here is the first recording by my favorite new greensboro band. they have all the surf rock, ambient, and punk flavors for a great time. definitely a fun and enjoyable listen on record and live. not much more to say but download it now and listen.
1. seasick
2. bogus jam
3. supernatural summer
4. bermuda triad
this is the embarrassing fruits first recording from back in 2006. recorded by the fruits and erik chaplinsky at work is worth. these songs got the real studio treatment later, but here they are in all there chilled out and slop glory.
embarrassing fruits now reside in chapel hill and they have a new record out now on trekky records, frontier justice. i highly recommend you get a copy.
1. details
2. like that
3. vacation
4. wizbomb
here is a collection of secret message machine recordings made about a year ago. recorded directly to a portable panasonic tape deck. the same tape recorder my parents had before i was born. solo. lo-fi. download and enjoy.
1. leatherwing
2. government is watching
3. insomnia
4. giants
5. dead man i
Back in 2005, in a two story duplex on Wilson St, poodlestick came together and recorded their one and only album, reasonable people. Although it is the only album released under the poodlestick name it is part of a continuum of experimental / noise recordings made by Erik Chaplinsky (Summer Camp Casanova) and Michael Barrett (Secret Message Machine). The first of those is blank_blank’s find the phantom limb. In some ways, this is the follow up to that release. blank blank went on to record as a five piece band and Erik and Michael continued the experimental recordings as poodlestick and then Mystery Pill with Chuck Chambers (Kaleidoscope Death).
With intense drum beats and synth monoliths, reasonable people has its fair share of melody and rhythm. Sometimes chaotic, sometimes ambient. The recordings were mostly improvised, with some set songs. Later the recordings were further produced through some overdubs, mixing, and blending the songs together so that what you get is basically two pieces of music composed of smaller fragments of songs.
flyday 1
flyday 2
flyday 3
flyday 4
flyday 5
flyday 6
flyday 7
flyday 8
flyday 9
yes checking 1
yes checking 2
yes checking 3
yes checking 4
yes checking 5
yes checking 6
Erik Chaplinsky and Michael Barrett
Drums, Guitar, Casio mt-52, Casio cz-101 Delay Pedals, Tape Deck, Drumtar, Resonator
Download poodlestick - reasonable people (2005)
http://www.secretmessagemachine.com/poodlestick.zip
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After many satisfying albums of mostly bedroom acoustic noise-folk, kaleidoscope death aka chuck chambers, returned to an earlier form, somewhat. Kaleidoscope Death’s first two tapes album (2004) is a mixture of full on art rock and acoustic numbers and this album, Litost, is definitely on the punk / art rock side, and damn it’s good!
Ever get pissed off about work? Then listen to “on the clock”. “Sender” is one of my favorites.The first half is discordant chug of drums and guitar, and then it breaks into a melodic riff which takes to song to another level. Chuck set out to make music that is not nice and “gravel” is most abrasive track on here. One of the most interesting qualities of the album are the strange off kilter drums mixed with the aggressive guitar lines. The title track is a good example of this. Tired is a cool droning melodic track, while the final track is a twisted country ditty.
This is a great album from start to finish and all y’all should download it and listen.
1. on the clock
2. the saddest sadist
3. sender
4. watch it time out
5. unsubst
6. gravel
7. fingers
8. litost
9. mass culture shut in
10. tired
11. #1
12. shitty
“Litost is a Czech word with no exact translation into any other language. It designates…a feeling that is the synthesis of many others: grief, sympathy, remorse, and an indefinable longing. The first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog. Litost is a state of torment caused by a sudden insight into one’s own miserable self…It is one of the ornaments of youth…first comes a feeling of torment then the desire for revenge…unthinkable without a kind of passionate hypocrisy.” -Milan Kundera
get it at itunes or amazon mp3
By the time blank blank recorded “there will be dragons”, we had a solid live set where we had worked out many of these songs, but many of them were so formless and experimental in the early days, that we didn’t really know what would happen next. This album documents the transition from the looser and noisier jams such as “he man hit me” to the tighter popper number like “160 oz” (when we had four members and each of had a 40 oz of beer). Some of my favorite moments are the psychedelic ending to “marching through the forest” and the country western rock rhythm of “frontier justice”.
From Greensboro’s Recording Collective:
The first recording session at the Recording Collective’s studio took place on November 28, 2005, when Blank Blank and the Wilson Street Warriors recorded nine songs for their “There will be Dragons” CD. The studio was still only partially complete; there were no drum baffles or soundproofing on the walls, and the mixer malfunctioned. Despite these challenges, the CD, which was finished at the group’s home studio and released in February 2006, received heavy airplay on UNCG’s WUAG and a four-star review in GoTriad magazine.
i can’t wait to get out of these underpants
divorce party
160 oz
slow song
marching through the forest
frontier justice
aromatherapy
the bolshevik revolution
he man hit me
the bad guy gets away
recording by Daniel Bayer, Jonathan Henderson
additional recording by Michael and Erik
Erik Chaplinsky- guitar
Michael Barrett - guitar
Dana Mayorga- drums
Sarah Love - keys
Andrew Carlisle - bass
and sax on slow song
Jonathan Moore- trumpet on slow song
download
http://www.subjectivecollective.com/albums/bbtwbd.rar