Garden Plot Jackals

anarcho poetics over transcendental beats

 

New Record(s). New News.

We've been blending and mind-bending from coast-to-coast.

Here, there, everywhere...

Through all of this separation we've come together in new ways. 

Now we've got fruit to bare and thoughts to share.

First of all, check out DJ Deep Breathely's new arts collective endeavor CIVIL APE.  

Our music collective, BARELY FREE PARTIAL PRISONERS, is set to launch officially in 2011 after upping the fight on a recent tour with Holy!Holy!Holy!  

Peep Game: 

Garden Plot Jackals presents...

BARELY FREE PARTIAL PRISONERS: A POEM, A GUN ep

Available on Mothrasegg Records (STL)

Chew on some fresh new media and stay FREE...

New track "Expelled from their temple" from PERSON X's  XXXcellent new album "SAD SACK SUCKER SYNDROME"

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Shouts to all people, welcome to the future...

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Posted January 2, 2011 by email 
 

WHO, US?

Greetings Mended and Menders...

To all who have been not tuning in til now, welcome, that's all there IS to it...

Enjoy this tune as we plan Fall Tour, new recordings, nouveau technique, bon chance mon freres y' sueres...

I'll work en Francaise, you all be well and mind the body and mend the mind...

Ohm,

Aum,

peace be with you,

namaste...

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Featuring Person X, our Brothers and mentors...

May wellness be with all of you and yours...

Posted September 2, 2010 by email 
 

untitled tour poem

i remember the heat wave as it struck us in denver
we marched all march, some mended, some menders
we spoke ancient languages and read our own scriptures
smile never so bright as sun-rise-silver-falls-pictures
man, i had a 3 hour shower with beauty herself
and we began to hold hands, rich with mindful wealth
ain't all good, stuck out on the shoulder in a storm
until it iS, nights become days become play with no form
avoid norms, but sometimes we fall right back in
until embrace iS safe in its place, then we send
pics as postcards from bayview to loved others
chillin in hot springs with sisters and real brothers
chords struck hittin up stores for free stuff
potlucks, we ate more than enough
we lucked out, we planned, and aborted the plan
it's broke, it's fixed, it's still broke, that damn tan van
ran around the park with conscious kids and played ball
salmon river, what a trip we gave all
there was to give
and then some
together, not alone all-one
another spiritual journey chalked up to father sky
experience mother earth as she iS, so fly
why
do we travel
seems like such a battle
but it's a privilege we're endowed with we
straddle state lines like some free range cattle
it's for wyoming hill climbin, about 6 snow feet deep
blessing houses breweries and foundries with our poerty
you know that we
also felt the need to take it to the streets
dying little deaths living life, screaming fuck the police
released our expression
city-to-city, session-to-session
rewriting our stories, teaching and learning lessons
i seen family, strangers and friends new and old
and i speak it to you now
this iS my truth told

we smoked too much, we drank and enjoyed the spirits
we camped out in the van, so silent you could hear it
we did whatever it was that we had to do
this iS for you-you-you, you and you
"this shit right here" iS for you-you-you, you and you

-reverend doctor

Posted May 25, 2010 by gardenplotjackals 
 

Indispensable Road Photos & FREE album cut "In and Of"

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Posted May 20, 2010 by email 
 

May SHOW(er)S and some "green..." for you!

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We have an exciting lineup of 3 shows in May, before we hideout for most of summer writing music as individuals and with each other.
Garden Plot Jackals iS playing:
Friday May 14th @ Schlafly Tap Room w/ NatureWalk & BookMobile (our rad friends in bands from Columbia, MO) @ 9 pm. FREE SHOW
Friday May 21st @ Cranky Yellow w/ Sorry OK (Folk Punk of Anti-Civ Records in Minneapolis) & tourmate dark folk improv bff's WinkaWerkin 8 pm Donations for touring band
Saturday May 29th @ Lemmon's w/ Thunderkids SuperfunYeahYeahRocketship and Shakespearsdead (Chicago) - this will be a great last-show-for-awhile for us, some kicking electronic music and 3 bands we've never played with as GPJ. the show is $5 and will be worth it.

other than that, i officially have copies of green iS the color of dead white men with the full zine made from stolen university copies on recycled paper. if anyone wants to listen to it, just ask me for one, and i will work something out with you. this iS Saint Loser DIY punk-folk-hop-poetics and more than all that about 7 friends collaborating together to make something beautiful.

i'm gonna go work on a new song, so here's one you can download for free! it's called "sea" and features dominique hamilton (of the skekses & WinkaWerkin) on viola, drums, and harmonica. i played drums and threw down some vocals over her amazing track. Enjoy!

Posted May 6, 2010 by gardenplotjackals 
 

returning home for April - 5 shows!

our crew has slowly but surely made it back to saint louis, we're down to a half of what we left home and got to portland with, but even Blasphemy Cras and mynotself are returning saturday, April 3rd for our show with Jedi Mind Tricks and Safety Words at The Firebird. this tour has been eye-opening, a wild mix of experiences, from the anarchic to the unexplainable. in some cases, we reconnected with old loves still burning extremely bright. in most places and cases, we created new connections and of course we always ran into some van problems. in any case, we're headed home. saint loser, i didn't miss you at all. but the people, ah the people. can't wait to see what makes my home, home: my homies!
 
and during April, fresh off tour, we (GPJ & our other quirky project, barely-free partial prisoners featuring members of the Skekses, WinkaWerkin and Catholic Guilt) are playing 5 shows! they are as follows:
 
April 3 - The Firebird 2706 Olive 9 PM GPJwith Jedi Mind Tricks and Safety Words $12
 
April 7 - Way Out Club 2525 S. Jefferson 9 PM barely-free partial prisoners with Seth Martin & The Menders (Portland, OR), Nathan Ponzar and Animocity
note- this show will debut BFPP in the way it's meant to be pulled off live, and these are our friends we're playing with. if you're looking for good music outside the GPJ check out any of these groups.$5
 
April 9 - 2720 2720 Cherokee 9 PM STL ALT ORGANIC HIP-HOP FEST with SLIP (saint louis improv project), Type Jordan, Person X, live art and more! this iS our crew in saint loser hip-hop, and we're putting on an awesome show our first time back playing with them. and it's only $5!!!
 
april 15 - Schlafly Tap Room 9 PM barely-free partial prisoners album release of "Green iS the color of dead white men" with Catholic Guilt & The Skekses (do we ever not play with our friends, damn!) this show will be off the hook, cause it's FREE and this album iS worth the wait. trust
 
april 29 - Schlafly Tap Room 9 PM GPJ returns to the scene of the crime of "Green..." to kill a show proper with Red Squad and Eric Hall
 
come out and see us when you can, and don't let the government tear your mind apart.
 
much love
much respeck
reverend doctor mason bilderberg

Posted April 1, 2010 by gardenplotjackals 
 

LIGHTS UP VIDEO...VAN BROKE DOWN...BUY OUR ALBUM...BURN YOUR CASH!!!

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Thanks to everyone who has supported the tour release of "Burn Your Cash." We have sold CDs in many states but STL is still suspiciously shy...throw down $10 bucks and burn your cash on some meaningful muzak. Why burn your cash? 'Cause BURN YOUR CASH, that's why...

Posted March 23, 2010 by email 
 

CHECK OUT GPJ @ MOTHRASEGG.com!

Garden Plot Jackals aren't really record label types.

We don't read fine print, and we don't sign dotted lines.

That's why we accepted the offer of Person X members Proletariat and Nature Boy's offer to have our distribution run through the punk "label" Mothrasegg (like the Godzilla villain)...

As DIY as we are, we couldn't figure out a sustainable, affordable way to honestly print and distribute "Burn Your Cash" from home - ink costs, stacks of discs, burning at laptop speed - we just couldn't keep up before we hit the road.

So, our comrades told us of this hard-to-define effort called Mothrasegg - not a corporate record label, but an independentasfuck effort to distribute alternative styles of music.

We didn't give up any artistic freedoms, and we proudly have printed the Mothrasegg logo on our packaging so as to represent proudly our new ties to this conspiracy of creative energy,

Here, we are sharing with you for the first time, for FREE, one exclusive track from "Burn Your Cash" with the hopes that you might send us some fuel for the tank - we're on the road, but you can buy "BYC" online right now, or later, or at 4:17am, or from Japan, from www.mothrasegg.com/gardenplotjackals

Also, check out the various albums of Person X and other Mothrasegg projects by visiting mothrasegg.com

Here it is, completely FREE, the track "Breath Felt," featuring DJ Deep Breathely, Rikshaw and Blasphemy.

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Posted March 10, 2010 by email 
 

NEW TOUR DATES ADDED IN SEATTLE

New date added in Seattle as part of the Indy Media Mini-Fest!  

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Stay tuned for time, also find us in Seattle on Blursday March 11 @ 9pm The Josphine, 608 NW 65th St., Seattle, WA
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Posted March 4, 2010 by email 
 

divine not self, tour updates and happenings and Burn Your Cash release online...

greetings from boulder, colorado. we been out on the road 4 days now, tonight's the first night off since departure show-wise, and i've been having a blast spreading music to small radical communities, playing with our partners in crime on other projects Dom and Coop and their improv meditative journey group, WinkaWerkin. we've shared the stage with hip-hop, punk, psychedelic, folk and most genre gaps therein in the first 3 shows already. the live music has been sick, and the places to stay homely on our journey west thus far. plenty of deep thought and amazing conversation has been thrown in,  and the excitement is building for playing the grand opening of The Living Wrench InfoBus tomorrow night on Holy!Holy!Holy!'s old tour bus. we kicked it at collective houses every night so far, big ups to denver, kc and columbia,mo and the people we've shared amazing times with. also, to our peoples back in Saint Loser, we ain't gone to far and we love the shit out of you, we'll be back strong in April with a few shows and a proper record release for both Burn Your Cash, the newly released Garden Plot Jackals record on Mothrasegg Records. http://www.mothrasegg.com/gardenplotjackalsdiscography.html to buy the album. Green IS the color of Dead white men will be released at The Schlafly Tap Room April 15 featuring all of the performers currently on tour (Garden Plot Jackals, WinkaWerkin) and Ellen from The Skekses and Pete from Catholic Guilt. that show will be so fun!, as it's also Fuck Taxes and Steal Something From Work Day. big shout to anyone who took action today on campuses across the country today, after the call was made. for now, we kickin it hard, gonna hit some red rocks tomorrow for a hike, and we can't wait for these upcoming shows in Boulder and Salt Lake City .
much love
much respeck
reverend doctor mason bilderberg
pee.ess: here's a track i made over the course of 3 months cause i forgot about it. it's called divine not self and is pretty self-explanatory.

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Posted March 4, 2010 by gardenplotjackals