Ketjak Allusion Sitings

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Last night I went to an animation festival (in other words, just a bunch of animated shorts strung after one another and shown without intermission) and during one of the shorts which involved various characters breaking out of the body of someone else, there was a brief moment when a man popped out surrounded by other men and they started to go into the Ketjak* just for a second. I heard a much longer allusion in a Mister Bungle song. And it is sampled pretty nicely in Psychic TV w/ White Stains' "At Stockholm," with Genesis intoning, "We have the ectoplasm of youth, the final psychic rally," above the sound of the ketjak. Also, it was the title of a book by Ron Silliman, for what that's worth.

*The Balinese monkey chant, a type of performance based on excorcism rituals, but to some extent created to entertain tourists, if I recall correctly.

― DeRayMi, Friday, 13 September 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

One the limited edition verz of *Yerself is Steam,* Mercury Rev stick a sample of it at the beginning of their cover of "If You Want Me To Stay" for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 September 2002 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

"Sitings?" Almost five years later and I catch my typo?

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 14 July 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Sun City Girls did a kind of trio version called "The Venerable Song", on Bright Surroundings Dark Beginnings. A live version also appeared on Kaliflower called "The Venerable Uncle Tompa".

The Ketjak is used in the soundtrack to Blood Simple, but you probably knew that.

I went through a phase in 1991 where I would listen to the 20 minute version off the Nonesuch CD Music From The Morning Of The World at the beginning of every day.

― Jon Lewis, Saturday, 14 July 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 12 April 2008 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

We read an unpublished (unless it's published now) book of poetry called Ketjak in one of my classes.

― filthy dylan, Saturday, 12 April 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

By Ron Silliman, I assume? That was published, but maybe it was out of print at the time you read it in class.

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 12 April 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

back in the 80's somebody recorded a "full" (their description) 40-minute version of this for me. Anybody know where that might be from?

― sleeve, Saturday, 12 April 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

Kind of shameless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGu8lS9CKpY

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 28 March 2016 16:42 (nine years ago)

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