A collection of short films based on an article in New Readings¹ describing an alternative history which leads to a slowly unfolding apocalypse. The film begins with the three part 'Hairdresser' (Tarkovsky).

Part 1. The Hairdresser - the dead are brought back to life to serve as agents of a secret society.
Part 2. Table Manners - the undead are taught how to behave in polite society.
Part 3. No Money For The Meter - underpaid staff struggle to keep warm as the revived unlive a life of luxury.

The mood is one of dark melancholy throughout emphasised by the music using asynchronous diatonic harmony over stepwise modal structures in which can be heard the influence of Durutti Columns L.C. , Grant Green's Idle Moments and Snarky Puppy.

1. 'When Market Forces Did For Us' (N.Spinrad New Readings Magazine Sept. 1967 ed. Moorcock) which referenced unwritten academic papers - see 'The influence of Vodou in the shaping of modern Europe'.

The influence of Vodou in the shaping of modern Europe (Abstract)
By the beginning of the 19thC the investigation of the effects of electricity on the limbs of dissected animals¹ had progressed to experiments on the bodies of executed criminals in public². Following a period of great social upheaval³ the 'Galvanic Rite of Revolution' was founded in 1817 by former members of the short lived lodge 'Les Desciples de Memphis'⁴. Formed to investigate the possibility of reviving the dead to be agents of political change their experiments finally bore fruit after incorporating Haitian Vodou⁵ rituals. 1881 saw the first 'Salon des Reanimes' open in Paris providing discrete assassination solutions to governments, royalty and the wealthy. However by the time Edgar Degas painted 'La Coiffure' in about 1896 the Salons where an open secret as commerce used their services to cut labour costs. Before the end of the 20thC the process of re-animating bodies had become so commonplace that the majority of the European workforce where the walking dead as famously forewarned by Joan Miro⁶.

1 The effect of animal electricity was discovered by Luigi Galvani 1737-1798.
2 The first public demonstration of animal electricity on a human corpse was performed on the executed body of George Forster at Newgate prison London in 1803 by Giovanni Aldini 1762-1834 nephew of Luigi Galvani.
3 The French and Haitian revolutions et al.
4 Founded by Samuel Honis who brought the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry to France
5 A syncretic religion practised chiefly in Haiti and by the Haitian diaspora.
6 'Message d'ami' 1964 oil on canvas.

1. Table Manners
2. Message From a Friend
3. No Money for the Meter
4. Why Not
5. Monday Night in August
6. The Hairdresser
7. Small Dreams of Things That Never Happened
8. When She Moved He Moved when She Stopped He Stopped
9. Lost Above the Clouds

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 07/28/2016
Maurice and the Beejays lives in St Leonards on Sea England

Tagged as: Jazz, Experimental, Vocal, Bass, Electric Guitar, Classical Piano

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