I'm Brian Gibson. I'm in Lightning Bolt.
I'm Brian Chippendale. I'm also in Lightning Bolt.
This is What's in My Bag.
I'll start with this. I don't know anything about this record, but it's called 'Mystic Sounds From India'
and it's from a time period that's generally good, which is '68 to '79.
It's got this radical looking cover that's sort of trippy and spooky.
I just sort of picked it because of that stuff
but, I mean, I assume it's just like weird chanting and Indian melodies mixed together.
I got some art books. There's this one, Hundertwasser
which looks really beautiful.
I don't know a lot about this guy. He's Austrian and he's an architect and a painter.
I think he was really utopian, just like really all organic forms and
all of his stuff kind of blends in with nature.
He's the guy that does like the grass surfaces that go up on the roof and stuff?
This is the stuff I've seen where it goes like the grass goes up
over the roof and it comes back down.
I think he really passionately believed that this was how the world should look.
Yeah, the cover's awesome. I don't know how they printed this but it's actually embossed
and the back is red.
That's a cool book.
Yeah it's really nice.
Damn I hope you forget about that and leave it in the van.
The Music of Tanzania. Yet another record I know nothing about
but I mean Sublime Frequencies is an awesome label.
I don't know if I've ever gotten anything from this label that's no good.
Cover's just pretty stark and straightforward and beautiful.
I can assume that it'll be a collection of field recordings
mixed with maybe some found old recordings that they used, stuff like that.
Once I bought a CD, like a mail-order CD, maybe like music of Ghana or something
and it just starts going and it's just talking about horse tranquilizers.
It's like this 30-minute long infomercial about these horse sedatives.
And I was like, whoa, this is the weirdest.
I mean Sublime Frequencies gets pretty weird sometimes
and I think I told someone about it and they were like, that's not what that record sounds like.
So I wrote them, and they were like, what? They'd manufactured the wrong thing.
But I kind of didn't know. I was like, wow this one's really experimental.
I got a couple Moondog CDs. I just started getting really into Moondog's stuff.
All of his CDs sound really different, but he's like a classical composer
and he made a bunch of his own instruments.
Sometimes he's just reciting poetry that he writes, and he just seems like a real dreamer.
He was blind from a really early age
and he hung around on the streets of New York dressed like a Viking.
One thing I like about it is how playful and childlike it is. And mystical.
It's super-calming too. It's really peaceful music.
You can really hear the influence in Lightning Bolt. Moondog.
Definitely, yeah.
I basically picked a lot of stuff I just don't have a clue.
I'm always in search of drum-based music
so I just ask employees in shops, what's the craziest percussive record you have?
Whether it's free jazz or some industrial or just anything.
So I was just talking to a guy downstairs, someone who works here, so he pointed this one out
and I was, y'know, a little skeptical about it but then there's this photo
this guy's got his arms crossed and he's playing drums, and that kind of is what sold it for me.
To think of what kind of music would that guy make.
Ronald Shannon Jackson. I don't know him but we shall see.
Just trying to accumulate a collection of just weird drumming records, which also, I think, goes into this one.
This is just kind of like a tutorial demonstrative record about bongos.
The cover alone is worth taking home.
I'm sure it'll be guys being like, "and next up we have the blah blah blah blah."
and they'll be like, baddum da baddum da.
By adding more and more of this type of accent
we find a combination for a solo, or break.
The only other thing I got was another art book.
This is this really nice out of print Philip Guston retrospective.
I mean, this guy is like my favorite painter, so it's just a really awesome thing to have.
He kind of came out of the Abstract Expressionist period but then he went off on his own.
He kind of came up with his own style and way of painting and I think critics hated it for a long time
and then later on they realized he was actually the best one.
But yeah his stuff is just really interesting and simple and cool-looking.
That stuff's pretty funny almost.
There's like some 70s underground cartoon-y looking stuff.
He's got a little bit of that Mat Brinkman thing
where just his marks have this signature to them.
Mat Brinkman is our friend and favorite draw-er.
Yeah, just one of those people that everything he draws has the magic...
just conveys this sort of like magic expression, so I'm psyched about this book.
See if it makes it back in the van alright.
It's gonna be like covered in rotten bananas.
I know.
This is yet another record I know nothing about.
'12 Fantasy Pieces After the Zodiac for Amplified Piano.'
Y'know there's a little description on the back for each sign
So number one is exuberantly with primitive energy
and then number five is 'dark, phantasmic, subliminal.'
And just this crazy diagram on the cover.
I guess it's just like a really weird score, especially that it's hovering in space.
Smegma. Long-running, notorious.
It's called 'Mutant Stomps' and that's pretty much what kind of band they are, like mutant stomp band.
I know like Wolf Eyes, noise band Wolf Eyes loves Smegma.
They're like these parental figures for a lot of really weird, out there noise guys
and I don't have any Smegma records, so I just kind of went in and grabbed this one.
And then Flying Lotus, 'You're Dead,' which I actually don't know much about either
other than I've heard a few tracks, but I also heard him talking about it on the radio
and it just sounds like an interesting concept. This kind of like journey through different layers of
hell or death or something but it sounded kind of cool.
And also because the cover is pretty badass.
And then the other day I was actually on Twitter
and I ended up having a little Twitter conversation with Thundercat
who I think did some production on this.
Yeah, but these guys, they put on Twitter like a year ago
"We're looking for the dudes from Lightning Bolt" and then, y'know
a year later and they still haven't found us yet but...
And last but not least I got 'Interstellar' on DVD.
I went and saw this in the IMAX and I was so excited about it
like 90% of the way through.
And then it ended and I was so bummed on it
For the first five-sixths of the movie, it was this movie about space
and about like the... just like the grandness and the depths of space
and it was like man's place in space.
And suddenly in the last y'know little bit they twist it
and suddenly it's a movie about humans
and it's a movie about humans transcending space, and being almost like bigger than space.
It was a very grounded movie and then they just like
threw all that grounding away to have some emotional impact.
Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving
that transcends dimensions of time and space.
And the fact that he was really tan the whole time. But I can overlook that.
But I want to give it another chance
and even just to see a few scenes, like this really gorgeous scene where he's walking on this
like ice or rock planet or something.
TARS, best weird robot dude ever.
Yeah that robot's so cool. So iconic and strange.
And that's what's in our bag. Although we didn't get a bag.
Were we supposed to be given a bag?