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The Best Of Yellow Salamand'r

by Yellow Salamand'r

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Don't Do It 02:09
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready. don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. don't do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.
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Infinity 04:30
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Slop Pop 02:02
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X 05:20
This is a marketing holocaust. 24 hours a day for the rest of our lives. The powers that be, are hard at work, dumbing us to death! So, to defend ourselves and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read to stimulate our imaginations. To cultivate our own consciousness... our own belief systems. We all need these skills to defend and preserve... our own minds.
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San Diego union, July 5th, 1977. Do Grace and Virginia Kennedy really talk over life's complexities in a secret language of their own invention, or is their mysterious speech and almost meaningless babble that only sounds sophisticated to others? The subject triggered widespread speculation last week as the world found itself intrigued with the pretty six year old twins who lived on food stamps and welfare with their parents and grandmother in Linda Vista. The case could be something like that of the so called wild child of Aveyron.
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Waiting 01:12
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Spiral 06:36
As you listen to my voice, and prepare to go under, I want you to pull the spiral program up and put it on your screen while you listen. And while you stare at that spiral, and focus on it, I want you to look at that, and watch it. I want you to concentrate on that spiral. Do not remove your eyes from that spiral, and notice the swirling, and watch it as it spins around. Look at the details of that spiral, watching it and concentrating on it, and listen. listen to my voice...
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Gelbfeuer 01:56
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No Return 05:26
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My Role... 02:06
All beings on the earth are presently being recalibrated by energies which are entering the earth's atmosphere. My role, is of an energy vehicle to which the "Elahine?"and the spiritual hierarchy can transmit the energy frequencies of this new creation in the form of light language or energy words. The archangel "Mistrel?"is credited with being the creator of the electron. A new creation takes place through the pyramidal force and the Elahine, or the creator esix of God, crystalize the pyramidal altergenetic light fields of new creation and literally effect liquefy into the supreme assistant mistress, and with the use of a vastly amplified form of the electron, acknowledge the ??? transmission today. Do so of your own free will.Please drink a lot of water, especially for the next 72 hours. Just be like a sponge, and allow the energy frequencies that are transmitted through whatever it is they're supposed to do. (Speaking in tongues.)
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R U There? 04:06
If you're hearing this, you've been in a coma for 42 years. We're trying a new technique. Please wake up.
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The main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all, according to my opinion, and the opinion of many defectors of my caliber. Only about 15% of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either idealogical subversion or active measures or psychological warfare. To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent, that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow, and it's divided into the four basic stages. The first one, demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years it requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism. American patriotism. The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the 60's, drop outs or half baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power. in the governments, civil services, business, mass media, education systems. You are stuck with the. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. you cannot change their mind, even if you expose them to authentic information. if you prove that white is white, and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logical behaviour. In other words, these people... the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people, you need another 20 or 15 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favour and in the interests of the united states society.
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Quiet Pill 04:26
When the tension of daily life kinda ties knots in your spirit, why a song can be a tranquilizer. Your quiet pill.
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Futurama 03:42
Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Climb aboard. You are about to take a journey out of this world. Into the world of the future. Forget the world around you. Forget the people around you. You are entering Futurama. Alone with your own thoughts.
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Radio Waving 01:47
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In magic, there is neither good nor evil. It is merely a science. The science of causing change to occur by means of one's will. The sinister reputation attaching to it is entirely groundless, and is based on superstition rather than objective observation. The power of the will is something people do not understand. Attributing to it mysterious qualities which it does not possess. being merely the power of mind over matter or in the greater number of cases, the power of mind over mind.
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about

Welcome to the surreal world of Yellow Salamand’r.

There is no simple way to describe these mysterious sounds. This is a selection of music created over the last 10 years, except for one VERY old bonus track.

The inspiration has always been a love for all avant-garde, experimental, obscure and underground works created by artists on the far edge of conventional.



From a previous review in Silo magazine:

There’s some great soundscapes but also a sparseness and edge of tension at times. The production is excellent allowing sounds to evolve and grow. There’s also really good use of a variety of recordings and recorded sounds combined with excellent layering of sounds and noise / drone elements which has an element of experimental whilst retaining a great coherence.



A recent interview:

1) Who are you?
Yellow Salamand’r... and I’m still learning who I am.

2) Can you describe your surroundings?
Small village rural. Generally peaceful. Mostly under rocks and logs.

3) Where would you like to go?
Wherever the path leads. The journey is the exciting part for me.

4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)?
Simplicity. Obscurity. Surrealism.

5) What do you really want your audience to understand about you/your art?
I don’t wish to impart my vision on others. It’s so much more intriguing for an audience to create their own perspective. Keep ‘em guessing.

6) Does audience matter?
I create, because I have to. It’s my release. So essentially I do it for me, but clearly audience response... good or bad... is invigorating. Final answer... no/yes😉.

7) Why Resist?
Depends entirely on the circumstances.

8) Why do you do it?
For my sanity.

9) What drives you?
I just cannot ignore the entrenched desire to create.

10) What do you do in your daily life?
Recently retired after 40 years in a steel mill.

11) Do you have any strategies for adapting to the challenges of existing in your unnatural environment?
I don’t understand the significance of this question. Life is what you make of it.

12) What is your favorite animal?
Salamander


13) What would your superpower be?
Surrealism

14) What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen?
Too many facets of “strange”, to simply chose one thing over another.

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released September 2, 2022

All production by Desolation Cartographer at Obscure Innovations Studios.

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Yellow Salamand'r Mount Pleasant, Ontario

My experiments in the avant garde. Started making music in '81, with old and circuit-bent equipment. Took a 32 year leave of absence, and now make music (mostly) with an iPhone and a few apps.

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