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LP reissue of live recording from 1994, coming May 1st on Minimum Table Stacks. Edition of 200

COMING IN JUNE on l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Perched like a weathered gargoyle ruminating behind a hideous, undiagnosed nutjob glare, this batch of grating, surrealism-ravaged sound collages and bent audio blurt arrives on the 130th anniversary of the birth of F. Bushnell Tanks, director of silent films A Girl Called Minusha and The Lady In The Filing Cabinet, whose star Irene Gordon-Pheldt is depicted on the front cover. Two live recordings (from Wednesday Night Live on KZSU in Stanford, and from Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland), plus two homemade beauty massacres from the Day Three of Dead Bats on The Porch sessions (for frappéd electronics and boomer delirium, respectively), and the third in a series of paper towel dispenser Fluxus actions. 

Cassette released by Un Poco Fría

Objects, violin, Optigan, loops, location recordings, electronics, fails videos, thrift store cassettes. Includes booklet. c40

“Acceptable.” —Haadjins

Stream for free or download here. Order tapes from Big Cartel or Tedium House.

CDR released by l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Nauseating shards epoxied into three 20-minute sound collages — one mixed live on the air at KZSU in Stanford, plus two studio monstrosities, scarred by sharp-edged distortion, crushed by abstract oppressionism, riddled with harsh sentencing. Also includes "Senior Prom #1 - Oberlin," the first in a series of paper towel dispenser Fluxus actions for Leo Dilloway

CDR released by l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Dull scrape is valorized on the opening track “Pelvic Bowl of the Common Hippo,” recorded live on the air at KZSU, Stanford, where amplified cabbage strafes a listless murk that overflows with pulverized calcium. “Please Vote Lexi Carter Thump Queen” milks the subconscious panic and despair from rural beauty contests and replaces them with psyops yoga. “All String, No Pearls” is a new soundtrack for student performance art duo Maria Callous’s recently unearthed script, the writing of which was triggered 45 years ago by psylocybin and the paddle-ball barker in the 1953 horror film House of Wax, while “Original Soundtrack Recording to PJ Cramer’s Meet Me At Agnew’s Grave,” despite a title that references a non-existent movie, is an anthem for all territories that cannot be colonized or annexed. Closing out the ordeal is a kind of secular exorcism, or what dry drunks call “a Burmese meltdown” — judgmental, shrill, loaded with blurry resentment. Wicked fine.

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