REDEEM DOWNLOAD CODE

Enter the download code you received with your purchase to claim your downloads. Keep in mind many mobile devices don't have built in support for opening ZIP files; you may want to download on a computer.


LOGIN

Login with your existing account.

CREATE ACCOUNT

Create an account to purchase items.

Passwords must be at least 6 characters

Collection: Money Band + Century Band

Golden Calves

Collection: Money Band + Century Band

Woodsist
2XLP $20.25

01/31/2012  

WOODSIST 056 


MP3 $9.90

01/31/2012 655035015910 

 


Collection gathers pre-Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice material from James Jackson Toth’s Golden Calves project. Originally released in 1996; reissue is limited to 1000 copies.

 

“It was really all about The Godz, Jandek, The Shadow Ring, Strapping Fieldhands, Swell Maps and Tower Recordings. Beyond these, I had only heard the ‘classic’ and most available free jazz, krautrock and noise albums. I was a long way from, say, the second Comus album or Charles Gayle. But this music changed my life. It was a record store owner named Eric McCarthy and a man who needs no introduction to anyone reading these notes, Matt Valentine, who taught me that there was a world beyond Dischord, Vermiform and Ebullition. I went to college, met hip people, and got a job at both the local record store and the college radio station. I was taking drugs. I bought a four track and began emulating my heroes. I called the project Golden Calves. I was eighteen years old....

“In hindsight, I like to think that the noise scene liked us and responded so positively to us because, in our own naïve way, we were subverting a very rigid paradigm. Touring with noise bands and moving in experimental circles but playing proper ‘songs’ is what made us weird. It was an exciting, unforgettable time.

“These are not perfect records. Perhaps worse than so-called ‘naïve art’ is ‘only-marginally-informed art’ and that’s what this is. I should have let my talents marinate for a while before rushing out records that now sound to me like thinly-veiled love letters to Siltbreeze. But fuck it, man. I was hopelessly arrogant then and remain so today. Why else would I greenlight this fucking thing?”

—James Jackson Toth, Lexington, KY, Summer 2010

Tracklist

  1. #1 In the Centre of the Ring They Are Torturing a Bear

    Listen

  2. #2 Seraphim Radar Rallies

    Listen

  3. #3 Hollow Earth Worship (The Ouija Machine)

    Listen

  4. #4 Rideshare Infiltrates (For Jim Shaw)

    Listen

  5. #5 Pocket Organ Grinder (For Jocy de Oliveira)

    Listen

  6. #6 The Haunted Cabaret of Nordic Nymphs

    Listen

  7. #7 Panoramic Corporate Lobby Shots, Pts I and II

    Listen

  8. #8 Meet the Airhearts

    Listen

  9. #9 Psychic Console II

    Listen

  10. #10 New Intrinsic Worth and the Quality of Judgers

    Listen

  11. #11 The Karmic Disenchantment of the Evil Leaper Neighborhood Watch

    Listen

  12. #12 Machine: Measurer of Man (For Jean Claude van Itallie)

    Listen

  13. #13 The Hangman's Hideous Son

    Listen

  14. #14 Calves Heavenward

    Listen

  15. #15 Equinox: Neon Spotted Owls

    Listen

  16. #16 Consciousness for Juju (Negotiating the Plastic Infant Reel)

    Listen

  17. #17 Mod Bacteria (For Fred Neil) / Alchemy Interlude

    Listen

  18. #18 Atrium 5: The Absinthe Labyrinth (For Theo Angel)

    Listen

  19. #19 Cornflower Sweet (For Dary-John Mizelle)

    Listen

  20. #20 Mod Bacteria II

    Listen

Related Items

Woods

I Was Gone
Woodsist

Meth Teeth

Everything Went Wrong
Woodsist

Woods

(colored) Strange To Explain
Woodsist

V/a

Welcome Home / Diggin’ The Universe
Woodsist

Mv & Ee

Home Comfort
Woodsist

Kivel, Matt

Days Of Being Wild
Woodsist