During the 2010 filming of 'The Tempest,' La Cosa Nostra leveraged a bi-coastal entertainment company to infiltrate the rural locations in Hawaii to hide places for wanted members in New York & Sicily. PG Tapes hacked into the FBI database, locating a handful of recordings of captains & members of the mafia ring who hadn't turned up their music enough. "Una Discussione Sui Silenziatori Pistola" is one of the rare, brief English-speaking bits of recordings PG Tapes has dubbed entirely onto only 25 cassette tapes, entitled 'i Nastri di Registrazione Nascosti.'

"Grande Fuga"

Shortly after Wade Davis' book The Serpent and The Rainbow was optioned for film adaptation through Universal Pictures, he traveled down to Haiti in 1987 in order to help director Wes Craven better understand the lore surrounding evil practitioners of Voodoo, and what he found changed the meaning of his life. As he was in various locations tape-recording notes, he bared witness to a magic that was beyond Caribbean mythos, extending to a spiritual activiety entrapped by the Tropic of Cancer, powered solely by the different incantations of wind. Eventually, the author dug up the empty grave of the first reported zombie, Clairvius Narcisse, and was ensnared by the same curse that has entangled many humans before him. Who is the Wade Davis audiences interact with today? PG believes the last known article of his existence are the recordings he took on tape, so separated them into five tracks, entitled it, Wind in Clairvius Narcisse, and selling it for $7 (with shipping) in edition of 25.

"Not A Name"

H031
JAWS “Object Dom”
Hundebiss Records, 2016

OBJECT DOM, the third full length from Los Angeles JAWS, explores the ambiguous terrain of spirituality and self-image within the rip-current info stream of our modern condition.  With slippery technologies opening void portals into endless riffs on the Narcissus myth, the confession experience, the orgasm, the private concert, where does value reside?  Has it abstracted into the ephemera of experience or further calcified into the defined contours of the object?  OBJECT DOM attempts to trace the movement of value through this inexact landscape.
Sonically the album looks to Baltimore Club and its endless variations on the Sing Sing break as both inspiration and as a metaphor for the informational hall of mirrors we inhabit, where the theme itself is subsumed within the oceanic variations there of.  Staying true to the vocal-centered tenets which have always anchored the project (and from which it derives its namesake), the exquisite skeleton of Bmore Club is reimagined into a variety of situations into which the vocalist must navigate.  On occasion, the vocalist removes himself entirely, or barely enters the frame, giving space to a more luxuriated production environment than has been present on previous JAWS records; an environment that embraces the kaleidoscopic sonic pallet we have inherited in our gloomy bargain with digital technology.

Recorded in Los Angeles
Mixed in Italy

"Not A Name"

PG Tapes

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