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Intersystems
Biography
The infamous, psychedelic multimedia collective Intersystems formed in Toronto in the late '60s. Comprised of architect Dik Zander, light sculptor Michael Hayden, poet Blake Parker, and musician John Mills-Cockell (later of Syrinx) the group mounted groundbreaking pan-sensory events & released a trilogy of defiantly disorienting records.
Intersystems “Intersystems” was the early collaboration of Michael Hayden, installation artist, Blake Parker, poet, John Mills-Cockell, the sound artist/composer, and the architectural designer, Dik Zander. A three album set of Intersystem work has been reissued by Alga Marghen and is being distributed by Forced Exposure Recalling Intersystems There’s really no way to put into words what…
There’s really no way to put into words what Intersystems was. A non-idiomatic group of individuals who came together to make some of the strangest records ever produced. Eons ahead of their time their work is still impossible to categorize, ahead of the pack by uncountable leagues. They were more than a sound group, but more of an art collection of people unified in total experience. The music of Intersystems isn’t made for CD or digital download formats and it’s not for the on-the-go culture of today. You have to sit with it. Listen and participate in it. These are records-as-art works. They were visual, sculptural, poetic, sound, music, political and very challenging. They still are. These are mind excursions. Drug fueled, psycho-electric-free-floating constructions from their day. At a time when minds were expanding, arts were changing and people were searching for deeper places.
-Tom Recchion
Tracks
16 tracks
Number One (1967)
2 tracks
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Orange Juice & Velvet Underwear
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Lately
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track 01 (entire side 1)
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track 06 (entire side 2)
Peachy (1968)
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Experienced, Not Watched
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Carelessly Draped in Black
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A Cave in the Country (shown as "Draped In Fluorescent Orange" on original vinyl)
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A Shower For Someone Else (shown as "Grand Piano" on original vinyl)
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There Can Only Be Noise Between Us (shown as "2 Apples" on original vinyl)
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Let's Go Get Them Guns (shown as "Assortment of Lead Pipes" on original vinyl)
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So They Took Them Guns ( shwon as "Ear Splitting Trumpet" on original vinyl)
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Friends Laughed at Him (shown as "Music Growl & Scream" on original vinyl)
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There Ain't No Human Voices (shown as "Fred & Harry Finding Guns" on original vinyl)
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Morelli at the Moment of Electrocution (shown as "For Two to Four" on original vinyl)
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