Executive Slacks - The Complete Recordings 1982-1986 
(Album Release 7/10/2015)


• Complete recorded collection from the groundbreaking Philadelphia proto-industrial trio!

• The roots of Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and Nine Inch Nails can be found in these 36 tracks, 22 of which are previously unreleased on CD!

Track Listing:
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DISC 1
1. The Bus
2. 30 Years
3. Cinema
4. So Mote It Be
5. Sexual Witchcraft
6. Our Lady
7. Man Of Christ
8. I’m Coming
9. Our Lady (Yoof Dub)
10. In And Out
11. Spiders
12. Nausea
13. Magot 
14. Smoking Man
15. Electric Blues
16. Ecce Homo
17. Sisyphus 
18. Cold
19. The Park
20. In And Out (Remix)

DISC 2
1. R.J. Sexgod Extraordinaire
2. Fire & Ice
3. Sludge
4. Wide Fields
5. The Bush
6. Say It Isn’t So
7. Ed Gein
8. Solemn Dilemma 
9. A Little Lower
10. Rock N’ Roll
11. Ecce Homo (Live In Hamburg - Dec 1985)
12. The Bus (Live In Hamburg - Dec 1985)
13. Man Of Christ (Live In Hamburg - Dec 1985)
14. I’m Coming (Live In Hamburg - Dec 1985)
15. Say It Isn’t So (7” Version)
16. Rock N’ Roll (Remix)


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Executive Slacks  "Say It Isn’t So (7” Version)"

COLOR SQUAD RECORDS 066/EP032

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-bath-ep

CSR066 - Tunnel One + P1nkf1re — No Bath EP -  T1 No Bath 136

Moog Grandmother, through two series instances of ValhallaDelay. The first instance is creating an 8 bar delay loop, while the second instance is a 4 bar reverse delay that is shifted up by a 5th.

AsymptoticLooping

Fleshout002

Excerpt from the B-side of the 'Bayou Stickee' c-22, released in January on Monorail Trespassing.

Bayou Stickee

Nystrand / Klein - Bayou Stickee B (excerpt)

Ray Russell : guitar
Simon Phillips : drums
George Baldwin : bass, Chapman Stick
Jim Watson : keyboards
Chris Biscoe : tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone

Fluid Architecture

RAY RUSSELL "Six In – Six Out" from "Fluid Architecture" (Cuneiform Records)

Scottish musician and filmmaker Adam Stafford announces new LP ‘Diamonds of a Horse Famine’, out on deceased record label Song, by Toad Records on the 16th October 2020.

For many of us, the predicament of lockdown and isolation has made way for new creative exploits, be it in the rekindling of old hobbies or the birth of fresh projects. With time and space to reflect, Falkirk polymath Adam Stafford’s experience of lockdown has been one of renewal, revolving around the discovery of a little red book hidden beneath some tupperware in a cardboard box.

Full of old lyrics and memories, this book was a snapshot of a past life, providing an opportunity for reassessment, wholly embraced by Stafford as the world collectively paused to take a breath. Armed with a box full of demo cassette tapes, he decided to re-learn some songs, take fragmented ideas from the past ten years and chop, re-write and re-sculpt until an entirely new album was born. As he explains, ‘I decided to revisit and refurbish them, like a detective looking over an old case.’

Diamonds of a Horse Famine is the result, and in nine songs, Stafford cements his reputation as one of Scotland’s finest arrangers of cinematic soundscapes, tied together, as ever, with versatile instrumentation and cathartic, affecting vocals. ‘People complained that I'd stopped singing when they came to see me live,’ he says of his choice to place his voice front and centre, ‘so this was an opportunity to flex the vocal muscles again and say, "Hiya, remember when I used to write lyrics and songs?". I recorded piecemeal for two hours each morning and did vocal takes in my shed at night.’

‘Thirty Years of Bad Road’ opens the album with a lilting guitar line that swings back and forth in unison with Stafford’s delicate vocal melody, the repetition driving its themes of addiction and inertia. Embodying his honest portrayal of mental illness, ‘Erotic Thistle’ also appeals to his dark sense of humour, with the track’s lyrical ingenuity working in sync with its explicit emotion.

This new record is ultimately a step towards nostalgia; the unearthing of forgotten stories and past mistakes told from differing perspectives, its focus on introspection certifying it as the quintessential lockdown soundtrack. ‘It was an attempt,’ Stafford continues, ‘to strip all of the artifice and return to just voice and minimal instrumentation a la Nick Drake's Pink Moon, Sparklehorse's Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, Cody Chesnutt’s The Headphone Masterpiece and Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack.’

‘History of Longest Days’ casts fond memories on existing in perpetual poverty but still being happy, while ‘Summer on Elm Wood’ follows a suicidal child, living next to a wasteland that contains a derelict, haunted factory. A tribute to Skip James' ‘Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues’, ‘Calf and Cow Blues’ paints a vivid picture of a disquiet rural setting with cows crying across the fields waiting to be milked in the morning. 

Elsewhere on the album, ‘Slave’ suffers the pain of toxic, controlling relationships; ‘House is a Hospice’ takes an unflinching look at prostitution and poverty; and ‘What Kind of Man’ explores ageing and loss of sex appeal – the restraint in all three exhibiting a depth and darkness that stirs your soul. 

If lockdown truly has given us all a rare moment of reflection in our otherwise chaotic lives, Diamonds of a Horse Famine can be seen as the epitome of retrospection as progress and of creative rebirth. For many of us, this period has been fruitful yet humdrum, noteworthy yet simultaneously monotonous; time seeming to stand still yet disappear just as quickly. Perhaps we’ve all been longing to find our very own little red book hidden beneath some tupperware in a cardboard box.

Adam Stafford - Erotic Thistle

Anthony Pirog - guitar and electronics
Michael Formanek - acoustic and electric bass
Ches Smith - percussion and electronics

Pocket Poem

ANTHONY PIROG "Danger Play / Pocket Poem / Mori Point" from "Pocket Poem" (Cuneiform Records)

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Hey @spitfire-labs, I mistakenly deleted samples from the string ensemble folder, resulting in it still opening in the labs plugin, but acting very strange. All the little sounds your hear on the track come from it. I randomly created a new spitfire labs instrument!

Missed It

Trio for harp, flute and viola

Performed by Ghost Ensemble at Areté venue and gallery, Brooklyn November 2019

Margaret Lancaster(flute)
Lucia Stavros (harp)
Carrie Frey(viola)

After some time away from composing notated music, being occupied more with open and text scores, the lovely Ghost Ensemble approached me for a piece, and what came out is an actual score and this lovely performance in November 2019. 

Thank you Ben Richter and Ghost Ensemble for organizing this sensitive, nuanced and thoughtful performance of a piece that could have gone many different ways.

Please write me if you'd like to take a look at the score!

Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp

Cuneiform Records is an independent record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. Founded in 1984.