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96/98

by Jim Guittard

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indie rock weird electroacoustic experimental indiefolk

10 tracks

30:33

1	Here It Comes	2:40
2	Station	2:18
3	Once Around the Moon	6:24
4	Red Dress	2:38
5	Alternate Tuning Song	2:48
6	Chapatis	5:17
7	NaNaNaNaNa	2:32
8	Groovy	2:16
9	Haluva	2:30
10	Station Reprise	1:10

Album description

Between 1996 and 1998 I put down a few songs in a rather spur of the moment on my 4-track recorder. Lyrics were made up basically on the spot while the tape was rolling. The sounds are pretty lo-fi and the clanging of metal in some of the songs were spoons, pots and pans that made up our primitive percussion. Jim Seagroves helped out on the racket kitchen percussion sounds as well as general chanting or making a nuisance out of everything.

Back then Jim and I called ourselves "the Gidds". Basically, it was our little gang name growing up. We listened to NWA in high school and wanted to be white thugs. We had our own language and mockerized the neighborhood. Some of the songs we speak in German.

I play the acoustic and electric guitar, sitar and sing the songs. My brother Bob Guittard played bass and guitar on a few tracks as well as beat on a hand drum. Warren Barry played the organ on Once Around the Moon as well as added to the weirdness.

I used a Dr. Groove Drum machine. I hope you like these weird songs. At the time of the recording I was listening to a lot of Beck's Odelay. Please enjoy and make comments.

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Reviews on 96/98

hubert_huzzah

Better than mediacation and horspiel

08/01/10

Having accidentally listened to this while a rhythm track was running, I was a tiny bit disappointed that there was no crap drum track.

Then I realised that was churlish. It's really rather a good excursion into the kind of folk music that would have been made by chainsaw wielding space travellers in 1888, had there been such folk.

It's musically a lot more competent than I seem to be giving it credit for. The made up on the spot lyrics are better than anything that over-rehearsed Industrial Production Line Talent Shows will ever give you. Imagine the Gidds on the X-Factor. Cannot?

Then this really is the music for you. Especially if you have sense to listen to music to discover things. Such as what things sound like with an accidentally running rhythm track.