Reynols: What the fuck?

thanks.

gygax! ... are you declaring msg as your archenemy?

superhero battle?
m.

at least that's what i was told by a certain wisemonkee from portland
m.

reynols proper are based around miguel tomasin, roberto conlazo and anla courtis and most of their musical releases have a kind of shamanistic noise-psychedelic quality to them; no reynols drops tomasin in favor of another drummer with down syndrome.

there's also a reynols/no reynols live split on last visible dog that sees reynols almost writing songs and no reynols doing these massive, lengthy excursions into primitivist psychedelia that almost resemble the most blitzed of japanese stuff (toho sara, fushitsusha at their mellowest, ohkami no jikan, etc).

I LIKE REYNOLS. and freedom from.

but I got to have a drink with BOB SNOOM

(though dud for fuck awful support band I saw).

..........................

Hi Everybody:

we are very sorry about the yesterday events, actually was the worst
day of the whole tour. a real nightmare.

UK Inmigration authorities didnt allow us to enter the United Kingdom.
After more than 5 hours of friendly Gestapo style checking every
milimiter of our bagages and bodies, and staying in a room with a
security door (a jail actually) full of people from countries like
Poland, Afganistan, East Europe they rejected us.

their "legal" reasons were that we are not allowed to "take
employment" in the united kingdom without a special permit, but this
was probably only a non-very-imaginative-legal-pretext to avoid our
presence there only for our physical aspect, our argentinian
passports our strange shaped guitars or any other possible reason
related to the political moment the UK is living.

We have been playing for more than a whole month in Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and France without any problem;
we were only trying to play some few days in UK and the only payment
was in order to cover the costs of the trip, which can hardly been
conceived as "take employment" on the UK. We even showed them our
back flight to Buenos Aires on march 15th but they rejected us anyway.

They sent it to the french side virtually in the middle of nothing,
no bus, no train, anything available, hopefully we found a taxi and
we could afford a (terrible expensive for our argentinian eceonomy)
trip back to Paris where Frank de Quengo hopefully gave us asylum.

We are very sorry to cancell all the dates in the UK but our physical
bodies are not allowed to go there, however we will be playing all
that dates with our spirits and we are also planing to do some
conceptual projects related to this sad cultural event.

sorry again

all the best

Reynols

PS. we are in France now, in Paris and we are deciding what to do in
the next days, our only option might be to take the plane back to
Argentina from Oslo which obviously will cost a lot to our
argentinian devaluated pockets...
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I got home and got my kicks out of listening to Kevin druum.

Subject: REYNOLS 1993-2004

Hi, everybody

Hope all is fine there. We would like to let you know that Reynols'
life-cycle has come to its natural end.

Anyway, there are still some forthcoming records under that name,
with stuff
we recorded in 2003 and before. And we have around 100 or 200 hours
of
recorded stuff that will appear sooner or later: enough for anybody
not to
miss the band too much in the coming years.

This is not a traumatic decision, we are all still friends and we
feel that
to end a project in the right moment is the best way to keep its
spirit
alive... We will go on playing with Miguel Tomasin on the Sol Mayor
Project,
playing classic rock covers only in benefit gigs for schools and
disability
institutions. And we will probably develop some other different
projects in
the future.

We want to thank all the people that supported us over the past
years:
labels, magazines, bands, journalists, musicians, venues, festivals,
radios,
TV shows, web-sites, foundations, universities, sound technicians,
producers, photographers, record shops, distributors, audiences, and
friends
in general. We also want to thank our detractors because they were
also part
of this meaningful learning experience.

And mind we are talking about Reynols' terrestrial death: the band
will
always be alive in Minecxio. So head that way whenever you feel like
paying
them a visit.

Reynols

Buenos Aires, January 2004

i guess we better head over to the gyatees thread and start worrying about the exploitation of those monks, too, eh?

http://www.ubu.com/sound/reynols.html

on a cpl of them (check 'grodos') he 'invents' a language and uses as a vocal, it sounds 'retarded'. I guess if I didn't know he had down's syndrome it could be offensive to some but to me it has an emotion to it that some of the concrete stuff like 'fire music' couldn't have. reynols or wild man fischer offer a view of their world through their records (I think that's esp true with wild man fischer) and bcz we can't possibly relate we might find it uncomfortable. A lot of concrete poetry looks at the issue of how to communicate when you proper language fails (henri chopin had his ideas abt concrete poetry from his experience as a WWII prisoner, sharing a room with ppl from other countries) and its not a million miles from reynols.

(I might do a thread on LPTJ to get john D to comment maybe)

reviving because pauline oliveros in the arms of reynols is still fucking killer. i always thought it was mostly done by courtis, cause it sounds like his solo stuff from the time. someone seriously needs to put albumina blues on 180gm LP.

http://ongakublog.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/courtisyamamotoyoshimi-live-at-kanadian/ holy shit!!!!

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, October 9, 2008 1:28 AM

also saw a copy of this the other day but passed on it unfortunately

alan courtis - unstringed guitar and cymbals
http://www.blossomingnoise.com/?q=node/375

― eman, Thursday, October 9, 2008 10:32 AM

haha check out freedom from's site

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a parody thread is just waiting to happen

what do you reckon Simo Reynols thinks of these guys?

One of the reasons I like Reynols very much:

INTRODUCTION TO TOMASIN'S (NON)PHILOSOPHY

Dialogues with MIGUEL TOMASIN (Reynols percussionist, vocalist, guru).

Trancription & Translation by Anla Courtis.

The following dialogues were transcripted from diary conversations with Miguel Tomasin (the drummer and leader of argentinean band Reynols, who is has by Down's Syndrome). As Tomasin is not interested at all in writing anything, these dialogues are probably the only access to Tomasin's philosopy or non-philosophy. (contact: reyn✧✧✧@htom✧✧✧.c✧✧)

* * *

Question: Do you think the universe exists?
Miguel Tomasin: No, it doesn't exist. It's just fantasy.

* * *

Q: What's the most important thing in your life?
MT: Photocopies.

* * *

MT: The score (of the match) was 1 to 1.
Q: So who scored the goals?
MT: Nobody.

* * *

Q: What came first, the egg or the chicken?
MT: The cock.

* * *

* * *

Q: What's there in the moon?
MT: A screw and a chamame tape.

* * *

MT: God is a hidden camera

* * *

Q: Why doesn't clouds fall down?
MT: Because if they fall, they die.

* * *

Q: What was the floor invented for?
MT: To step on ants.

* * *

MT: A girl is frying eggs on her belly.
Q: Doesn't she get burnt?
MT: No.

* * *

* * *

Q: Explain your idea about the "Planeta Sardina" (Sardina Planet).
MT: Oh, easy... When you eat a lot of fish a planet starts to grow inside your paunch. That's the Sardina Planet.

* * *

Q: Do aliens exist?
MT: No.
Q: But haven't you seen them?
MT: Yes I saw them, but they don't exist.

* * *

MT: Do you know why the grass is short?
A: No.
MT: Because it was long.

* * *

Q: What do you think: Did Hitler commit suicide or was he killed?
MT: Eh...I don't know. He didn't tell me nothing.

* * *

Q: How many heavens are in heaven?
MT: Noone.

* * *

* * *

Talking about plants he said:
MT: We should sow feet.
Q: And what will grow there?
MT: Voices.

* * *

MT: The sun is blocked by the clouds and the sun.

* * *

Q: Do you have blood?
MT: No.
Q: So what's there inside you?
MT: Nothing.

* * *

Q: What does God wear?
MT: God wears shorts and blue nappies.

* * *

Tomasin's definition of noise-music: 'It's music for teeth'.

* * *

* * *

Q: What were you like before you were born?
MT: Bigger.

* * *

MT: Guitars inside my socks.

* * *

Q: Are you the Buddha?
MT: No, single.

* * *

Q: Where does the sun go at night?
MT: To the Octopuss.

* * *

MT: Ice cream-spaceship.

* * *

Q: Do you think we are your sons?
MT: Yes and my grandsons and great-grandsons.

* * *

Q: What do you recommend for this week?
MT: You have to eat, stand up, do what you have to do and then ... to sleep.
Q: But what do you do when you get tired of this?
MT: Ah.... I WAKE UP.

* * *

MT: Wind that blows birds.

* * *

Q: Where is the mind?
Answer: (Miguel Tomasin comes and blows on my ear).

* * *

Q: What's this? (a pop can)
MT: A head of seven heads.

* * *

Q: When is your birthday?
MT: Every week.

* * *

* * *

Q: What is the Down's Syndrome?
MT: A Fan Club.

* * *

Miguel watches a photo of Ayatollah Khomeini and says:
'He has record-shape face'.

* * *

Q: Does freedom exist?
MT: No.

* * *

Q: What is love?
MT: Eh... I don't understand it.

* * *

Q: What is the Kharma?
MT: It is for going to fish brains.

* * *

* * *

Q: Are you Miguel Tomasin?
MT: No.
Q: Who are you then?
MT: I'm a human.
Q: Are you the only human being?
MT: Yes.
Q: So can you tell us what the rest of the people is?
MT: Handkerchiefs.

Tomasin's statement on a rainy day:
'Jesus is sunbathing upstairs on the terrace'.

-- Buenos Aires. ARGENTINA. November 1998.

courtis has a lot of really good solo stuff worth checking out. didnt know guy from the mountain goats had downs syndrome.

Another reason I like Reynols: http://www.furious.com/perfect/reynols.html

Buscando a Reynols

Thanks for that post!

https://picadisk.bandcamp.com/

Minecxio Emanations 1993-2018
by Reynols

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I wanna know more about this gygax/msg beef. I remember they were two of the more active members on the pavement-l back in the day and didn't seem to have a problem

Assuming people saw this, great article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/world/americas/argentina-miguel-tomasin-drummer.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH2d5WrdtNo

oh and there's one from this year:

https://acidmothersreynols.bandcamp.com/