Sunday, August 5, 2007

TOM RECCHION-CHAOTICA, CD, 1996 (RECORDED: 1985-86), USA






First heard on Brent Wilcox's legendary radio show FRGK and subsequently seen enacted live at a small club in L.A., (with spools of tape looping about the audience on mounted reel-to-reel players interspersed with plug-in glowing fireplace logs) the delirious Rube Goldberg-like sonic contraptions that this L.A. Free Music Society mastermind concocted out of detourned Esquivel loops and keyboards is something that continues to enthrall and inspire me 20+ years later. Dizzying and deformed in all the most subtle ways, this candy coated surrealist audio fantasia is a never-ending fount of pure pleasure.

Get part one Here

Get part two Here

5 comments:

  1. ah, you just made my day! I could listen to the track "complex shape in the sky" on loop for days. If you have more by this guy, I'd love to hear it. Thanks again!

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  2. Fantastic stuff!!!, and a great complement to Dennis Duck's "disco" album...

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  3. I was going to comment on the similarity in art to the first american OOIOO record and Boredoms 'WOW2' but then I was like oh BIRDMAN records... aha! :D

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  4. be sure to check out his equally enthralling CD... Sweetly Doing Nothing on Schoolmap. Amazing stuff from one of America's unsung new music heroes.

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