Bang Bros - 12/12/12

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"Mark Johnson & Adam Foam (Whitehaus, Hunnie Bunnies, Peace Loving) invent a sorely-needed new free jazz instrument: the drum machine. Instead of stuffing their mouths with too many horns, they use their faces & fingers to punch on too many electronic buttons like Cecil Taylor with his fingers in a wall socket. Pauses, whirs, percussion avalanches & whizbang punch lines with real punch in them. Documentation of their ridiculous attempt to tour 12 cities in 12 hours on 12-12-2012, using battery powered little amplifiers. I myself went to the show in Cambridge, which took place at 9am on the lawn in front of City Hall, and was attended by 4 or 5 freezing passersby, a wedding party, a reporter from the local paper, & a policeman who was distracted from looking for traffic violations. Both gents have since moved away, to Philly & Western Mass respectively, but the band was damned beautiful while it lasted." --Angela Sawyer, Weirdo Records

Edition of 300 copies.

TRACKLISTING 1. Whitehaus, Boston 2. Town Hall Lawn, Cambridge 3. Starlab, Somerville 4. Steve Norton's, Medford 5. Revere Beach, Revere 6. Lynnway Mart Lot, Lynn 7. Listening Room, Salem 8. Chailey Mansion, Newburyport 9. Uncharted, Lowell 10. Firehouse, Worcester 11. Slater Mill, Pawtucket 12. Pr Matrix Hex, Providence