Friday, October 30, 2009

Entropie Frograt & the Apocalypse Flowers - LOLITA 93 [HQ] - Musick Video by Henry Zeo Covert


At long last, a video - or an image really - to accompany my song "LOLITA 93" . This was performed in June of 1993 by the first iteration of my occasional musickal side project, Entropie Frograt & the Apocalypse Flowers. The tune was written and arranged by keyboardist Silver Oak and myself, and features drummer Michael Lillard; the three of us were all former members of North Carolina cult band Chiaroscuro, founded in 1986 by Jason V Brock.

My then-fiancee Anais played electric violin, and trading guitar and sundry doodads with me is Elisa Faires, who sings lead on the last portion of the track. Elisa is now a highly respected veteran performer and teacher of avant-garde musick based in Asheville NC. My old friend Duane Cochran, a veteran of the Wilmington NC film scene, assisted me in EQ-ing and remastering an album's worth of Frograt material onto CD. What resulted was a collection of very noisy but (hopefully) highly listenable lo-fi tracks which comprise the album 1231, completed in June of 2000.

1231 went viral in 2007 with the assistance of brilliant NC musician Richard Lizard, and this video was created on August 30, 2009. An alternate video was also created - with actual moving images! - the same week, but Windows Movie Maker conversion issues have prevented me from publishing it as of yet.

Special thanx to Jason V Brock, musical mentor to most of the Flowers on this track; and to 'S'.

Entropie Frograt essentially = Henry Zeo Covert. The Apocalypse Flowers on the final cut of "LOLITA 93":

Silver Oak (aka Jeremy Horne)
Michael Lillard
Elisa Faires
Anais (aka Ann Roberts)
with
Cockring (aka Duane Cochran)
Richard Lizard (aka Richard Jacob)

Copyright 2009, 2010 George Henry Smathers Jr. A Horne/ Smathers Composition.

COVEN - 'Lady O' for Jinx [HQ] by Henry Zeo Covert



My first video: an offering of thanx, for many years of beautiful sounds, to my friend Jinx Dawson. This is "Lady O", by Jinx's groundbreaking occult rock band Coven. I strung together key images of Jinx and Coven and their iconography to weave the story of "Lady O"... whoever she may be. This song by rights should have been a huge hit. It appears on Coven's classic 1974 album, Blood on the Snow.

Created August 6, 2009.
Special thanx to James Barnes, Jay Velez, William Jannusch, Derek Jones, Rachel Kadushin, and of course Jinx Dawson.

HC 93

Jinx Dawson and COVEN online:

Jinx Dawson on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=jinx+&init=quick#/jinx.dawson?ref=search&sid=649741154.2541324275..1


JINX of The COVEN Official Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/henry.covert?ref=name#/group.php?gid=14531810902&ref=ts


Coven Music Vault YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/covenmusicvault


Official Coven MySpace Number 1:
http://www.myspace.com/jinxdawsoncoven


Official Coven MySpace Number 2:
http://www.myspace.com/jinxandthecoven


Jinx Dawson's Personal Lair on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/jinxdawson


The Official Underground Coven Vault - A Cafe Press Shoppe:
http://www.cafepress.com/jinxcoven

'Lady O' Written by and Copyright 2009, 2010 Jinx Dawson. 'Lady O' for Jinx video Copyright 2009, 2010 George Henry Smathers Jr.