For Lee Jackson in Space is a monolithic collection of music, visual art, and written testimony paying tribute to the life of writer/friend/enthusiast, Lee Jackson. The planet lost a gem of a soul in late March of 2012 when Lee completed this stint of existence after a battle with ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). Although Lee is dearly missed in this realm, we somehow know the Universe has recently gained a Starchild.
It took only two months for 94 artists/bands from all over the globe to transcend grievances into a consolidated show of love for Lee. For Lee Jackson in Space contains approximately 12 hours of music, spanning genres from acid-folk to space rock to ambient metal and beyond. Put simply, it's a psychedelic extravaganza made possible by a lot of people who were loved by Lee and who dearly loved him in return. It's truly a one of a kind musical anthology essentially curated by Jackson himself, having tirelessly spent years championing the artists featured on the compilation. In fact, the album's extensive liner notes were culled from over a decade of Lee's own documentation and musings, taken from various publications for which he wrote, notably Swedish fanzine, The Broken Face and Jackson's own blog, Womblife.
The album's striking cover art was designed by Lee's friend and fellow Texan, Nevada Hill (http://www.nevadahill.com), who is also a featured musical contributor via the Zanzibar Snails. Additional artwork is provided courtesy of George Parsons (Dream Magazine) and Jan Anderzén (mastermind of musical contributor, Kemialliset Ystävät). The effort was organized by friends and fellow music zealots, Mats Gustafsson (Founding Editor, The Broken Face), Ned Raggett (of Allmusic fame, and current Pitchfork contributor), and yours truly. To say it has been an honor to take part in this effort is to say the very least. We love it. We think Lee would have loved it. And we think he'd have wanted you to love it, too.
The album is streamable via Bandcamp. Savor the flavor, and then do the right thing--you can purchase the entire collection for ONLY $30 (c'mon, that's a dollar a day this June), and if you've extra coins to toss in the hat, we sure do appreciate it, as does Jackson's family, who have requested that all proceeds be donated to the Texas Chapter of the ALS Association. Check it at the link below:
Tracklisting is as follows:
- Abunai! — Time of the Funk-Lords (Flash Forward)
- Primordial Undermind — I Am Afraid of You (live)
- Tadpoles — Jaded Jean (LJ Mix)
- Stone Breath — Dark Veils Part
- Photon Band — Unfinished Sky: Electricity, Heat, and Rain
- Melodien — Untitled
- SubArachnoid Space — Sounds and Memories Remain
- Øyvind Holm — When She’s Sleeping
- Nick Bensen and Too Many Guitars — Stone Circle
- Linus Pauling Quartet — Elven Queen
- Anvil Salute — Technosis Externality Clusterfuck
- Locrian — Galleria Malaise
- Theo Angell — Take Your Hand Off The Tree
- Arborea — Stardust
- Marianne Nowottny — Where You Are
- Kitchen Cynics — Me, Jack & Lee & the ghost of Skip James
- Six Organs of Admittance — Which Way To Townes?
- Tandem Bridges — Some Mornings
- Three Minute Tease — These Alien Angels (Extended in Space)
- Volcano The Bear — Tremondo
- Marissa Nadler — The Breaking
- Ade Shaw & Rustic Rod Goodway — Chakra Blue
- The Magic Carpathians Project — In the Air We’ll Be Reborn
- Sharron Kraus — Night Clouds
- Matthew de Gennaro — Lee’s Dream
- Electroscope — The Aye-Aye
- Julia Vorontsova — Love
- Matt McDowell — Rays in the Dust (For Lee)
- Alchemysts — Glass Cars
- Xenis Emputae Travelling Band — Night’s Black Bird (after John Dowland)
- Mike Tamburo — lunar suite (for lee jackson) a. tantric sky memorial b. all but forgotten c. ver a calm bed of prepared drone
- Tara Burke, Helena Espvall, Alec Redfearn and Sharron Kraus — Seal Woman’s Lament
- The Weird Weeds — Untitled
- Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet — Noble One(s)
- Ray Off — Go Up, Pup
- Axemen — No, Not Him (Jackson mix)
- Valerio Cosi — One For Lee
- Doleful Lions — Combat Shock (It’s Only A Matter Of Time)
- Kable — Be Next
- The Dire Wolves Absolutely Perfect Brothers Band — Creator Dub
- Kohoutek — Slugger
- Insect Factory — Reversed in Your Mind
- Raising Holy Sparks with the Sacred Harp Singers of Cork — Sacred Harp 282 (I’m Going Home)
- Remora — An Unwelcome Room
- Peter Wright — All The Sky In Flames
- Roy Montgomery — Christchurch in the time of Tony Peake
- Evening Fires — Nailing Smoke to the Wall
- Gate — Whetu
- Windy & Carl — the little voice that echoes in my head
- Superbugger — Dream
- Helena Espvall — Passage (For Lee)
- Tom Greenwood — Willow Spring (Live in LA)
- The Roswell Incident — Ventricular
- Exterminating Angels — Opening
- ST 37 — German Verman
- Pete Fosco — Zilpo Forest Blues
- Norman Neubauer — I’m done sharing things I guess
- Quixod — The Sounds of Trains at Night
- The Lost Domain — Restless Blues
- Charlatan — Gateway
- Emperor Ringworm — Lee
- Brendan Quinn and Mark Bennett — Concerning The Isle Of Ptyx
- when the word was (((sound))) — Sungazer
- Seht — For the dead ones in space (Lee Jackson’s half-life of chromium dioxide edit)
- Zelienople — Laundry
- Charalambides — Joy Shapes for Lee
- Raglani — Outer Rim Territories
- Feature Films — Blue Tomorrows
- The Green Pajamas — In The Sky
- Thunderbolt Pagoda — The Reclamation
- Lunar Discotheque — Secret Kraft
- Kemialliset Ystävät — Muistan
- Jouurney — Commit Your Way
- Head of Wantastiquet — Anemones in a Blue Vase
- Zanzibar Snails — A More Celestial Perception of the Absolute
- Wooden Wand — Levees
- The Renderers — Out of the Forest (live)
- Derek Rogers — New Languages (For Lee Jackson)
- Winslow — Purcell
- Mass Ornament — You Eat in Greed
- The Watchers — Live at the Phoenix Project
- Hush Arbors — Berryman in the field
- Akiyama / Corcoran / Kiefer / Leftridge — The Infinite Tides
- Sun Circle — Awaken
- Dora Bleu — Tracing the Corner
- The Spiral Joy Band — 13 moons of doom part 3 – red lunar serpent
- MV & EE with the Golden Road — Hammer > Jam
- Tanakh — The Gardener
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — The Placeless Place
- Pelt — On the Divide
- Plastic Crimewave — Butterfly and Moth
- Vanessa Rossetto — Untitled (For Lee Jackson)
- R. Keenan Lawler — Peacefully
- The Azusa Plane — Armonia Aphanes Phaneros Kreisson
Additional links of note:
http://womblife.blogspot.com (Lee!!!)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-For-Lee-Jackson-In-Space/release/3652097 (for your reference)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/323110634410498/ (for discussion)
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=34140 (interview with co-creators, Gustafsson, Raggett, & Johnson)
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