![]() ![]() ![]() These new ten tracks, freshly scented in enormous fields of flowers and dutifully arranged as precise and faithful as the maps of an ancient cartographer, are impregnated with an enchanting passion that only certain animals – doves, seahorses, and piebalds, to name a few – carry with them wherever they roam, wherever they take shelter, and wherever they die. Listening to his new album, Collections 01, Mandowa's production has blossomed handsomely since his 2009 debut, Ardour. He's a young producer whose music has been part of the Southern Californian movement known as the “beat scene,” even though it has perhaps suffered from being overlooked. He's a painter whose paintings – large canvases that utilize dripping techniques, multi-coloured psychedelic abstractions, and shifts in landscape perspectives – have graced his album covers. Mtendere Mandowa, an LA-based producer on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label, aka Teebs, is definitely not a zombie, or a machine. ![]() At around six minutes and forty one seconds, the interviewee (an Englishman whom we never see) asks Jodorowsky, “but as an artist you don't just make films, you write and.” – then Jodorowsky cuts him off, extends his arms with opens hands, looks down at the glass counter and says, in a thick accent: “because I am an artist, I am not a zombie!” He pauses, stiffly sniffs, looks at the Englishman and adds: “Because the person now in our civilization are becoming zombies. On YouTube, there's a BBC interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky, the cult director, mime, comic book artist, spiritual author, tarot card expert, and occasional actor. ![]()
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