(is dedicated to sounds culled primarily from home recorded cassettes found in thrift stores and/or dumpsters.)
FS#10 Excision of the Vulvar Cyst
(60 minute Cassette 4$),
A very mysterious tape (presumably made for academic use) of several doctors describing the removal of a cyst from the vulva of a "well nourished" and "obese" woman with "pendulous" breasts. Eerie, hilarious, and fascinating. Each tape with unique cover.....first edition of 30 (i think)
FS#9 Catholic Liturgical Hymns
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#9 Catholic Liturgical Hymns
(cd-r, 6$)
An individual whose gender i'm not entirely sure of (i'm leaning toward male) sits down at the organ to play and sing some of their favorite Catholic Liturgical Hymns to The Lord, and shares a personal anecdote or two. First 12 or so come in the shiny gold packaging, pictured above.
FS#8 The Gift That I Never Got
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#8 The Gift That I Never Got
(cd-r, 6$)
The unbelievably intimate, insane and beautiful audio journal of a teenage girl. Blunt honesty, absurd paranoid rants, surreal confessions.......
FS#7 Brunswick-New York-San Juan
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#7 Brunswick-New York-San Juan
(cd-r, 6$)
Daily temperature reports (for brunswick maine, new york city, and san juan puerto rico....why??) journal entries,commentaries, obituaries, and Mozart all rendered by one older gentleman, who gets increasingly vulgar and freer with words as the recording goes on. He even refers to Ronald Reagan as a "triple lipped cunt sucker". Each cover is different, wrapped in semi-ancient newspaper (as shown above).
FS#6 Pa's Music & Singing
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#6 Pa's Music & Singing
(cd-r, 6$)
An old man obtains a 1980's model Yamaha keyboard and, with seemingly minimal technical ability, pecks out what he remembers of a few old songs. Sometimes he sings along, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he turns on a beat, but then almost always completely ignores it, his melodies and singing phase in and out of time with the preprogrammed thumps. Above the din his voice wavers and cracks sounding melancholy and forlorn (but who am i to speculate?), he sings of the pines of maine, jumping out of windows into hornets nests, and growing old. Beautiful.
FS#5 The Weeny Man
(cd-r + book, 6$)
FS#5 The Weeny Man
(cd-r + book, 6$)
Here we have a collection of recordings culled from multiple tapes, all displaying the antics of little girls and what they do with tape recorders. Featuring creepy religious songs, surrealist commercials about giant feet, radio shows about committing sex acts with stuffed animals, and on and on. Comes in a regular jewel case with a beautiful booklet hand rendered by Michael Connor (of "Coelacanthous" fame).
FS#4 Black Stripes
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#4 Black Stripes
(cd-r, 6$)
the Black Stripes are two brothers who play guitar and sing. One day (i assume it was all done in one day) they decided to record an album for their parents, of whom they're quite fond (as is made apparent by their song "perfect family").
FS#3 low noise high quality tape
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#3 low noise high quality tape
(cd-r, 6$)
a compilation of sounds from two cassettes that were found together, assorted recordings from a group of young girls. An adolescent girl renders gorgeous versions of songs such as motley crue's "home sweet home" and "from a distance", while a group of other, younger girls tries to form a band. Punctuating all of this are occasional 1980's radio commercials, and long lulls where someone forgot to turn the tape recorder off. Artwork for each disc is totally unique.
FS#2 shooting pool with a piece of rope, and other delights
(cd-r, 6$)
FS#2 shooting pool with a piece of rope, and other delights
(cd-r, 6$)
a collection of recordings culled from a number of tapes. accidental answering machine recordings, children banging on things, encounters with stalkers, love songs, dirty jokes, et c. Artwork for each disc is totally unique.
FS#1 eeee eeeee
(cd-r or tape, 6$ or 4$)
FS#1 eeee eeeee
(cd-r or tape, 6$ or 4$)
a frustrated 6th Graders solo album of primitive rock and absolutely gorgeous drum machine/keyboard solos, one of my absolute favorite recordings.