Solomon Burke 1940 - 2010

Well, after 70 years, 17 million records sold, 21 children and 90 grand children, original soul man Solomon Burke has died.  How many real Soul Men are left, I wonder? How many of his label mates at the legendary Atlantic records back in the sixties are still going? Aretha Franklin for one . . .can’t be many more though. According to the news I’m reading, the cause of death isn’t clear, but how many 30 stone 70 year olds are there? Solomon enjoyed his life right to the end, performing live, recording, and writing music. It’s fitting that he died on the way to a gig, as he says in this interview in the telegraph last year, ‘I’ll sing as long as I have breath’

Restored to One

Well, here's something a bit different . . .


As someone with an interest in Cults in general, I knew a wee bit about the Process Church of the Final Judgement, in that they influenced the thinking of Charlie Manson and one of the founders was fae Glesga, Mary Ann MacLean. They worshiped Christ, Lucifer, Satan, and Jehovah all equally and were originally an offshoot from Scientology. Basically at the final judgement, Christ will come back to judge us and Satan will exact that judgement, in a kind of apocalyptic 'I'll haud em, you dod em' tag team style.


Anyway stoner doom sex bomb Jex Thoth has teamed up with Dave Nuss of the free Jazz group the No Neck Blues Band to record the hymns sung by this Satan worshiping counterculture cult, and I've been diggin' it. The music is a kind of psychedelic gospel rhythm and blues, with a creepy groovieness that comes from the fact that whoever wrote these songs was deeply sick in the mind. Jex's voice is sexy and haunting. The overall effect is like waking up from a really bad trip next to a beautiful woman who you know, in your heart, is Satan.


Download: Sabbath Assembly - Restored to One - www.mediafire.com/?wlwltb511cit4wl


If you want to read more about the insane ramblings of this cult, check it out here


By the way, In what must be the greatest act of re-branding of all time,The Process Church of the Final Judgement are now called 'The Best Friends Animal Society' and are one of America’s best known animal welfare rescue groups. No shit.