i've decided not to alter this in any way.
i was
moving, conceptually, to more serious styles of music. i wanted to write
these epic 20-minute trips that reached into every genre imaginable.
you can hear that shift over the last few things i posted, and it really
accelerates moving into the year 2000. this is my last kiddy
recording...but it isn't really a kiddy recording.....
see,
i had a bunch of noise tracks that i'd been putting aside for a third
demo, trinri, that was meant to carry on with the same concept as the
first two: "songs" and "collages" would alternate over 19 tracks. the
problem i ran up against with trinri was that i was no longer interested
in writing songs. what was coming out, instead, were these fifteen
minute journeys. that's ultimately the driving reason that i switched
things up: the format had worn itself thin.
so, i
pulled the noise collages together (along with some older collages that i
had pulled from various sources as far back as my first demo tape) into
this thing. i became aware at some point, very suddenly, that the whole
idea and product was sort of ridiculous. hence the title.
this
recording is consequently void of actual songs. it isn't easy to listen
to, and offers few reprieves, but if you're a fan of the genre that
includes bands like coil, psychic tv, dvoa, nurse with wound and hafler
trio (i hesitate to use the i word in context) then you may find
something of enjoyment here.
cover art is from 1999.
how the hell did the greeks think mesopotamia was an ocean, anyways?
surely, they had contact with babylonians, if not indians. that's never
made sense to me.
recorded from 1996-1999. this is my third record. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j
- guitar, effects, bass, keyboards, tapes, synthesizers, live drums,
drum programming, hammerhead (909 emulator), sound raider, sampling,
cool edit synthesis/sequencing, loops, digital effects processing,
digital wave editing, flute
released dec 10, 1999
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
