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At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982

by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

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The Fatness 01:46
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My Down Booties Were Eaten By Pat's Dog 03:33
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Theme From A Man And A Woman 01:07
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Destroy Farmer 02:10
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Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 01:27
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Spontaneous Human Combustion 02:31
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Weeba Wob 01:41
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Mermaid Freakout 00:54
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Phallagogia Priapi 16:48
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Stark and minimal quintet performance without much overt forward progress in some parts, offset by ridiculous verbal repetitions and Top 40 references come out of nowhere like nerdy Fluxus rehearsals in the middle of a New Orleans funeral. Other segments highlight the difference between aboriginal metal percussion and pots ’n’ pans getting banged together by people with a remarkably spastic sense of rhythm. Visually, Bren’t Lewiis were like a cross between the jackets of early Nurse With Wound albums and a bunch of hicks impersonating Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Television sets flickered throughout. Doug Roberts brought his bicycle onstage. Dressed in a labcoat and white wool-felt USAF boots, howling into his signature plastic lawn flamingo, Lucian Tielens stretched the limits of publicly acceptable intimate congress with inanimate objects. Tim Smyth wore a bunch of Christmas lights attached to a Civil Defense helmet. Amoeba Man had a garbage bag filled with helium balloons taped to his head and toilet paper wrapped around his face. As some sort of oblique Day-Glo homage to Carmen Miranda, Gnarlos wore a handmade upside-down sweatsuit. The amplified 21-foot aluminum sailboat mast, the undisputed star of the show, was so unwieldy that use of a special freight door was required just to get in and out of the building, and yet a single, lonely metallic “ploong!” was pretty much the limit of its sonic palette -- appropriate testament to the methodology of this absurdly inefficient group.

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released July 27, 2016

Recorded live at the Bell Memorial Union open mic night 9/29/83, CSU Chico. Participants: Lucian Tielens, Tim Smyth, Doug Roberts, Amoeba Man, Gnarlos.

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