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***Along with a liberal dose of borrowed beats and noises, the eleven songs on Kleptophonica include healthy splatterings of cassette deck tomfoolery, Speak'n'Spell abuse, typewriter percussion, lap steel warblings, echo nonsense, singing-into-the-washing-machine experiments, push-button sample blasts, as well as more conventional instrumentation like drum sets, maracas and keyboards. Using varying degrees of "unauthorized remixing," Agent Nova and Mor-X (both veterans of Milk Cult and Steel Pole Bath Tub) aim each song in its own direction, as melodies and rhythms are added and twisted and stretched on top of tape loops and scratchy thrift store records. The result is a softer, gentler sort of Frankenstein. More song-oriented then previous Milk Cult records, Kleptophonica is also a return to more basic recording. Whereas Project M-13 took about a month to record and an exhausting two years to edit, Kleptophonica, recorded in Olympia, Washington, at Mag Rec One, was completed in five days. "In the art world it's an accepted practice to use other people's images to comment on the culture itself. But in the music world its way more uptight; no one wants anyone drawing a mustache on their Mona Lisa." -Agent Nova Track listing: 1. Requiem
2. Mary Gravy
3. Interlude
4. Paris Is Burning
5. Tea Pocket
6. Joan & Jack & Nina & Steve
7. The Pharmacist
8. Paris Is Still Burning
9. The Happiest Song in the World
10. Flavoriffic
11. Bullit Another Milk Cult Dispatch (with buttons touched by members of Unwound) featuring Agent Nova and Mor-x (the former rhythm section Steel Pole Bath Tub)
Limited tour dates are planned for Spring 2002, as well as the recording of Volume 2
A new recipe made of old and crumbled store-bought cookies, homemade brownies and fudge 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Requiem
Mary Gravy
Interlude
Paris is Burning
Tea Pocket
Joan & Jack & Nina & Steve
The Pharmacist Will Help You Now
Paris is Still Burning
The Happiest Song in the World
Flavoriffic
Bullit If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Novex "Kleptophonica" For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page. |
