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Ponchito LP (2014)

by Big Crux

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Pájaro contemplando...calle dolor, esquina sufrimiento...se pone a pensar y se pregunta ¿cómo? Some folks resign, put their heads in their hands and cry… Certain trajectories, weight on mind Best to jump that ship and ride Breakout! Then we reticent we abide on Follow suit generations, we sign on And the beat goes on…and on...and on... Would you take the world and turn it on its goddamn head?
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Fast machines for everyone Corn-fed diesel, grab your gun I shook the heavy hands of Norms and Customs so everybody could see me-to-him him-to-me, being strong be polite, circumspect piece of mind. Simple matter, still there's fray you and me... Lumens from the headlight, into the night Creatures spy creatures, gives all a fright
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Jangly 01:40
They say Jim Hammon turns off the lights at night They say you better comply to survive, that's right This anti-matter could make or break our flight Well if it's anti, no matter, we die--that's right LISTEN: to the drone generator shiite (Excited feeling: my first ever space flight) Too many wings on this flying bird (Let's have a moment of silence for the Right) Another planet, nomadic, takes a turn Big Agriculture perfected Slash and Burn Too many wings on this flying bird Crime, there's no time for appealing this feeling...
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¿Cuál verdad se está dando en tu mundo, mi hermano? Mirá por la venta...de tu mente, que lamento, está demente Mirá por la ventana, andá... Todo cuesta... ¿Qué está dando? ¿Qué está dando? ¿Qué está dando? ¿Qué entonando?¿Quién tomando?¿Qué logrando?
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Wirey 01:54
Hey! Get up stand at attention Let me preface what I’ve not said before Now I’ve got your attention need to cultivate a culture more Fire away… Sure I may have some doubts (I’ll abide myself) Inspiration abounds (Be like no one else) And can I couch sentiments with feeling I'm feeling and reeling doing what I do Saying, making are thousands Pick a couch, a color too Don’t leave for tomorrow what today you can do Lose your oblivion... There’s a tension ahead, crack the window instead I’ve been crumbled despite myself There’s a tension ahead, crack the window instead All across and inside ourselves People do what obliges them seems like everything is everything Space, even misanthropy Say what you may Veiled love hate It’s all happening
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Darylicht 01:27
Bouncy soul side funky dark party Petition, attrition, mechanically Something comes from nothing surely so do we Come down where it’s cool: Vostok hope colony Let me tell you darling what this may mean to me Am and for the people human dignity button up turmoil resides deep in we nature without man cosmic tragedy And so I’ve tried, thought not to abide Vonnegutian repercussions, ill is the mind Once I’m dead no matter, I can’t conceive Of course, yes, conforming and I’m like the machine
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Sketches 02:42
Read the words, heard the sounds filter in Of complex souls, battered instruments Ebullition of glee and despair Scribbling sketches of pain, delight Scribbling sketches of darkness, light And there's always so much to say Competing governments in the people Fight wars, mingle in the brain Confluence of history Permanence of industry Imprudent economy Evolution, let's look at myself Scribbling sketches of pain, delight Scribbling sketches of darkness, light And I've got something more to say It's a sentiment, confide myself If not in someone else ...sentiment confide myself If not in someone else Meaning...drifting...tumbling...on rough terrain Sketches of pain, sketches of Spain Sketched in my brain to feed and drain In work, in life, in love and living...
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Buscando 02:15
Yo te digo, amigo lindo, que no vayas a perder el camino Yo te digo, amigo lindo, que no vayas a perder el camino Que tu siempre buscas la salida dificil de hallar Que tu siempre buscas la salida... Todo se repite Y a pesar de todo que dijiste nunca mas pudiste salir De la situación que te esclavisa, cómo un perro ven aquí Ahora lo que digo, ahora lo que digo, te lo voy a decir con todo Que no vayas a fallar de esta salida por favor mi hermano... What can I do or say...spirit pulls and tears in many ways...
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En memoria, soy testigo, te haces recordar Con cierta ciencia y puro cuento vas a destellar Vas a destellar… Cabalmente al neobop, como lo hiciste vos, Charlie…like this... Extraviado, desafiado fantasma al andar Que ningún mal por bien no viene, Y ¿quién va a ponerlos en su sitio? No debería hacerlo, yo…ah ah Bregan dia y noche Bregan dia y noche
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Ponchito 01:27
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Jíbara 00:42
Y ahora yo les voy a cantar Una melodía jíbara Que se dedica de corazón Fue inspirada por la isla borinquén Donde ir es cómo luna de miel Ay, bendito... Entre medio de platanal tropical El jíbarito me brinda un palito de caña de roncito
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Desdoblado 01:20
¿Cuál partido creés vos te ganaste? Derecha, Izquierda se van al traste Seré, crecere ese soy yo Alma, espiritu desdobló y ¿cuándo la casa y calle entablasté? Situations, entanglements, stave at my heart But its oh so comforting playing the part Breakout!
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Had a talk with him today He said some shit that makes me want to say That’s not the way to be if you want to be free Tell me I’ll see you again… Honest Industry He dies laboring: welcomed, well intentioned Lost in reverie of heaven, did I mention? That’s not the way I'll be if I want to be free Tell me I’ll see me again Tell me what’s permanent again Or live in ruin, that’s the refrain Honest Industry
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Exposure 01:52
Blue Calcutta Elvis stepped off a bus of his own Subjected consciousness, drop mind on paper, and so.. I look. What if I've no solace of my own? Fine line. A feeling timeless and I know... Exposure Protracted tragedies... Who pulled the trigger, was it me or those from before? Present act of unbridled nature on earth ...
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Future Cat 02:05
Tell me tell me how long has it been Since the rain stopped, we fled from the storm It’s all just nonsense anyway here and again Since the rooftop was blown out before Tell me tell me what do you portend Does it happen and where and when Too many concepts nothing left to eat The End Diagnosis is nothing that’s new Yet we can’t recall predicaments The new punk bands are all singing refrains War with others and war with ourselves Tell me tell me what do you portend Does it happen and where and when Too many concepts nothing left to eat The End Cold description, political schemes Won’t use it on you, don’t use it on me, won’t use it on you Too many concepts nothing left to eat, my friend Will I see you again...
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Crux Noc 00:54

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Big Debut: Saturday September 20, 2014, 9:00 PM PST, Hollow Earth Radio (hollowearthradio.org), Seattle, WA. With WIMPS and ACAPULCO LIPS! Tune in or come kick it! www.facebook.com/events/681333621937393/?ref=22

Collaborative release between B is less than X (B<X) and Not Normal Records & Tapes (NNT).

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¡Epa Pueblo! Entonces ¿cómo, cuándo y dónde? Several records in, and regarding your question, I’d entertain hard-hard bop, skate-rock, tripmaker punk rock. Or put simply, spiritual inoculation.

This may suit where your head is — now and in the past — with enthusiasm for R&B, blues, hard bop jazz, funk, “latin twang,” and punk rock: Intentional avoidance of meathead sensibility, with clear presence of muscle and ability [wink], philo-sci-fi lyrics, humor, heart, intellectual, emotional intelligence, voice and cert not for the least: espanich. Bright, respectable, thoughtful.

Weird that in 1964 The Kinks rejected the R&B label...called their music “Expression” on the BBC...but I guess they were “moving it forward,” so whatevs. Maybe, then, Big Crux plays “Distress Signal Music” rejecting boundaries, form, attitudes, etc., while celebrating the history in it. Know what i mean, Electric Lady?

By cruising-nature, Ponchito is inclusive and therefore outwardly makes “rejection” a slippery term. I opted for “Distress Signal music” referencing sci-fi elements and what I believe to be genuine efforts to reach people. Like a bizarro Ridley Scott film — where someone responds to a deep space (outlier punk) “beacon” and upon contact picks up an unexpected stow-away having awoken from hypersleep — the listener’s chest bursts open while “eating a bowlful of noodles,” but instead of reptilian destructive rage and horror, the alien within the host turns out to be a joyful, healing being a la Nic Schmidt’s reaction to Big Crux Is a Big Funk 7” ep. Hopefully, Ponchito’s unintelligible message of tap dancing & farting creatures will be deciphered in this, a sort of version of the Kilgore Trout tale, so we won’t have to see our heroes brained with a golf club before they dig it.

And about the time I cut off Sherman Alexie at Dick’s Burgers…the short and skinny — of which he is neither — is the as-yet stranger and I approached the counter almost in unison; I was slightly ahead. I turned to beg the stranger’s pardon when I realized who it was. I said, “hey, you’re Richard Sherman!” RS: “you mean Sherman Alexie…” [shrug]. I ordered a Deluxe and a chocolate shake. To my chagrin, I didn’t have enough cash. SA throws down two bones: “here dude, get your burger, get your burger. You can tell your friends Richard Sherman bought you a hamburger.” [smile]. CG: “No, I can’t take your money, but thank you! I’ll tell my friends Sherman Alexie tried to buy me a burger.” We’re now exploring a literary skate-punk band called Guns, Germs and Steel Totin’ Whiteys…

Nice & Friendly,
Cruxy Grimace

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released September 20, 2014

FR, guitar/vocals/percussion; D. Johnson, traps/keys; Seamus, bass/vocals; JJ Long, engineer/sound effects.

Guests: James The Burns as Tomata in "DuPlenty Shuffle"; Ella Sternberg as sweet, hopeful voice in "Jangly"; backups gang were CJ Frederick, Ella Sternberg, Lenny Bruce (Libra not a Cancer), Tom "patty-cake" Lowell. Kevin Summers, sax on "Elmore Boogie".

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Big Crux Seattle, Washington

BIG CRUX existed 2008-2015. The band was inspired by genre-bending hardcore bands like BIG BOYS, MINUTEMEN; bouncy punk bands like PLUGZ, X, UNDERTONES; indie faves WIRE, MISSION OF BURMA; funky R&B, jazzy angles, Latin twang; and philo-sci-fi contemplations on place, space, capitalism, biculturalism, and historical trajectory; a type of hard-hard bop or vacant-stare-chicken-walk boogie was begot. ... more

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