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Section 5 Music to Call Up Zombies By and Dr. John Healing Sound Words 'n' Chords 'American Woman' 1 'I 1 By Lew Harris I come down on a lightning bolt nine months in my mama's belly When was born the midwife screamed and shout 1 had fire and brimstone coming out of my mouth I'm Eiuma, I'm the Obeah Man. OBEAH, or obeahism, says Random House, is "a kind of sorcery practiced by the Negroes of Africa, the West Indies, etc." So what does that explain? Certainly not the life of one Tony McKay, who was born again 29 years ago on Cat Island in the Bahamas, took his true name Exuma a planet that once lit Mars, lived in Greenwich Village for a while, and finally formed a junk band and recorded an album, "Exuma" Mercury, SR 61625. Exuma does for obeah what Coven did for witchcraft. For 13 some minutes on the Coven album, a black 1- f'T J1, I iv iwi i rT'itiiir "nviinrrmif iiiirw "Exuma" he's th- Ubean Man Lit hfcM mf Immk 1.

Dr. John The Guess Who (RCA) THE GUESS WHO started out in Canada around '66, recorded "Wheatfield Soul" and "Canned Wheat," but it took the "American Woman" album to really put them on top in the States. Here's the title song. If you'd like to learn your favorites, write Words Chords editor, room 414, Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Chicago, 60611.

Words and music by Ttmpo lazy blues Randy C. Bachman, Burton Cummings, Key of Jim Kale, and Garry Petarson G7 Gdim A dim A mer i can Wo man gon na mess your mind A mer i can Wo C7 Gdim A dim nan ehe gon na mess your mind A mer can Wo man gon na mess C7 Gdim A dim G7 Gdlm your mind A mer i can Wo man gon na mess your mind I say AdimG GG7GdimAdimG A I say MI say I say say I use say A A mer-i- can G7 Gdim A dim Wo man rn na mess your mind A mer i can Wo man gon na mess G7 Gdim A dim G7 G'A'G your mind A met i tan Wo man gon na mess your mind A mer i can Wo man stay a way from me A mer i can Wo man ma ma let me be don't come hang in' a round my door I don't wan na see your face no more I got more im port wit thing) to do than spend my time grow in' old with you now wo man I said stay way A mer i can Wo man lis ten what I say VopuHaht limn bil Cirrus Music, Toronto, Camilla. International vnnnriijht secured, AH rifiltt reserved iiivludimi public iirrjortnantr, for profit. AH riijhts fur the Ijiitid States contrnleil by Dunbar Music, JJ.l A mine of the Americas, New York, X. Y.

"'MS. Copyright 1970 Spadea Syndicate, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sound more than once. It's the true junk band sound the kind of thing Simon and Garfunkel took off from when they went into the Top 40-ized "Cecelia." So instead of "you're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily" we have: When I've got my big hat on my head You Jcnou' thai I can raise the dead When I pot my slick in my hand You know that I'm the Obeah Man.

One of the chants, "Dam- example, in his album "Babylon," he talked about the woman "Black Widow Spider," who, "on the very night she found me, she began to spin her web all around me," and the "Barefoot Lady," Conjure Woman. Then, he was the helpless man at the mercy of these women and at the mercy of life. Now, as the album cover states, from "patrick year 1 "The physician has healed himself and herewith lays especial charts, and hands upon us with new remedies in the works in time for Shrove Tuesday." The first song, "Loop Ga-roo," is all the voodoo that is left, at least in content. Loop Garoo is a voodoo character in the novel "Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down" by Ish-mael Reed. And in the song, Dr.

John puts "the hook" to Loop the "remedy." And thru the rest of the first side he continues handing upon us "the charts." In "What Goes Around Comes Around" think about that title! he puts down a cold hearted dame the Black Widow with: "I'm so glad the way I feelYou came out on the short end of a dirty deal." And in "Wash, Mama, Wash" his new single he tells a washer-woman that as long as she keeps on singing "this song" she won't mind workin' all day long: Won't you rub-o-dub-dubba mama, bust them suds Scrub, mama, scrub. He tells her the stop playing the numbers, lay off the booze, and "scrub, mama, scrub." Where "Babylon" was a lot of junk band and some New Orleans jazz where Dr. John comes from, this first side is more firmly rooted in New Orleans. And where "Babylon" was mostly the chanting of narrative, this side of "Remedies" is almost all song. The second side is all one track, "Angola Anthem," about convicts at hard labor who are given shotguns to use on other convicts who may try to escape.

Complete with frenzied drums and dragging chains, he says: Life is cheap in Angola They give a convict a gun to shoot another one on the run They don't give a damn if you're old or young In that ponderosa they shoot you just for fun. For this perhaps symbolic existence, he has no remedy. mass is performed. On "Exuma" we get not only a but also the history of Exuma himself, a spiritual calling to Satan, a Zombie ritual, and a vision of the Judgment day. But unlike "Coven," it's an album you can listen to bala," is the call to the devil.

It's a slow, almost-calypso, chant: Damba-la; come, Dambala; Dam-bala; come, Dambala." On the seventh day, says the chanter, God will appear. On the seventh night, Satan will appear. Dambala send demons Dambala send angefs Dambala send fire Dambnla send water Dambala Come, Dambala. "Mama Loi, Papa Lni" is a Zombie ritual: Lord of darkness, king of light come, come here on this stormy night There is no star in the sky 1 see fire in the dead man's eye They tied onions 'round my natm! string Then they cut it and they baked it and made it into a ring Come on Shango, Sofan come to Let me speak what I can't see. Says Exuma himself: "Obeah was with my grandfather, with my grandmother, with my father, with my mother, with my uncles who taught me.

It has been my religion in the vein that everyone has grown up with some sort of religion, a cult that was taught. "Christianity is like good and evil. God is both. He unlocked the secrets to Moses, good and evil, so Moses could help the children of Israel. It's the same tiling, the whole completeness the Obeah Man, the spirits of air." It isn't voodoo or witchcraft, he says.

It is based on earthly things, "people to people." It is the idea of the healer: "We have vibrations; a relationship, but not in the way that the man goes home at night and makes a secret potion. He doesn't do that. He goes home and writes songs, paints, makes some scenarios ideas always on a practical sense, on a visual sense "I'm trying to put out good vibrations thru my music, or bad vibrations thru my music. It depends on my mood, angry or loving vibes." Commercial? Maybe. Who is to say how many lives this guy has had, or from what planet he came, or what was coming out of his mouth that made the midwife scream? Let it suffice that those musical vibrations ARE good, from the pound of the drums to the tinkle of the wind chimes.

And if you don't feel like calling up the Zombies, you can always pretend he's singing Somewhere between Simon and Garfunkel and Exuma comes the "healing" of "Dr. John the Night TripperRemedies" lAtco, SD 33-3161. Ex-Concertmasters Thoughts Upon Entering Artisfs Utopia mmmmFM tmm WiM tm? m-nimMmi ''r- wi- IMMBHM Lu.HMIII HHlMHIWiHM It" 4VU 'V It Jethro Tull, top British rock group named after the 18th-century inventor of the seed drill, comes to the Aragon at 8 p. m. Friday.

The quintet, led by Ian Anderson, will join Sha-Na-Na, Clouds, and comedian Uncle Dirty. TRIBUNE Photo bi Pettr Gornar Druian Utopia reconstituted, and much of the Disney estate went into this, his last monument, which he saw as a place where all the arts might mingle and stimulate one another." Rafael Druian, for one, can hardly wait to get in there and start mingling and AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS The new MILL RUN THEATRE at Golf and MilwavkM Roads student's own rate. Our atmosphere will be highly intense, yet relaxed and friendly." The music school is led by composer Mel Powell with three associate deans: Druian will direct the traditional program in instrumental studies; enthnomusi-cologist Nicholas Englund, the general musical studies; and Morton Subotnick, the electronic and multi-media studios. The faculty is totally professional, listing names like Ravi Shankar, Serge Tcherepnin, Leonid Hambro, Fernando Valenti, and Marni Nixon. Visiting artists include Milton Babbitt, Lukas Foss Leon Kirchner, Bruno Maderna, Neville Marriner, Andre Previn, and Robert Shaw.

"Many students, obviously, will not be able to relate to our flexible structuring," Druian says, "and we expect a high mortality rate. But we have no age limit, and the general level of ability must be high. Our first two guests are Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez, and we plan to turn the entire school over to them. Obviously, if Boulez, wants to run thru 'The Rite of Spring' we must have students capable of playing it. "The faculty must participate as well as guide.

If kids want to learn the chamber music repertoire, we will play quartets with them. If someone has rhythmic problems, we will send him to study with Ravi Shankar or one of our Ghana drummers. Electronics? He goes to Mort Subotnick who, meanwhile, will be sending us engineers who want to learn to read scores. If a student is weak in harmony, for example, we will give him a cassette tape recorder and a programmed series of lessons and send him into the woods to explore in Nilas, Dr. John dabbles voodoo, but only in sound and concepts not in ritual.

For vS Illinois By Peter Gorner lcries, music studios, classrooms, and photographic laboratories are mutally accessible in a conscious revival of the ancient concept of a community of the arts. Interaction and enterprise between the arts are the bywords. Only students "evidencing talent and vision" will be admitted. Rules are meant to be bent, programs to be shaped. Cal Arts is accredited and will offer professional degrees IB.

F. M. F. A. and a teaching certificate.

Tuition is 2,500 a year, and scholarships are available. Total enrollment ultimately is expected to reach 1,600. The nobility of intentions cannot be denied. The prospectus for the school of design, for example, quotes a character from a Russian play who says, "If trees were planted all over Russia, more graceful people would walk under them." The film department, headed by English director A 1 a er Mackendrick "Tight Little Island," "The Man in the White Suit" will give students 8 mm. cameras as sketch pads.

"They may use bigger lenses when they have something larger to say." The art department lists a wall for graffiti among its facilities; the critical studies people promise "unembarrassed intellectual ferment," and the music school firmly rejects the principle of competition, at polar extremes from conservatories the world over. Druian explains, "We in the music end plan a finishing school for first-class musicians who are virtuosos on the side; conservatories seek the opposite. Any student faces fantastic odds against his making music a profession, and we feel he needs individual preparation, not problems like competition. We seek raw talent we can guide and develop at each AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS mianGLe PRODucnons ma RAFAEL DRUIAN, the distinguished former con-certmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, recently was in Chicago auditioning prospective students for his new affiliation, the California Institute of the Arts. Mr.

Druian was George Szell's right-hand man from 1960-69 when the Cleveland Orchestra rose to international prominence. He also was one of the few musicians with whom Szell, a magnificent pianist, enjoyed playing chamber music. One testament to their glittering partnership is a superb recording of Mozart violin sonatas. Why, then, did Mr. Druian, while in his prime, leave one of the most prestigious playing posts in America to take his chances with Cal Arts? The controversial college is scheduled to begin operations this fall on a still uncompleted campus in Valencia, a fledgling city on the northern tip of the San Fernando valley.

"Basically because I wanted to work for something instead of somebody. No one wants to play in orchestras any more because musicians are paid for their anonymity. A youngster studies hard and maybe wins a place in a major symphony. He then is never heard from again. He literally is paid for not playing.

Strongly opposed to anonymity, Cal Arts probably is best described as sort of a Summerhill for professional training in the arts. Its six schools art, design, music, film, critical studies, and theater and dance are housed in a three-story structure set on four of the institute's 60 acres. The workshops, theaters, art gal- Dance Note THE HAKKNESS Youth dancers have merged with the Harkness ballet. Rebekah Harkness, uc and founder of the ballet, will assume artistic direction of the company, and Ben Stevenson, former director of the Harkness Youth dancers, has been named resident choreographer of the reorganized company. Jose de Udaeta and Walter Gore will stage new works.

Rafael the wonders of the dominant seventh chord. "All this is to help develop versatility. Orchestras, you see, should be centers from which music is dispensed. Not just symphonic music, but chamber music, electronic music, and multimedia compositions. Naturally, the art deserves players who know what they're doing.

Intelligent and technically expert performers." The land and facilities for Cal Arts have been provided by the Walt Disney Foundation. A skeptical musical community believes it all sounds too good to be true. Just wait, they say, until the homespun Disney people see all those long-haired free spirits a 1 i in the grass. But the Walt Disney empire did not result from naivete, and in his book, "The Disney Version," Richard Schickel explains the logic behind the idealism of the school. Until Disney died, Schickel writes, he planned the project as he planned for his commercial es shrewdly, purposefully, and eagerly.

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