Slang-- s/t CD (FCH026)

Slang-- s/t CD (Harlan Records #26)

DOWNLOAD here!
Order LP or CD from No Idea here.

9 songs.
Recorded May 2004 by Rob McGregor at Goldentone Studios in Gainesville FL.
1000 CD's pressed, June 2004.
LP released by Obscurist Press, 2005-- 500 copies pressed.

Credits:

Micah Daw-- drums
Samantha Jones-- bass, voice
Patrick Quinney-- guitar, voice

Track Listing:

1. Shaking Hands With Our Enemies
2. Royal Gardens
3. The Sea Stole My Brother
4. Oh, City Of Graves
5. Sports Sentimentalist
6. Within My Reach, Diving
7. Fatal Gestures
8. My Mountain Music
9. Familiar In The Morning

Notes:

* Members also in Cassette, Holopaw, The Deep And Holy Sea, Nervous Dogs, Fiya, The Beat Buttons, Bitchin', Rumbleseat, Vanbuilderass, The Crustaceans, and The Goddamn Deluge.

The only photo of Slang on the internet, circa 2004. Taken from the Dead Tank blog.

Patrick in Milwaukee WI on tour, June 2004. Photo by Nate Powell.

Rainy Day Regatta-- Unreleased LP (FCH025.5)

 
Rainy Day Regatta-- Unreleased LP (Harlan Records #25.5)

DOWNLOAD here!

10 songs.
Recorded early 2003 by Keith Souza at Machines With Magnets in East Providence, RI.

Credits:

Gus Martin-- upright bass
Mary Clarendon Mulkey-- voice, keyboards
Ryan Seaton-- voice, guitar, bass, keyboards, piano, saxophone
Mikael Wood-- voice, guitar, keyboards
Lee Buford-- drums on "Witchy"
Steve-- drums on "Pile Them Up Like Birds" and "Weather"

Track Listing:

1. (Intro)
2. Witchy
3. You're Out, I'm Out
4. Pile Them Up Like Birds
5. Memory Or Picture
6. Work Is Good Work
7. Shake Hands
8. Pound On Chest
9. Weather
10. Set Me Free

Notes:

* This album was tentatively titled Eons Or Octaves. I looked over some old notes in an attempt to properly title the songs, but some may be wrong (please correct me if so, RDR folks!). The recording was mixed but never properly shimmied up and mastered, so I did a simple compression job on it for this digital issue.

* One of the central lines in "Shake Hands" echoes an Everyone Asked About You song from their 1999 LP, unreleased until just a few months ago on 25 Diamonds. 

* Members also in Callers, Flaws, Denim Venim, Siren Cult, Halo Perfecto, and Soophie Nun Squad. Collins Kilgore, the keyboardist/harmonic wine glassist for RDR from 2000-2002 (but not on this recording), was also in Everyone Asked About You and American Princes. Gus Martin was in Arcing, Idiot Vehicle, Tiny Hawks, New Granada, Encyclopedia Of American Traitors, Fields Lay Fallow, Spirit Assembly, and sometimes The Body.

* Mikael Wood is now the pop music writer for the Los Angeles Times.

RDR recording this album at Machines With Magnets, February 2003.

Soophie Nun Squad-- Passion Slays The Dragon LP (FCH025)

Soophie Nun Squad-- Passion Slays The Dragon LP (Harlan Records #25)

DOWNLOAD here!
Order CD version from me here.

21 songs.
Recorded October 2002-May 2003 by Tim Scott at ElectricLeedyLand in Kansas City, MO.
First released in Europe on LP by Narshardaa Records, September 2003. (2 pressings, 700 copies)
LP released in North America by Harlan, January 2004. 1000 copies pressed on lavender trash vinyl (what a terrible idea-- glad the "trash" option isn't as common as it used to be!)
CD released by Plan-It-X Records, May 2004. (2 pressings, 2000 copies)

Credits:

Maralie Armstrong-Rial-- voice, accordion, whistles
Dustin Clark-- guitar, voice, claps
Mark Lierly-- drums, percussion
Mike Lierly-- voice, snare, claps, acoustic guitar on "The Scab Fairy--Introduction"
Eli Milholland-- bass, voices of a cow and a monster
Mike Motley-- keyboard, piano, percussion
Asa Newell-- guitar
Nate Powell-- voice, claps, percussion
Tim Scott-- electronics, production, voice, piano, trombone, turntables
Alan Short-- percussion, voice, bass on "The Last Things First"
Mikael Wood-- voice, keyboard
Kristine Barrett-- voice, piano, and assistant engineering on "The Scab Fairy"
Terry Johnson-- voice on "Birthday Song"
Rymodee-- voice on "Birthday Song"
Grendel the Dog-- barks on "Exponents"
Dish-- backing voices in "Your Birthday Song", hallway samples in "D Hall"

Track Listing:

1. The Last Things First
2. Destiny
3. Juxtapose
4. Sesame Sticks & Stevie Nicks
5. To Be A Hero
6. Exponents
7. The Bovinity Of Crust
8. (An Instrumental)
9. D Hall
10. Wilson Phillips
11. Inner Booty
12. Lord Of The Dip
13. Your Birthday Song
14. The Scab Fairy: Prelude
15. The Scab Fairy: Introduction
16. The Scab Fairy: Complication
17. The Scab Fairy: Rising Action
18. The Scab Fairy: Climax
19. The Scab Fairy: Denouement
20. The Scab Fairy: La Triumphe De La Scab Faerie
21. Sleeping On Your Floor

Notes:

* The all-powerful Assfactor 4 is sampled/bootlegged in "The Bovinity Of Crust", from a show I saw them play in Washington DC in October 1996 (the song is "Hey Stinky"). One of the greatest punk bands of all time-- I highly recommend seeking out all of their records, if you're unfamiliar!

* "To Be A Hero" is a Kirk & The Jerks cover, first heard on the incredible 1988 H-Street skate video Hokus Pokus.

* The first 100 copies of the European pressing of the LP (released by Narshardaa Records) have huge white squares surrounding the lettering on the cover, obscuring half of the cover art.

* Okay, here's why this album has so many different titles. When assembling the cover of Passion Slays The Dragon, I asked a friend to do the title lettering. In the spirit of both playful participation in the Soophie process and faux-intellectual anxiety about the word "passion" (seriously, what the fuck?!), she chose to rewrite the title as the homonym Passion, Sleighs, The Dragon for the European LP. I accepted this twist but didn't like it, and neither did anyone else. Tim Scott did the layout for the American version of the LP jacket, and secretly manipulated the title to read Pasizzle Slizzles Tha Drizzle, while labeling the spine Fleetwood Mac-- Rumours (a nod to our cover treatment of The Devil, The Metal... LP's) and Driggynizzle. None of us were aware of this until we received the proofs. As I fell deeper into a hole in life in early 2004 and couldn't "get real" for a while, I re-titled the CD version Pass Ion, Sleds, The Drag-On, while Tim labeled each side of the jewel case Lethal Weapon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Ghost Dad (Widescreen DVD) respectively. You would not believe how many stores and distributors got pissed off about this. I didn't even receive payment from some folks because they couldn't "find" the record in their system! Finally, for the 2nd pressing of the CD, Chris Clavin requested that we put our actual band name on the spine (very reasonable!), but color-blind Tim took it to the next level by having the spine in electric blue & orange text, intentionally making it unreadable and seizure-inducing.

* Soophie's last show was at Nexus in Braunschweig, Germany on June 21, 2006 with Tim's electronic band Orange Core. We attempted to have two final shows in Little Rock, May 19-20 2007-- one with Smoke Up Johnny as a part of Towncraft week, and the other with The Good Good, Erin Tobey, and Totally Michael in North Little Rock. Unfortunately, Mark had broken his wrists a few weeks prior, so neither show ever happened.

* Folks from SNS also in Humanbeast, V Manuscript, Bloodhuff, Sand City, Deadbird, Zucura, Holy Angell, Universe, Pallbearer, R.I.O.T.S., The Evelyns, Divorce Chord, Wait, The Insides, Tem Eyos Ki, Lily Maude Horseman, Sugar And The Raw, Big Boots, Rainy Day Regatta, Boomfancy, Gioteens, Shake Ray Turbine, Revolver Red, William Martyr 17, and K.

SNS @ Kafe Kult. Munich, Germany, May 2006.

SNS @ Solidarity Infoshop. Lawrence KS, July 2005. Photo by Ginger Alford.

SNS before leaving on our final tour. Little Rock AR, May 2006. Photo by Sara Blancett.

Halo Perfecto-- Hospitals In Other Countries LP (FCH024)

Halo Perfecto-- Hospitals In Other Countries LP (Harlan Records #24)

DOWNLOAD here!

11 songs.
Recorded March 2003 by Keith Souza at Machines With Magnets in East Providence, RI.
Split release with Mountain Collective and UndeRadar.
1000 copies pressed, July 2003.

Credits:

Daniel Pastrana: drums
Ryan Seaton: guitar, voice
Mike Taylor: bass, voice

Track Listing:

1. Rites
2. He's A Clever Boy
3. Don't Just Say You Will
4. Dance Music
5. Work Is More Work
6. Tony Blair
7. Shocked/Scarred
8. Sevens
9. Here's Your Ass
10. Scared & Tired
11. Do French

Notes:

* Members also in Callers, Flaws, Denim Venim, Siren Cult, Rainy Day Regatta, Palatka, Anton Bordman, The Pickup Pattern, True Feedback Story, The K Shipley, and Woken By Wire.

Halo Perfecto @ Tin Can Full Of Dreams Fest. Providence RI, July 2002. Photo by Nate Powell.

Halo Perfecto @ The Bakery. Providence RI, September 2002. Photo by Nate Powell.

The Insides-- Endangered Young'uns CD (FCH023)

 
The Insides-- Endangered Young'uns CD (Harlan Records #23)

DOWNLOAD here!

11 songs.
Recorded September 2002 by Daren at Plan B Studios in Philadelphia PA.
500 copies pressed, May 2003.

Credits:

Dustin Clark-- guitar, voice
Hannah Lew-- moog, glockenspiel, voice
Pete-- drums, voice
Lawrence Wilson-- bass, voice

Track Listing:

1. Cobra Fangs
2. Do It In The Graveyard
3. You're Dead
4. Baltimore Ave. Parade
5. Violet T-Shirt
6. Kick The King
7. Creative Non-Fiction
8. Tarantulove
9. Cars Overboard (the south street bridge)
10. Superjam
11. Oh

Notes:

* The Insides went through a number of drummers over the years. Pete from Unpersons drummed from 2002-2003, followed by Sean (that burly, wacky, kind motorcycling wingnut guy in the Northeast) for a winter tour in early 2004, then Mark Lierly from Soophie Nun Squad/ Pallbearer/ Sugar & The Raw, and finally the drummer for Tulsa (was his name John Paul?) for 2006-2007, when The Insides fully reformed in the Bay Area.

* Members also in Sand City,  Grass Widow, Lazy Fair, Soophie Nun Squad, Shake Ray Turbine, Revolver Red, William Martyr 17, Ghost Family, Shitstorm, and Unpersons.

Soophie Nun Squad/ Abe Froman-- split LP (FCH022)

Soophie Nun Squad/ Abe Froman-- split LP (Harlan Records #22)

DOWNLOAD here!

13 songs.
SNS side recorded October 2002 by Tim Scott at ElectricLeedyLand in Kansas City MO.
AF side recorded July 2002 by Fred Thomas at the Tobey house in Lansing MI.
1000 copies pressed (900 black, 97 opaque purple, 3 black/purple starburst), April 2003.
CD version released by Plan-It-X Records. 1000 copies pressed, November 2003.

Credits:

Soophie Nun Squad:
Maralie Armstrong-Rial-- voice
Dustin Clark-- guitar
Mark Lierly-- drums
Mike Lierly-- voice, talking guitar on "Headbangin' In LR", body percussion
Eli Milholland-- bass
Mike Motley-- percussion
Asa Newell-- guitar
Nate Powell-- voice, piano
Tim Scott-- voice, keyboards, production, samples
Alan Short-- voice, percussion
Mikael Wood-- voice, keyboards

Abe Froman:
Ryan Batkie-- bass, voice, acoustic guitar on "July 1998"
Erin Tobey-- guitar, voice
Matt Tobey-- drums, voice
Fred Thomas-- steel drums on "Fair Friend"
Nate Powell & Art Middleton-- extra voice & percussion on "Walking Distance"

Track Listing:

SNS side:
1. Maybe You Heard
2. Hemispheres
3. Headbangin' In Little Rock
4. You're Too Young For The Living Dead
5. Snap, Crackle, Props
6. The Extreme Discomfort Dance

AF side:
1. Willing Suspension Of Disbelief
2. Droppin' Like Flies
3. Hobbit Hole
4. The City That Never Wakes Up
5. Fair Friend
6. Walking Distance
7. July 1998 (Old Style)

Notes:

* Abe Froman recorded one unreleased song from this session, "The Guerrillas", which Ryan Batkie's subsequent band Hissyfit rerecorded and released on a split 7" with The Reflectors in 2004.

* This record was initially to be an Abe Froman/ Boomfancy split LP, but when the time came to record, no Boomfancy was even remotely in sight. Attempts were made at assembling Boomfancy 2.0 in Providence RI, which turned into the short-lived band Braids To Your Ass (Nate Powell, Sara T Huber, Natalja Kent, Peter Woods, Daniel Pastrana) with one show and two songs to their name. Fortunately, Soophie had a multitude of song ideas for their fall 2002 recording summit, and this split LP fell into place perfectly. It holds Abe Froman's best and most intimate recording for sure, and personally represents the merging of my two family units spread across the map.

* Folks from SNS also in Humanbeast, V Manuscript, Bloodhuff, Sand City, Deadbird, Zucura, Holy Angell, Universe, Pallbearer, R.I.O.T.S., The Evelyns, Divorce Chord, Wait, The Insides, Tem Eyos Ki, Sugar And The Raw, Big Boots, Rainy Day Regatta, Boomfancy, Gioteens, Shake Ray Turbine, Revolver Red, William Martyr 17, and K.

* Folks from AF also in  Fat Shadow, Erin Tobey, Pink Razors, Mt. Gigantic, Hissyfit, Memory Map, Good Luck, and Canine Sugar. 

Abe Froman's last show @ Plan-It-X Fest. Bloomington IN, June 2004. Photo by Mark Novotny.

SNS @ Plan-It-X Fest. Bloomington IN, June 2004. Photo by Ginger Alford.

The Good Good/ Cha Cha Cha-- split 12" (FCH021.5)

  

The Good Good/ Cha Cha Cha-- split 12" (Harlan Records #21.5)

DOWNLOAD here!

7 songs.
Recorded summer 2002 in Cincinnatti OH.
500 copies pressed (100 on light blue/white vinyl), December 2002.

Credits:

The Good Good:
Natalja Kent-- bass, voice
Peter Woods-- guitar, voice
Carter Gillis-- drums

Cha Cha Cha:
Steve Wetherington-- drums
Peter Woods-- keyboard, voice
Ryan Woods-- upright bass

Track Listing:

TGG side:
1. i i i i
2. Kites And Skies
3. Dance As They Did
4. (Untitled, live in Providence RI, August 2002)

CCC side:
1. Take The Sweet Gum Path
2. Backyard
3. Take The Willow Path

Notes:

* Members of TGG also in Bloodhuff, Querent, Hotbox, Boomfancy, Cobra Kai, and Short Millie.
* Members of CCC are/were also in High Dive, Pink Houses, Defiance Ohio, Pretty Hot, Memento Mori, The Good Good, Cobra Kai, Gal & Lad, and Short Millie.

The Good Good (w/ Art Middleton on drums) @ Downtown Music. Little Rock AR, January 2003. Photo by Nate Powell.

The Good Good @ The Sickle. Providence RI, August 2002. Photo by Nate Powell.