Cosmic Yes

Cosmic Yes

Details

Released July 2009 by House of Alchemy. The CD-R run is limited to 123 copies and is, for the time being, still in print. Richard and cohorts did a bang up job cutting and assembling all the construction paper for the covers. This is now out of print at the source, but you can purchase it as a digital download here.

Recorded live to 2-Track in Meacham Auditorium at the University of Oklahoma Memorial Student Union on August 8, 2007. Engineered by B. Kennedy. Final mastering done by committee.

Personnel: T. Fagin, G. Wingfield, B. Fielder, J. Butler, K. Stevens, K. Ahmadi, & B. Kennedy with help from J. Rhoton.

Track Listing

  1. The answer is YES; the question doesn't matter.
  2. What stands revealed in such moments is the entelechy, the creative seed of greatness each of us contains.
  3. The Virtues of the Fuck-up
  4. In its monotonous flow fuses and confuses past, present, and future, what we were and are and will be, everything and everyone together in a great exclamation like a sea surge that rises, falls, and jumbles all things together that has no beginning or end.

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"Cosmic Yes" Ear-Conditoned Nightmare

This one is from The Ear-Conditioned Nightmare, a nice little blog reviewing all sorts of great stuff. It was posted August 5, 2009:

Here's another new contribution to the pool from House of Alchemy, this time in the form of a nice little disc from a group I hadn't heard of before this, Anvil Salute. Apparently they hail from the Midwest, but they sound like they might as well be from the Far East, or at least New York circa '68, imploring a nice combination of free jazz, raga and free-folk into a kind of ESP meets Impulse meets Folkways sound that's super together.
"Cosmic Yes" Foxy Digitalis

Our worst review from Foxy Digitalis yet, and it's still pretty good. Bless 'em indeed.

Cosmic indeed. Anvil Salute pick up the free drone work of Pelt/Spiral Joy Band and even a bit of ashram-era Alice Coltrane and put another brick in the wall. It’s not exactly groundbreaking stuff, but this is really good. Recorded live to two-track in Meacham Auditorium at the University of Oklahoma and still sounding crystal clear shows this band knows how to do their thing in a space big enough to make them sound like mice running in between walls.
"Cosmic Yes" Norman Records

Not so much a proper review as it a detailed catalog description, but it's nice nonetheless. So if you don't pick up a copy of the disc at a show or directly from House of Alchemy, you should think about visiting normanrecords.com: