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A WPRB Holiday Marathon 2021 world debut!
Happy Flowers covering Leonard Cohen's "The Butcher" with snippets from "Christmas in the Stars" interspersed.

Butcher in the Stars: Anthony Daniels vs Bon Jovi vs Happy Flowers

My favorite discovery of Jon Solomon's 2020 25-Hour Holiday Marathon on WPRB was that the Mars Williams behind the "Albert Ayler Xmas"  series of albums is the same sax player who played the hook on the Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping.”

Tickled by that intersection of experimental jazz and new wavy pop I put together a contribution for the 2021 marathon designed especially for the weird late late night stretch! I took that Mars Williams’ sax hook from the Waitresses' tune and looped it, but each time it came around I added another copy of it, slightly out of sync, on top. It keeps going round and around for 3 1/2 minutes until I let it collapse. 

I call it “I Am Wrapping In A Room (Merry Christmas, Alvin Lucier)” because its construction was inspired by Lucier’s conceptual sound art piece “I Am Sitting In A Room” which I fittingly first heard on WPRB, on the “Arcana” program around 1994.    

The "cover art" was made in the same spirit: a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a still from the original Waitresses' music video 

While this was made before Lucier’s  recent passing, this is still a memorial to his adventurous spirit and long artistic career that expanded my idea of sonic artistry. RIP

WPRBXMAS 2021?

I Am Wrapping In A Room ( Merry Christmas, Alvin Lucier)

recorded 2021 by THE BROOKLYN HOUSERS (Gabby age 10 + father Matt)

Disco Christmas

Created for Jon Solomon's 2021 (33rd annual) 25-hour Christmas marathon. https://marathon.christmas

Produced by Mark Greenberg. www.mayfairworkshop.com/
With guitar by Jeff Ragsdale

This is my 9th year contributing. Playlist: soundcloud.com/edithfrost/sets/wprbxmas

#WPRBXmas

Another Year

Patio Act Live At The Channel 4/6/82

Spoken word piece created for Jon Solomon's 2022 "25-Hour Holiday Radio Show" on WPRB in Princeton, NJ.

Cracker Barrel

Recorded December 2022 for Jon Solomon's 25 hour Holiday Radio Show Marathon on WPRB. 

you left the lights up 
till god crashed the party
face to the window 
fogging up your dreams 
friends growing sinister
plotting your death

you left the lights up
on public display 
for all the demons and angels to pray
the game kept pulsing 
long after we'd fallen out

maybe it's better
if we don't hash it out 
over drinks and smoke
flesh falling from our mouths

you left the lights up 
and covered up your eyes
bad actors acting like
the elders were surprised 
their graves were mobilized 
their engines were already cold 

maybe it's better
if we don't hash it out 
over drinks and smoke
flesh falling from our mouths
maybe I don't wanna know
that your heart will turn to salt
that the game keeps pulsing 
long after we log out

leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here
leave the lights up
we're still here

https://marathon.christmas/
https://therutabega.com/

cancel christmas

6:30 News / Silent Night

Debut LP.
Instruments & Vox by Mikhail Galkin,
Back-up vocals by Tom Sawa and Abbah Copeland.


Out To Lunch

From the forthcoming SAVAK album "Best of Luck in Future Endeavors."

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Dr. Action calls. He’s coming over in a heartbeat and wants to know if you have the sounds to wiggle his stethoscope.

You didn’t, but now you do.

Let’s call them SAVAK. That’s what they call themselves, and it would be rude to make up a different name for them. A six-piece rock unit elegant enough for entertaining, but sturdy enough for everyday use. From the hooky self-loathing of the Buzzcocks to early Funkadelic brain lint to the lithe guitar interplay of the Ventures and/or Television, these men stir up songs you can dance to. And think about. Or just think about dancing to.

And don’t worry, SAVAK brings years of experience to the job. Collectively about 150 years, to be somewhat more specific. Michael “Jaws” Jaworski and Sohrab Habibion sing and play guitar – at the same time! Sohrab learned that particular parlor trick in The Obits and Edsel. Jaws cut his teeth in Seattle with The Cops and Virgin Islands. Holding the bass guitar, but never slapping or popping it, is fellow Obit Greg Simpson. Keyboardist James Canty’s secret? He knows which keys control which notes. When it’s his turn to play, he simply presses them and – boop! He’s done this before with Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and The Make-Up. Okay, pop quiz: name another band with two drummers. The Doobie Brothers?! Ugh. Fine, we’ll give you Boredoms and the NEU! ’75 LP. Anyway, SAVAK toggles between a pair of ace rhythm men. Benjamin Van Dyke, known to many in South Brooklyn for his elementary school teaching skills and to ex-Long Island hardcore kids for keeping time in Silent Majority. And Matt Schulz, an enthusiastic snacker and the self-winding clock behind Canadian electronic maniacs Holy Fuck. But while one performs onstage with SAVAK, is the other at home, helplessly flailing his arms and legs to the unheard music? We’re not sure.

At this juncture, you may be wondering: Where can I get some? My local Ford dealer? The produce aisle of the Park Slope Food Coop? SAVAK’s debut LP, Best of Luck in Future Endeavors, is being released in unwholesome stereo by Comedy Minus One. Whether you’re making angry love to America or sticking up an Edible Arrangements with a banana, this is your new soundtrack.

Ça va? SAVAK!

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SAVAK are Sohrab Habibion, Michael Jaworski, Greg Simpson, James Canty, Matt Schulz and Benjamin Van Dyke with Johnny Sangster (percussion), Geoff Sanoff (guitar & keyboards), Josh Sinton (saxophone) and Greg Vegas (saxophone).

Produced by Geoff Sanoff and SAVAK.

Artwork/Photography by Rick Froberg.

SAVAK - "Reaction"

"Best Kept Secret" by case/lang/veirs from the self-titled album, available June 17.  'case/lang/veirs' is a one a of a kind album from Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs.
Pre-order at http://www.caselangveirs.com

case/lang/veirs - Best Kept Secret

From the album We Were Wild - Coming June 10th
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We Were Wild

Feel Right

From "Down In Heaven," out now. Get it here: https://TwinPeaks.lnk.to/DownInHeavenSo

Down in Heaven

Buy Now!

Twin Peaks - Butterfly

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GUM - Anesthetized Lesson (Kevin Parker Remix)

Joe To the World (And ALLIE!) - This Christmas Season

Pylon

Youth of America (Wipers Cover)

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We are located in Mercer County, New Jersey.

SAVAK - "Reaction"

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