Rock and Roll Mousa

MOUSA - pure listening. No AI. This is HI. (Human Intelligence)

A little bit about Decent Adjacent. We are a northeast area Kansas Band of born in the late fifties’ guys, who liked to get together in my basement studio and have fun jamming it. We called the result Mousa Rock and Roll. Each session is a set list as if a live album were being recorded with the nonsense removed and the juicy parts cut and saved (best takes). Best described as mousa not music; painted not performed.

All Love In Various Energies. Like a Hopi Indian sand painting in the wind.

The results: A.L.I.V.E. RECORDING at the UNDERGROUND MIX 

Do you want to hear? It’s real Human with imperfection; not artificial fake personification.

Active from 1986 -1998, surviving members are currently retired. Together, under my direction, we recorded multiple versions of one hundred sixty-five songs with different lyrics and a few instrumentals. Many of these song poems are one-take wonders that never got replayed, though most eventually would have been creating performance practices (versions/sound paintings) … the first take recordings remaining the pure mousa versions. The plan was eventually real studio time and a live performance of repeats with some live mousa mixed in… but life happened. Everyone got married, had kids… and the mousa making faded away. Resurrected now and remastered for your listening pleasure; the first release: Camp Fire Tales, was recorded on February 18, 1989.

Many early blues giants such as Earl King, recorded first time through sessions often. Theirs was necessity; both straight monetary budgeting and busy schedules Contributed. (Stolen liner notes) 

A situation still applicable. While getting it right enough the first time is not a new concept; perhaps calling this process ‘MOUSA’ (a word older than music) is. This process of preserving the rare moment when sounds and word imagery spontaneously mesh into art. Practice helps; but pure mousa is like the first brush stroke… leave it alone its perfect in its own way.

Mousa: A Greek noun of unknown origin. The root word for music, mosaic, muse, museum.