The A-side and title track of this cassette is a live document of one the best live concerts I've seen/heard in the past few years. It was recorded during a house party cookout in Leila’s backyard that I was lucky enough to attend. She played along to a video recording her partner’s family had made for their insurance after a garage fire back in 1991. The audio of the video was played through the PA and Leila slowly builds her electronics and cello into a psychotic inferno of wild noise and feedback. At the zenith of the piece it’s like if PAN SONIC (playing at their most raw) decided to play a set with live squealing pigs. It’s insane, raw, disturbing and cleansing. The remaining pieces are lush and haunting tracks made using the audio of the VHS as source material. Full as fuck C-60.
James Twig Harper Johnston's tribute to the legendary Okeh laughing record. (if ya don't know...look it up!)
It's funny (pun intended), I get a message from Harper saying he's working on a "Laughing Record" lathe... I'm like.. "Woah, I was just working on some "giggle loops" myself... I'll send em over!", "Perfect!" . A few more giggles from our friend Nora and he's in monkey business! He mixes those w/ some classic canned laugh tracks and sends em thru his new computerized "Anti-System" and gets us all floating in a world of psychedelic laughter.
Originally released on lathe cut in a micro edition of like 10 copies or somethin'. Now available on cassette for us all to laugh along with.
Score to the Case Esparros film "The Absence Of Milk In The Mouths Of The Lost" starring Gary Wilson and Hannah Weir.
contains 3 bonus tracks not featured in the movie.
Originally released on CDr in August 2009 by Chocolate Monk.
Also released on cassette by Hanson Records in October 2009.
Recorded in a hotel in Brighton, UK 2008.
Recorded during a 10 day residency at Wave Farm in Acra, NY, October 2018.
All tracks except the "Plus" tracks were made using old sound fx radio carts that were saved from the garbage and gifted to me by my friend Mitchell Brown.
Thank you to Galen & Tom at Wave Farm, Mitchell, Lavender, Quintron, and Lena.