Harold Carrington Drive suite Harold Carrington Drive suite Volume fourteen in the Heritage series published by Paul Breman London, 1972 an idiom of Cecil Taylor First edition CC the estate of Harold Carrington 1972 Library of Congress card no. n-112504 Published by Paul Breman Ltd, I Rosslyn Hill, London nwl Sui I : a thousand pounds of ponder •.. icy regimentation turns out to be volcanic. it is a cold hard year / historic trompings ..• all must be erupted, turned about icy regimentation wham I cymbal cymbal cymbal , destroyed ••• without demolition cymbal I wham without compendiums on the subject ••. icy •.• cold ••• blue ••• hard , torn at the ground at the roots and dis­ mantled, frantic I another far and off in the distant (ricocheting husk of but careful ivory) ••. wham / cymbal , the beast is agitated I fighting angry I wham I I I I I I I I I I I mad I Tyrannosaurus roaring in its snout I I I and so on ad absurdum infinitum ••. and miles of holocaust ••. steaming diesel neolith vacuity I din of arc and trench and eon I loco/locomotion cymbal/wham cymbal/wham - cymbal Lacawanna martyr of Cretaeceous WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM ••• WHAM the frail wall fails. cymbal cymbal WHAM the form lets loose. poco grows and water falls • • • • •• / kisha / kisha / kisha I kisha J space ••• time •.• suspension ••• riff kisha - wham on a toad I wham wham (unbegun I the drummer is a school wham wham of young deception ••• all nerves tense wham wham wham wham as a motor-car •.• the frog is a frog wham wham in the world's throat, waiting cymbal) wham wham wham I wham GOD SAY TADPOLE I wham GOD SAY FROG I wham wham ••• GOD SAY goddamTOAD 1cymbal WHAM ••• wham wham/cymbal vertebrat •.• unicellular cymbal/cymbal , the molecules croak the dawn of time cymbal GOD SAY TADPOLE ••• o k, wham. god say moose and mythmoth, god say elephant schizoid hatrack simba morning meshach CRUNCH rootytoot and abednego .•• i think my head is stepped upon i think my eyes this is zeal of gospel, are frying eggs and the HOLY/sun is GOD/HOT as sperm ••• wham I cymbal I wham i am in a jungle on a plain facing a manmouth full of long hair out of nowhere, the coagular, dribbling ivory teeth and thunder on the mesa 1 wham congealer and the protoprime, archetypal wham (cowboy - elephant) typical wham ( .•• Ginsberg) (opium •••) shades of palaeontology I strenuousness in form Theolonious Monk and cunt and a cave that is now form WHAM (a negroid spirit haunts the cave, cymbal wham. into which the giant bull escapes or splits .•.) 4 5 2: sweet funk, the improbability ( QUICKLY NOW all the big words I can think of I) this is a delicate plant incomprehensible about to be gotten with fruit call aesthetics ••• the pollen of poppy conundrum billowing on the wake or tail of wind brachycephalic , the twister subsiding, off augmentation to the raw sea ••• (more) casowary (ZONKS) a kitten mews for milk f like light ••. kangaroo (wham) vibraharp (wham) like light .•• dissimulate (wham) it drizzles ! precipitous not a deluge but a deadly conceived (cymbal/wham) leak- (the Netherlands run for cover, tempestuous dromedary lackadaisical rotundity (wham) routine discipline) alluvial pattering protoplasmic-fellaheen-unconditional-proboscus-ontology-minuscular petering out •.. the light (wham) .•• squeezes a plant face-up out of earth phenomenologicalfklackdoveedestinefamapola-poppyfphonetic-syzygy whose black, warm and freshest mud is clay ••• wham .•• my ribbed marimba clacking WHAM WHAM WHAM like a felagha ••• something hashy hovering, like light ••• cymbal WHAM cymbal WHAM WHAM the light isn't light but shock I & leave it at that, a chance encounter indestructable hot fort built towards with a moat-entry wall cymbal wham, cymbal an astonishing slash of white HOT/light• .•• wham. (listen: it's all torture I an urge to rouse I seduce I get hard I manifest I make I suppose I .•• even liberate ••• more so with a proposition before I ••. FREEDOM's a rack and growth of torturous sweat I only FORM & ARREST is freeflight I) 0, light ••• when i first discovered the orchid abloom in the box i faced fear I what i'd said about form, about shape, all destroyed - unfounded - shot I 6 7 3: Le Mans (i want, actually, more than any shape in the world deformation I a cripple bats the breeze the formlessness to cause women weaknesses at le mans I ferrari chromium blinding overwhelm them as they dance before me I , a black bird, blacker than vultures, bawling ••• very nearly naked a corridor in a distant canyon groans .•. i want to copulate regularly, stupendous , alive in fossils - breathing, unbegun, delivered for an isolated hour .•. and return to the warm bloom down from clay. again in its guise of wife at home and marry her twice. I the camshaft hiccoughs .•• nervously, the carburator gassed, 22 gone off, the flag flapped, ••. but a delicate plant ! her foliate lamala's tissue ••• jet-propulsion wind swirling forced in the race with magic and care and continuous shower of rain under-way. ' for its face I with light for its dimness of life ••• I VAOOOOSSHHH ••• cymbal/wham - like light .•• ) at Cannes festival of film 0, LIGHT I we overheard I vush ••• i didn't know I my wife cried for it ! Indianapolis saw the great our friends joined hands and i saw Vukutitch murderously I vush ••• for the first time all reason for worship nourished in a miraculous white form princess Grace of Monaco at in the box at home I 0, LIGHT ..• the Italian Riviera I vush ••• and we wept for the beauty of light Palisade Park rivals the old and i tried to avoid this poem ••• playland at Great Salt I vush ••• • •• come to Nassau in the Bahamas I vush ••• vush the ferrari I vush the merceedies I vush the porsche vush .•• vush ••• vush .•. vush ••. vush ••• vush ••• vush the whole conglomerated pushing steamed and piled-up mess into the deadly canyon of black fucking hairpins and brutal blind walls ••• (into the first, beyond it at the next •.. a lizard screams as a racer runs it down .•• behind a wall at the third ••• sound of passion ••. something wheezing .•• smell of legend ••• vush ••. the fourth and vush the fifth, a lion roaring in the road ••• the sixth is vush ••• and vush ••. • • • and vush, 8 9 WHERE LURKS KRAKATOW where lurks hot lava and man, the volatile vapid primordial formless rock matador, the bull of astronomy monstrosities ••• ) , snug in space, his elongevity vush I is latitude vush ! beetlebaum I man, the consumer •.• imponderable ! , man, the malignapoid ••• anthropo· itic-itious, fool after fool the •••••••.• wham foolhardy, blob on a scanned-once scene of GOD say tadpole cymbal/wham GOD say frog ferrarijvush scream - the screened spleen the porsche cymbal/wham ••• wham J le mans GOD say toadstool J wham man ,GODSAYWHAM I the friend, the celestial ,GODSAYWHAM I nebulous mar I far off umble , GOD SAY WHAM I on a jupiter moon of an inch high pock-mark in a cosmos, man, the strata crumbles the minutia, militia, allution fish are fish and coalacanth out of New Zealand hiccup of feeble minnow, man, , 0 the Neanderthal of it all •.. tumultuous ••• the crapezoid ••• the Ganges .•. rape of the whole western mind I cacaphony ! spontaneity I obscenity I MAN MUST MAKE THE MEASURE OF HIMSELF. wham ••• reverberator clattering ••• (a buzzard with an evil dripping beak spieling wham wham ••• making wham , ominous in the tortured cold, the clouds, a murder the inconography of Rhodes and making wham coming ••. the brontosaurus bellows the can of span out of spiced-hap f wham I spam , slightly rhinocerous, armed to the teeth ••• an earth quakes ... seismography shot and simple! useless useless useless cymbal wham ..•) complex I not unusual SO QUICK THE SPACESUIT I VUSH ! unholy fantastic fast 0, missile - vush ! unnatural and impossible 0, flight-lightning, fling flang flung into the soup of astrology. wham! mythic man corrupts the sky with fiery constellations .•• epi· GOD SAY take of light what element to see sodes of stellar proportions ••• GOD SAY see I GOD SAY know I GOD SAY imitate whack / the stalagtite ME ••• GOD say god SAYWHAMGODSAY cymbal/whAM! out of sagitarius falls ••• (I AM A PISCES I february stew 0 -wham) wham(ie; funk or funkless flight ameleorate the embryo - , the core of the matter chickenitza - cassiopeia - marmaduke , @tre I @tre I tying ; astro -together, gestalt and ; astro vault, pole-vaulter •••) ; so, astroautostellarsonia I wham(viz; wham wham wham wham I cymbal/ wham cymbal cymbal wham ••• cymbal wham 10 •••••• wham I) II .I Cecil Taylor was born the 15th of March 1933, in New York, into what is known as 'a musical family'. He plays piano the way other people talk, and from the same age. He started composing when he was about seven, as a way of thinking. Composition and harmony at the NY College of Music and four years at the New England Conservatory came later. His earliest jobs as a musician were with Hot Lips Page and Johnny Hodges, in the 'fifties. His first engagement as leader of his own group followed in 1956, at the Five Spot- it lasted six weeks. In 1957 he appeared at the Newport Festival, but during the next five years he would find no more than thirty weeks' work as a musician. Taylor's uncompromising constructivist approach and his astonishing technical virtuosity combine to give his music a forbidding, unapproachable aspect­ but once one has entered one of his cubes and become steeped in the iridescence that flows through and out, both the music and life itself become more manageable.