All sounds recorded and played by Ellen Johansing, 2003. 

Ellen Johansing - 2003

Familiar 0.1

Elegy for All Beings Immolated by The Camp Fire of 2018

Recorded 24 October 2019 in Sacramento, CA.

Phrygian Sunflower

(The) Transparencies were from Atascadero and San Luis Obispo, CA circa 2001-2. At the time of this recording, the players were: 

Tyler Innis: guitar
James Lord: drums
Chris White: bass
Celeste Zolezzi: voice

Over ten years later, these songs sound like coy ineptitude and post-high school bedroom boredom expressed with economic metaphors about love and disgust: crude and noisy plodding pop-prog hooks, accompanied by the wry narration of the (not-so-secretly) coolest girl in school. Tyler can barely play that cheap guitar, but his out of tune riffage is just close enough to music to keep your toe tapping; Celeste's voice and lyrics don't sound angry, depressed, or even sexy–just kind of mean and having a bit of amusement at your expense, like the time she played a show wearing a cardboard Angela Lansbury mask; James and Chris are the only ones that seem to resemble actual musicians, even though they might be totally faking it. This is the sound of non-ambitious lovers and punks during wartime, getting their kicks from a few stupid sounds.  

Songs:  
Supersize American Girls, (Intermission), Satan is the Devil, No Hit, Mr. Suit, Transparent Tragedy, New Money, Purchasing Power, I Want Nice Things (I Want You), Wanna Sleep

Gland Dialer 
Sacramento, CA/March 2013. 