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Brain And Spinal Column #2

from NOVA PSYCHEDELIA: SPECIAL EDITION by Todd Tamanend Clark

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"BRAIN AND SPINAL COLUMN" examines the limitations of how the brain filters sensory and other informational input. This is the second of two recorded versions of this song, one in 1977 and one in 1984. It has very heavy vocoder usage. This version features Allen Ravenstine from the group Pere Ubu on analog modular synthesizer.

Synthesizers: ARP AVATAR, EML ELECTROCOMP 200, Sequential PROPHET-5. Effect: Moog VOCODER. Electronic Percussion: Linn LINNDRUM, Pollard SYNDRUM QUAD.

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"BRAIN AND SPINAL COLUMN" [#2]

Evening animal leaps and bounds,
Half intellect, half emotional clown!

Rigid categories vanish!
Surrealists soon get their wish!
Thought impulses turn vaporish!
Cells shimmer with lust and fusion!

What divides truth from illusion?
It’s your brain and spinal column!
What reads senses in confusion?
It’s your brain and spinal column!

Hemispheres sustain a gray glow
From illegitimate egos
To central nervous libidos,
But engrams claim deep seclusion.

What divides truth from illusion?
It’s your brain and spinal column!
What reads senses in confusion?
It’s your brain and spinal column!

World within a world!
Dream within a dream!
Art within an art!
Scream within a scream!

At last, centers built to a fill
Release, relax as is their skill,
And tomorrow, stimuli will
Not stop making their intrusion.

What divides truth from illusion?
It’s your brain and spinal column!
What reads senses in confusion?
It’s your brain and spinal column!

[Copyright 1984 Todd Tamanend Clark. All rights reserved.]

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from NOVA PSYCHEDELIA: SPECIAL EDITION, released October 31, 2005
Year: 1984. Personnel: TODD TAMANEND CLARK: Voice, Vocoder, Synthesizer, Percussion; ALLEN RAVENSTINE: Modular Synthesizer; CHUCK MOSES: Guitar.

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Todd Tamanend Clark Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TODD TAMANEND CLARK was born on August 10, 1952 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. He was deeply influenced by Native American cultures, owl ornithology, the Monongahela River, 1950s science-fiction cinema, silver age comic books, beat poetry, space jazz, and the American psychedelic music of the 1960s. He was an early pioneer of adding synthesizers and effects processing to a punk rock aesthetic. ... more

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