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A Real Nice Clambake

by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

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Yub City 12:05
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It Glows! 04:53

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Recorded at a confusing and ambiguous event in 1987 at Wooj, where pockets of inexplicable activity included the Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble applying their singular style of awkward to guitars, bass, Casio, wooden recorders, mandolins. Cassette players throughout the house were recording, while others played loops, telephone answering machine messages, and field recordings. Numerous television sets broadcast anything from The Brady Bunch to cornball noir, while radios broadcast The Isley Brothers, Crosby Stills & Nash, XTC, Paper Lace, Malcolm McLaren, and The Archies. The incidental, the involuntary, the unintended and the accidental take the lead on A Real Nice Clambake, which captures and repeats sneezes, coughs, burps, mumbles, grunts, moans, clicks, clacks, and clunks, the obnoxious zont of cables getting plugged in, tape hiss, bottles opening, keys and bottle openers rattling on tables, silverware scuttling on porcelain plates, and doors slamming. Mics are jostled and papers are shuffled, amid the spastic xylophone–windchime hybrid of coffee mugs getting stirred with strange vigor. The motor of one of the tape recorders wheezes so loudly that its own microphone picks up the sound. The group’s magical ineptitude perseveres through abrupt left turn after abrupt left turn, dizzying in their constancy, and through stretches of meandering guitar-playing, repetition, interruption, and the peculiar declarations of those present.

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released November 11, 2011

Recorded by Maria Estevez at Wooj, Chico, California, May 16, 1987.
Participants: Lucian Tielens, Montana Swisher, Vel Swisher, Joan Of Art, Gnarlos, Thor Heglund, The Good Trish, Toni Smith, Evans, Larry Crane, Musclebutt, M Unit.
Outside collage by Steve Marquis. Bathing Cap 17 by Joan Of Art. Flavor packet by Gnarlos.

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