Zig Zags - Brainded Warrior

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This episode tells the story behind our reissue of the 1984 Los Angeles loner folk album Songs From Suicide Bridge by David Kauffman and Eric Caboor. Album producer Patrick McCarthy describes how the reissue came about, author Sam Sweet reads his liner notes, and we play several tracks from the album.

Light In The Attic Podcast Episode 2: Greetings From Suicide Bridge

Sonic ID for WGXC Community Radio in Hudson, NY. http://wgxc.org/

WGXC Sonic ID

Tracks from the unreleased album, "Dusk Radio."

All music by Michael Garofalo, Jason Labbe, and Patrick McCarthy.

03 Frame Geometry

Released 2007 as a free103point9 Audio Dispatch. 

Music by Michael Garofalo and Patrick McCarthy.

"Solar Filters" was originally conceived as part of a song cycle about the sun and the way it influences Earth's atmosphere.  We abandoned the project when we realized the idea was more interesting than the music we wrote for it.  "Solar Filters" survived, though, and the shortwave radio textures that open the track (essentially, the sounds of the atmosphere) point to its origins.  During the time we were working on these recordings, cheap and toy radios were important to our performances -- often providing the only amplification for our instruments and voices.  Replicating the sound of these radios greatly informed our approach when committing the track to tape.

"Mother Evening" began, like most of our work, as a live improvisation.  When it came time to record and settle on lyrics, we turned to a type of spam email we were getting a lot of at that moment.  The emails were nonsense -- really just a collection random phrases and sentence fragments -- but there was something poetic about them.  So we took the lines that struck us as particularly sonorous and cobbled together a sort of collage poem.  Like the in-between-stations static on "Solar Filters," we incorporated this digital detritus (literally, junk mail) into "Mother Evening."

The etchings on either side of the vinyl records refer, albeit obliquely, to both the lost song cycle and the subject line from one of the spam emails we used.


 

Mother Evening

Solar Filters

In tribute to Zebulon, which closed this week, we're sharing an improvised live set recorded there in 2008. Patrick played electric guitar and sang. Jason played drum kit and percussion. Michael played with feedback and his mbira.

Zebulon 3.20.08

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/812-where-s-my-towel-industry-standard

In November 2012, LITA's Patrick McCarthy travelled to Austin, TX, to make a short documentary on the legendary skate rock band the Big Boys, which is in support of our latest reissue of their 1981 debut LP "Where's My Towel / Industry Standard" (out 4/5/13). After two days of interviews, I sat down with Tim and Chris to play the album and have them talk about it. Awesomeness ensued. 

For more info, audio samples and to order the album, visit the link below:

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/812-where-s-my-towel-industry-standard

What's the short doc "Looking Back It's Just Reflections" at the link below:

http://youtu.be/jHSYDCyBv5Q

In Conversation - Tim Kerr & Chris Gates: Big Boys "Where's My Towel / Industry Standard"

We dig through crates so you don't have to.

Light In The Attic Podcast Episode 2: Greetings From Suicide Bridge

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