The Land of Guilt and Blarney CDs available NOW.
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Carl Howard
Apr 3, 2011, 2:29:51 AM4/3/11
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As promised, three complete albums by THE LAND OF GUILT AND BLARNEY -
"Mugged By Life" from 1992, and "Cruel" and "Unusual" from 2000 - are
now available for free streaming and download, with complete disk and
case artwork for each should you wish to print it.
_________________________
Somewhere at the intersection of experimental electronic music, jazz,
space rock and industrial music lay THE LAND OF GUILT AND BLARNEY -
recordings by rotating members of a house in Jersey City, NJ before
its alleged real estate renaissance, and just before the onset of 9/11
when the United States officially became a breeding ground for
cultural and corporate fascism. All members had been in and out of
the country's premier space rock band ALIEN PLANETSCAPES, and all were
heavily informed by musicians ranging from DEVO to Sun Ra, from Miles
to Coltrane, from The Nice to XTC, from Genesis to Yes, and from
Hawkwind to Gong... and back again.
Its regular members included Carl "NOMUZIC" Howard and Louis
"Professor Electron" Boone who were also mainstays in the space rock
vehicle BORN TO GO, known for their onstage twin displays of
synthesizer pyrotechnics at bargain basement prices. Reginald Taylor
was an additional LG&B regular, and guests included LG Mair, Jr.,
Blaise Siwula, Kenny Brown, and Renard Hines. Even Alan Rider of the
1980s UK underground cassette label Adventures In Reality guested on
one track.
"Mugged By Life" was recorded in 1992 when the members lived in a
ramshackle and spectacularly tumble-down Victorian home in an area of
Jersey City heavily impacted by both poverty and the prevailing crack
epidemic. It is commemorated in the track "This Mold House" and made
great use of a disastrously broken down upright piano in its living
room. Many of LG&B's track titles are scarcely-coded references to
Sun Ra, to Charles Mingus, to DEVO, to the participants themselves, or
to popular U.S. political conspiracy theories. "Cruel" and "Unusual"
were recorded concurrently in 2000 in a different house with a
different feel and a different karma. Both Boone and Howard were
members of BORN TO GO at this time. LG&B performed live twice, but
the recordings of these shows were of less than presentable quality.
Carl Howard has been the publisher of ARTITUDE Magazine; helmed the
audiofile Tapes cassette and CDR label from 1984 to 1999; and has
hosted the weekly program "Space Patrol!" at http://luxuriamusic.com
since 2003. Louis Boone passed away in April 2010 of causes likely
related to diabetes. The three CDs by LofG&B are offered in tribute
to his beloved memory, and to the beloved memory of Douglass Walker of
Alien Planetscapes, who passed away in 2006.
Carl Howard
April 2011
___________________________
"Mugged By Life" - http://thelandofguiltandblarney.bandcamp.com/album/mugged-by-life-4
"Cruel" - http://thelandofguiltandblarney.bandcamp.com/album/cruel
"Unusual" - http://thelandofguiltandblarney.bandcamp.com/album/unusual
"Mugged By Life" from 1992, and "Cruel" and "Unusual" from 2000 - are
now available for free streaming and download, with complete disk and
case artwork for each should you wish to print it.
_________________________
Somewhere at the intersection of experimental electronic music, jazz,
space rock and industrial music lay THE LAND OF GUILT AND BLARNEY -
recordings by rotating members of a house in Jersey City, NJ before
its alleged real estate renaissance, and just before the onset of 9/11
when the United States officially became a breeding ground for
cultural and corporate fascism. All members had been in and out of
the country's premier space rock band ALIEN PLANETSCAPES, and all were
heavily informed by musicians ranging from DEVO to Sun Ra, from Miles
to Coltrane, from The Nice to XTC, from Genesis to Yes, and from
Hawkwind to Gong... and back again.
Its regular members included Carl "NOMUZIC" Howard and Louis
"Professor Electron" Boone who were also mainstays in the space rock
vehicle BORN TO GO, known for their onstage twin displays of
synthesizer pyrotechnics at bargain basement prices. Reginald Taylor
was an additional LG&B regular, and guests included LG Mair, Jr.,
Blaise Siwula, Kenny Brown, and Renard Hines. Even Alan Rider of the
1980s UK underground cassette label Adventures In Reality guested on
one track.
"Mugged By Life" was recorded in 1992 when the members lived in a
ramshackle and spectacularly tumble-down Victorian home in an area of
Jersey City heavily impacted by both poverty and the prevailing crack
epidemic. It is commemorated in the track "This Mold House" and made
great use of a disastrously broken down upright piano in its living
room. Many of LG&B's track titles are scarcely-coded references to
Sun Ra, to Charles Mingus, to DEVO, to the participants themselves, or
to popular U.S. political conspiracy theories. "Cruel" and "Unusual"
were recorded concurrently in 2000 in a different house with a
different feel and a different karma. Both Boone and Howard were
members of BORN TO GO at this time. LG&B performed live twice, but
the recordings of these shows were of less than presentable quality.
Carl Howard has been the publisher of ARTITUDE Magazine; helmed the
audiofile Tapes cassette and CDR label from 1984 to 1999; and has
hosted the weekly program "Space Patrol!" at http://luxuriamusic.com
since 2003. Louis Boone passed away in April 2010 of causes likely
related to diabetes. The three CDs by LofG&B are offered in tribute
to his beloved memory, and to the beloved memory of Douglass Walker of
Alien Planetscapes, who passed away in 2006.
Carl Howard
April 2011
___________________________
"Mugged By Life" - http://thelandofguiltandblarney.bandcamp.com/album/mugged-by-life-4
"Cruel" - http://thelandofguiltandblarney.bandcamp.com/album/cruel
"Unusual" - http://thelandofguiltandblarney.bandcamp.com/album/unusual
walt mattes
Apr 3, 2011, 3:36:46 AM4/3/11
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Aw reet.Never heared any of these recordings,ever.Thanks for providing 'em.
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walt mattes
Apr 3, 2011, 3:08:47 PM4/3/11
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Lot of musical information to assimilate,and my rom-drive is kaput.Any way to get these 3 items on physical cd(s)?-I don't like listening to music through my crappy PC speakers.Will cheerfully pay, in Yankee greenbacks,the cost of production,etc,if feasible.
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