SEBKHA-CHOTT - THE NE(XXX)T EPILOG

• sebkha-chott: the ne[xxx]t epilog
      (2012, cd, fr, musea records)

French experimental rock band Sebkha-Chott released their fifth album last year.
Nobody remains indifferent when it comes to Sebkha-Chott. You like what they do, or you don't. There's no in-between.
I'm a fan. I like how they switch between musical genres every couple of seconds. I like the power and the energy that they transmit. And I really like their 2010 Zappanale performance.

"The Ne(XXX)t Epilog" proclaims that time (and chronology) is just a perception. It reminded me of something I had read at Rip Rense's website, about an evening he had spent at Zappa's house:

Matt "The Simpsons" Groening was a favorite attendee of the salons. One evening's arcane chat strayed from favorite bad horror films ("From Hell It Came," featuring the walking tree monster, The Tobanga, was the composer's preference) to a discussion of Zappa's Dada-esque philosophy of creating art: "Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All," or AAAFNRAA. This led, not illogically, to an exchange about the nature of time. In part, it went like this:

"I think of time as a spherical constant," said Frank, "which means that everything is happening all the time. It provides an easy explanation for premonitions, ghosts, flashbacks, because the whole concept of time that human beings have had is taking something they can't really comprehend and settling for a mediocre explanation of how it works. They take a linear approach to it, slice it in segments, and then hop from segment to segment to segment until they die, and to me that is a pretty inefficient way of preparing a mechanical ground base for physics. That's one of the reasons why I think physics doesn't work. When you have contradictory things in physics, one of the reasons they became contradictory is because the formulas are tied to a concept of time that isn't the proper model. So in my model, time is a spherical constant and everything is happening all the time. And we just don't have access to those segments of the sphere that we might want to access. Except on rare occasions where something goes wrong with the human condition, or some wiring is changed. In some people the wiring may be genetically altered, and you may be able to look not into the future, but just look 'sideways,' and come up with a glimpse of the way things 'will be' down the road in normal person time ---except that you've just seen it now, because it's happening now as well as later." Responded Groening: "That's like reruns!" "Exactly!" said Zappa. 

"The Ne(XXX)t Epilog" is out on Musea Records and is wrapped in stunning artwork.
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