As crystalline modernity lays shattered by the inescapable facticity of our biology, our bodies buffeted by primitive and invisible forces, the society of musicians is atomized by quarantine, grasping for connection. Poets of sound float humble offerings into an infinite sea of impermanent zeros and ones. The League of Assholes is already there. And we have been there, screaming into the void that ripped into our modernity as America elected its first tyrant and his attendant maelstrom of incompetence, resentment, and cruelty. The grains of our screaming voices, transmitted by telephone and soundfile, coalesced into the inaugural release IN OGRE ATE. Never seeing one another’s shattered faces or knowing of one another’s sound offerings, our compositional unity is polymorphous perversity in digital incarnation. After five releases, our void has become the condition of a world under quarantine. Our atomization is state policy. Once again, we scream, apart, and together.
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UNPLUGGED,
track released May 1, 2020
<strong>Participants</strong> (in alphabetical order)<strong>:</strong>
<strong>Christopher Adler:</strong> piano
<strong>Abel Ashes:</strong> acoustic guitar, electronics, breathing
<strong>Dylan Lee Brown:</strong> drums, guitar
<strong>James Call:</strong> Bastardized File
<strong>Chickens:</strong> laying eggs in Pennsylvania
<strong>Randy Chiurazzi:</strong> guitar
<strong>Thomas Dimuzio:</strong> Buchla 200, Metasonix Wretch Machine
<strong>Dogs:</strong> barking
<strong>Barney Firks :</strong> bass
<strong>Chet Harrison:</strong> viola
<strong>Greg Hohman:</strong> utensils
<strong>Damon Holzborn:</strong> synthesizer
<strong>Michael Johnson:</strong> voice
<strong>Jeff Kaiser:</strong> trumpet, voice
<strong>KP:</strong> health alerts
<strong>Charles Maynes:</strong> sonic nauseation
<strong>Jessica Radulovich:</strong> bell, silence
<strong>Marcelo Radulovich:</strong> guitar, voice, melodica, bass, percussion, synth, mix master Radul
<strong>Rain</strong>
<strong>Bill Ray:</strong> drums
<strong>Scott Sayre:</strong> piano, melodica, trombone
<strong>Bart Stull:</strong> guitar, electronics
<strong>Gabriel Sundy:</strong> baritone sax
<strong>Thunder</strong>
<strong>Wind</strong>
<strong>David Ybarra:</strong> bass, drum machine, harmonica
<strong>Recorded in various locations of the USA and Africa.
Assembled/mixed by Marcelo Radulovich at Titicacaman Studio, spring 2020.</strong>
<strong>Cover illustrations by Morgan Miller III</strong>
Released 5/1/2020