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Trippin’ vindaloo: Talkin’ ‘bout the birds & bees, rats and goats with King Khan!
09.12.2019
11:25 am
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King Khan! Man of many bands and many hands. Satanic, shamanic, bananic, messianic and more and more titanic, King Khan spurts to the beat of his own cum drum. He goes in all directions at once (including inward), has made many forms of music on all the coolest labels around with The King Khan and BBQ Show, King Khan and the Shrines, Tandoori Knights, Black Jaspers, Almighty Defenders, Louder Than Death and he’s made records with The Spits, Black Lips and William S. Burroughs! He’s unstoppable, and never stops, well that is and isn’t the same thing really if ya think about it.

I speak with Khan regularly. We’re premiering his new video here today and he’s just starting a tour so I thought to do a little interview as well. Check out the record and tour dates here. Ready? Hold your nose! OK, let’s jump!

Howie Pyro: What makes chicken so psychedelic?

KK: Well I don’t know if you know this but their gobbles are full of DMT, and the challenge is how you smoke it. Chickens don’t appreciate lighting their gobbles on fire…. I know far too many farmers who have lost an
eye trying to get high with a chicken. If I had a penny for each of them I would be the Indian Col. Sanders.

HP: This song has so many layers…. LSD, a goat’s tooth, rats with scabies, birds and bees on fire, even a rabid cook… How did you come up with these lyrics?

KK: I always admired the chef named “Barf” on You Can’t Do That on Television, which was a Canadian kids show that I grew up watching. I would want him to have goats teeth, and be in a kitchen filled with rats with scabies making me chicken. I just imagined him trying to make a romantic dinner for me and my concubine. What would be his version of an aphrodisiac and would it lead to some wild ass baby making? These are the things i fantasize about…. Ever since I accepted the films of David Cronenberg into my life, things ain’t the same…. I neeeed help…. Death to Videodrome… Long live the New Flesh!

HP: Did working with Alejandro Jodorowsky have a permanent effect on you?

KK: Yes, ever since I became one of his spiritual warriors I have this attitude towards art. If art does not mutate you than it has failed. I feel like in order to follow the path of illumination you must seek the path of least resistance, and once that is found, everything that you create must not be feared…. creation has to be a brutal/beautiful experience and if it does not help mutate the viewer than it hasn’t achieved anything that matters.

HP: How have your experiences been with psychedelics?

KK: I started at about 15-years-old with LSD, took a lot of it up until my mid 20s. I did a lot until it suddenly felt redundant. It was like i had figured out the puzzle and didn’t need it anymore to make any profound realizations. I began smoking DMT a few years back, but have only really broke through twice. That was the best experience I had with tripping. The first time I sat and spoke to a praying mantis with a golden crown, she spoke in her language and I could understand it. When I looked around I saw Anubis and other Egyptian deities and they were all sitting at a table like the last supper and I was an honored guest. It was so beautiful, they were throwing me a party, and it was all so real, yet completely bonkers. I think psychedelics are tools for us to use carefully, they make you see things that can be so spiritually powerful that they heal you.

HP: I would have asked if you remembered what the mantis language sounded like!

KK: Yes… it sounds like this…“Khrawk khrawk sss khrawz khrawk scuzzzzzzz carawk…”

HP: And wondered how you kept your wild willie to yourself (therefore not being devoured after)?

KK: Smearing hot mustard on my willie could protect it from non gourmands, and could also induce tears during fellatio which could be kinda romantic.

HP: How long does it take to incubate five acid chicken babies, one for each point of thee pentagram? [See video below] What is the seed that they grew from and who “planted” it?

KK: The seeds were provided by yours truly. I didn’t realize that we placed the acid chicken spawns in a pentagram…. I guess it was really a subliminal message of sorts. I am glad you pointed it out!

It takes a special sort of man to spot the invisible pentagram in poultry.

HP: I’ll put a dirty feather in my cap (cluck cluck)... Any wild outfits/stage wear planned for this big tour starting on 9/11? Wait 9/11? And finally, what is the sound of one mant crapping?

KK: One “mant” crapping? Does said “mant” have a human anus or a “mant” hole?

9/11? That is just a coinkiedink!

HP: A Mant-is ...a half man half ant that appears in a movie within a movie (Matinee), loosely based on director William Castle…

KK: Ahhhh well I ASS-ume it would sound like poetry… bugged out insect rap…I mean sorry C-RAP!

HP: What inspires you to make such glorious punk rock?

KK: I like to always go back to a passage by William S. Burroughs from Cities of The Red Night. I picture him the captain of my ship and I feel like he was the first inspiration for me to seek out the underground and find myself…. I think this passage sums it up the best. It’s quite the mouthful…. the perfect words to end all ends…. and begin all beginnings….

“This book is dedicated to the Ancient Ones, to the Lord of Abominations, Humwawa, whose face is a mass of entrails, whose breath is the stench of dung and the perfume of death, Dark Angel of all that is excreted and sours, Lord of Decay, Lord of the Future, who rides on a whispering south wind, to Pazuzu, Lord of Fevers and Plagues, Dark Angel of the Four Winds with rotting genitals from which he howls through sharpened teeth over stricken cities, to Kutulu, the Sleeping Serpent who cannot be summoned, to the Akhkharu, who such the blood of men since they desire to become men, to the Lalussu, who haunt the places of men, to Gelal and Lilit, who invade the beds of men and whose children are born in secret places, to Addu, raiser of storms who can fill the night sky with brightness, to Malah, Lord of Courage and Bravery, to Zahgurim, whose number is twenty-three and who kills in an unnatural fashion, to Zahrim, a warrior among warriors, to Itzamna, Spirit of Early Mists and Showers, to Ix Chel, the Spider-Web-that-Catches-the-Dew-of-Morning, to Zuhuy Kak, Virgin Fire, to Ah Dziz, the Master of Cold, to Kak U Pacat, who works in fire, to Ix Tab, Goddess of Ropes and Snares, patroness of those who hang themselves, to Schmuun, the Silent One, twin brother of Ix Tab, to Xolotl the Unformed, Lord of Rebirth, to Aguchi, Master of Ejaculations, to Osiris and Amen in phallic form, to Hex Chun Chan, the Dangerous One, to Ah Pook, the Destroyer, to the Great Old One and the Star Beast, to Pan, God of Panic, to the nameless gods of dispersal and emptiness, to Hassan i Sabbah, Master of Assassins. To all the scribes and artists and practitioners of magic through whom these spirits have been manifested….

NOTHING IS TRUE. EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED.”

 
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Posted by Howie Pyro
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09.12.2019
11:25 am
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‘Let Me Hang You’: William S. Burroughs reads the dirtiest parts of ‘Naked Lunch’
07.12.2016
04:40 pm
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In the mid-90s, at the request of his longtime collaborator producer Hal Willner and his manager James Grauerholz, William S. Burroughs recorded selected readings from his notorious novel Naked Lunch—some of the raunchiest and dirtiest parts of what was (and still is) a notably raunchy and dirty book—that were to be set to musical accompaniment.

Wilner brought in guitarist Bill Frisell, pianist Wayne Horvitz and violist Eyvind Kang, but the project was eventually scrapped

The project was revived when Wilner was introduced to prolific weirdo garage rocker King Khan through Lou Reed, and he realized that Khan was well suited to put music behind Burroughs’ dry narration. Khan brought on Australian psych rockers band Frowning Clouds and M Lamar (who happens to be the identical twin brother of Orange Is The New Black‘s Laverne Cox) to help.

The resulting album Let Me Hang You will be the first full-length release on Khan’s new record label Khannibalism with the Ernest Jenning Record Co. It comes out this Friday and you can preorder it now. Listen to the full album below. Extremely NSFW.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.12.2016
04:40 pm
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Bad-trip visual overload for garage rockers The Black Jaspers’ ‘Scum of the Moon’

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Here’s a wonderful bit of darkly lysergic quick-cut photo collage for “Scum of the Moon,” the new single by Berlin-based Montreal trash-punker King Khan’s side project The Black Jaspers.

Posted by the charmingly named YouTuber LSD210SCUM, this rather incredible vid captures the extreme spirit of Khan & Co.’s ditty, and is pretty fun to just watch and randomly pause. As one commenter noted, “If you watch this video three times, you’ll be declared legally insane.”

Unfortunately, there are no shots of our King’s Cannes nightclub dalliances with a certain constantly rehabbing and self-reinventing starlet, but hey, can’t have it all…
 

Posted by Ron Nachmann
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05.17.2012
11:19 am
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