DETAILS
TRACKS
Side A
- On The Steeple With The Shakes (X-mas Tigers)
- Silvermine Pictures
- Pastry Sharp
- To Hush A Sick Transmission
Side B
- Red Food Old Heat
- Down Eisenhower Sun Up With Mule
- To Hush A Sick Transmission [Unedit]
- When The Snakehandler Slips
Side C
- Electric Fence
- St. Martha Let It Fold
- Beneath The Yachtsman
- Don't Let Me Die Nervous
- Dock Boggs
Side D
- Bathwater
- June Rat
- Pastry Sharp
- A Horse-sized Pill
RELEASE DATE
11/6/2012
This double LP is an expanded edition of a CD of the same name. That disc collected Califone’s first two EPs (on Perishable and Road Cone), plus two new songs. For this vinyl reissue we have located four more songs – unreleased outtakes from the final Red Red Meat recording sessions — to complete the package. It’s all you need when it comes to the genesis of this well-regarded Chicago-based group. Califone started as the solo project of singer/ guitarist Tim Rutili in the late 1990s, after the dissolution of his band Red Red Meat. Soon enough, Red Red Meat members Ben Massarella and Tim Hurley joined the group, who recorded with RRM’s Brian Deck as well as at their own space and with Warren Defever in Livonia, MI. “On the first two Califone EPs, we were definitely trying to allow some deep change and possibility into what we were doing, and the door was always wide open to accidental music and automatic writing,” Rutili explains. “We built a lot of this music on accidents and chance occurrences. Some of the songs are really good; some of it sounds like an expedition that got lost in the woods. I was still playing with toy drum machines, cheap or borrowed synths and a cassette 4track, trying to make songs out of all these insane sounds.”
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