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AGAINST THE GRAINFor Hzal (Anthony Fudge)INTRODUCTION by ROBERT FLEMMINGSACRIFICEFrom early on, this cosmic seer dreamt of black holes,galaxies, low-grade temperatures on Mercury and Saturn,or as Sun Ra sang of the soul’s inner glow and the spiritualneed to invent and experiment in word or image, the prophesyof the solar visionary and his Arkestra in Hough and Harlem,inner space is the place, the Moslem word for salvationand redemption, too avant-garde riffs for this life, the Meccawithin the head and heart, in tribute of the ancestors as guidesto this world, the mirrored selves of the present, from the phantomsfrom the Afterlife to the dark pulse of Africa and the slums,with the rhythm and sound of the tom-tom and masked dancersfrom the savannah and pre-fabricated jungle, out of the boomboom of a tribal drum came the birth of the Earth in seven dayswith the lash of the whip and the evil shouts of the white overseer. Read more