I believe we broke up (we never discussed disbanding) and I didn't want the lovely unreleased nuggets to become too dusty for consumption. Like the first, it features the tunings and home made instruments of clem fortuna. Music to meditate by.
This could have been my most self-indulgent (after all, who wants to listen to a cd of euphonium oompahs except for fellow euphemists) but i decided at the last minute to record some unlikely covers (mancini, the beatles, cat stevens, neil young, the doors, beethoven) and mix them up with originals. Each cover was rescued from the Cranbrook Art Academy's dumpsters at year's end. Some are numbered and signed, some aren't, but they are all beautiful.
I finally got around to compiling unreleased OAM tracks all recorded between 1988 and 1998. 17 gems in all ... the vast majority were previously unreleased w/just a few appearing on small compilations. The end result in my opinion beats Damned Pretty Snout hands down. Your OAM collection is not complete without it. Lovely recycled covers and a provocative drawing of us in our birthday suits by our friend Mary Fortuna.
Including Frank Pahl, Klimperei, Pascal Camelade, David Fenech, Itoken, Harpy & more. Japanese toypop label Novel Cell Poem releases a bunch of previously unreleased tracks in a beautiful package with informative book insert (if you read Japanese). Limited Stock!!!
David came down to Chattanooga in 2002 and interviewed local senior citizens while I joined up with those inimitable improvisational stalwarts, the Shaking Ray Levis. The results are 17 new standards. How can you pass it up?