Orphan Sound System. "Meet The System"

Orphan Sound System. Gburek/Palumbo/Elmanahi

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Orphan Sound System demo cassette "Meet The System".  Brooklyn, 1997. 
John El-Manahi: electric guitar; John Palumbo: trap drum set; Jeff Gburek: electric bass, rat pedal

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Nothing Can Live In That Water Orphan Sound System

orphans sound system. recorded in williamsburg, brooklyn, 1997. john elmanahi: electric bass; john palumbo: drums; jeff gburek: electric guitar. more to follow

Djangle Orphan Sound System

Bathing In The Afterbirth OSS Live Mix

01 Tree Made Song

09 System Scramble

orphan sound system. jeff gburek: violin, bass; john elmanahi, guitar, radio; john palumbo: drums. recorded in williamsburg, brooklyn, 1997. the title displays the dadaist humor enjoyed by the members even while laying down a heavy groove with dark overtones and eerie harmonics, boxing with the shadows.

Chuck Yr Wagner Orphan Sound System

Time Shift On The Open Range

The Eyes Have It

From the demo cassette, "Meet The System," recorded in 1997 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY inside the Microwave Oven on Powers Street. The Orphan Sound System: John El-Manahi: bow, guitar. John Palumbo: drums, mix. Jeff Gburek: guitar, pedal.

Archesurfal Typer Orphan Sound System

In this track I would personally shine a spotlight on the amazing versatility, cleverness, clarity and cooperation of the drummer, percussionist and co-vocalizer, John Palumbo (who even plays a bit of clarinet on this one). Which of course is not meant to underestimate the bassology skills exemplified by John El-Manahi in this unmapped improvisational outing. I stand in my earlier nasal self to the microphone some hybrid Ken Nordine Alan Bishop or Dada Biafra reading one poem by Stephen Ellis and some lines I scribbled while on hold various times at my office-job of 1997, launching it with some half-baked ad-lib redaction of a book about Ives that El-Manahi was telling me about the night before and a reference to Charles Mingus only real-Mingus people will get. That other noise is probably the Moroccan rebab, some flutes and maybe I ruffle through my papers looking for the serpent-like beauty coiled in living syntax. Dos espressos, in two separate cups, por favor. Album coming soon.  https://orphansoundsystem.bandcamp.com/releases

Mr. Rollo Orphan Sound System

listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/