Who is more insane in this video: Laraaji or Iasos?

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when I went to buy a CD from Laraaji after his Big Ears laughter workshop, he seemed unexpectedly angry

what happened?

once me and a friend got into an argument on the street with a Hare Krishna guy and he lost his temper pretty badly

(xp) He just heard Nixon got re-elected.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/from-stand-up-comic-to-master-of-trance-music-1440192031

would love to hear Laraaji's stand-up set.

and the interaction between iasos and laraaji in the video at the top has similar layers. they're competing to see who can be the guru with the coolest outlook on the universe, but the genre forces them to battle passive-aggressively. at first laraaji seems to be incredibly chill and accepting of iasos as one possible outcome of the infinite. but (and i'm probably reading way too much into this) when laraaji gets a chance to explain his views at length, there's definitely a sense of him trying to envelop iasos. iasos counters by trying to bring laraaji's views within his own. it all blows up in the final section when they disagree over what the center is. for iasos the center is out of himself, but he's aligned with it. for laraaji, the center is the self. laraaji IS the universe. it's a fundamental disagreement, and a weird moment because it laraaji ends up injecting anger into the facade of tranquility. it also makes laraaji seem slightly crazier to me, almost like a higher order of insanity

― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, August 26, 2015 11:02 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This makes me think of this awesome issue of the Fantastic Four (early 80s but before the Byrne run) where The Sphinx and Galactus went head to head

btw you guys might enjoy this mix i did including both of them + similar sounds.

haha, that link opened up an empty tab for me, but somehow that's very appropriate for this thread

ha, oops. how about this one? https://soundcloud.com/loveisnoiseblog/love-is-noise-mix-026-chants-bedtime-mix

guru's partner leaves him. guru moves home with mom. guru buys keyboard from radio shack.

they both seem like little children, and not in a good way

https://38.media.tumblr.com/7e7e45d921c1da0c1bf7e47fe90433a6/tumblr_ntsvswB98m1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

oh wait, i can do better

ok, it's almost the same. whatever. IASOS!

https://33.media.tumblr.com/ba9ac428b6512170cf59daa47dc180aa/tumblr_ntsvswB98m1qdmmiqo1_r1_500.gif

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I think this was an amazing thread. Great stuff.

iasos reminds me of ricardo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAxRy93RiA

"I once had an interesting experience with a tree"

did this video get taken down :(

i'm not seeing any of the embeds in this thread, at least when i view it in Chrome. but i've been having all sorts of strange issues with browser videos lately with my computer, so that could just be me.

here's the link to the OP video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsdAp3OpJrc

whoops, i didn't mean to embed that.

link to video

http://thequietus.com/articles/23592-laraaji-interview-baker-s-dozen-favourite-albums-cafe-oto?page=7

any opinion on the new laraaji reissue on numero?

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1315680768_16.jpg

The greatest album artwork of all time?

hahaha possibly. I really wanna hear that now.

Numero Group doing God's work uploading full episodes of Laraaji's public access show from the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgE5wb9bXKI

You're in luck, J. Sam: https://iasos.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-accelerated-consciousness-love-making

I don't find either of them as malevolent or off-putting as people in this thread seem to, I guess. I mean maybe if I knew them personally, I'd feel different -- I spent my late childhood through early adulthood in a California town where many dudes had a bit of the would-be guru schtick going, and as I grew older it became clear that the fx of this was largely getting laid. But neither Laraaji nor Iasos strike me as opportunistic in their stuff; they're interested in some metaphysical questions which they think are bigger than language can really contain, or that's hard, anyway, to get at in words. when Iasos gets going about the now-ness of music and what that suggests about the self, he's really commenting about something I think most of us who love music also feel -- that the moment of music is inherently metaphysical, that it transports us to a moment where we can understand through experience the concept of an eternal now.

Their backgrounds, too, have to be informing their ideas in important ways - Iasos went into music after college -- showed up on the scene in Santa Cruz in '68 with an anthropology degree from Cornell under his belt and immediately began making music with Steven Halpern. Laraaji has formal training from Howard in composition, and worked in clubs both as a comedian and as a musician in ensembles before arriving at his spirituality. He comes to his ideas about music are formed after having played "regular" music for some time. I guess that doesn't really pertain to much in the video this is about but it feels like an important difference to me.

I mean, I don't know...

http://iasos.com/services/index.html#GoddessCouncil

Iasos has been functioning as a goddesss-facilitator/activator for over 25 years, and will be sharing from the feminine aspect of his being, so it "feels" more like a woman sharing with her sisters.

yeah idk. I don't think dudes who take an active interest in hippie dippie sacred feminine shit are automatically creepanoids. who knows, maybe iasos is only in it for the chicago world's fair rich exoticist women ready to get told they're aligned with the cosmos but I don't think that's the only possibility for this stuff. nb I could be hopeless naive and overoptimistic about ppl's motives & it would not be the first time.

rest easy Iasos you were an absolute trailblazer in this kinda music.

damn, i am sorry that i made this dumb thread title and that it had this dumb premise. iasos is a stone cold legend and he brought a lot of peace and serenity to a lot of people. rip iasos

On that note, Z! This was a lovely salute to him from Brent Sirota

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/01/10/iasos-crystal-love/