Arrington de Dionyso - Bobcat Flamethroat '1993/2021

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Originally released on cassette in 1993 this album documents a teenage Arrington
de Dionyso. "All the seeds of his 30+ career are engrained on these fully formed
Tascam recordings. "Bobcatflamethroat" was originally released as "Pine Cone
Alley Cassette #9" in August of 1993. The songs were recorded on a Tascam
Porta-One 4 Track cassette studio inside a secret area in the basement of the
College Activities Building at the Evergreen State College, known as
"Happyland". This album has never before seen a digital release of any kind,
however there is one song "Everything is Broken" which later became part of the
original "canon" of Old Time Relijun after that band was formed in 1995. That
song was re-recorded on the first Old Time Relijun album "Songbook Vol. I"
released in 1997. I still dig most of the tunes on this one- these were all
written and recorded while preparing to welcome a new young life into the world
(my daughter Lucinda, born August 22, 1993). So while not specifically
"Children's Music" per se, the tunes are wild, hopeful, optimistic yawps of
playful abandon for all ages. There are a number of "inside jokes" that only
would have made sense to the very tight knit inner circle hat I considered my
"core" group of friends at that point in my life. I also think there are more
than a few "hits" on here. I was 18 years old! Anyone who has followed the last
thirty years of my musical career should find something of interest and delight
on this album. For some reason I chose to record most of the guitar and bass
parts "direct" without an amplifier- I'm not sure why I did that but it's a
unique sound in retrospect. There's a decent dose of throatsinging and other odd
vocal techniques, proving that I dove deep into this territory of vocal
exploration at a very young age. Also plenty of mouth harps, flutes, kazoos, and
clarinet, although this was just BEFORE I bought my first bass clarinet. The
song "Kite Dragon Hypnosis" showcases the very first time I EVER recorded
anything with a saxophone! The lyrics are reflective of my interests in the
theories of "Ethnopoetics" as put forth by Jerome Rothenberg in many of his
books such as "Shaking the Pumpkin" and "Technicians of the Sacred", as pathways
to understanding the universality of myth and shamanism as connective threads
through human poetic expression. And yes, if you know something about the
Evergreen State College, I did indeed receive 16 credits for working on this
album."

Tracklist:
1.01 - Arrington de Dionyso - Wildcat (2:30)
1.02 - Arrington de Dionyso - Elevator Shaft (2:21)
1.03 - Arrington de Dionyso - Salal Harvest Chant (1:45)
1.04 - Arrington de Dionyso - Broken (Everything Is Broken) (2:32)
1.05 - Arrington de Dionyso - My Nest (2:31)
1.06 - Arrington de Dionyso - I'm Crowded (1:02)
1.07 - Arrington de Dionyso - Blue Ears (1:42)
1.08 - Arrington de Dionyso - Baked Potato (1:34)
1.09 - Arrington de Dionyso - Lucifer Peacock Raven (2:02)
1.10 - Arrington de Dionyso - Oyster Mushrooms (1:41)
1.11 - Arrington de Dionyso - Tukwila Joe (2:16)
1.12 - Arrington de Dionyso - That Big Thing (2:03)
1.13 - Arrington de Dionyso - Orange Peel (1:38)
1.14 - Arrington de Dionyso - Blue Rasputin (1:43)
1.15 - Arrington de Dionyso - Silver Moon Duck (1:53)
1.16 - Arrington de Dionyso - Bobcat And Turkey (1:55)
1.17 - Arrington de Dionyso - Ocean Trip (Ocean Shores) (2:19)
1.18 - Arrington de Dionyso - Railroad Maypole (1:45)
1.19 - Arrington de Dionyso - Chase The Badger (1:35)
1.20 - Arrington de Dionyso - Polecat That (1:41)

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