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

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6:30 News / Silent Night

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

Pylon

Youth of America (Wipers Cover)

"Authentic yet often ineffable greatness that would define Silkworm’s next 11 years of activity, the reissue of In The West is a grand corrective gesture with no expiration date.”- Andrew Earles

This definitive reissue of Silkworm’s second album In the West marks its first appearance on vinyl.

It has been remixed from the original 2" tape at Electrical Audio in Chicago with Steve Albini, who also engineered the original recording in 1993. 

It was remastered with Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service. 

The revamped cover art is courtesy longtime fellow traveler Mike Hoffman, Jr. Mike repurposed some elements from the original art by Adrian VanEgmond and otherwise operated in the spirit of the original packaging. 

Everything visual was put together as usual by the band and David Babbitt.

Limited to 1,500 copies worldwide.

In addition to the album In The West, supplemental material for this release includes:

-A full-color insert with new liner notes by Silkworm’s Tim Midyett.

-Single-only tracks “Incanduce California” and “In The Bleak Midwinter” plus a live version of The Dream Syndicate’s “Halloween” recorded at Chicago’s Lounge Ax in 1994 join the full album on the package’s enclosed compact disc. 

-Six previously unheard renditions of songs from In The West recorded direct to DAT in 1991 at Avast! Recording Company in Seattle. Download only. 

-Six previously unheard live recordings of songs from In The West provided by Tim Cook. Download only. 

-A full Silkworm quartet set from March 1993, recorded at Lounge Ax and made up almost entirely of songs off In The West. Download only.

In all, that’s over 2.5 hours of music!

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