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bad bus' "the field" / tempera's "22222222"
a split 7" record, the first in l'animaux tryst's "tryst haunt series". bad bus' krautfreak jam "the field" (from bad bus 4) on one side, tempera's slightly more electronic krautfreak jam "222222222" on the other. each housed in a one-of-a-kind patchwork fabric sleeve. to order the autumn 2007 mailing (which also includes 7"s from cursillistas and lightning strike lightning), or to order a subscription to the year-long series, please email
[email protected]. ($24 US for the Autumn 2007 mailing, $75 for the full-year's 12 record subscription, shipping included to US)
also available at all bad bus shows. limited edition of 300.
bad bus 2 + 8 (back-hoe)
3"cdr of one bedroom space echo experiment and one live saltwater farm radio performance. 2 features mlj + amo, while 8 includes the above and ian paige (white light), nancy scott, kim devries, and milo. digitalis / l'animaux tryst co-release. limited edition of 75 in handknit sleeves. december 2007. click here to order through l'animaux tryst .
coming soon:
bad bus 4 (shark week)
one 5" cdr of the entire 45-minute session, plus a bonus 3"cdr of "shark week" remixes by white light and cursillistas. on l'animaux tryst in limited edition of 75. winter/spring 2009.
bad bus - space rips in the magnet phone (9 & 14)
cassette compilation of bad bus performances at space gallery in portland, me, on 5/29/07 and 7/24/08. label and edition tba; winter/spring 2009.
sold out:
avant garde farm / l'animaux tryst compilation if a tree falls in the forest, can we record it?
l'a-t-(f)-r 005 bad bus' 1 & 3 (caucus)
limited edition of 35 sets of two 40min cassettes. haunted basement scrapes, skronks, and booms; recorded live with no overdubs and minimal post-production. includes the hands and voices of crank sturgeon, cursillistas, bird microphone, jason henn (elephant micah), doug tesnow (static films/pillars and tongues), joni wall, ryan niederstadt, and adam schutzman. two black cassettes cased in a hollowed-out hardcover book with handpainted covers (15 copies) or cased in a carboard slipcase with patchwork band and handwritten titles (20 copies).
the po pho says: "Bad Bus was chaotic and out-of-place in just the right way. Gotta love a dumbfounded crowd. I felt like I was in Bad Bus. I’m standing out back and the next thing I know Ian Paige is sitting on the bar hollering through megaphones in my ear."
