Here is a poster for the Id M Theft Able/Metis Yeti/Bill Bill/Parkade show.. Actually, I'm not sure why I made it, since it's nearing 3 feet big and there is only 11 of them. Perhaps it was to commemorate what is sure to be a classic show. Here is Skott's myspace which has ample audio demonstrations and aesthetic declarations: OOGA
Yesterday Randy pointed out this favorable article about the Beniffer Showcase to me: Right Here.
Many things on the Winter update are still available. This week I'm going to get some copies into Soundscapes, so if you're from Toronto you don't have to hunt us down. I will say now that we are down to our last copies of the Brian Ruryk boxset. You snooze you lose and all of that...
Hey - if you managed to secure a copy of the Gastric Female Reflex 7" on Lips Infection, let me know how it sounds. Yeahhhhh, we never got our copies and now, several months after we personally screenprinted the art work, our label man won't return our emails. QUEER isn't it?
Brian Ruryk - Cycle of Fords 6x cdr boxset This is Brian Ruryk's magnum opus - there - i said it. This is a project that he's been working on for a long time now and we here at Beniffer are TICKLED to bring it to you. This is a serious piece of work - 6 cd's of no holds barred cut-up confusion. Using the acoustic guitar as who-knows-what (concept!?!), Ruryk maims, affronts and kicks his axe in the pendulous motherload - does most anything that doesn't involve delving into a red-hot blues detour. With filing cabinets succumbing to Newtonian laws and lids of wet cat food spraying sonic juice and deflecting off of an overturned cassette footstool, there is not much of nothing going on, if that makes sense. 6 blank-ass cdrs come in screenprinted envelopes inside a 1/4 reel box with an insert.
Max Eisenballz (DJ Dog Dick) - From Place to Place cassette Baltimore's own playboy slumdawg enters your backdoor with the ease of room temperature butter shooting into a lock with a caulking gun; once inside he knits a Cosby-sweater out of your brain with swarthy electronic yarns extruded from junkyard bird-call imitations and confused alarm clocks that mistake PM with FM. Without much further ado he pulls out a CD-RW of himself singing in the shower and you're under the impression it's gossamer burning up on a pot of cooking pasta. I feel like this is the future of hip-hop. Cassette comes in a reproduction of a box of Moroccan diarrhea medication that Jacob got when his butt was having fecal miscarriages. He was on vacation.
Thee Gnostics - Archival 2x cassette/booklet In a faraway land, where crystalline car dealerships and stately drive-thru slop shops stood immaculate, a band of sagacious, chemically-altered teaheads huddled in a vacant post office in a tent that was left there from the time of the Sumerians. This was in Hamilton, Ontario - early 90's... Anyway, the ceiling of the tent was deep space; constellations became their pets and unnamed planets became their personal pan pizzas... It was there that they met God, it was all Blueberry shaped non-sequiters and top-heavy answers, enough to cave in the cab of a cube-van. Upon stumbling out of the now fog-encumbered tent their heads were weighted down by the incessant drone of the spheres, a tinnitus-like unceasing that clouded their perception. With nothing else to help with this cochlear roar they harmonized, like a ragtag assembly of Beached Boys with an orphic caveman stomp that matched the brutal profoundness of the soul. And here it is - the selected works of Thee Gnostics, a band that ceaselessly put petals on wahwah pedals in the tradition of Hawkwind and the 13th Floor Elevators. This is a serious INSTANT CLASSIC. Double cassettes come with a 48 page silkscreened/photocopied fanzine-style booklet, with re-appropriated poster art and with liners by Bruce Mowat.
Cubic Susuration/Jakob Olausson split 7" lathe Side one is a oceanic demonstration by Cubic Susuration, better known as Sus. A vocal-based meditation with hazy string accompaniment that reminds this author of the mournful sleeplessness of 4am; fixtures and nuances cast in non-light, acting out their own clandestine lives unknowing of your silent witness. It's teetering creepiness is both a repose and a oracular wooze. I like it! Side two is a song by Jakob Olausson that didn't make it on to the now classic album Moonlight Farm. Having lived and breathed that album, as I'm sure a lot of you have, I don't think it to be inaccurate to say that this song is a total missing link. All the Jakob elements are there; the deep velveteen intonation of a voice in an ominous well, the consummate weary of pace and tone and the hugeness of a guitar caught in a giant's hairpiece. The record comes in a special edition inner sleeve, screenprinted jacket inside a printed/sewn fabric bag. The 7" itself was cut on long-lasting vinyl at PJ Mansion in Montreal, this means you can listen to it without the consternation of listening to a regular lathe cut. For more information on this visit http://pjmansionvinyl.blogspot.com.
Andrew Zukerman - Don't Dress the Petal Near the Void 1-sided 7" lathe/cassette/poster This is a recording that was made with mouth, water, tape and percussion. It was multitracked/composed by taping off the erase head on a 1/4 inch tape machine. The cassette is some odds and ends of mostly analog sketches culled off some forgotten reels; compositions for synthesizer/tape loop systems, vocal tomfooleries and straight-up freewheeling tape collage. Comes with a fuckin poster. Also cut at PJ Mansion.
Matthew "Doc" Dunn - Peace Be Your Rider cassette Doc's new cassette for our humble label begins in the in the dream of a gullible seiner captain and progresses forth into the secret anesthetic world of a Cape Cod bleeding performed on a blind man's estranged guide dog. Having been drained the dog can smoke cigarettes and experience concurrent head rushes. Matthew rolls with the dexterous style of the Americana giants but rends and teases the strands of tradition thereby wringing out the extruded cry of a guitar getting a deep tissue massage. The strings snap back like ropes on a makeshift bridge enduring the weight of a massive and unknowable universe... Deep music for DEEP TIMEZ. Cassette comes in a silkscreened foldover by Horwood.
Wasted Nymph - Urlapse cassette The nymph is back with it's legs spread further apart as if on some demonic exercise machine. The addition of Montreal's Nintendo-psych king Brian Seeger adds a dexterity that make those lady-bumps jump like a bowl of jello on a mechanical bull. With this cycle of new songs, our favorite trio stretch out their ramshackle compositions on the train tracks, allowing them to writhe in delightful syncopation before being jammed underneath westbound freighters carrying Olive Garden Restaurants from town to town. A single 30 minute cassette comes in the usual white plastic Fantasia case with a cover designed by Josh Bastien of the band and Zukerman.
Wellll, I'm just in the midst of putting the final touches on the Winter Update and it should be posted later today or tomorrow. In the meantime I would like to take the opportunity to post a little something about a show that is coming up soon. Id M Theft Able is a good friend from Maine and one of the most interesting performances going, and so it is an honor to be hosting this event for him in Toronto. Sometime in the near future a collaborative cd between Id and GFReflex will be surfacing on Norway's Humbug Records. Keep a lookout for that piece of delinquency soon... OK:
Primary Colors/Restaurant Makeover present: Friday February 5th, 9pm @ House Everlasting Super Joy (225 Sterling Rd., Unit #23)
Id M Theft Able (Maine) - In the mouth of the Skittles factory are three rotten teeth. Smell is often accompanied. No one could have guessed this is the real thing... Id M Theft Able makes music with his spittle, pendulous and smacking an amplified griddle horse. http://www.kraag.org/
Metis Yeti (Montreal) - Drummed up from the depths of a line cooks perspiration, the pustulent deity of deep crust flowers and rainbows, bubblegum ice cream and southern-fried infant heads, makes himself a spot on the ottoman's head piece. http://www.metisyeti.co.cc
Bill Bill - Karma is a sock chore at a chain-gang recreation. Someone helped themselves to the craft services and her twitching eye is out for justice. http://mondomagazine.net/art-f-aow-14.html
Parkade - Benched for insubordination, one athlete's struggle with life, love and a glove compartment full of unfinished crossword puzzles.
DJ BC Bud, formerly DJ Raptor Cum, formerly DJ Raptor Adrenaline $6
Also - if you couldn't make it to the show last Saturday and wonder how it went, you should check out Ayal Senior's version of how it transpired... http://www.youtube.com/user/dreamweaponfilm
we finished assembling the Brian Ruryk 6 cdr boxset. this is our last cdr item. i like it. it seems to yell GO BIG OR GO HOME (each cd comes in screenprinted envelopes with an insert). there are two covers as well, one designed by myself and one by Brian.
i wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy new year. we've been working around the clock to bring you the new update that is due to drop in 17 days. a few days ago i had josh from wasted nymph over to design the new cover. the outcome is a sultry striploin of a collaboration that i'll be printing this week, two color on orange bristol. as always the nymph will in ensconced in a white plastic fantasia packaging with daring insertions. we even went as far as to do a photo shoot with them for promotional purposes: and here is a clip from their newest offering:
.... the other day i decided to print off a poster for the showcase, even tho i'm terrible with following through putting them up: i printed it on a warped screen which came up 4 inches off of the table and i had to weight it down at first with my knee and then with a stack of half-full latex paint cans. i'd like you to appreciate that i did this all night. just saying... ok stay tuned
here is the new Man Made Hill video from Exploding Motor Car. Kool Cops will be one of the many songs you'll be hearing on his new LP "Puzzle Answers":
SATURDAY JANUARY 16th/ 9pm @ 225 Sterling (House of Everlasting Super Joy) $6
THEE GNOSTICS Reformed expressly for this event and to celebrate the issue of their archival book/double cassette, Thee Gnostics will bring back the painful memories and reopen the festering sores of a jam bourn out of acid wedlock - revisit the homeland of crummy acid psychedelic pastures and project forth into the outer precincts of garage aesthetics. Thee Gnostics are Hawkwind with its head in the oven.
BRIAN RURYK The author, mastermind and maniac-hoarder of Alliances for Debris steals guitars from Zellers - he's been caught on camera and will be apprehended if he attempts to go back to the Galleria location. What he does with these is so savage and inexcusable it should remain private. It all sounds like Hanatarash with a recycling bin for a vocabulary. Brian will be celebrating his 6 cdr boxset on Beniffer.
ARCHAIC WOMEN Archaic Women is what happens when you lose your shit in the 60's, spend the 70's as a paranoiac masturbator and live out the rest of your life letting all of your words reenact a private bittersweet double meaning. In the pulsating, reiterative mind of a strung out ego burgeons a shapeshifting and incalculable remembrance of the song that was heard when your mind died. Archaic Women is Max of Slim Twig playing that song. Sounds like a Zombies record skipping in a stifling Chernobyl-like exhaust (and sometimes literally is). Max will be celebrating his poster/cassette that was released a while ago, oh well.
MAN MADE HILL Randy Gagne is taller than the your typical low-rise apartment complex, yet he rides on the wings of a bong-headed eagle, just over the horizon where the promise of lush rainbow-sound is a fertile-bitch to be treated with the touch of a feather on egyptian cotton. Randy is the Man Made Hill, with his velvet source and his music whispering to your chi with erogenous insinuation. Pretty much like Prince in a heightened state of ambiguity and abstraction. Randy will be celebrating his new LP which may or may not be finished by the time this show happens.
w/ DJ NO REQUESTS PLEASE ONLY 2 MINUTE GARAGE SONGS which is Tim, the man behind the counter of Frantic City. w/ projections and other stuff
Saturday, December 19, 2009
hey - i'm moments away from publishing the beniffer showcase announcement... but in the meantime i thought i would direct your attention toward Brian Ruryk's new, incomprehensible blog: http://uglyclelebrityblondes.blogspot.com/ ... replete with sound samples and Brian's ongoing kinship with mangled word-processing. ummm oh - and here is an incidental collage i glued down in the spirit of the holiday season: ok stay tuned
hi - in GFReflex related news we're not playing any shows in the foreseeable future. but we will have this new 7" of recent work put out by our friend in italy... to order go to this site: http://lipsinfection.blogspot.com/ ... or you can get it from us soon.
oh but the track titles are wrong! they are: A - raw puppy pant lick show B - don't moan behind the chocolate apparatus ........if you care?!
hi - i know my keeping up with this blog has been rather infrequent but that's only because we're busy in preparation of the mind-blowing winter update. so if you're checking back regularly (i'm sure you're not), expect that massive excretion pronto.. included on the update:
Brian Ruryk 6x cdr boxset Thee Gnostics 2x cassette/book Sus/Jakob split 7" lathe Man Made Hill LP Matthew "Doc" Dunn cassette DJ Dog Dick cassette Wasted Nymph cassette Andrew Zukerman one sided 7" lathe/cassette/poster
there is also going to be the first "Beniffer Showcase" show in January. Line-up and venue will be announced shortly. ... so check back soon!
