#Mako Sica

[dustedmagazine]

Drazek Fuscaldo — June 22 (Astral Spirits/Feeding Tube)

Chicago residents Przemyslaw Krys Drazek and Brent Fuscaldo have been musical partners since 2007, but this is only the second recording to come out under their respective names. It probably won’t be the last, though. About a year ago they retired their old monicker, Mako Sica, after a decade and a half, having concluded that it might not be respectful for a couple Caucasian guys to use a Lakota name. But in recent times their music has charted a growth trajectory, due in no small part to their choice to persistently team up with elder musicians whose presence and example lights a fire to the core duo’s feet.

You don’t invite Hamid Drake, Joshua Abrams, Tatsu Aoki and Thymme Jones into your circle if you feel like coasting. On June 22, each plays with a degree of attunement and imagination that elevates and fills out Drazek and Fuscaldo’s open-ended, skeletal themes with rhythmic undercurrents and nationality-transcending melodic inventions. The duo have also have used a recording methodology, in which live performances are lightly shaped during post-production, that corresponds to the way Abrams records the Natural Information Society. Finally, a poke from Drake resulted in one of the album’s more remarkable aspects, at least in relation to the rest of the Mako Sica discography. After a concert at the Hideout in 2019, the drummer had suggested to Fuscaldo that he incorporate comprehensible messages into his usually wordless singing, which often sounds rather like that of a guy singing remembered fragments from a Gregorian chant while he takes a nighttime stroll past a graveyard with a bad reputation. The way he binds prayerful cadences to reverential sentiments on “Weaving Tongues,” which takes up the LP’s first side, might make it harder to assign such fanciful projections, but it invests the music with a gravity that suits the times in which it was made.

Parts of “Weaving Tongues,” were drawn from the same session at Promusica, a studio situated within a high-end audio component shop, that yielded last year’s Formless CD. The rest of the album comes from a second session held at Electrical Audio just ten days later. Both occurred in December 2020, when concerts weren’t happening in Chicago, so each gathering was a release from the prevailing COVID circumstances, and the push and pull of twinned basses and percussion underneath echo-laden, questing trumpet lines on “The Coyote Messenger” evokes the way that the vibe of the tines tinged even opportunities for genuine liberation with a sense of inhibition.

A word of caution; the vinyl edition of June 22 only contains about half of the album’s music. Side two of the LP contains edited versions of two tracks, and a fourth, the tersely propulsive “Mirror Beams,” can only be heard on the download. So, be sure to cash in that Bandcamp code.

Bill Meyer

#Przemyslaw Krys Drazek #Brent Fuscaldo #June 22 #Astral Spirits #Feeding Tube #bill meyer #albumreview #dusted magazine #Hamid Drake #Tatsu Aoki #Joshua Abrams #Mako Sica #Thymme Jones #The Hideout

[musicmakesyousmart]

Mako Sica with Hamid Drake, Thymme Jones, Tatsu Aoki - Formless

Feeding Tube Records

2022

#Mako Sica #Hamid Drake #Thymme Jones #Tatsu Aoki #Formless #Feeding Tube Records #experimental #jazz

[bingwallpaper]

Badlands National Park, USA

Forty-four years ago, a rugged, inhospitable area of South Dakota was designated a national park to protect the many fossils found on the land. The area had a 11,000-year previous history as hunting grounds for Native Americans. In fact, the name we know it by today, Badlands, comes from the Lakota phrase “mako sica”, which literally translates to “bad lands”. Covering 982 square kilometres, its harshly eroded rock formations make it one of the most distinct landscapes in the United States.

And it's still forming! The National Park Service says the Badlands erode about 2.5 centimetres every year, which is fast for erosion. Scientists estimate that within the next half million years, the Badlands will have eroded away completely. You might want to start planning your visit soon.

#usa #south dakota #badlands national park

[gastronomictourist]

Lakota people called this land #mako #sica #badlands at #badlandsnationalpark #southdakota #sd #usa #hike #hiking #thenotch #trail #travel #travelling #traveling #seniortravellers

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[el-pollo-gigantes]

mako sica by becauseLIGHT 〄 mako (bad) - probably easy to agree that it can be relative, subjective, depending on one's point of view. The irony is that Indians were considering it part of their home, living in harmony with what was given by the environment for eleven thousand years... unaffected by harsh conditions, but decimated by others.. the new homesteaders abandoned most of the area in the 1930s due to hardship. With 1 inch of yearly erosion, these formations, as we know them, will be gone in another blink of an eye, that is 500,000 years. Anyone hanging around to see it happening? | 61 mm | 3 x 15 sec | f/8 | ISO 160 | https://flic.kr/p/2oDeuqZ

#IFTTT #Flickr

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13 Best Place for Camping to Beautiful America

13 Best Place for Camping to Beautiful America1. The Beautiful Badlands : Historic Family Journey2. ALL of Big Bend National Park - Camping spot3. The Most Beautiful Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness4. The Beautiful Glacier National Park in America...

1. The Beautiful Badlands : Historic Family Journey The Beautiful Badlands : Historic Family Journey The Lakota gave this land its title, “Mako Sica,” which implies “land unhealthy.” Located in southwestern South Dakota. Badlands Nationwide Park consists of 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes. Pinnacles and spires blended with a very powerful protected mixed grass prairie within the US. It…

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Prairie Grasslands Beyond the Badlands of Panorama Point (Badlands National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: An idea I got from another photographer with a view across some eroded landscape of badlands and prairie grasses that seemed to stretch out to a distant horizon. This is a view looking to the southeast from the main overlook.

#Azimuth 128 #Badlands #Badlands National Park #Blue Skies #Blues Skies with Clouds #Brule Formation #Capture NX2 Edited #Color Efex Pro #Creek #Day 5 #Eroded Buttes #Eroded Pinnacles #Great Plains #Ideas I Got From Others #Landscape #Layers of Rock #Looking SE #Mako Sica #Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecosystem #Nature #Nikon D800E #Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains #North America Plains #Outside #Panorama Point #Partly Cloudy #Pierre Shale #Portfolio #Prairie Grass #Prairie Grasses

[merzbow-derek]

POST-POST-SCRIPTUM 1065

24 - QUE POURRAIT BIEN RACONTER CE PROJET ?

Et s’il s’agissait d’un livre abordant les rapports entre jazz et rock (et vice-versa) d’une manière enfin inédite ?

#lost aaraaf #keiji haino #john martyn #gérard marais #françois méchali #massacre #material #mako sica #noel mc ghie #philippe robert #jazz-rock #merzbo derek #bertrand gauthier #hamid drake

[sinceileftyoublog]

Mako Sica Live Preview: 11/6, Constellation, Chicago

Photo by Ricardo Adame

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Back in April, Chicago experimental band Mako Sica released Balancing Tear, a collaborative LP with legendary avant-garde jazz drummer Hamid Drake, whose versatility of style, yet steadiness perfectly suited the band’s sneaky electric jazz, expansive instrumental twang, and progressive chants. Tonight, the band plays Constellation for both an in-person show for $15 and a livestream via the venue’s YouTube page with a suggested donation, at 8 PM. With them is upright bassist Joshua Abrams, multi-instrumentalist Thymme Jones, and drummer Jacob Fawcett. As for what to expect, you never know with these expert improvisers, but they do promise to share some material they’ve been working on with Fawcett. Perhaps similar to what you’ll hear tonight is documented on a digital album the band released in June, Featuring Tatsu Aoki, Thymme Jones & Jacob Fawcett, a concert recorded at Sleeping Village with two of the three guests appearing tonight. Opener “jewels in the spider web” features the band’s trademark guitar noodling and operatic vocal expressions along with spindly upright bass, layers of synths, soulful trumpets, and free drums. “maku” sports similarly eerie guitar but with some added distortion and noise, and “baltic waves for brent” adds some harmonica courtesy of band member Brent Fulscado. “mosaic of hope” juxtaposes cascading cymbals with deep bass synthesizer, while closer “instinct” gives Aoki the chance to deliver enveloping shamisen playing, the track eventually quieting into gorgeous mandolin from band member Przemyslaw Drazek.

Featuring Tatsu Aoki, Thymme Jones & Jacob Fawcett by mako sica

#mako sica #live picks #constellation #thymme jones #brent fulscado #Przemyslaw Drazek #balancing tear #ricardo adame #hamid drake #youtube #joshua abrams #jacob fawcett #featuring tatsu aoki thymme jones & jacob fawcett #sleeping village #tatsu aoki

[nationalparkpatchlady]

Mako Sica, the name given to these lands by the Oglala Sioux (also known as the Lakota Sioux), literally means "bad lands". The Lakota found large fossilized bones, fossilized seashells and turtle shells and correctly assumed that the area had once been under water.⁠ ⁠ 📍: Badlands National Park, SD⁠ 📅 : April 2021⁠ ⁠ #IBrakeForBrownSigns ⁠ #nationalparkgeek ⁠ #unitedbynature⁠ ⁠ (at Badlands National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPGtH_trTs0/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ibrakeforbrownsigns #nationalparkgeek #unitedbynature

[musicmakesyousmart]

#music #Mako Sica #jazz #experimental

[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

Behind the Scenes with the Baron de Bayet and L. W. Stilwell Collection Part 3:  The Wild West Formed Million of Years Ago

Figure 1:  Badland National Park Today, National Park Service photo, 2014.   This view of the Badlands topography illustrates the erosion that took place over the last 2 million years.

The Lakota called the badlands “Mako Sica” or “land bad.” The early French-Canadian trappers referred to it as “les mauvais terres pour traverse” or “bad lands to travel through.”  Seventy-five million years ago, this area was a lush underwater seaway filled with creatures such as mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, diving birds, fish, baculites, and ammonites (Figure 2).  

Figure 2:   Taxa that swam in the Western Interior Seaway from Dinosaurs In Their Time exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  Photo by Patty Dineen.

The Stilwell fossils of Cretaceous age (Figure 3) were deposited in a black mud that accumulated on the sea floor from 82 to 70 million years ago (Figure 4).  The Pierre Shale is part of the extensive Western Interior Seaway of North America (Figure 5).  Museum visitors can view a changing geographic representation of the seaway on a wall-mounted flat screen monitor within the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibit.  The seaway extended from the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and southern Gulf Coast, north through Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This vast waterway terminated in the Artic region of Canada.  At the time of the Pierre Sea, the ice sheet-free greenhouse to hothouse paleoclimate was much warmer than it is today, creating the highest sea levels in earth’s history.  Sea level rises and falls were primarily controlled by the presence or melting of glaciers in the polar regions, the shifting of the continents, and the uplifting of proto-Rocky Mountains by plate tectonics.  

Figure 3:  Western Interior Seaway fossils on display at Carnegie Museum's Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibit.  Stilwell fossils are highlighted in blue.

Figure 4: Outcrop photo of Pierre shale.

Figure 5:  Western Interior Seaway approximately 75 million years ago.   Red dot locates Deadwood, South Dakota today.

Fast forward to the Wild West of the 1890’s, and dealers such as Stilwell found and sold fossils to museums and private collectors.  Knowledge of Badlands fossils spread as far as Europe, and by 1889 Bayet wanted some for his own collection.  

Next, in our final post of this series, we will delve into the Stilwell-Bayet correspondence in search of clues about how fossils were bought and sold over a century ago.  

Joann Wilson is an Interpreter for the Department of Education and a volunteer with the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology. Albert Kollar is Collections Manager for the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

#Carnegie Museum of Natural History #Baron de Bayet #Invertebrate Paleontology #Paleontology #Wild West #LW Stilwell

[spectralworlds]

Flyer I made for my friends in the Chicago experimental rock trio Mako Sica!!! #makosica #makosicaband #constellationchicago

#makosica #makosicaband #constellationchicago

[still-single]

HEATHEN DISCO (with BLASTITUDE) for 26 Aug 2018

Was great to have Larry “Fuzz-O” Dolman from the wonderful, still-active Blastitude magazine in the studio to share some records and observations. Check out the show archive here.

Playlist below:

Cosmic Invention - Ryujin

Mako Sica & Hamid Drake - The Greatest Gift

Larry:

Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations

Funkadelic - Music for Your Mother

Circuit Des Yeux - Black Fly

Moon Bros. - El Conejo

Daniel Bachman - Sycamore City

Doug:

Andrew Weatherall - Disappear

Earl Jordan - Nobody Hears a Word

Steve Hauschildt - Lyngr

Larry:

Crazy Dreams Band - Separate Ways

Headroom - The Second Blazing Star

Hi Sheriffs of Blue - Cold Chills Pts 1 & 2

Dion - Purple Haze

Jaimie Branch - Theme 002

Benni - Master's Dream

Doug:

The Embarrassment - Two-Week Vacation

World of Poohv - Somewhere Soon

JJ Ulius - Tänder ett Ljus

Silver Apples - A Pox on You

Roy Montgomery - Landfall (ft. Liz Harris)

Quin Kirchner - The Ritual

Larry: 

Beau Wanzer - Oklahoma

Hide - Limb from Limb

Magas - Layers of Understanding

Muqks - Neo-Venezia

TALsounds - See Through

Hogg - Chest Hair / Sex Worker

Matthew Lux's Communication Arts Quartet - C.G.L.W

Doug:

Chris Brokaw - Exemptive

Terry - Under Reign

Shinehead - Who the Cap Fits

Sauna Youth - No Personal Space

Kuzu - Fontanelles II

Borzoi - Big Pink

Tuning Circuits - I Am a Non-Believer

[cyanidetooth]

This Heat! Mosquitoes! Von LMO! Ghost! Puffy Areolas! Jaks! Stiff Legged Sheep! The Stranger! Dog Chocolate! Arndales! Regulations! Sunk Heaven! Wax Chattels! Lie’! S.H.I.T.! Lavender Flu! Angel! The Mistakes! Passionate Winemakers! Simon Vita! The Recognitions! Disturbed! Drone! Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano! Mako Sica & Hamid Drake! plus an epic live session from CRAZY DOBERMAN & Friends!

#WFMU #spinageblasters #CreamoCoyl #freeformradio #livesession #sabsession #crazydoberman #cosmicslop

[davidaolson]

Badlands Sunrise #5 The Mako Sica-4

Badlands Sunrise #5 The Mako Sica-4

One could spend a lifetime hiking/climbing this rock, carefully navigating the crumbly nature of the land, and still not know every inch or most of the secrets the land holds. Many of those secrets are buried beneath the surface in the form of fossils in this land that is literally as old as dirt.

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#Sunrise