A new lecture / film / slideshow that attempts to tell the entire history of North American music in ninety minutes!

Mississippi Record label and store founder Eric Isaacson will guide you through this whirlwind presentation of archival film, sound clips and images.

Subjects include:

• Examples of industrialization devolving the human race to become dumber while other animals are getting smarter.
• The insane early American Puritan's visions of a utopian musicless society.
• How The Church Of Scientology saved the record industry.
• The personal traumatic history of Mississippi Records founder and how it led him to declare war on the record and tech industries.
• Hopeful messages about the future.

Overall, it's the story of how the powers that be are trying to control music and how people find ways to work outside of puritans, corporations and tech lords' systems despite these social engineers' best efforts.

Don't worry, it's a fun telling of this tale with lots of great music, images and wild stories.

CORUM (of Psychic Sounds) opens the evenings with a short set of new compositions in the vibe of atmospheric "lounge / parlor" sounds to set the mood as people take their seats and enter in the room, then :

About the presenters:

• Eric Isaacson founded the Mississippi Records store and label in 2003. The label has released over 360 records and 160 cassettes. Eric has toured with presentations like this one for the past eleven years, performing over two hundred shows in over forty different countries.
• Corum:
  Grant Corum is a visual & recording artist. He is best known for his design & screen prints for music labels such as Sublime Frequencies, Psychic Sounds, Mississippi Records, Sahel Sounds, Feeding Tube, Aguirre, and Time-Lag among others. He has created & collaborated on many audio releases, installations, performances & exhibits throughout the United States, Guatemala, Japan and Europe. He currently resides and works in mid-coast Maine.