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A collection of pre-Brutum Fulmen material, mostly recorded on a 4-track cassette deck under
the name Stipes & Patibulum. The recordings span eleven years: 1987-1997. Some material was
originally released on the Stipes & Patibulum C45 Vestal for the long gone Sonic
Deligts cassette label. Much has been digitally remastered, remixed, and partially re-recorded.
This early retrospective includes found sound collages, improvised sound experiments, spoken
word pieces, and other oddities and embarrassments.
Allegedly also re-released by Origami on cassette and Choco on CDR in limited edition.
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Feedback in a reverb unit, constructed on 4-track. The last thing recorded using the name
Stipes & Patibulum and possibly my favorite.
- Quartet for Plastic Toy Horns
Actually just the plastic reeds from toy noisemakers were used to compose this quirky one minute piece for
the Noise Kills Punk Dead comp.
- Head
4-track mail collaboration
originally recorded under the name Plastic Messiah. Synth, plumbing noises, a metal rack
in a bathtub, guitar.
- Don't Go to Sleep with the Radio On
Epic collage of radio transmissions, music samples, found sounds.
- In Your Room
Broadcast mic stand
springs, voice, metal. Recorded live to tape at WRPI, Troy, NY.
- Snake Bell
Voice, feedback improv
recorded at WRPI, Troy, NY.
- Mirage
Spoken word with test tones
and ambient sounds.
- Dead
Reading of an Emily Dickinson
poem with guitar and car keys.
- A Strangely Familiar Tune
Improvised while driving the Massachusettes Turnpike at midnight during a heavy rainstorm: voice,
radio, car horn, ambient sound. Recorded on a boombox plugged into the cig lighter.
- Love Song
Improvised voice and feedback recorded at WRPI, Troy, NY.
- Oroborus
Guitar and digital delay
improvisation. From 1987, this is our oldest recording.
- Asshole
Another 4-track mail
collaboration recorded as Plastic Messiah, featuring synth, broken CD noises, and a
roommate's answering machine tape.
- Woman (Hole Lotta Love)
A found music collage featuring AC/DC, Slayer, Led Zepplin, Yoko Ono, Dead Kennedys,
German Alpensangers, Holst, and more.
- The Power of the Tongue
A maddening found speech collage featuring a radio evangelist obsessed with his tongue. Also includes
gregorian and bhuddist chanting, a Pentecostal minister, and Lil Louis.
- Eye Teeth
A proto-rock embarrassment
into which we attempted to squeeze as many lyrical cliches as possible. Guitar, vocals, drum
machine, growling dogs, and a public service announcement about dogs biting postmen.
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