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ARTIST
AMBERGRIS
TITLE
Anti-Matter Alma Mater
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 058LP
FTR 058LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/17/2012
Vinylization of the superb oddball cassette originally issued by the Potlatch, I Gather tape label in 2008.
Ambergris
is more or less the solo project of visual artist
Matthew Thurber
(
1-800 MICE
, etc.), although he is aided in this instance by
Rebecca Bird
. The suite of songs presented here is something like a theatrical recreation of one of Thurber's bizarre-world comics. Using voices, Casio, various Garage Band inventions and his own surreal imagination, Thurber takes us to a 10,000 year class reunion of the students of a space/art/science academy, from which our hero may have been physically expelled some millennia earlier. The first side focuses on the storyline, with music taking an incidental role. Something like the radio plays of Firesign Theater, it gets more brilliant as your high intensifies. The flip contains songs which have a vague similarity to some of the antic bands of the SF underground of the mid-1980s, if they had recorded themselves in SF's legendary Musee Mecanique. Housed in a lovely silkscreened cover of Thurberian design,
Anti-Matter Alma Mater
is the best of comics-based music to have traveled your way since
Gary Panter
's last LP. Truly whipped. Buy or, uh, die.
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