rainbows in curved air (or curves in rainbowed air)

Harry Partch Stole my Lunch Money & Gave it to Moondog

America, perhaps due to it’s size has more than it’s fair share of ‘Outsider’ musicians.

Aside from personal favourites like the two mentioned above in the title, Daniel Johnson & frequent visitors to these pages: the Sun City Girls, there are so many more excellent mavericks to be found in the USA.

Perhaps because we are used to viewing a flat map on a page we forget the world is round & that America is really very close to Asia from the Pacific Ocean side.

Certainly, Lou Harrison, Partsch, Moondog, Terry Riley & Steve Reich have that old gamelan thing going.

Likewise the later Tom Waits & the late, great Charles Gocher’s (SCG) thought-provoking, solo work put us on a friendly far east footing.