Tenniscoats - Tasmania Bootleg '2023

Tracks list

A note from Lawrence English When I was preparing the 15th anniversary re-issue
of Totemo Aimasho I spent a few days doing a deep dive through the room40
archive. There’s a hell of a lot of material that has been collected over
the years, and truth be told I don’t exactly remember a lot of it. About
a day into this search, I came across this recording. Tasmania Bootleg was
recorded on Sunday the 15th of February 2009, at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart.
The visit to Hobart came about pretty last minute, so my email chain from the
time seems to suggest. I’d invited Tenniscoats down to Australia to help
celebrate the finale of the Fabrique seres I was curating at Brisbane
Powerhouse. Some folks from Hobart reached out once the other tour dates were
announced and then before we knew it, we were headed there. As part of the
Hobart visit we recorded a suite of material using the same ‘field
recording’ style we used to create Temporacha in Tokyo the previous year.
We also took the chance to record the show at The Brisbane Hotel. This recording
is 100% bootleg territory. I must confess to being a huge fan of this style of
recording. I was an enormous cassette trader back in my teen years and I put
down a lot of my interests in texture and noise to the quality of duplicated
bootlegs I listened to back then. This recording was made in the audience by a
friendly local and is an entirely faithful capture of the atmosphere that
surrounded Tenniscoats during this time. You can literally hear the audience
becoming completely entranced by Saya and Ueno’s performance. I was
honoured to play alongside them for this show. It’s not something I talk
about much, but my first life in music was as a drummer and a flicker of that
life is captured here. The edition also comes with a digital phonebook,
containing photos in 110 and other formats, that were captured in Tasmania
during that time. 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Tenniscoats - Yume wa Sukkiri - Dream is refresing (7:06)
1.02 - Tenniscoats - Ninichime (1:59)
1.03 - Tenniscoats - Bokura N Niwa (4:28)
1.04 - Tenniscoats - My car is burning (6:32)
1.05 - Tenniscoats - Stone in The Boot (5:45)
1.06 - Tenniscoats - Sabaku (7:00)
1.07 - Tenniscoats - Baibaba Bimba (6:04)

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