David Lester Mecca Normal guitarist's surreal, interdisciplinary comics that combine choreography, quasi-clip art, collage, painting, text and typography. On the CD: Mecca Normal, "War Between the Neighbors" Monotract Dylan Nyoukis gets schooled in Big Apple wisdom by this group of beach-blanket acidheads and New York City improv tour guides. On the CD: Monotract, "Fitty Bomb" Burning Star Core Autodidact C. Spencer Yeh tracks his development from adolescent pyromaniac to violin/electronics/voice iconoclast, with sidetrips as a writer of unreadable fiction, painter, documentarian, Cincinnati gallery brat, and live venue doyen. On the CD: Burning Star Core, "You Are Legend" Nelson Gastaldi Lost and overlooked Argentinean psycho-spatial composer found and restored by South America's premier avant sideshow barkers Reynols. Topics include pure sound, ethnomusicology, paranormal occurances. On the CD: Nelson Gastaldi, excerpt from Symphony No.3: o El Poder de la Nada Joe Colley Easily fixated Crawl Unit noise mumbler issues subdued proclamations on field recordings, arcane electronic gadgets, public invisibility, charlatans and quacks. On the CD: assorted excepts from Colley's Forensic Audio series Jim Leftwich Texts, images, collages and other hors de guerre by experimental writer, visual poet, xtant editor and Juxta publisher. On the CD: Jim Leftwich, "Ouzo and Kudzu Are Dead"
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11/23/2004
***The record-setting 16th issue of arts, music, and leisure periodical Bananfish—the everyman's magazine for those far from being the every man. A beautifully designed 144-page magazine and CD set with features on, and music from: Australian Noise Users’ Society founder OREN AMBARCHI, Swedish electroacoustic musican LEIF ELGGREN, Canadian extrovert nutjob ROBERT DAYTON (CANNED HAM, Bunyon), electronic musician JASON KHAN of REPEAT, PARMENTIER (ROSY PARLANE & DION WORKMAN interviewed by DYLAN NYOUKIS), Egyptian-born composer HALIM EL-DABH (selected excerpts from an upcoming biography by DENISE SEACHRIST), electroacoustic improvisor PAUL WINSTANLEY (also interviewed by Nyoukis), and an overview of mysterious acronym-damaged Italian arts organization LATERAL AGRICULTURE ORDER. All this, along with fiction by ROGER PINELL, reviews, found mail, drawings, artwork, etc. A fantastic read, as always, especially while in the bath. Oren Ambarchi Bill Burston interviews the founder of the Australian Noise Users' Society, who has made ultrarefined space-station scree with AMM's Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, out-of-control spazzassins Phlegm, The Menstruation Sisters, Robbie Avenaim, et al. On the CD: Oren Ambarchi, "George" Leif Elggren Interview with Swedish electroacoustic musician, letter-writing prankster, dream theorist, national monarch of Elgaland-Vargaland, and conceptual artist whose work ranges from oblique performances to near-static installations. On the CD: Leif Elggren, "Soya" Robert Dayton Earl Kuck interviews one of Canada's most notorious extroverts (imagine Nardwuar as a real human being) about comics and diaries in the self-published Bunyon and his hilarious karaoke duo Canned Hamm. On the CD: Canned Hamm, "Teenagers are Growing Up"...
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04/23/2002
***Publisher I. VERN BEEZER and editor M. MONROE deliver another juicy issue of their award-churning tome dedicated to the pursuit of the liesurely arts. In this gorgeously designed issue you get more than the goods on... Christine Shields Interview with this issue's cover artist, the author behind surreal, dreamlike Blue Hole comic book, and banjo-player for Appalachia-influenced Grouse Mountain Skyride (also featuring Dame Darcy and Ian Christe). On the CD: "Monkey Goes to the Moon" and "The World Is My Home" Mal Sharpe Interview with author, jazz musician, and Man-on-the-Street interviewer most well known as half of '60s prankster duo Coyle and Sharpe, whose legendary put-ons have been released on CD by the 21361 and Thirsty Ear labels. On the CD: Coyle and Sharpe "Transporting Captured People" Ana-Maria Avram Translation of an interview by Costin Cazaban with Romanian acousmatic composer and Editions Modern recording artist whose uncompromising, demanding music gives heavyweights like Dumitrescu and Fernando Grillo a run for the money. On the CD: the 13-minute "Etude (I), computer assisted music." Volcano the Bear Interview by Neil Campbell with this mind-expanding UK surrealist quartet whose music straddles "a strange, ambiguous line between comforting and terrifying." Collaborations with Nurse With Wound and Aube, releases on United Dairies, Misra, and Pickled Egg. On the CD: "Phantom, tha will be done" mad-cow.org Interview with Dr. Thomas Pringle, webmaster of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation's site containing almost 8,000 articles on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
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06/12/2001
***"More fun than sticking your feet down the toilet ... [Bananafish] features ... letters found in the street, interviews that breach journalist/patient confidentiality ethics, self-abuse raised to high literary art, record reviews like no other publication (though, believe me, some have tried), and coverage of the stuff you need to know about and no other damn mag will cover ... The only journal it's a sin not to buy." --Bruce Russell, Corpus Hermeticum The latest issue in the Glass-Monroe-Beezer family's long-running magazine dedicated to that which cannot be spoken (but certainly read). Includes print and audio material from outsiders like Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle, Peg Murray of U.S. Saucer, John Wiese of Bastard Noise, James Goode, Reynols, Panicsville, Vote Robot, Polar Goldie Cats (doing a feline version of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein," and "others." 164-page magazine with a 14-track CD companion. o
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10/10/2000
*** Since 1986, a time some of your favorite writers were busy discussing the genius of Gov't Issue and debating the merits of early Gang Green (although today they'll have you believe silent CDs with a single electronic chirp at 35:25 are essential listening), Bananafish magazine has been devoted to undermining the dreams and aspirations of fun-killing explainers, rimless bifocal'd complainers, and horrid gothic sourpusses otherwise known as "the experimental music community." As usual, the magazine comes with a full-length CD containing exclusive music and sound contributed by the featured artists. Interviewed in this issue: Japanese droneur Diesel Guitar; electronic post-pioneer and composer Ilhan Mimaroglu; French publishers of silkscreened books Le Dernier Cri; homemade electronic noise duo Nautical Almanac; Los Angeles free music kingpins Solid Eye; lovers of Prince and improv sound collage Universal Indians; lovers of fantasy and free electronics Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase; and the hardest working percussionist in new music William Winant. Electronic deep theorist irr. app. (ext.), former Scissor Girl A.Z., and New Zealand solo freak Witcyst each contribute several pages of Dante-esque words and Bosch-like images. Last but not least, New Zealand filmmaker, animator, electricity demon Nigel Bunn gives Barbara Manning a guided tour of his gadgetry wonderland. * All tracks on CD exclusive to this release * Habitual embrace of vulgarity, exploration of new paradigms in repulsivity, and search for the intersection of surreality and obscenity make each issue of this publication a highly anticipated event * A great tool for teenagers hoping to...
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