whose shadow am I
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On this record you will hear:
1 bonkers
Todd: zither, percussion, words, singing, other sounds
Doug: bass, turntable, percussion, guitars, electronics
words: I know all things equally well I never wonder I’m never surprised she looked at me and she batted her eyes me
2 erbert oover
Doug: electronics, gongs, clapping, old wooden organ pipes
Todd: percussion, bullhorn, voice, ocarina, radio, trumpet
3 good morning corvid
Todd: words, singing, other sounds
Doug: percussion, bass, piano, electronics
words: i have walked upstairs to the twinkled twinkie unwrapped plastic meets a wriggled muscle in a non decaying cavity leaf litter yard from the balcony hand wringing over handrails equation update and I turn to see this corvid squacks and stares observe the subtle head weave a fan of irredescent feather fills outstretched hopping mesmer dancing scenes as it hoppens sunshine feathers as it happens sunshine and feathers each eye sizing me
4 limp keyholder
Doug and Todd: music
The words are a couple of lines from the Don Van Vliet poem entitled Popplin' Gas Heart which appeared in a bi-annual publication of new writing called Conjunctions (1982) the snippet as below: bobby breen suave pompadours faced dwarfed by bow ties white stack up buttons... old girl with a mop and pale hairsock knee vain posture nurse white cracked scuffed brogues sole red strings violet waste... limp keyholder with glowing sun charged owl eyes tricks up her sleeve unbelievably fancy
5 root vegetables
Todd: music and sounds and singing
Doug: music and sounds
words: paper mache' kitty with an eyeball swingset tin stars painted sticks plastics sheets sunshine and root vegetables bike wheels spoke rubber trees bike wheels spoke rubber trees cut tin glean a glimpse cut tin glean a glimpse galena horn abc puppet glyptodont trees are for making 2 x 4's out of (x7) paper mache' kitty with an eyeball swingset plastic painted sticks sunshine sheets and root vegetables bike wheels
6 wig ole tuber
Todd: lots of sounds
Doug:lots of sounds
7 chalk mark stars
Doug: guitar, drums, electronics, harmonium, bass, percussion, miscellaneous sounds
Todd: guitar, percussion, hi-hat, voice, words
pink hearts float up between the chalkmark stars in a moonlight reflected fir tree testicles were just a couple a greeks who were really really really really really really just nuts for me let’s retire rich then we can lose our guts invent a new way to do some drugs after the cardinals wake us up warble out that sound titillating tales of territory as their pink hearts float up between the chalkmark stars in a moonlight reflected fir tree I got a can of beans I got a can of beans
8 it must have come across the road
Todd: drum set loop, recording of Sharon, piano sounds using Lexicon-Sonate under the creative commons www.essl.at/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html, singing along
Doug: synthesizer, bass, organ, electronics, biwa, clapping, one drum, number sequence a(1) = 1; a(2) = 2; for n > 2, a(n) = smallest number not already used which shares a factor with a(n-1), sent to midi piano (mod 88)
9 myopic hop
Todd: percussion, trumpet, ocarina, thumb piano, other
Doug: guitars, bass, trombone, digeridoo, electronics, other stuff
10 so lips us
Todd: voice, sounds, instruments, memories, words
Doug: sounds, instruments, distractions
words: heres to good friends tonight is kinda special the beer you chose must mean something more somehow so tonight let it be Lowenbrau a recording of a recording of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) from the Kohler Center for the Arts excuses will run on and on the dead will still be dead and the country will still be in the red so will the waste of every conscripted son and the administration can soundly sleep on human life they found so cheap why worry about 20000 disrupted lives as long as the president survives it worries (inaudible) commitments utter while the flag of peace still flutters an observation from a visit to Taiwan I emerged in a sophisticated way through silicone lips from the garbage I assembled a surprising lack of garbage
11 this time
Todd: Instruments, drums, sounds and singing
Doug: Instruments, percussion and sounds, singing
12 security code
Todd: drums, trumpet, percussion, computer, other
Doug: sounds, electronics, turntable, bass, guitars, trombone, percussion, other Paul Shwochow: audulus Scott Cherweznik: voice
13 hornless deformities
Todd: wood box, signal generator, cowbell, micro cassette, words, other
Doug: saxophone, percussion, gong, electronic oscillator bass, guitar he smiled too early sound rumbled up the hill the dog yipped doing hyena toenails and rhythm clicked on birdseye maple floors my understanding of this way required a unique form of apparatus that’s basically how cows are born as a hornless deformity that’s basically how cows are born with a hornless deformity weatherman tell me how rain is formed tear apart my doll and leave her laying all over the floor weatherman tell me how rain is formed weatherman tell me how rain is formed grubs furrow furrowed brow junebug june maikafer kritze kratze sack nor nor and diplexer
14 how do you do
Doug: feedback, bass, clavinet, cymbal
Todd: computer, recording of slightly agitated nesting wren on deck, drum set, drum loops and midi drums, cowbell, afuche, singing, guitar, other guitar and bass-like sounds
15 wet sticks
Doug: organ, melodica, bass, guitar, lap guitar, scraper, rattle and electronics
Todd: words, frame drum, percussion, scrim and voice(s) wet sticks blossoms origami twists brown grass and the mud we're old now what does that mean she said I don't want you to end up like that potato farmer down at potowatomi potowatomi I'll have the triple bypass with a side of stroke and a small plate of artichoke heart dizzies I am savory for you right now
Tags experimental diy electronic experimental field recordings folk free folk fun music music
Released February 16, 2018