Viscera - Who Is This One
44 minutes, Cassette (or CD-R, by request)
List of Cassettes, Ordering and Postage info, CDRs, and Trades
Clipboard Bodies
dream perhaps too beautiful
Bleed in my bath
Sleep Away
Initiative/Attraction To Shame
Hanging Pictures
Floor falling out
leid
Field Glasses
Red Houses
Wednesday night
Abortive attempts
east
This one
Who Is This One, originally released in 1984, was the third full-length cassette release by the duo of Hal McGee and Debbie Jaffe, and the first recorded with a 4-track cassette recorder (a Fostex X-15). Originally released by Cause And Effect. Re-released by Harsh Reality Music in 1990.
Who Is This One continues with many of the same dark contemplative themes we had already explored, but with less innocence and naivete, and a good deal more calculation for certain effects.
"Red Houses", the first track on Side B of the tape, is a surreal story about a bad acid trip. Over a simple synthesizer line, there are three overlapping layers of my voice. It was night time as I wandered through a quiet residential district. Suddenly, all of the houses to the north started glowing blue in color and all those to the south glowed red. I knew that I needed to walk south to get back home, but I feared the red houses. The blue houses to the north reminded me of my brother's eyes, and therefore seemed friendly and safe. I was tormented by this awful conflict and started screaming out my brother's name. Finally, I was so torn up with fear and dread that I got down on the ground and started banging my head on the ground, and knocked myself out. When I woke up I found myself sitting in a ditch in cold water six inches deep, with a policeman's squad car light shining in my eyes.
List of Cassettes, Ordering and Postage info, CDRs, and Trades
Clipboard Bodies
dream perhaps too beautiful
Bleed in my bath
Sleep Away
Initiative/Attraction To Shame
Hanging Pictures
Floor falling out
leid
Field Glasses
Red Houses
Wednesday night
Abortive attempts
east
This one
Who Is This One, originally released in 1984, was the third full-length cassette release by the duo of Hal McGee and Debbie Jaffe, and the first recorded with a 4-track cassette recorder (a Fostex X-15). Originally released by Cause And Effect. Re-released by Harsh Reality Music in 1990.
Who Is This One continues with many of the same dark contemplative themes we had already explored, but with less innocence and naivete, and a good deal more calculation for certain effects.
"Red Houses", the first track on Side B of the tape, is a surreal story about a bad acid trip. Over a simple synthesizer line, there are three overlapping layers of my voice. It was night time as I wandered through a quiet residential district. Suddenly, all of the houses to the north started glowing blue in color and all those to the south glowed red. I knew that I needed to walk south to get back home, but I feared the red houses. The blue houses to the north reminded me of my brother's eyes, and therefore seemed friendly and safe. I was tormented by this awful conflict and started screaming out my brother's name. Finally, I was so torn up with fear and dread that I got down on the ground and started banging my head on the ground, and knocked myself out. When I woke up I found myself sitting in a ditch in cold water six inches deep, with a policeman's squad car light shining in my eyes.
