Famous Guitarmaker Internet World Headquarters January, 1996 Featured Artist The Ululating Mummies

	The Mummies began in a kitchen. . . . A world where kitchens are the seats of power and culture in the "Earth House Hold" (Gary Snyder). Kitchens filled with talking, eating and drinking, the counsel of friends, the noise of children, refrigerator art, shrines, political conspirings and wild imaginings. Above Wall Street. . . the kitchen table ascends.
And on the table a bowl, the supreme tool, a vessel where stuff is mixed and frothed. . . . The kitchen itself a vessel enshrining many vessels. As Sun Ra taught us, "space is the place." So we learned from the bowl and the kitchen and Sun Ra and created a band that made space for the music to come up through.. . . ."
SELECTIONS: 1. Babylonian Ditch* music - Mummies 1:29 2. Hobo Jump/Ancient Bicycles* words - John Hunter music - Barry Bless, Coby Batty & Mummies 5:15 3. Old Bowls of Snack** words - Barry Bless & Jarene Fleming music - Barry Bless 4:30 4. Untamed Newts** words - Danny Finney 3:52 5. Dancing Ghost of a Cartoon Snake* words - Emily Dickinson & Barry Bless music - Barry Bless 3:56 6. Fields of Ice** words - Robbie Kinter & Cheryl Pallant music - Trad. Icelandic & by Robbie Kinter & Barry Bless 4:40 7. March of the Mummies* music - Danny Finney & Barry Bless 3:25 8. The Mummy Comes* words - Coby Batty music - Mummies 2:56 9. We Cannot Be Hurt* words - Coby Batty music - Trad. Balkan 3:32 10. Robert O'Marley's Ghost* music - Barry Bless & Mummies 3:25 11. Oh Rose a Money Monkey** words - translated phonetically by Rebby Sharp music - Patrice Ilunga, Victor Misomba & Friends 2:23 12. Sub-Atomic Circus* words - Coby Batty music - Mummies 1:55 13. Monkey Butt** words - Danny Finney music - Mummies 3:20 14. Cake & Ice Cream* music - Barry Bless 3:33 15. Sufi Street Music** music - Trad. Pakistan 5:34 16. Dance of the Butchers* music - Trad. Greek 1:57 17. Dance of the Squirrels** music - Barry Bless 3:37 18. Nibo** words - Danny Finney music - Ludovic Lamothe, Haiti 4:48 19. Holy Ghost Polka*** words - Barry Bless & Steve Fishman music - Mummies 3:10 20. Adios* words - Barry Bless 2:30 * from the cassette recording "Dehaunting the Body House" Pippin Barnett -- Trap set, percussion Coby Batty -- Percussion, flute, cornet, alto horn, bass, vocals Barry Bless -- Accordions Danny Finney -- Saxophones John Hunter -- Baritone sax Rebby Sharp -- Guitar Live Studio Recording Engineered by John "The Hairdresser of Sound" Morand Mixed by the Mummies and John Morand ® 1985 UMP ** from the cassette recording "Eat the Carrot Break the Stick" Pippin Barnett -- Trap set, percussion Coby Batty -- Percussion, flute, cornet, alto horn, bass, vocals Barry Bless -- Accordion, percussion Tom Brickman -- Bass Danny Finney -- Saxophones, vocals Steve Fishman -- Guitars, mandolin Jarene Fleming -- Vocals, percussion Robbie Kinter -- Percussion, vocals Stefan Said -- Violin Deb Saidel -- Tenor saxophone, flute Rebby Sharp -- Electric guitar, piano, vocals Recorded at McCavitt Studios by John Morand - Mixed by Pippin & John Morand ® 1991 UMP except Nibo & Oh Rose a Money Monkey *** from the 1995 recording session Pippin Barnett -- Trap set Coby Batty -- Percussion, flute, cornet, alto horn, bass, vocals Barry Bless -- Accordion Steve Fishman -- Guitar, vocal Danny Finney -- Saxophone Robbie Kinter -- Percussion Stephan Williams -- Guitar, vocal Dave Yohe -- Bass Recorded at Sound of Music by John Morand Mixed by Stephen Williams & John Morand ® 1995 UMP

"Pippin in his split-toed Japanese fisherman footwear and mylar fringed coat, Danny's papier-mache robe. . . psychedelic shriners."

Meanwhile back in the kitchen... I asked a yound friend how he would describe the Mummies. He sat silently for a few moments, unusual for a five-year-old. As if hearing the music, his fingers began to wiggle and his hands to dance one around the other.
"They're fancy!"
He smiled.
We made dinner.
From My Kitchen,
Barry



"We had to make noise...
We had to ululate."

http://www.infi.net/~mummies

Thanks to Jim Bland, Plan 9 Music, Ram Bhagat, Mary Lee Copeland & Lee Anne Eubank
Art & CD Design Cathy Nelson, Arthur Stephens/2-Headed Monster Productions
Digital Prepress, Image Processing & Addl. Layout Terry & Steve/Tornado Design
CD Cover Photography Arthur Stephens
CD Photographs Paige Critcher, Christopher Hibben, Candee Levander, Arthur Stephens, Charles Sugg

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