It's All Gone Weird

Here's a blast from the past (for me, at least). Back in 1988, I recorded my friends The Flies (Gerry Petrash, Stephen Maher, Jim Davis, Rodger McKinley) running through some originals and cover tunes in a makeshift recording studio (i.e. bedroom with blankets and egg crates on the walls) on Oxford St., Halifax. The sessions were recorded on my Tascam Porta-One four-track cassette recorder - one of the few times I took on the role of recording engineer for someone else's music. I don't know how useful I was as an engineer but we had fun and the recordings turned out okay (for bedroom demos recorded to cassette). Flash forward almost four decades and Gerry Petrash has embarked on an archival project digitizing and publishing recordings by some of his old bands, including  The Flies  and his 1990s Sapporo, Japan-based group  Cactus Blanket ( https://www.cactusblanket.ca/home ). Yesterday, Gerry posted a video featuring one of the songs from that 1988 Halifax recording se...

Thanks to David Fenech for posting about this recently. I remember seeing tracks by French industrial/experimental band Vox Populi on numerous underground music/cassette culture compilations back in the day but I never thought to explore their music more thoroughly. Glad to see the band's 1986 album "Sucre De Pastèque" reissued on the Dark Entries label. Excellent work! https://vox-populi.bandcamp.com/album/sucre-de-past-que - W.A.Davison

It's Bandcamp Friday today so I have made available (free or PWYW) the fourth episode of my 2018 radio art series "The Long Play" . https://w-a-davison.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-play-4 Dec. 5th is also the anniversary of the founding of Recordism . Today marks 41 years! Happy Birthday Recordism! - W.A.Davison