A trilogy of little music I made which comes from a very damp place. Permanent rain, frogs, fish and all things aquatic. The whole recording method for these tracks is intentionally dirty: Apocalyptic levels of tape noise, rough-as-heck mixing, 60hz mains hum and rain sounds recorded from my studio window and up on the roof during a rare California rain storm. This all adds an element of organic randomness as well as being a way to cloak the music and interact with the various instruments – Sounds rise and fall into the mucky fog as things progress.
Artistic Liver Paste is about a small child in bed watching a relentless parade of toys marching across the bedroom floor playing cyclic melodic music. Even when more and more extreme/violent measures are taken to stop them, they simply continue on in psychotically twee fashion completely oblivious to the child’s frustrations.
Sardines describes the look of silver’d Sardines catching light in a puddle on a city street. A distracted frog gumshoe walks by and doesn’t notice all this action beneath his (webbed) feet.
The Spirits Are Telephoned. An exploration of space seen through the eyes of a dead frog in the spirit realm. A small space: The telephone is juxtaposed against a large space: The afterlife. Just who is calling the Frog Spirit? And besides being woken up by the phone, why is the Frog Spirit so pissed?
Artistic Liver Paste
Sardines
The Spirits Are Telephoned