who is this Carmine Folksy?

My old pal, acclaimed author and researcher Mr Carmine Folksy recently wrote such a beautiful entry of me in the quarterly journal from The Institute of Pop Music.

He speaks so kindly that man...

music’s willy wonka by carmine folksy

For many years, I, Carmine Folksy, President of The Foundation For The Rights Your Ears Have have been relentless trying to track down the exact identity, location of the eccentric, borderline-genius but absolutely suave musical mad professa.....(That’s professor spelt professa. Gangster...Gangsta. Get It?) terrytyelee, sometimes known as terry lee but also “T” to others and even terry to those that don’t. and his mad pharmacist / superhero mom calls him Terence. that’s with a capital “T”. She loves it. He loves it. There’s no fucking problem. (By the way, that’s professor spelt professa. Gangster...Gangsta. Get It?). I have read in my researches that he is often refered to as music’s willy wonka.

I have tiredly tried to hunt down this pop music “academic” who does not claim to possess any form of talent but only the humble ability to know what sounds right. Everything else he says is a science, the science of pop music from A to T. Yes, T.

In recent years, he has developed a secret process of music assembly, yes he calls it assembly, which is patently assembled by his own hands and which he calls “My Tye”, named affectionately after the drink, Mai Tai, which was the exact drink that Scarlett TwoDollar was drinking when she met him.

Pause: Scarlett TwoDollar is the mad music making professa’s sweet assistant and is believed to be the only other human being in the world, besides Dr Tye, or Terence, as his pharmacist/superhero mom calls him.

 The secret music laboratory, which has rumored to have been turned into a sonic factory of sorts, is believed to be located in a secret location in a secret city down a secret street somewhere in between the secrets of the East and Yao Ming. Not in any order of preference that is. It is believed that artists from all over the world have somehow quietly reached out to the strange music “academic” for advice, music, remixes, solutions,creative ideas and often, his secret cheeze cake recipe, which he is rumored to bake for every client after each song is completed.

The secret behind his songs are that they are always carefully tailored with the finest sounds and textures before they are thrown into this odd time machine meets atari machine he has spent the last ten years building.

The Foundation for Your Stereo’s Welfare has yet to locate the professa but is proud to announce an anthology of tunes recently discovered on a cassette tape in a tape player of an old 1976 Toyota Crown, with spinners.

We believe that the contents to this tape were the blue prints to a project called My Baby’s Got A Shot Gun. Possibly inspired by Scarlett Two Dollar’s 1998 Half Shitzu Half Poodle Pet named Shot Gun. The professa and Scarlett Two Dollar are not believed to be romantically linked.

In Searching,

Carmine