Formats
WOODSIST056 - 2xLPs
N/A
Details
"It was really all about The Godz, Jandek, The Shadow Ring, Strapping Fieldhands, Swell Maps and Tower Recordings. Beyond these, I had only heard the 'classic' and most available free jazz, krautrock and noise albums. I was a long way from, say, the second Comus album or Charles Gayle. But this music changed my life. It was a record store owner named Eric Mc- Carthy and a man who needs no introduction to anyone reading these notes, Matt Valentine, who taught me that there was a world beyond Dischord, Vermiform and Ebullition. I went to college, met hip people, and got a job at both the local record store and the college radio station. I was taking drugs. I bought a four track and began emulating my heroes. I called the project Golden Calves. I was eighteen years old.... "In hindsight, I like to think that the noise scene liked us and responded so positively to us because, in our own na?ve way, we were subverting a very rigid paradigm. Touring with noise bands and moving in experimental circles but playing proper 'songs' is what made us weird. It was an exciting, unforgettable time. "These are not perfect records. Perhaps worse than so-called 'na?ve art' is 'only-marginally-informed art' and that's what this is. I should have let my talents marinate for a while before rushing out records that now sound to me like thinly-veiled love letters to Siltbreeze. But fuck it, man. I was hopelessly arrogant then and remain so today. Why else would I greenlight this fucking thing?" -James Jackson Toth, Lexington, KY, Summer 2010. Fans of Wooden Wand take note..
Tracks
Disc One ? Money Band LP:
1. In the Centre of the Ring They Are Torturing a Bear
2. Seraphim Radar Rallies
3. Hollow Earth Worship (The Ouija Machine)
4. Rideshare Infiltrates (For Jim Shaw)
5. Pocket Organ Grinder (For Jocy de Oliveira)
6. The Haunted Cabaret of Nordic Nymphs
7. Panoramic Corporate Lobby Shots, Pts I and II
8. Meet the Airhearts 9. Psychic Console II
10. New Intrinsic Worth and the Quality of Judgers
11. The Karmic Disenchantment of the Evil Leaper
Neighborhood Watch
12. Machine: Measurer of Man
(For Jean Claude van Itallie)
13. The Hangman?s Hideous Son
14. Calves Heavenward
Disc Two ? Century Band 12-inch:
1. Equinox: Neon Spotted Owls
2. Consciousness for Juju
(Negotiating the Plastic Infant Reel)
3. Mod Bacteria (For Fred Neil) 4. Alchemy Interlude
5. Atrium 5: The Absinthe Labyrinth (For Theo Angel)
6. Cornflower Sweet (For Dary-John Mizelle)
7. Mod Bacteria II
Press
Pre-Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice / Dead
Machines. Limited to 1000 copies