10+10 fishers against the wind. 1) Shooby Taylor "The Human Horn"
Shooby Taylor - Stout-Hearted Men (Featured in the movie "Sing") In the beginning, there were the "Incredibly strange musics" of Re/Search and the discoveries of curious researchers of oddities like Hal Wilner and Jello Biafra. Then came Irwin Chusid, who came up with the right name (that's the whole point: finding the right name): "outsider music."
Irwin became famous and even made some money out of it. And some of these "freaks" even became "famous": the Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Wild Man Fischer, Florence Foster Jenkins....
But behind them lies a universe of madness and delights, incredible stories and lives, art with a lowercase 'a', deformed and disconcerting, of defeated heroes.
Those who know me even a little know that these are my myths, my obsessions, people for whom even being last is almost a form of victory.
Fuck the "greats," talent is a gift from capricious and cruel gods; what merit is there in having talent? Youāre born with it....
True heroism lies in wrestling with lack.
This is the true punk! Not that fake dirty stuff from art galleries and glossy magazines.
It's like certain irregular nudities that, alone, can reveal the truth of the relationship between body and soul.
The first is one of the most extraordinary: Shooby Taylor "The Human Horn." A stutterer since childhood, he always struggled with his speech impediments. He worked as a mailman in Harlem his whole life and, throughout that time, he was a singer, even though almost no one knew it. He invented his own peculiar and disconcerting form of scat, baritone voice, and made-up language.
His first record was a gift for his speech therapist and psychologist.
When someone finally started to notice him, a heart attack took him away....
This series is dedicated to Gregorio.
