![]() (The moon landing was a Hollywood stunt actually filmed near Johnson's trailer home in the Mojave Desert or perhaps in Arizona. He had proof he was eager to share that the sun is 32 miles wide and 3000 miles from earth (just a bit closer than Heaven) and that John Kennedy and his close friend "Nicky" Khrushchev worked together to foment the hoax of a space race and moon landing in order to make a fortune for their friends. Johnson often showed people a photograph of his wife in Australia, noting that she was standing upright and not hanging upside down by her toes as she would have to have done had the world been a GREASEBALL. Many creationists resented being lumped with Johnson, but they actually shared his logic and approach to science, relying on scripture as the ultimate authority in science and demanding that "common sense" and direct observation were the only tools needed or even allowed in scholarship. ![]() "Greaseball" was his universal term for round-earthers who, he noted, would obviously slide off a spherical earth. His flamboyant newsletter was contemptuous of fellow creationists who accepted GREASEBALL EARTH THEORY (he tended to capitalize every third word or so) because they were not true biblical literalists. He sincerely believed that a literal reading of the Bible required one to recognize that the world is flat. Johnson succeeded the late Samuel Shenton of Dover, England, as head of the often-ridiculed organization, which steadfastly opposed evolution and most of the physics, geology, and astronomy of the past half millennium.Īs former NCSE president Bob Schadewald stressed, Charlie was "on the level". The music is entertaining, but after 10 tracks and 66 minutes of music I began to find it repetitive and a little unrelenting one misses some of the subtlety of the music of their score for The Oyster Princess.Charles K Johnson, president of the International Flat Earth Society for almost 30 years, died in March at age 76. In Sit Rise (on video below) the vocal reminds me of American rapper Mos Def, and on the longer track What there is at one point what seems like a caricature of David Bowie’s style before it returns to a more call and response move between the female and male voices. The music then moves to and fro between these three elements. It combines interesting writing for the orchestra with a focus on the brass section, and vocals, many of which are manipulated and distorted electronically.Īll this is apparent from the beginning with Dust From The Stars which starts with a statement from the brass section, and moves immediately into the vocals with female voices interacting with a distorted male voice. The music is very similar to what I heard in Antwerp. It was clearly good fun, and was well received by an enthusiastic standing audience, but I was puzzled by how different it was from what I had previously heard.īoggamasta III is the second album from this project, named as number III as it is coming out some years after the first. To be honest, I wasn’t sure about the music. The music representing this character trait was loud, heavily rhythmic and included some quite weird vocals. This gave them the idea for Boggamasta, a reflection of an all-powerful megalomaniac person, elements of which they consider to be present in all people’s personalities. While there, they witnessed the departing president parading through the capital surrounded by majorettes and throwing money to the crowd. This new work had come about as a result of guitarist David 9½ Bovée rejoining the band and travelling on holiday to The Gambia with Peter Vermeersch, the leader of the band. The music transformed it into something much more enjoyable still.”Īs a result of this connection, I was invited to Antwerp for the launch of the band’s new project, Boggamasta – REVIEW HERE. “It’s a surreal and extremely funny film, grotesque and slapstick by turns, and from this distance in time, and Lubitsch being less familiar than Chaplin or Keaton, would probably have provided a satisfyingly entertaining hour on its own. Peter Bacon in his Jazz Breakfast review ( LINK) commented: ![]() They also played the mac in Birmingham, performing a mix of composition and improvisation to a famous silent film from 1919, The Oyster Princess. There was an exception: in 2010, when Todd Wills was the main programmer at the Vortex Club in London, he was very enthusiastic about the band and brought them over for a short tour. Join the mailing list for a weekly roundup of Jazz News.įlat Earth Society Orchestra, “the flagship of slightly deranged Belgian jazz” as they call themselves, is a big band that tours regularly in continental Europe, but rarely comes to the UK. Not yet a subscriber of our Wednesday Breakfast Headlines? Flat Earth Society Orchestra Boggamasta III
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