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Titicacaman Records CAT#37

A REALLY FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE
by The League of Assholes (2022)

Free download in bandcamp

A really stupid and futile gesture on the face of a slow boiling catastrophy. SCREAM! SCREAM loud! A multitransactional neural love buzz machine booms out our indignation and despair, our love and tinkly effusions, booms it with due process. Unborn and sharply conflicting pieces of wrath and sorrow, scandalized pieces, to Supremes with love, bang down the gavel on coalitions of the unwilling.

Forced informed consent becomes enforced unformed unconsent. Theocracy trumps secular normalcy. Nuestro GRITO invita tu GRITO. In league with each other, no matter which side of the soundscape you are on, scream with us. In feral outrage SCREAM with us. In stupid and futile gesture, scream with us. From the moment of conception, these sounds scream a requiem for the Ecclesiastic Court. SCREAM with us without regard to futility. Banging drums, blowing horns and screaming loud brought down the walls of Jericho.

A REALLY FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE follows the sound collage process and purging tradition of previous League of Assholes albums, featuring creative contributions by a host of brilliant usual suspects and inspired performances by new kindred spirits, good headphones and high volume are recommended. A REALLY FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE is available as a free download, courtesy of The League of Assholes and Titicacaman Records. Thanks for listening!

Long inactive as a band the roots of The League of Assholes stretch back to the late 1990’s when a rotating breed of adventurous guitarists would gather to improvise dissonance. Disclaimer: The League of Assholes does not exist, there is no league and the participants in this work are not assholes.

<a href="https://titicacamanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-really-futile-and-stupid-gesture">A REALLY FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE by The League of Assholes</a>
“That was a really good time… it was a constantly engaging ride through all sorts of off-road terrain. Evocative is the word!”
Christopher Stephens (Japanese translator, The Assholes)

“Any momentary sensation of catharsis is a blessing these days. Listening to A Really Futile And Stupid Gesture in headphones gives one comfort that they are not alone in the attempt to survive surmount the madness of now. I’m grateful to all the participants in this album, and to Marcelo Radulovich for his heroic assemblage of all these far-flung parts into a completely coherent whole. Marcelo has been tirelessly creating brilliant work for decades and it warms my heart that he continues to do so. Long may he and The League of Assholes reign.”
Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Beer for Dolphins and a bunch of other greats)

“A Really Futile And Stupid Gesture will clear the room of any square stragglers at a party. Those who can handle it will crack a crooked smile and congratulate each other for their stamina and open ears.”
Hans Werksman (read the full review in Here Comes the Flood)

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: Korean bells 
Abel Ashes: harmonica
 Dylan Lee Brown: electronic percussion 
James Call: layered screams, excerpted Purple Hand  
Dave DeFilippo: coupled oscillator systems 
Thomas Dimuzio: live sampling & feedback, Buchla 200 
Cathleen Hall: pissed off woman 
Chet Harrison: electric violin 
Jeff Kaiser: trumpet 
Alan MacKillop: guitar
 Charles Maynes: piano, synth
William Poschman: guitar 
Marcelo Radulovich: hurdy gurdy, guitar, voice, sampling/electronics, percussion, bass, mix master Radul 
Bill Ray: drums
Nicholas P Roth III: processed alto saxophone 
Scott Michael Sayre: piano, field recordings, trombone
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics 
Gabriel Sundy: saxophone 
Scott Walton: inside a piano 
FM Watson: Ebow over fretless guitar under various FX 
David Ybarra: bass, drum machine

Recorded in various locations of the USA, Korea and France. 
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, summer 2022.
Cover by Marcelo Radulovich
Released 8/4/2022

Titicacaman Records CAT#33

CODA
by The League of Assholes (2021)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

“Fuck Trump!”
Robert Deniro

And so, through this eighth and final album The League of Assholes bid farewell to the ogre who ate children. CODA follows the sound collage process and purging tradition of previous League of Assholes albums, featuring creative contributions by a host of brilliant usual suspects and inspired performances by new kindred spirits, good headphones and high volume are recommended. CODA is available as a free download, courtesy of The League of Assholes and Titicacaman Records. Thanks for listening!

“Some of the children he could not swallow, so he threw them up, some of them are us.”
Participant

CODA (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-CODA.mp3

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: harpsichord
Abel Ashes: electronics
Dylan Lee Brown: alien groove box
James Call: theremin, speaking-in-tongues treatment
Mike Coppolino: street comic
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla 200 and Metasonix Wretch Machine
Barney Firks
Futbol: Borussia Dortmund vs. Brugge
Chet Harrison: mandolin harp, violin, oinker
Damon Holzborn: synthesizer
Jeff Kaiser: flugelhorn and live electronics
Matthew Kerr: drums
Alan MacKillop: surf guitar
Charles Maynes: piano, textures
Jessica Radulovich: cutting up potatoes
Marcelo Radulovich: guitar, voice, xylophone, percussion, mix master Radul
Bill Ray: drums
Scott Michael Sayre: piano, melodica, trombone, trumpet, synthesizer
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics
Bobby Stull: electronic beats
Gabriel Sundy: baritone sax, flute, clarinet
Scott Walton: contrabass, voice
Mike Watson: automated air pump, casio, various toys & noise makers
David Ybarra: bass, drum machine, voices Gerk Chirpple
Morgan Young: drums

Recorded in various locations of the USA, Europe and Africa.
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, winter 2021.
Cover by Marcelo Radulovich
Released 1/20/2021

Titicacaman Records CAT#31

VITRIOL
by The League of Assholes (2020)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

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VITRIOL follows the sound collage process and purging tradition of previous League of Assholes albums, this time summing up all previous albums into one. VITRIOL is available as a free download, courtesy of The League of Assholes and Titicacaman Records. Thanks for listening!

VITRIOL (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-VITRIOL.mp3

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: piano, scream, khaen, Bangkok trafficscapes, shortwave radio, Okinawan sanshin
Akilegna: mehtna naissur
Android: voice
Argonoise: improvisation source
Abel Ashes: acoustic guitar, electronics, breathing, voice, textures
DB: guitar
Jon Boe: guitar feedback
Dylan Lee Brown: drums, guitar, sample manipulations, drum machines, percussion, array midi controller, Casio, array nail organ
Bug Guts: guitars, voices, shaker
Cosmo Call: Casio
James Call: Bastardized File, narrator, theremin, organ
Chickens: laying eggs in Pennsylvania
Randy Chiurazzi: guitar, sound sculpture suit
Lou Damien: saxophone
Spud Davenport: marimba, garbage can lid, drums, electronics, scream, vocal dittie
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla 200, Metasonix Wretch Machine, Elektron media re-channeling/re-truthing algorithms, vocoder
Dogs: barking
James Dougherty (Zebra and Donkey): voice, melodica
Marcos Fernandes: protest march phonography, synth
Hans Fjellestad: piano
Fire
Barney Firks: bass, interviewer, electronics
Samuel Firks Herrera: interviewee
Esteban Flores: Waves, guitar
Fly: buzz
Beth Glick-Rieman: voice
Eric Glick Rieman: upright piano, with keys covered by moving plastic bag
Enrique “Bugs” Gonzalez: drums
Gorilla: snarls
Chet Harrison: viola, percussion, electronics
Greg Hohman: utensils
Napoleon Hawerchuk: baritone saxophone
Damon Holzborn: synthesizer, drum machine
Dan Jacobson: electronic percussion
Michael Johnson: voice
Jeff Kaiser: trumpet, voice, flugelhorn
Matthew Kerr: drums
KP: health alerts
Vivien Lee: garbage truck recording
Oliver Lopez: voice
Sam Lopez: guitar, ukelele, tiny and giant frogs
Alan_M: guitar and H9 Max
Charles Maynes: sonic nauseation, added disgusting output, grand piano, synthesizer, gun sound effects
Nicey Nice World: improvisation source
Dave Pearson: voice
Pig: squeals
Porn: human animals copulating for money
Rabid dog: snarls
Jessica Radulovich: bell, silence, voice, popcorn, dolphin, whale sounds, trampoline, didgeridoo
Marcelo Radulovich: guitar, voice, melodica, bass, percussion, drums, synth, kalimba, bul bul, vuvuzella
Rain
Bill Ray: drums
Joyce Rooks: cello
Scott Sayre: piano, melodica, trombone, voice, wolf wrangler
Max Springer: processed voice
Mike Stone: synth
Jules Stratton: scream
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics, train, anti-KKK march recording
Gabriel Sundy: baritone sax
Risa Takeda: synth
Thunder
Scott Walton: upright bass
Ted Washington: voice
FM Watson: incidental noises from cassette recordings, fretless guitar, percussion, electronics, homemade samples, Ebow, DaddyLongLeggs sound collage
Bill Wesley: Array Mbira, harmony array keyboard
Zoe Weslowski: scream
Wind
The Wolves (8th Grade Wind Ensemble Class): flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba, percussion
Woodpecker: pecking
David Ybarra: bass, drum machine, harmonica, electronic loops, synth, voice
!ZeuqsaV!: electronics

Recorded in various locations of the USA, Africa and Asia
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, spring 2020
Cover design Marcelo Radulovich
Released 6/3/2020

Titicacaman Records CAT#30

UNPLUGGED
by The League of Assholes (2020)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

As crystalline modernity lays shattered by the inescapable facticity of our biology, our bodies buffeted by primitive and invisible forces, the society of musicians is atomized by quarantine, grasping for connection. Poets of sound float humble offerings into an infinite sea of impermanent zeros and ones. The League of Assholes is already there. And we have been there, screaming into the void that ripped into our modernity as America elected its first tyrant and his attendant maelstrom of incompetence, resentment, and cruelty. The grains of our screaming voices, transmitted by telephone and soundfile, coalesced into the inaugural release IN OGRE ATE. Never seeing one another’s shattered faces or knowing of one another’s sound offerings, our compositional unity is polymorphous perversity in digital incarnation. After five releases, our void has become the condition of a world under quarantine. Our atomization is state policy. Once again, we scream, apart, and together.

UNPLUGGED follows the sound collage process and purging tradition of previous League of Assholes albums, featuring creative contributions by a host of brilliant usual suspects and inspired performances by new kindred spirits, good headphones and high volume are recommended. UNPLUGGED is available as a free download, courtesy of The League of Assholes and Titicacaman Records. Thanks for listening!

UNPLUGGED (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-UNPLUGGED.mp3

“Best 32 minute mind-fuck I’ve had in a while!!!”
Robert McVey

“Anarchic avant-garde that celebrates art at its most unhinged and free.”
Hans Werksman
Read the full review from Here Comes the Flood

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: piano
Abel Ashes: acoustic guitar, electronics, breathing
Dylan Lee Brown: drums, guitar
James Call: Bastardized File
Chickens: laying eggs in Pennsylvania
Randy Chiurazzi: guitar
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla 200, Metasonix Wretch Machine
Dogs: barking
Barney Firks : bass
Chet Harrison: viola
Greg Hohman: utensils
Damon Holzborn: synthesizer
Michael Johnson: voice
Jeff Kaiser: trumpet, voice
KP: health alerts
Charles Maynes: sonic nauseation
Jessica Radulovich: bell, silence
Marcelo Radulovich: guitar, voice, melodica, bass, percussion, synth, mix master Radul
Rain
Bill Ray: drums
Scott Sayre: piano, melodica, trombone
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics
Gabriel Sundy: baritone sax
Thunder
Wind
David Ybarra: bass, drum machine, harmonica

Recorded in various locations of the USA and Africa.
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, spring 2020.
Cover illustrations by Morgan Miller III
Released 5/1/2020

Titicacaman Records CAT#29

ORGY: actors, fiends, friends, pundits, pussies, fools, sodomites, pimps, dicks and clergy
by The League of Assholes (2019)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

“Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” On this day The League of Assholes again honor labor and serve up the 5th installment of their unique blend of collaborative, third mind art punk music.

Hop along little doggy
Take me back home

“ORGY: actors, fiends, friends, pundits, pussies, fools, sodomites, pimps, dicks and clergy” is yet another fervent, chaotic, irreverent Hollywood Blockbuster about misery in poetry, full of violence and sex, humor and noise, anger and poise, intelligence, ignorance and sweet harmonious music of the future made in the past.

ca·coph·o·ny
/kəˈkäfənē/
noun: cacophony; plural noun: cacophonies
a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.
You in the middle of it.

ORGY follows the sound collage process and purging tradition of previous League of Assholes albums, featuring creative contributions by a host of brilliant usual suspects and inspired performances by new kindred spirits, good headphones and high volume are recommended. ORGY is available as a free download, courtesy of The League of Assholes and Titicacaman Records. Thanks for listening!

“Like children at a pond taking noontime breaks, staring at their distorted reflections on the water and laughing at how monstrous they can look, inspired by ripples, an undulating canvas paints their freakish countenance.”

ORGY: actors, fiends, friends, pundits, pussies, fools, sodomites, pimps, dicks and clergy (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-ORGY.mp3

“It is an unrelenting, harsh, dissonant, dense, sometimes surprisingly gentle, noisy, liberating and intoxicating piece of a work.”
Hans Werksman
Read the full review from Here Comes the Flood

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: Bangkok trafficscapes
Abel Ashes: acoustic guitar, voice
Blowfly: “the master, the king, the lord” (“Convoy” from Rapping, Dancing and Laughing)
Dylan Lee Brown: sample manipulations, drum machines, guitar
James Call: narrator (observations on Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi”)
Randy Chiurazzi: sound sculpture suit (live at Tower Bar)
Spud Davenport: marimba, garbage can lid
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla 200e, SOMA Ether
Fire: fire
Esteban Flores: Waves
Chet Harrison: viola, percussion, electronics
Jeff Kaiser: trumpet
Matthew Kerr: drums
Oliver Lopez: voice
Sam Lopez: guitar, ukelele, tiny and giant frogs
Alan_M: guitar and H9 Max
Charles Maynes: added disgusting output
Porn: human animals copulating for money
Jessica Radulovich: dolphin, whale sounds ( source recordings NOAA https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/acoustics/sounds.html )
Marcelo Radulovich: drums, iPhone (organ, vibes, synth, trombone), percussion, kalimba, bass, voice
Scott Sayre: trombone, melodica, voice
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics, train
FM Watson: incidental noises from cassette recordings, fretless guitar, percussion, electronics
David Ybarra: electronic loops, synth, voice
!ZeuqsaV!: electronics

Recorded in various locations of the USA, Asia and Africa.
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, summer 2019.
Cover source drawing by Wolf Helmhard von Hohberg, 1695
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotothek_df_tg_0007843_Jagdwesen_%5E_Jagd_%5E_Vogel.jpg
Cover design by Marcelo Radulovich.
Released 9/2/2019

Titicacaman Records CAT#28

RAW MEAT DIET
by The League of Assholes (2018)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

“Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” On this day The League of Assholes honor labor and serve up the 4th installment of their unique blend of collaborative, third mind art punk music, RAW MEAT DIET, full of boiling blood and snarls.

RAW MEAT DIET is a spirited album performed by a virtual band, it explores the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual state of “us and them” in the summer of 2018. Some 30 jagged minutes of obliquely constructed musical vignettes held together by intention, sound and invention.

“A rabid dog on the left channel an angry gorilla on the right, the listener stuck in the middle of a confrontation.”

RAW MEAT DIET follows the sound collage process and purging tradition of previous League of Assholes albums, featuring creative contributions by a host of brilliant usual suspects, inspired performances by new participants, Napoleon Hawerchuk and Jeff Kaiser as well as a good helping of arresting sounds, good headphones and high volume are recommended. RAW MEAT DIET is available as a free download, courtesy of The League of Assholes and Titicacaman Records. Thanks for listening!

“Dressed in our finest, grand disposition, our best to offer this day and beyond with heads bowed in contemplation, a joint telepathic effort aimed at slaying human pigs and hooded dragons, mass hysteria, lying clowns of cash and foul. The bell rings we commence the exorcism, the bell rings we salivate, dangle the cone right there in front of our snouts, we are stretches of human condition, pieces of meat, dogs fetching belching rattlers of a bloody hue to chew on.”

RAW MEAT DIET (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-RAW_MEAT_DIET.mp3

“It is a towering musical canvas that can flap wildly or flutter surprisingly gently within the space of a couple of bars.”
Hans Werksman
Read the full review from Here Comes the Flood

“Welcome to a theater of the absurd conceiving Wagner, Mr. Bungle, and GG Allen as bedmates, minus the latter’s fecal antics.”
Todd B. Gruel
Read the full article/review in A Closer Listen

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: khaen
Akilegna: mehtna naissur
Abel Ashes: acoustic guitar
Big, Frasier & Foley: barks
Dylan Lee Brown: drums, percussion
James Call: theremin
Randy Chiurazzi: guitarbage can
Spud Davenport: drums, dogs
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla 200e
Marcos Fernandes: protest march phonography
Hans Fjellestad: piano
Fly: buzz
Gorilla: snarls
Chet Harrison: strange partscaster guitar
Napoleon Hawerchuk: baritone saxophone
Damon Holzborn: synthesizer
Jeff Kaiser: flugelhorn
Charles Maynes: music montage
Pig: squeals
Rabid dog: snarls
Jessica Radulovich: voice, trampoline
Marcelo Radulovich: iPhone, percussion, bass, phonography, voice
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics
FM Watson: fretless guitars
Woodpecker: pecking
David Ybarra: bass

Recorded in various locations of the USA, Asia and Africa.
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, summer 2018.
Cover design by Marcelo Radulovich.
Released 9/3/2018

Titicacaman Records CAT#27

IM PEACH The Sequel
by The League of Assholes (2018)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

Button, button, who’s got the biggest button? The sure-fire button that always works. The best button. We’re blowing whistles, banging drums, ringing bells, chirping, and pushing big buttons, undermining our own defense, shooting ourselves in the foot, making allegations, big bottomed, big cut taxes, cheating on Kristen Stewart with Robert Pattison, amazing treason applause, and yarbling. The Asshole League is back to Make America Grate Again.

IM PEACH The Sequel (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-IM_PEACH-The_Sequel.mp3

“It’s a piece of music that will make the skin of the uninitiated crawl, but like any good doctor knows desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.”
Hans Werksman
Read the full review from Here Comes the Flood

“The Assholes use industrial, garbage disposal-esque instrumentation with the intention of evoking terror. The ominous tone is sustained throughout the entire runtime via incessant screaming, chainsaw-like guitar riffs and gibberish chanting. I can say with complete confidence that I’ve never experienced anything like it.”
Alex Noble
Read the full review from San Diego Citybeat

“It takes four and a half minutes for someone to scream in this soundscape, but the entire track can be seen as a scream: a long, primal outpouring of sadness and rage, crumpled into a ball of cacophony. Listening is extremely therapeutic.”
Richard Allen
Read the full review from A Closer Listen

Read an article by Robert Bush in the San Diego Reader about the production process.

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: shortwave radio
Argonoise: improvisation source
DB: guitar
Dylan Lee Brown: drums, drum machine, sampler, array midi controller, Casio
Cosmo Call: Casio
James Call: organ, Casio, distorted piano
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla & Elektron media re-channeling/re-truthing algorithms
Marcos Fernandes: synth
Barney Firks: bass
Damon Holzborn: synthesizer
Charles Maynes: grand piano, synthesizer, sound effects
Nicey Nice World: improvisation source
Jessica Radulovich: voice, didgeridoo
Marcelo Radulovich: guitar, voice, melodica, percussion, thunder drums, bul bul, vuvuzella, iPhone
Joyce Rooks: processed cello
Max Springer: processed voice
Mike Stone: synth
Jules Stratton: scream
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics
Risa Takeda: synth
FM Watson: Homemade samples & Ebow layered fretless guitars
Bill Wesley: Array Mbira
Zoe Weslowski: scream
David Ybarra: rhythm loop

Recorded in various locations of the USA, Europe and Asia.
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, early 2018.
Cover design by Marcelo Radulovich.
Released 3/15/2018

Titicacaman Records CAT#25

IM PEACH
by The League of Assholes (2017)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

“One by one, they praised President Trump, taking turns complimenting his integrity, his message, his strength, his policies. Their leader sat smiling, nodding his approval.”

Bird’s eye view is quickly changing, land masses shrink and expand, ice melts oceans grow, the air is turbulent, from up here countries don’t have borders. Government documents cast spells and lay dormant under mountain paper weights commanding a tethered ruling body. And now peaches bid farewell to summer, Korean vacations come to an end, Russian ambassadors pack their ashtrays while telling cold war tales, self-annointed Facebook gurus turn to trolls, Twitter propaganda drools then baffles and clearly displays that the exhausting task of identifying the line between healthy self love and megalomaniacal narcissism is still at hand.

“He is a fucking pig and should be impeached!”

On this the last day of summer of the year 2017, The League of Assholes offer a new musical incantation titled IM PEACH. This new sound collage picks up where February’s Valentine release IN OGRE ATE left off, except the dark brood of the ogre has turned into a popcorn orgy where angry monsters dance with muse-like dolls as a crew of Mexican workers tear down a roof, weaving genres supernaturally blasts a band with a vicious swing and plastic laughing teeth, the kind with feet and a winding knob to rev up the laughs and make the teeth chatter. IM PEACH is an exalting piece of music, an often cacophonous, soulful and surprisingly beautiful collaboration by creative individuals who through channels on the world wide web form a homeless orchestra, driven marauders armed with a multitude of instruments and digital recorders, a band of artists who hold certain disbeliefs to be real, existing in a virtual plane forging a resonant call to action through new music.

“The League of Assholes is like a covent of good witches man, you dig?”

IM PEACH (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/The_League_of_Assholes-IM_PEACH.mp3

Read a review in Here Comes the Flood (9/30/2017)
“It’s a sonic brick through the windows of Trump Tower…”
Hans Werksman

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: Okinawan sanshin
Abel Ashes: guitar, textures, voice
Android: voice
Jon Boe: guitar feedback
Dylan Lee Brown: synth, electronics
James Call: theremin
Lou Damien: saxophone
Spud Davenport: electronics, vocal dittie
Thomas Dimuzio: Buchla 200e vocoder and synth, and computer work
Marcos Fernandes: percussion, electronics
Barney Firks: interviewer, electronics
Samuel Firks Herrera: interviewee
Hans Fjellestad: piano
Chet Harrison: viola
Damon Holzborn: synthesizers, drum machine
Dan Jacobson: electronic percussion
Vivien Lee: garbage truck recording
Charles Maynes: gun sound effects
Jessica Radulovich: pop corn recording
Marcelo Radulovich: guitar, voice, hurdy gurdy, melodica, percussion, bass, mix master Radul
Bill Ray: drums
Joyce Rooks: cello
Scott Sayre: trombone, wolf wrangler
Bart Stull: guitar, electronics, anti-KKK march recording
Donald Trump: voice
Ted Washington: voice
FM Watson: DaddyLongLeggs sound collage
Bill Wesley: harmony array keyboard
The Wolves (8th Grade Wind Ensemble Class): flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba, percussion
David Ybarra: bass, swampy loop

Recorded in various locations of the USA
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, Summer 2017
Cover design by Marcelo Radulovich.
Released 9/22/2017

Titicacaman Records CAT#23

IN OGRE ATE
by The League of Assholes (2017)

Free download in bandcamp
Free download in titicacaman.com

This album is a response to a changing of high guards, from an imperfect, empathic, intelligent, inspiring man who does not fall asleep at his watch, to a boisterous glutton who abandons his post in order to feed on extra rations, a petty clown who inspires distrust, an ogre who should have stayed in his castle. The goal of IN OGRE ATE was to act like an exorcism, a way to creatively capture the purging of collective disgust, a communal vomiting session, some 29 minutes of “not my president” in a sound collage, which conveys the anxiety coursing through our veins in January 2017. The image of Ogre T eating his fellow citizens is at the forefront of this work, ultimately IN OGRE ATE is an incantation, a labor of love in a time of fuck.

Produced and assembled by Marcelo Radulovich on the weeks of the 2017 USA presidential inauguration, IN OGRE ATE is made up of numerous contributions from individuals across the USA and Europe, from harsh layers of distorted guitar, to jagged piano and plastic bag, to strange vocalizations, sound design, theremin, drums, digitally altered old cassette recordings of Russian church bells and a variety of sounds, a sander sanding a distorted bass, screams into phones, a 97 year old woman saying “no, NO!” while watching the inauguration on TV… all in virtual unity, chipping in in their unique way to help push the purge.

IN OGRE ATE (play it loud!)

Download: http://titicacaman.com/TheLeagueOfAssholes-IN_OGRE_ATE.mp3

Read an article in San Diego CityBeat (2/7/2017)

“Where Will Music Head Next?” Read about IN OGRE ATE in A Closer Listen (2/20/2017)
“The recording succeeds the artistic level as well; while it expresses anger, it does so in an elaborate and intelligent manner rather than a simple and reactive one. Shared horror creates a sense of community.”

Read a review in Avant Music News (2/26/2017)
“Perhaps the most remarkable thing about In Ogre Ate is how well it works as both protest music as well as an enjoyable piece of dark noise art. Well done.”

IN OGRE ATE recording session Friday, January 20, 2017
“What I was doing on that stormy day when the ogre took office, as he placed his hand on the big book I sanded my bass.” Marcelo Radulovich

CREDITS

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Adler: scream
Abel Ashes: acoustic guitar, voice
Dylan Lee Brown: array nail organ
Bug Guts: closing song (guitars, voices, shaker)
James Call: theremin, organ
Spud Davenport: screams
Thomas Dimuzio: modular synths and processing
James Dougherty (Zebra and Donkey): voice, melodica
Barney Firks: bass noise
Esteban Flores: guitar
Beth Glick-Rieman: voice
Eric Glick Rieman: upright piano, with keys covered by moving plastic bag
Enrique “Bugs” Gonzalez: drums
Chet Harrison: phone viola
Charles Maynes: montage
Dave Pearson: voice
Jessica Radulovich: voice
Marcelo Radulovich: processed cassettes, bass, sander on bass, screams, voices
Scott Sayre: trombone
Bart Stull: guitar
Scott Walton: upright bass
FM Watson: fretless guitars, voice
Bill Wesley: harmony array keyboard

Recorded in various locations of the USA
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, January 2017
Cover design by Marcelo Radulovich.

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