A review of monitored events and research notes for the second week of July 2012.
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Today is Monday, July 16, 2012, but knowing full well that we'd be too busy floating around from venue to bar to venue to bar as we participate and partake of the 2012 Howlin Jazz Festival in Libreville, we prepared this on Sunday morning.
- The first single, "Pirámide del Sol", from The Face Pullers debut album, "Six Silversides", has knocked the Quick Nods' "Little Girl" from their throne on the local music charts, ending the Nods's month long reign at the top! . . . and not a moment too soon for our tastes and sensibilities. The Face Pullers will be playing the Howlin Jazz Festival, performing on Friday the 20th at the Blue Crab. We will be there, and so should you.
- Mystery X's latest release, "Black Plume Menu", is just in time to make the festival cassette trading rounds. Listed as #84 in the ICR catalogue, it is the officially unofficial fourth part of Mystery X's Dreamlands set. It has been suggested that all listeners watch out for reality fluxes and vortexes while they are grooving to the music.
- A rash of recent reports of strange lights and phantom figures haunting the edges of the forest have unnerved locals in Ketjack, though there has been no official statement from police or forestry service officials on the alleged happenings. "Residents and visitors to the area routinely report on incidents of such nature," offered one police source who asked to remain anonymous, "but most of those cases are quickly debunked or dismissed." There are many ways to hand-waving it away, but as quick as some may be to dispute the claims of otherworldly goings-on in Ketjack, the high rate of activity in the past few days has the rest of us wondering if there isn't something happening out in those woods after all.
- Associates of the Starry Sky Reseach group hosted an early-early morning event on July 15, giving public witness to the conjunction of the Crescent Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Aldebaran. Turn out was higher than expected by the organizers as a mass of Howlin Jazz Festival-goers were given a uniquely Librevillean opportunity to participate in the kooky unofficial opening ceremony for their week-long music event.
That's all for this week In Infictive. We'll be back next week with a proper round-up and round-out of the Festival!
