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***Formerly of Slap a Ham recording artists Man Is The Bastard, Henry Barnes and posse (Enid Snarb, Connell, Tara T. Tavi, P.G. Roberts, and Togarama) veer across a musical map bearing places named Moondog, Tudor, Partch and Page. Created with a menagerie of exotic and homemade musical instruments (including tabla, Chinese piano, caveman electronics), Electrosphere is a meticulously sequenced two-hour double-fuck-you to those idiots the neighbors, outboard MIDI-abusing scoundrels, and Becker Bros. clones. Praise for Amps for Christ: "The strangest off-kilter record I have ever heard . . . variations on traditional sounding Scottish marches, sweet acoustic ballads, Indian sitar territory, country/folk string-strumming with plenty of gospel influences."
-Your Flesh "Hardly typical noise, although venturing into pure noise territory . . . [whatever it is I'm talking about is] often very pleasantly melodic and reaching into a variety of genres, touching on some folk territory, some electric sitar and still competent at every level."
-Thumb magazine "Many of the tunes . . . are traditional Irish, Scottish and American melodies, reinterpreted with fuzzed-out electric guitar, distorted bagpipe and wailing organ. No dabbling dilettantes, Amps for Christ have an intense love and considerable knowledge of this music. They're not faking or kidding."
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