Seaside Carnivalism

Posted December, 2009

About The Music


What happens when you spend a week in Maui, channeling the volcano gods? WHAT HAPPENS? Seaside Carnivalism.


In this installment we bring you Pacific Horizons, a new LA based band debuting songs from their first release, Universal

Horizons (The Amulet, Universal Horizons) - available on limited edition vinyl at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, Juno

Records, and Phonica Records courtesy of Pacific Wizard Foundation. Also included are two early mixes of material

(Echo Park, Burn In The Moonlight) from the same fellows.


We also have two old-timey cuts from sci-fi souljazz band Atma. Bigfoot is a live recording from "The Joint" a/k/a "The Lower

Level" at the Capital Hill Arts Collective (CHAC) in Seattle, 2003. Future Cities is a home studio mix from 2002.


Next we've offered four beauties from Undersea Passage. The Dance (with some dreamy guitar work from Warren Nelson)

and One Mile An Hour (Brett Joseph on sax, Dave Carter on trumpet, Allison Noel on flute) are part of the band's ongoing

recording research project. No Directions is an unfinished studio recording which, despite its easygoing sound, has been

greatly debated within the group... but who can pass up luscious B3 backing from Seattle legend Joe Doria. Love Me Tender

was recorded live in Maui under the watchful eye that is the volcano.


Alien Criminal Land (ACL) hails from a greener, more dreadlocked time in our lives. While on tour in 1996, the band's bus

broke down in Chico, CA. Stuck there, the band met an alcoholic who claimed he fought as a sniper in Vietnam. He offered

the youths two pieces of wisdom: "people tell you shit and that's the way it is" and "you may as well forget the ridiculous

notion that you're gonna be Someone." This unfinished version of Last Riders was loosely inspired by these events and was

recorded at Emerald Calyx Studios in Eugene, OR circa 1998 by Rob Crecine.


Greenhorse is an electro-pop duo from Wyoming. They self-released their first EP Transcontinental - available now at

Amazon - in October 2009 and this is a preview of new selections Aquasong and I Want You to Be Her.


Ang Bayan Kong Sinilangan is a Tagalog (Filipino) war hymn popularized by the group Asin and sung here by Jive Delmar.

This Is Not A Test and Open For Suggestion (a duet with Vesper Gers) were recorded in David Delmar's old Capitol Hill

(Seattle) apartment in 1999, where there was a prevalence of radio interference in many sessions. When a wah pedal

emphasized the "body as antenna" syndrome, the Hollywood story of This Is Not A Test started hearing voices.


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