Muted guitar beat and Matrix synthesizer drop into Buck Dharma’s methodical saw-the-girl-in-half riff, “Les Invisibles” marching through Haiti’s dark “waters of amnesia” with Terminator determination. A metronomic drone: “Seven, seven, seven, seven…” Imaginos blasts 1988 Blue Öyster Cult into infinity.
“In the saga of Imaginos, between the extremes of the beginning (Les Invisibles) and the end (Magna of Illusion), everything happens all at once. Without a sequence of events, there is a rush of events.”
Time tsunamis, the blur of events ticking off digital time at millennial rates.
“The rush of events is a horror. This is the key. Ultimately, rhythm is image and image is rhythm. Ultimately, this myth is random access.”
In an Audubon desk calendar from 1,000 years ago – 2007 – seven last lists of everything happening all at once, seven entries each. 50 musical signs of the Rapture not including the scrivener ’s personal earshot into the Divine: a violin/organ duo rehearsal at San Francisco monolith/cathedral St. Mary’s of the Assumption, Friday afternoon, 3pm, May 25, 2007.
7 Best Roadshows
1) Boris with Michio Kurihara, Mohawk (Oct. 19)
2) Stooges, Stubb’s, South by Southwest (Mar. 17)
3) Aretha Franklin, Bass Concert Hall (Apr. 9)
4) Björk, Zilker Park, Austin City Limits Music Festival (Sept. 14)
5) Richard Thompson, Texas Union Ballroom (Sept. 22)
6) Booker T. & the MGs, Palmer Events Center (Nov. 8)
7) Rufus Wainwright, Neko Case, Stubb’s (Aug. 11)
7 Best On-the-Road Shows
1) Stevie Wonder, Toyota Center, Houston (Dec. 4)
2) Marianne Faithfull, Fillmore, San Francisco (May 26)
3) Annie Lennox, McFarlin Memorial Auditorium, SMU, Dallas (Oct. 14)
4) Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, American Airlines Center, Dallas
(Feb. 8)
5) Red Hot Chili Peppers, AT&T Center, San Antonio (Mar. 6)
6) Loreena McKennitt, Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie (Oct. 9)
7) Police, AT & T Center, San Antonio (Nov. 2)
7 World Events
1) Manu Chao, Stubb’s (June 11)
2) Radio Birdman, Emo’s (June 24)
3) Trio Mediaeval, McCullough Theatre (Mar. 22)
4) Andy Palacio & Garifuna Collective, Zilker Park, ACL Music Fest (Sept. 14)
5) Marcel Khalife, Hogg Auditorium (Oct. 20)
6) Fugiya & Miyagi, Club de Ville (Oct. 16)
7) Café Tacuba, La Zona Rosa (Dec. 6)
7 Local Hootenanies
1) Led Zeppelin Hoot, Ruta Maya (Jan. 3)
2) Tia Carrera/Amplified Heat, back-to-back SXSW showcases, Red 7 (Mar. 17)
3) Explosions in the Sky, Hogg Auditorium (Mar. 4)
4) Road to Austin, Auditorium Shores (May 19)
5) Ernie Mae Miller, TGIFs in the Radisson (July 1)
6) Summer of Love Hoot, Ruta Maya (Aug. 25)
7) Flood, End of an Ear (Sept. 8)
7 Waterloo Records In-Stores
1) Tia Carrera (July 20)
2) Charlie Louvin (Oct. 12)
3) Okkervil River (Aug. 24)
4) Future Clouds & Radar (May 10)
5) Li’l Cap’n Travis (July 6)
6) Menomena (June 18)
7) Vietnam (Feb. 9)
7 Local Extremities
1) Yellow Fever, Carousel Lounge (Feb. 3)
2) Norah Jones, Austin City Limits (June 14)
3) Rachel Loy, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (Aug. 20)
4) Leatherbag, Austin Powell’s housewarming, left on Manor (Oct. 28)
5) Charlie Potts Magic Windmill Band, Scoot Inn (Sept. 1)
6) Gary Clark, Jr., Austin Music Hall (Nov. 26)
7) Willie Nelson, Backyard (Aug. 10)
7 To Grow On
1) The Clipse, Emo’s (Mar. 21)
2) Doc Watson, UT Union Ballroom (June 21)
3) Three 6 Mafia, Stubb’s (Oct. 2)
4) Ume, Emo’s (Aug. 31)
5) Avengers, Red 7 (Oct. 17)
6) Martha Wainwright, Stubb’s (Nov. 15)
7) Zappa Plays Zappa, Hogg Auditorium (Nov. 13)
777) Rubble, Emo’s (Dec. 30)
This article appears in December 28 • 2007.
