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Toxic Raga

by Owl Xounds

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1.
A Mistake Has Been Made In Your Honor 10:04
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2.
It Were Wrong And It Were SIck 08:26
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3.
Confusion For The Masses 04:34
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4.
In Defense Of Surreality 06:38
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5.
The End Of Discussion 06:29
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Original release blurb:

"Toxic Raga" marks the 2nd album from the OWL XOUNDS trio line-up of Adam Kriney, Gene Janas, and Arrington De Dionyso, the first of which, "Cow On Mushrooms", exploded onto the landscape last year [2005] heralded by such folks as David Keenan, Alex Neilson, and James Toth (WOODEN WAND) and being selected by Wire Magazine as one of the top jazz/improv albums of 2005. After the sudden interest in the group, the trio decided to embark on a Northeast US mini-tour and finish it up with a recording session, which we now present to you.

The textures/times/vibrations embarked upon in this free-music setting draw from the sewers of outsider-experimental jazz explorations and intuitive approaches to instant composition received from the cosmos above. Kriney's clustered/blistering drumming assumes the role of pace and power, while Janas' extraordinary upright bass innovations/antics allows the density to fluctuate from a single buzzing bee to a blizzard's roar, and De Dionyso's bass clarinet/vocal statements and allusions/illusions breathe the final beautiful hush of towering xounds on which to meditate. As psychedelic as a manhole cover and as gentle as a toothpick, the trio dance the magic waddle of forgotten mystery, and sing songs of lost future legends and reach inward plucking their pumping red heart from the cold dead hands of this fucked EARTH.

Comes packaged in an oversized envelope of toxic art inlcuding an absurdist anti-poem by Ryan Eggensperger, in a 1-time edition of 108(!?) copies."

Released on Colour Sounds Recordings (CSR 024) in a single pressing of 108 copies, 98 with blue cover and 10 with a white cover, and is long sold out.

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released September 13, 2006

OWL XOUNDS "Toxic Raga"

1. A Mistake Has Been Made In Your Honor
2. It Were Wrong And It Were Sick
3. Confusion For The Masses
4. In Defense Of Surreality
5. The End Of Discussion

Adam Kriney - drums
Gene Janas - upright bass
Arrington De Dionyso - bass clarinet/voice

Recorded March 6, 2006 by Andrea Zavareei at Urban Spaceman
Mastered by DF (Dave Ferrara)

Artwork by Adam Kriney
Insert Poem by Ryan Eggensperger

Colour Sounds Recordings CSR024

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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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