Arrington de Dionyso - Orga Ar '1994/2023

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Originally released on cassette in 1994, this album documents a teenage
Arrington de Dionyso. "All the seeds of his 30+ career are engrained on these
fully formed Tascam recordings. From Arrington: "Orga Ar is how Old Time Relijun
came into being. It was the first time I ever had a "real" drummer (Bryce Panic)
come in to give me some tracks to build songs with, and then I had Aaron come in
and play upright bass on one tune (Qiyamat). When they heard the tape they both
asked me if I had ever thought about starting a band and getting some shows
organized. It's so weird to imagine now, because I really didn't have my shit
together to do the kind of live performance I wanted to do all by myself. So the
idea was that we would start with the songs on the tape but allow them to
"breathe" in the live setting. I think at first I really wanted the band to be
mostly improvisational, and just using the lyrics as a way to have continuity.
But after a lot of trial and error in setting up our own shows we decided that
having a more structured setlist had better results in getting people to dance.
The Olympia scene at that time was kind of "anti-dance party"- most of the punk
shows downtown were heavily politicized and were more about the connected
activism than about the music per se. For me at the time, I felt like the REAL
"political statement" that needed to be made was for the music to be an
affirmation of one's physicality, that movement and enthusiasm were both OK and
sometimes necessary for self-and-social liberation. We weren't popular at all in
the "scene" until years later, in fact all of our US tours were disastrous until
we were invited to tour in Europe by an Italian fan who organized everything in
12 different countries. In pre-internet era Olympia, our only aims were playing
fun shows for our friends, with little regard for reaching the outside world.""

Tracklist:
1.01 - Arrington de Dionyso - Earthquake (1:55)
1.02 - Arrington de Dionyso - King Of Nothing (1:39)
1.03 - Arrington de Dionyso - Armadillos (1:34)
1.04 - Arrington de Dionyso - Pterodactyl (0:35)
1.05 - Arrington de Dionyso - Wine And Milk (1:38)
1.06 - Arrington de Dionyso - Cooking (1:27)
1.07 - Arrington de Dionyso - Cantharellus Cibarius (2:39)
1.08 - Arrington de Dionyso - Sparassis Radica (1:36)
1.09 - Arrington de Dionyso - Five Golden Keys (2:41)
1.10 - Arrington de Dionyso - Qiyamat (1:27)
1.11 - Arrington de Dionyso - Coprinus Comatus (2:43)
1.12 - Arrington de Dionyso - Last Winter (2:03)
1.13 - Arrington de Dionyso - Theogeny (2:03)
1.14 - Arrington de Dionyso - Happyland (2:24)
1.15 - Arrington de Dionyso - Black Cat (2:50)
1.16 - Arrington de Dionyso - Muff Eating Dinosaur Crocodile (2:05)
1.17 - Arrington de Dionyso - The Assasins (2:10)
1.18 - Arrington de Dionyso - Little Red Riding Hood (2:04)
1.19 - Arrington de Dionyso - The Deep Lake (1:21)
1.20 - Arrington de Dionyso - Pirate Radio (2:33)
1.21 - Arrington de Dionyso - Amanita Muscaria (1:42)
1.22 - Arrington de Dionyso - Venerate Decay (3:59)

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