Ironing & Hal McGee – For The Sake Of Sound (CD-R)

This was recorded at Hal;`s place on Saturday, march 13<sup>th</sup>, 2013. on a old school 4-track cassette recorder. This is nine songs, rather long (61.49 minutes) album. They used a shitload of stuff: turntabalism, radios, minimal synth, microcassettes & cell phone, voice, vinyl scratchiness, field recordings, and groovy lock loops.  There`s a good variety of stuff at work here. They explore different styles too: weird out of control almost jazzy material ( squeeze between the knees, blue shirted boys, breakin`concrete), psychotic, schizoid improvisation  with voice and various trimmings (color theory), minimal electronics going into ambient noise territory ( yes or not?), low-fi experimental noise dirges (shapeshift), spoken word + experimental noise (for the sake of sound), blues cutups \ turntabalism + weird noise bytes (a jaunty jig) and more voice cutups + experimental noise (good & heavy). This is a difficult listen, not recommended to pop music fans. If you`re into bizarre, weird, strange improvised sessions, than this baby`s for you indeed. 

Hal McGee, 

4230 SW 20th Lane APT. F, 

Gainesville, 

FL, 

32607, 

USA.

Lots of free downloads here: 

www.haltapes.com

The Mudshits - Hell Yeah (cassette)

Haltapes have been around since 1982 (and still going on strong today). They`ve been active for more than thirty years. Thirty years of homemade experimental music and more than two hundred releases, now that`s something. It commands respect indeed. This ninety minutes tape was recorded on march sixteen, 2013. The `band`consists of the following members: Jiblit Dupree (voice, guitar, percussion, trumpet), Hollis Smith (voice, slinky/drumstick, resonator guitar, tambourine, computer piano thing, bells, concertina), Hal McGee ( voice, organ, percussion, keyboard, synth, bass, diddley bow), Mark McGee ( tubanos, talking drum, caxixi, washboard).  I don`t know if they recorded this straight or not. If not, I`d say that the booze and ganja must have felt great that day. It seems like they had an amazing time recording this. It sounds like a drunken \ stone (perhaps) psychedelic \ psychotic \ schizophrenic controlled \ maybe out of control \ improvised jam session (all fourteen tracks included) . Not an easy listen, it`s a mental and emotional challenge. That`s why I like Haltapes you never know where this is going. Expect the unexpected, indeed. More information here:   Hal McGee

4230 SW 20th Lane, Apt. F, Gainesville, FL,  32607, USA.

Website: 

 http://www.haltapes.com/

Email:  

haltapes@gmail.com