released February 16, 2018

On this record you will hear:


1 bonkers

Todd: zither, percussion, words, singing, other sounds
Doug: bass, turntable, percussion, guitars, electronics

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

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

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

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