Pork Queen - Recorded Live (1995) [Shrimper, SHR70, cassette]
Pork Queen! Pork Queen is one of many Justice Schanfarber projects, which is a whole little system branching off from the Shrimper region. It's the most 6 Degrees Of Shrimper you can play without a Mountain Goats alumnus involved. I'll get more into Schanfarber stuff later (Capozzi Park, Near Castlegar, [Good] Horsey, Trackshun Industries...) but for now, this one tape.
Live noise! Who doesn't love live noise? (Yeah, yeah...)
Below you can see the audio graphs of the two tracks:
And you can listen to some short collections of clips from each (fade-in/fade-outs mine), with descriptions below.
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What Does Side A Sound Like?
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The Madrona Hill Winery set is more steady, you get a lot of thrumming, whoom-y, deeper tones. It has a kind of cavernous feeling through the middle. There's some twangy sound in the final third, some guitar noise, a bit more texture. I find this one a very relaxing listen, great for reading. Not that I don't like harsh noise, I love harsh noise myself. But you'll find very little outright scratchy texture here, not quite even those bass ranges that sort of burrow into you, etc etc etc. Music That Feels Like Having Earplugs In While You're On A Subway Train, kind of stuff.
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What Does Side B Sound Like?
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The Great American Music Hall set starts with more of that twanging, there's a distorted recorder playing some notes, there's a voice sample going over some static. The guitar noodling gives way to a music box playing that distinctive Swan Lake theme for a bit. Then some rattling. NOW some of the more stimulation-craving noise enjoyers among us get a little fun: the big block of sound in the middle of this one is more thickly textured, more of a gale force winds, car windows all open, crowded machine shop type sound. The bit right after gets more of that mechanical rattling, ahh. It comes back with the twanging after a bit and builds, builds, builds---you're back in the machine shop! But it's a bit deeper now, and it starts fluttering. Ahhhh.
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