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| | buttecounty free music society (usa) #bufms lp tedium house (usa) #bufms lp“induced musical spasticity • buttecounty free music society twenty fifth anniversary 1984-2009” quadruple long playing record and compact disc boxed set - the marques - new leash on life
- lucian tielens - when we eat jesus
- ambivalent dosage - transcendence of the eggs
- richard streeter - cookies shaped like kites (edit)
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - tallulah bankhead
- 28th day - let go
- dilwhip - do you know how it feels?
- hypnagogic jerk - california condor
- hallucinatory companion - glass pumpkin
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - sakura sukura
- flamboyant offals - wentz market
- 28th day - reality is contraception
- walking jock - seven year itch
- dead boy 3 - yeah
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - je suis un chien mort
- hallucinatory companion - tit wax
- experimental artists - carnival of headache
- lawrence crane and john young - what’s your beef?
- tops inc. - lumberjack song
- hypnagogic jerk - california condor slight return
- hallucinatory companion - that’s when she knew she was one of them
- rory lyons - introduction to the device
- the conduits - (in yugoslavia) cigarettes are god
- sidney afrika - fly like an algae
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - mid-range phase / link 3" dome
- ziplok - we meet under blankets
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - goat embryo (covered with glue)
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - industrial barbeque
opening remarks the lion sleeps tonight i read somewhere that it’s normal noisy texans barf on joan’s head if it’s in you requiem for an italian waiter tv corn rock’n’roll all night
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - plastic jesus
- unlikely modernists - rocks
- bren’t lewiis ensemble - lightbulb incident
- the marques - the brothers
- beor the friendly thing - episode #2: beor gets a cold
- beor the friendly thing - episode #4: beor goes to jail
- beor the friendly thing - episode #5: beor goes to court
- beor the friendly thing - episode #6: beor gets it wholesale
- rented lips - bren’t lewiis interviewed by miss thrasher
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "industrial barbeque" |
| february 2009 release ; sprawling set of home-recorded damage, captured to 4-track cassette over the past 25-odd years by a rag-tag gang of miscreants dotting the central valley hillsides, amidst the sleeper communities in “the land of natural wealth and beauty” ... most notably barbara manning and future tedium house ceo / bananafish “publisher” seymour glass ...
... and the bananafish universe should be your reference-point here ; aside from a few (well, more than a few) diversions into typical desultory teenage basement-wastoid-isms (i shit you not there are fucking monty python and steve miller band “covers” here) there are genuine stabs at the sort(s) of free-plunderphonic collages & large-group freedom that fellow federal / acronymic collective lafms began laying down a couple hundred miles south a decade or so prior ... while the set is peppered with some fine 80s west-coast art-punk and miscellaneous “band” vapor trails, it’s the free-improv miasma of the bren’t lewiis ensemble that provides the lion’s share of the set’s scannable moments (listen to the sound-sample) ; laying down a mix of “classic” electro-acoustic improv modes & formless vocal radiation(s) ...
the sheer volume of material here is pretty overwhelming ; while much of it feels like the collective airing of some consciously buried dirty laundry, the cringe-to-wonderment ratio starts to shift towards the latter as the set progresses ... the archival-quality vinyl-on-demand style edition certainly doesn’t hurt matters ; inside the silkscreened box are the four lps (each in their own static-free sleeve, inside a simple white stickered jacket) , four double-sided color inserts (detailed below) a big fold-out poster, and even a bonus cd containing further archival materials & radio plays ...
a labor-of-love ; that’s for certain !!! anyone interested in tracing the roots of pan-genre experimentalism to the northern californian suburban lair can do so within ... |
| | buttecounty free music society press release... |
| bufms • induced musical spasticity 4xlp february 2009
induced musical spasticity commemorates the nascent pollination — in the musty shadows of the real ersatz sherwood forest, a couple hundred miles north of san francisco — of the buttecounty free music society, an apocryphal institution that encouraged anything and nothing, in musical and amusical contexts, sometimes intentionally, sometimes because no one knew any better or cared.
highbrow concept tracks by the marques (brothers cole and steve marquis) and the dramaturgical unlikely modernists, along with ambivalent dosage’s pre-vomit launch nihilism, mutter and howl next to mad paisley destructo by dilwhip and the quartet edition of 28th day, hypnagogic jerk’s overmodulated roar, and sweet, ymg-influenced instrumentals by hallucinatory companion (aka barbara manning and cole marquis).
ripe dementia by experimental artists, lawrence crane and john young, and tops inc. stops rational people in their tracks, while turntable experiments, tape yoink, and high-lonesome electro-twarnk by rory lyons, ziplok, sidney afrika, the conduits, lucian tielens, and richard streeter shuffle the consciousness.
and then you’ve got primitard rock dunt by the flamboyant offals, walking jock, dead boy 3, and shockingly raw 28th day material that predates most anyone’s idea of the original line-up of that influential band.
four episodes of matt mumper’s serial radio play beor the friendly thing appear, in all its inscrutable, deadpan glory.
the bren’t lewiis ensemble pollutes the lion’s share of real estate with a side-long tape cut-up a la faust tapes called “goat embryo (covered with glue),” and their entire industrial barbecue set. also here are the spot-on country lament “plastic jesus”; the electronic damage of “mid-range phase/link 3 "dome”; the smegma-influenced “lightbulb incident,” infamous for its live, on-air sodomy; a kcsc radio interview that includes the group’s first recordings; and a handful of previously unreleased tracks.
two-thirds of the material here was previously released (translation: a few dozen cassettes were dubbed one at time and passed through the hands of people in the same rural northern california area code 25 years ago). all the relics in this boxset are likely unheard by anyone not specifically mentioned above.
- willfully outsider free nreeeeeeeum by the bren’t lewiis ensemble and the entities with whom their salty juices co-mingled a quarter of a century ago
- unheard cassette recordings from 1982- 84 exposed to the unforgiving gaze of 21st century scrutiny for the first time
- soothes nostalgia for vintage tape hiss and clunky cassette edits
- silkscreened box includes four double-sided color inserts, 24 x 36 color poster
- bonus cd of radio plays, an interview, and more rare and live material
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