Monday, June 10, 2013

HNW and NATURE (31)

(When your life-and-death comes to you,
what will you do ?)



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Thursday, May 23, 2013

ICE and SNOW #42


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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

ICE and SNOW #41


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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

ICE and SNOW #40



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Sunday, May 19, 2013

ICE and SNOW #39


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Saturday, May 18, 2013

ICE and SNOW #38


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Thursday, May 16, 2013

ICE and SNOW #37


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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ICE and SNOW #36



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Sunday, May 12, 2013

ICE and SNOW #34


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Friday, May 10, 2013

ICE and SNOW #32


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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

ICE and SNOW #31


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Monday, April 15, 2013

ICE and SNOW #27


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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

HNW and NATURE (30)


(There is only "direct pointing" !)


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Sunday, April 7, 2013

HNW and NATURE (29)


(Just stop and look back into the origin of this self of yours !)

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

HNW and NATURE (28)



(Originally there are no unenlightened people !)

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Monday, April 1, 2013

HNW and NATURE (27)


(What an incalculable treasure your Buddha-mind is !)


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Thursday, March 28, 2013

HNW and NATURE (26)




(Zazen is another name for the primary mind !)


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Saturday, March 23, 2013

HNW and NATURE (25)


(The instant you said that, what illusion was there !)


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Thursday, March 21, 2013

HNW and NATURE (24)


(Don't let your time pass in vain !)


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Monday, March 18, 2013

HNW and NATURE (23)


(Live in the unborn Buddha-mind !)


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Thursday, March 14, 2013

HNW and NATURE (22)


(Be just like a mirror reflecting things)


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Monday, March 11, 2013

HNW and NATURE (21)

(Within the original mind, there isn't any trace of illusion)


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Saturday, March 9, 2013

HNW and NATURE (20)

( What loss is here ?
There's nothing lost.
You're just sleeping)


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Thursday, March 7, 2013

HNW and NATURE (19)

(There is nothing but the Buddha-Mind)


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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The HNW-Q No.4: Ian McDonald



Dear Readers,

this is the fourth installment of the HNW-Q. I am really proud, that the canadian soundartist Ian McDonald decided to complete it, although he had not developed his highly differentiated soundworlds (main projects: Vast Glory, Anamneses, Ian McDonald) under the HNW-heading. My initial idea to include Ian McDonald  here was to lead the so called "HNW-paradigm" out of the desert of orthodoxy, complacency and lame repetitions towards real sonic singularity and artistical freedom. Music as a guide for the perplexed ! And "HNW" as a giant size pulsating rhizome or a complexio oppositorum !

The works of Ian McDonald are great examples for unorthodox sonic ideas, formulations and formalizations. I listen to his unique microscopic and micrologic soundworlds under his moniker Vast Glory since his release on Sam McKinlay's label as LAKE SHARK HARSH NOISE #05. His great 2012 2-tapes-release "Airequipt Circular Magazine" on Waterpower was one of my HNW-releases of the year (click here ) and McDonald one of my HNW-artists of the year (click here) . His latest release is "New Psychic" - you can listen to this one and other releases on soundcloud (click here to listen ).

Some of the unique soundworlds of Ian McDonald show firmly, that "HNW" was never and will never be an orthodox group-event, but a time-space to experience one's formless self. In the end "HNW" was not and never will be identical with itself. Consequently the observable self-dissolution of the "HNW-genre" into singular voices should be highly welcomed in any case, because singular expressions can only lead to the dissolving, disintegration or implosion of genre-boundaries.

In the end, the all too human desire to belong to a certain scene should not outsmart the mainspring and the primary desire of HNW and soundart in general to be a vehicle for singular sonic explorations. Good HNW will have been invented always incidentally, en passant, besides, a propos de nothing, without any intention ; grown out of  the necessity of a singular and unrepeatable artistic and musical situation. Consequently HNW should be seen as  a singular expression and not a given style. HNW could happen or not. Learn to perceive that while listening to Vast Glory. You can visit Ian McDonalds blog Modern Arrangements, get more informations about his available releases and support him here.

The HNW-Questionary consists of 32 phrases to be completed in a playful, insightful, poetic, prolific and philosophical manner. The featured artist decides, which phrases he wants to accomplish. It is the task for the reader to perceive the voids and to think about the subtle interactions between Being and Nothingness, which are also important ingredients of the HNW-Artform. But, it is always important to see and hear, what someone is saying and what he is not saying.

The idea of the whole feature is to help the few real HNW-Artists to show and establish themselves as leading artists and to give them an encyclopedic space for their aesthetic and artistic convictions, conceptions and beliefs. It is a space to publish serious, original and important thoughts and ideas for the future of HNW as an important artform.

It is first of all exclusively for leading musicians, but in the future painters, writers and philosophers could also be invited to contribute to the seriousness of HNW and to the interrelatedness of HNW with other artforms. Maybe one day I will fill out this Questionary myself. I have several completed versions of it in the upper drawer of my mind. This HNW-Questionary was only conceived for the best. Consequently, my deliberately very elitist motto for this Questionary is: Light for the Best, Darkness over the Rest !

All lines in green ink are written and copyright by Ian McDonald. All lines in normal ink show you the HNW-Questionary written and copyright by me. This is the fourth HNW-Questionary brilliantly completed by Ian McDonald:


The HNW-Q No. 4:


[1] I discovered and invented HNW for myself, when ......


[2] The initial radicality of HNW would be preserved, if the listener suffered memory loss and experienced HNW again for the "first time."

[3] HNW is a term that is defined and interpreted by the individual, if they feel the need.

[4] HNW is not universally understood.

[5] I do not personally use the acronym H.N.W. to describe Vast Glory. I haven't felt it necessary to classify the project as such. There are definitely some aspects of the material that line-up with my understanding of HNW, but there was never a moment when I said to myself 'I'm going to do HNW.' I've been creating work on my own for years (under different aliases) with just a synthesizer and a very simple process. It started out as quiet, discreet drones, and has naturally evolved into what it is now.

[6] HNW is pure impurity ?

[7] The sound of machines are dynamic in some instances, banal in others.

[8] HNW helps a distinction between enthusiasts and naysayers to be revealed.

[9] Monolithic walls are .................................

[10] The future of HNW would be ........................


[11] The death of HNW would be .........................


[12] HNW should be related to sound and the absence of sound to understand it better.


[13] Singularity and originality in HNW are as (un)important as they are in any other genre of sound/art/whatever. Being "original" should never be a driving force or point of pride, and originality alone does not make something effective. Everyone has a 'voice' in some form, the challenge to find your 'voice,' and explore it. Explore all aspects of it. All of the nuances and all of the layers. Continue to learn and grow.

[14] HNW should be called Static Minimalism, because ...............

[15] HNW should not be called Static Minimalism, because ........................

[16] The permanent repetition of the HNW-Mantra (No ideas, no change, no dynamics, no development etc.) leads to no ideas, no change, no dynamics, no development.

[17] Volume in HNW is sometimes given more importance than it requires.

[18] Distortion in HNW is not a required feature.


[19] My Unconscious is ....................................... in HNW.


[20]Narratives, Analogies and Metaphors in HNW are meaningless if the auditory experience is lackluster. For me, the sound should be the most important aspect. When I am listening to noise, I am listening to noise. If the sound doesn't speak to me, how can I possibly decipher a message from within it? When narratives, analogies and metaphors are the most important aspect, audio may not be the best medium to work with. Rather, a more straightforward medium may work better to achieve the aim. If you can't make a sound component that is as strong as your reason(s) for doing it, you may be doing a disservice to your narratives, analogies and metaphors.

[21] Time and Space in HNW represented by the time it takes to record, perform, or listen to a piece of sound; and the space that listeners, performers, equipment, media (cassette, record, etc.), or packaging/artwork occupy.


[22] HNWhas no connection to absolute Nothingness.

[23] My HNW amplifies my syntheziser.

[24] Minimal Music and Cosmic drones are ...................

[25] Conceptualism is  ..................... of HNW.


[26] The main ingredients of brilliant HNW is sonic intrigue.


[27] The purpose and the concept of my HNW are self-exploration. The Vast Glory project is not about anything beyond that. There are no overarching themes; I am not trying to say or represent anything material. Obviously I have my own opinions and interests that undoubtedly slip into the work, there is no avoiding that, but the guiding principle is simply self-exploration. I am trying to find out where I stand artistically, mentally, emotionally, philosophically, spiritually, sonically, etc. I am trying to find my 'voice.' The recordings that I create are personal documents. They are the product of my memories of experiences, will further shape, and be shaped by my future experiences and memories. Putting the recordings out there for others to hear has been a great way to connect and create new perspective. When I work on something, I don't go into it with anything in mind. I just record what seems "right" to me at the time; a notion that constantly changes as I change. I'm not even sure how suitable the HNW classification is for Vast Glory. I suppose it is a matter of interpretation/opinion. I think some of my stuff is downright soft in tone.

[28] The distinction between ANW/HNW is timbre.

[29] The philosophy of HNW can change each time someone interprets and explores it from their own unique, natural perspective.


[30] My first words about HNW were .......................

[31] My final words about HNW would be ...........................

[32] The phrase I would like to add to this Questionary is ..................




Many Thanks to Ian McDonald
for his version of the HNW-Q
and his unique and important soundworlds ! 

Saturday, March 2, 2013

ICE and SNOW #26

  
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Friday, March 1, 2013

ICE and SNOW #25



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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

ICE and SNOW #24



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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

MY READING TRACES #10



( Paul de Man - Allegories of Reading)
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Friday, February 15, 2013

MY READING TRACES #9


( Paul de Man - Allegories of Reading)
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

HNW-Releases of the Year 2012


Dear Readers,
 
these are the HNW-Releases of the year 2012:

[1] Bast - Illusions.
[2] Zionist - Hagalaz.
[3] Lungwash - Not Corpse. But Larva.
[4] Vast Glory - Airequipt Circular Magazine.
 


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Friday, February 1, 2013

HNW-Artists of the Year 2012

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Dear Readers,
 
these are my artists of the year 2012 and for the first time my label of the year 2012. Thanks a lot for your interesting and intelligent output this year. 
 
Artists of the year (2012):
[1] Bast.
    [2] Zionist.
          [3] Lungwash.
           [4] Vast Glory.


Label of the year (2012):
Human Ignorance
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Friday, January 11, 2013

HNW and NATURE (18)

(Impermanence is Buddha-Nature !)



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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Thoughts of the Day #1/2013: Elliot R. Wolfson (9)

Elliot R. Wolfson (*1956 - )
(Professor Wolfson is author of several admirably deep and
thoughtful books. He is one of the leading scholars in the field of kabbalah,
mysticism and the phenomenology of mystical experience)


Today I want to present a passage about the problem of dream and the prolepsis of redemption from Professor Wolfson's brilliant and absolutely outstanding book "A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream. Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination" (Zone Books, New York 2011):

"The dream is a prolepsis of redemption, which is depicted as a seeing of the essence without any garment (beli levush), beholding the real, one might say, beyond the veil of metaphor. But Shneur Zalman and those who followed his path appropriated and elaborated the dialectic of disclosure and concealment enunciated by previous kabbalists, a dialectic especially conspicous in the sixteenth century, and thus they discerned that there can be no disclosure of the divine that is not concomitantly a concealment.

What is revealed is the infinite essence, but the infinite essence cannot be essentialized and remain the essence that is infinite; hence, what is revealed must always remain concealed, and the seeing without a garment amounts to seeing that there can be no seeing without a garment.

Utilizing apophatic modes of speech, it can be said of this essence that there "is no comprehension with respect to it" (ki ein bo shum tefisah), that is the "negation of thought" (afisat ha-ra'yon), the silence that is the "complete nullification of essence" (bittul ha-asmut mi-kol we-khol), the void (efes) that is "more than nothing" (mer eyder nisht), the "essential concealment that is not in existence at all, as it is also concealed itself" (he'lam ha-asmi she-eino bi-mesi'ut kelal we-hu he'lem gam le'asmo).

We can speak of the essence, so to speak, only to the extent that it is unspoken. The oneiric imagination is privileged, because the way to reach the unknowable and unnameable is through the mental faculty that combines opposites and thus points to the mystery of equanimity, the state of indifference wherein opposites are identical in their opposition.

Restoration to infinity - the mystical nuance of the traditional notion of repentance, teshuvah, which is etymologically from a root (shin waw beit) that means to return - is predicated on the removal of consciousness, which is indicative of exile, but also on the illumination of the supernal light, the vestment of concealment, since it is only by being concealed that the concealment can be revealed as concealed.

Through the dream, therefore, the schism between sleep and wakefulness, exile and redemption, is itself transcended in the luminal darkness where the difference between dark and light is no longer operative. Esoterically rendered, one will awaken to the dream no longer dreamt as a dream, the vision of truth imagined to be true."

- Elliot R. Wolfson, A Dream Interpreted within a Dream. Zone Books 2011, p. 216-217


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Monday, January 7, 2013

HNW and NATURE (17)

(When you become a Buddha,
 there is not any place to go!)

 
 
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

HNW and NATURE (16)

(Be just like a mirror reflecting things)


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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Thoughts of the Day #33/2012: Elliot R. Wolfson (8)

Elliot R. Wolfson (*1956 )
(Professor Wolfson is author of several admirably deep and
thoughtful books. He is one of the leading scholars in the field of kabbalah,
mysticism and the phenomenology of mystical experience)


Today I want to present a passage about the problem of essence and the coincidence of opposites from Professor Wolfson's brilliant and absolutely outstanding book "A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream. Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination" (Zone Books, New York 2011):


"From the vantage point of the inessential essence, the essence whose essence it is to resist essentialization, opposites coincide, and therefore what appears to be false is true, just as what appears to be true is false. In uncovering the truth of the ruse that is the corporeal world, the dissonance between real and make-believe is effectively undermined.

The essential truth of (non)being, consequently, is neither true nor untrue, for to say that it is either true or untrue, for to say that it is either true or untrue would be too limited for the limitless truth of the essence.

As I have suggested elsewhere, to comprehend this meontological perspective, it is beneficial to adopt a logic akin to the madhyamaka, the middle way, in the Mahâyâna tradition, a logic that posits the identity of opposites in the opposition of their identity, a reclaiming of the middle excluded by the law of the excluded middle.

Betraying an affinity to the Buddhist wisdom, Habad speculation on the nature of being and nonbeing posits an emptiness - the void (efes) that is above the nothing (ayin) - in which all things become empty, even or especially of their own emptiness.

The comportment of the dream to combine conflictual images provides a mechanism by which one can reach the abyssal indifference of the essence of infinity (asmut ein sof). The imagination,  accordingly, is allocated a prominent role on the pietistic path as the means by which the visible cosmos is exposed as the epiphany of the invisible and the mask of truth is unmasked as the only truth that cannot be (un)masked."


- Elliot R. Wolfson, A Dream Interpreted within a Dream. Zone Books 2011, p. 212-213.


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Monday, November 19, 2012

The HNW-Q No. 3: Sam McKinlay


Dear Readers,

this is the third HNW-Questionary. I am really proud, that I could convince Sam McKinlay ---- the originator and inventor of the acronym HNW ----- to contribute to this feature. The canadian Sound-Artist McKinlay is one of the very few really consistent inventors and conceptionalists in the experimental music scene today and one (if not THE) inventor of a brand of electronic minimalism - now all too easily known, identified and copied as HNW.

McKinlay has pioneered this "genre" as a very clever synthesis of deeply personal obsessions, dark desires, artful conceptualism, musical minimalism, live-electronics and deeply inventive soundsourcing including the serious research and mapping of the "nature/technicity/behaviour" of minimal sounds in a given experimental site and compositorial situation. His main project is called THE RITA.You can visit his blog, get more informations about his impressive discography and support him here.
 
The HNW-Questionary consists of 32 phrases to be completed in a playful, insightful, poetic, prolific and philosophical manner. The featured artist decides, which phrases he wants to accomplish. It is the task for the reader to perceive the voids and to think about the subtle interactions between Being and Nothingness, which are also important ingredients of the HNW-Artform. But, it is always important to see and hear, what someone is saying and what he is not saying.

The idea of the whole feature is to help the few real HNW-Artists to show and establish themselves as leading artists and to give them an encyclopedic space for their aesthetic and artistic convictions, conceptions and beliefs. It is a space to publish serious, original and important thoughts and ideas for the future of HNW as an important artform.

It is first of all exclusively for leading musicians, but in the future painters, writers and philosophers could also be invited to contribute to the seriousness of HNW and to the interrelatedness of HNW with other artforms. Maybe one day I will fill out this Questionary myself. I have several completed versions of it in the upper drawer of my mind. This HNW-Questionary was only conceived for the best. Consequently, my deliberately very elitist motto for this Questionary is: Light for the Best, Darkness over the Rest !

All lines in green ink are written and copyright by Sam McKinlay. All lines in italics and normal ink show you the HNW-Questionary written and copyright by me. This is the  third HNW-Questionary brilliantly completed by Sam McKinlay:


The HNW-Q No. 3:


[1] I discovered and invented HNW for myself, when: I realized that MERZBOW, SICKNESS, and the INCAPACITANTS are not all just simply 'harsh noise', but very different artists that manipulate abrasive and harsh sound via different complexities. I wanted to take my favourite crunching and crumbling episodes from my favorite HN works and extend them into massive avalanches of sound more akin to projects like DEAD BODY LOVE and OVMN.


[2] The initial radicality of HNW would be preserved, if: There is no radicality as HNW is just an evaluation of and deconstruction of harsh noise; construing your favorite aspects of harsh sound. There is nothing 'radical' about liking certain extended sounds.


[3] HNW is Harsh noise that doesn't feature violent shifts, edits, or changes. Massive walls of harsh sound that utilize textural / minimal static lines (WEREWOLF JERUSALEM) or many different building elements (INCAPACITANTS).


[4] HNW is not: in subtle contradiction to [1] - only subtly and analytically different from harsh noise as a whole.


[5] I invented the acronym H.N.W. as simply a title for harsh noise described in [3].
 

[6] HNW is pure evaluation and appreciation for walls of abrasive, harsh sound.

 
[7] The sound of machines are always playing a part in my comprehension of harsh noise and 'noises that we love to hear'. Anyone from your dad, to the race guy, to yourself can 'love' the sound of a dragster engine. People outside noise fandom pay for CDs of various engine sounds.

[8] HNW helps the building blocks of all different subgenres of harsh noise technique to be revealed and appreciated singularly or as a mountain.

[9] Monolithic walls are: INCAPACITANTS, OVMN, MONDE BRUITS.

 
[10] The future of HNW would be more and more personal evaluation and discovery via source, field recording, and very personal analog textural manipulation.


[11] The death of HNW would be people doing it for the wrong reasons - manifesto based without proper listening or historical mandate.


[12] HNW should be related to HIJOKAIDAN and INCAPACITANTS to understand it better.


[13] Singularity and originality in HNW are not always needed if you are studying abrasive sound elements you enjoy and want to look closer, but personal and developmental angles toward HWN can be very exciting.
 
[14] HNW should be called Static Minimalism, because ...............

 
[15] HNW should not be called Static Minimalism, because 'static minimalism' is but one vehicle and studied aspect of the subgenre.

 
[16] The permanent repetition of the HNW-Mantra (No ideas, no change, no dynamics, no development etc.) leads to only a few creative artists and their personal direction.


[17] Volume in HNW is not always mandatory - dependent on the venue, the textural presentation of the sounds - the size of the sound system as canvas.

[18] Distortion in HNW is not always mandatory - some harsh noise artists such as TASKMASTER like to sometimes work with aspects of heavily amplified hiss and solid tones, FLATGREY with subtly manipulated feedback squeal.
 
[19] My Unconscious is ....................................... in HNW.
 
[20] Narratives, Analogies and Metaphors in HNW can be very important for personal representation through your harsh sound work.
 
[21] Time and Space in HNW .............................................
 
 
[22] HNW, when looked at the 80s and 90s masters is not about absolute Nothingness. 
 
 
[23] My HNW amplifies interests, obsessions, a sincere interest in my favorite aspects of harsh sound.
 
 
[24] Minimal Music and Cosmic drones are some building blocks of HNW.
 
 
[25] Conceptualism is the backbone of HNW; from building the sound around a manifesto, or intensely studied single distortion line or personal field/source recordings.
 
 
[26] The main ingredients of brilliant HNW are sincerity and understanding of your medium.
 
 
[27] The purpose and the concept of my HNW are magnified appreciation of crunched and crumbling harsh noise lines, personal interests developed into harsh sound pieces via source work.


[28] The distinction between ANW/HNW is gain and volume.


[29] The philosophy of HNW can change as you listen to more proto-HNW such as MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA or BLACK LEATHER JESUS.


[30] My first words about HNW were "DEAD BODY LOVE and OVMN represent the direction and inspiration for the style of harsh noise I'd like to make".


[31] My final words about HNW would be "The sound of DEAD BODY LOVE, OVMN, INCAPACITANTS, vintage 2-stroke dirtbike engines, and nitro dragster engines are still perfect".
 
 
[32] The phrase I would like to add to this Questionary is ..................
 
 

Cordial thanks to Sam for the HNW-Questionary
and for creating his unique soundworlds !

SKG.
 
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