AKASH featued some of the best improvising muscians in the world including G. Calvin Weston from Ornette Coleman and James Blood Ulmer; Elliott Levin from GONG, Bill Laswell, Cecil Taylor, Josh Wink, Teddy Pendergrass; Charles Dusquesne from God Lives Underwater, Dee-Lite, FOR, Sugarsmack Daddy & Phil Moore Browne; Ed Wilcox of Temple of Bon Matin, Strapping Field Hands, Zonic Shockum, Arthur Doyle & BULB Records. Also featured were Rev. Johnny Hell, Kali Diana Morgan, Loralai (aka Lora Bloom), Dr. Elliott Diamond, Jim Flagg, Iris Senseless, Aura Rose, Vampyre Chandra Devi, Josh Halfpenny, Elizabeth, RC Horsch, Kelsey, Cory Neale, E. Shawn Qaissaunee, DJ Turtle, Ingrid Simon, Mistress Sasha & the best submissive, but oh so, "butch" man-slave ever, "Piglet". However, you can't forget the importance of a great audience as they are always the most important member of any band. AKASH was always looking for an audience that had potential to be transcendant. And wow, AKASH sure did find that audience time and time again. Many thanks from all of us who ever were in the band to all the fans both old & new who over the years have kept the spirit of AKASH alive and well.
Influences
Africa, BDSM, The City of Philadelphia, Cruising adult bookstores, Gloryholes, Judas Priest, Annie Sprinkle, Eno, John Barry, Wire, Soft Cell, Thomas Dolby, Warhol, Trotsky, Kathy Chang, Street Music, Gospel Music, Blues, Noam Chomsky, Albert Ayler, Bill Burroughs, Ann Magnuson, Bongwater, Penny Arcade, Gay Porn, Consolidated, 70's Porn, Beatles, 808 State, Alice Cooper, Kate Bush, Whitehouse, Nugget Magazine, Hustler magazine, Diana Hanson, The Cream, Golden Paliminos, Bill Laswell, Billy Bragg, Cafe Flesh, The Killtime from 1988-1991, City Gardens from 1987-1991, Forum Theater, Sansom Street Theater, Any and all Cabaret performers, the 1920's, the 1930's, The Diabolique Ball, Kiva, Philip Glass, Tones on tail, David Lynch, Red Lory Yellow Lory, Nick Cave, The Dirty Three, Midnight Oil, Thethe, Nina Hartley, Neneh Cherry, Miss Sharon Mitchell, Dead Can Dance, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spike Lee, Mumia, Assata Shakur, Wolfgang Press, Diamanda Gallas, Duke Ellington, Alien Sex Fiend, The Movie Hair, The Muppet Show, Susie Bright, On our backs magazine, Erica Jong, James Baldwin, Progressive & Sex Positive Feminists from around the world, Sex Workers, Kathy Acker, Pat Califia, Throbbing Gristle, Bauhaus, John Zorn, Love & Rockets, Chris & Cosey, The Fall, almost anything considered J-Pop, BTS, Malcom MacLaren, PIL, COCK ESP, The Jody Grind, Tom-Tom Club, Jah-Wobble, Tin Machine, Killing Joke, Lydia Lunch, Laurie Anderson, Lena Lovitch, Nina Haagen, ZZ Top, Nico, Karen Finley, Yoko Ono, RUIN, Rollins Band, Gong, John Peel, Big Audio Dynamite, Controlled Bleeding, Dead Kennedy's, foetus, Pigface, Gurdjieff, fourth way, theosophy, Kip Hanrahan, Temple of Bon Matin, Talk Talk, Louis Armstrong, Shakti, Sonic Youth, AIR, David Sylvian, Steven Severin, Dali's Car, Ministry, Motorhead, Slayer, Fela, The Police, Buckethead, Sun Ra, Prince, Japan, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Betty Davis, Tortoise, Annette Peacock, Velvet Underground, The Boredoms, The Chills, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Lee Scratch Perry, God Speed You Black Emperor, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dee-Lite, George Clinton, Morton Subotnik, Pere Ubu, Prong, Gang of Four, Alice Coltrane, The Plastics, Pops Staples, Miles Davis, Art of Noise, Can, Faust, Bjork, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Swans, Roxy Music, Vernon Reid, Bad Brains, Spearhead, Mitsou, Mick Karn, Hawkwind, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharock, Capt. Beefheart, Howlin Wolf, Brecht, Howard Arlen, Pop will eat itself, The KLF, The Orb, Harry Partch, Frank Zappa, Chick Corea, Painiller, Last Exit, Merzbow, Gorecki, Mingus, Butthole Surfers, Patti Smith, Tackhead, Grace Jones, Jimi Hendrix & The Soundtrack to the movie DIVA. Any other questions ??? :)
On 05.09.03, AKASH ceased to exist. But still, you may have heard AKASH's, THE ABC's of Kinky Sex! played at your favorite Goth/Fetish Party-Club. And if you were one of the few people who actually realized this was NOT a Lords of Acid song and you wanted to know a little bit more about who wrote that cool and kinky alphabet soup, then you have came to the right place! Here is another outpost within the web where you will get the latest AKASH news regarding posthumous releases + info on "AKASH" related side projects. The pioneering-Dark Ambient/Experimental Electronic band AKASH was founded Valentine's Day, 1998 in Fetishes Boutique (renamed PASSIONAL in 2003) in Philadelphia, PA, USA. AKASH was well known for adeptly fusing eclectic, genre crossing styles into a highly charged form of electro-Organic-Improvised Performance Art & Darkly Drawn - Musical Storytelling. AKASH since its inception, was always a loose and revolving collective of Theatrical, Mythical-Storytellers & Performance Artists/Musicians/Writers with producer-Multi-Instrumentalist, John Cecil Price being the only constant member. AKASH artfully fused eastern spirituality & religious philsophies concerning concepts of reincarnation into an evolving, erotic and humorous commentary upon relationships developed within the span of our own human condition. AKASH often spun epic tales which played out across Mutlitple Physical & Meta-Physical-Dimensions. AKASH existed to convey a positive and unique message of acceptance, love and humor in consideration and reverence toward the unconventional & freedom of expression. "Remember To Always Kill Your Expectations" AKASH: 1998-2003
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