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Cow On Mushrooms

by Owl Xounds

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1.
Leaf Orr 07:21
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2.
Maa 05:31
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3.
We Stems 04:56
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4.
Feed 07:06
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5.
Of Off 02:42
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6.
Songeene 00:14
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7.
From Calm Pastures Of Liek-Twi The Cow Dreams Ancient (by LIEK-TWI) 08:14
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8.
(Sacred Cow) Remix (by TWIN:72) 11:23
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9.
The Cow's Ensemble (by LIEK-TWI) 02:46
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This is *maybe* the album that really put OWL SOUNDS on the map. David Keenan of Volanic Tongue/Wire Magazine went crazy for it, and even managed to get it included in Wire Magazaine's *Best Of Jazz/Improv 2005* feature. It addition to the core members of Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass), it featured the bass-clarinet of Arrington De Dionyso.

Original release blurb:
"What exactly happens indeed, when the cow, upon whose waste thy magic mushroom doth grow, consumes that very entity of fungal delight? Oh the beautiful things he sees and hears and feels and he delights in his world as never before! It is with similar luscious frenzy that we present to you a new recording of such a whirlwind and cosmically manic nature, that only the aforementioned cow will know just what to do/say feel/think be/know! The twisted and ever-playful OWL SOUNDS percussive/rhythmic core of Adam Kriney (traps) and Gene Janas (acoustic bass) frolic in the field of improvised sonics with beloved and bewildering bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso. Now, you may have heard our dear Arrington freaking out on guitar/vocals wild-rock style in his band OLD TIME RELIJUN who've released several full length albums of the legendary K Records, or possibly as curator of the Olympia Festival Of Experimental Musics for the past 11 years, or maybe even as a renowned performer/teacher of multiphonic Tuvan throatsinging, yes indeed what a fellow. And when the frolicing is through, a trail of African poly-rhythmics and freak-out anti-rhythmics, bathed in arco-invocations and low-end mutherfucking boom-boom, all raked over reeds of wicked wailing and banshee battlecries dis-/appears before your ears, goddamn, what a trip!? Now this is not to intimate the recording is with out it's calmer pastures, our boys know when to wiggle into sinewy explorations, but BAM! its astral occupation all over again, so don't get too comfy, ya dig? Packaged in gorgeous and surreal hand made art, including original poetry by Ryan Eggensperger"

This album was issued as Colour Sounds Records (CSR 012)
The 1st press of this CD-R was limited to 55 copies and is sold out.
The 2nd press of this CD-R was limited to 85 copies and is sold out.*

*this version also includes 3 insane sound-collage cut-up remixes, one by TWIN:72 (aka Tom Bell) and two by the duo of LIEK-TWI (Hektor Fontanez and Anthony Lebron), which all further take you down an unraveling road of confused beauty!

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released July 8, 2005

OWL SOUNDS
Adam Kriney - drums
Gene Janas - upright bass
Arrington De Dionyso - bass clarinet

Remix artists on the 2nd pressing:
LIEK-TWI (Hektor Fontanez & Anthony Lebron)
TWIN:72 (Tom Bell)

Recorded on 04/04/2005 at Urban Spaceman Studio by Andrea Zavareei
Poems by Ryan Eggensperger
Artwork by Adam Kriney

Colour Sounds Recordings CSR012

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Owl Xounds/Owl Sounds/Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy were an undeniable force in the early 2000s NYC underground free- jazz/improv scene. They were deeply influenced by and sonically indebted to the early wave of 1960's avant-garde jazz music from such legendary cult labels as ESP-Disk and BYG Actuel. ... more

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