is online to view now. Music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit, Gov’t Mule and Fugazi.
Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi.”
“Art (does not equal) Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice.
First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers.
When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
If you were planning on checking out the new 23 minute documentary by Hudson Mohawk Indymedia about the recent events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi”, be advised that the venue has changed…. the screening will now be at: The Daily Grind, 46 3rd St. in Troy. The times will remain 7 and 8 pm.
“Art Not Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice. First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers. When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
This short documentary by the award-winning producers of “Independent Media in a Time of War” asks: what was so troubling about this artist’s message that University and City officials decided that we would all be better off not hearing it?
View the trailer.
Overview of the situation from earlier in the engineroom
Bonus goodness - the film has some music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit in it!
5 years till the end of days party
FRIDAY DEC. 21ST at 51 3rd st. TROY, NEW YORK
SCIENTIFIC MAPS
ROSS GOLDSTEIN
JASON MARTIN
With special guest: DJ JESSE STILES
9pm b.y.o.b.
December 21st, 2007 marks the beginning of the 5 year countdown to a 2012 Armageddon, long ago foretold by Mayan soothsayers as “the end of man”. The forces of fate will converge this Friday in the city of Troy, NY at 51 3rd street as musicians, artists, and heathens make merry to mark the beginning of the end.
SCIENTIFIC MAPS headline this extravaganza of sight and sound. Part anglophile pop, part clever wordplay, The Maps create a sonic concoction that makes the listener wonder: “what if Ray and Dave Davies HAD strangled each other on stage? Would they be up in heaven listening to The Shins?”
ROSS GOLDSTEIN is a man with a band, playing cosmic space cowboy
ballads that marry Bowie with Gram Parsons. A fuzzy rocket of
keyboard pop takes off for the stratosphere.
JASON MARTIN opens the show with deconstructed pop, pedals, and effects. A Hudson Valley veteran of the scene, Martin’s performances promise to be unpredictable and engaging.
After the bands, the dance machine that is DJ Jesse StIles comes
online. Expect to sweat.
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