Member Since: 8/7/2005
Band Website: sparklegirl.podomatic.com
Band Members:Kurt Delaney:
walkman
tapes
laptop
turntable
voices
guitars
toys
percussion
production:design:dissemination
machines
electronics
effects
agitprop
magnets
mixing and sound designJim Evans:
synth
samplers
tapes
mixing
percussion
bulbul tarang
machines
electronics
effects
production:design:dissemination
magnets
agitprop
voices
guitars
bass
with special guests on occasion
Influences: soundtrack from Texas Chainsaw Massacre,police blotters, conspiracy theories and their theorists, speculative fiction and true crime, reference books, surrealism,situationism,the belle epoque,Cocteau,23 envelope and Independent Project Press, geography, photography, erotica, movies, paintings,museums, psychic triggers, coincidence and chance, the absurd, apres and avant garde street theatre and the spectacle of protest, mob dynamics Tchkung..Infernal Noise Brigade..Climax Golden Twins..Sun City Girls..Sublime Frequencies..Toys Don't Hate..Earth..D Yellow Swans..Dialing In..Uton..Avarus..Kraftwerk..music of pygmy tribes..Nurse With Wound..Ora..Morphogenesis..Christopher DeLaurenti..Wolf Eyes...Albert Ayler..To Live And Shave In LA..Dead Machines..Skaters..Mouthus..Matthew Bower..Torturing Nurse..The Liqufied..Mr. Stewart Home..Black Metal..Striborg..Dead Raven Choir..Pierre Bourdieu..esoteric knowledge..Nachtluft..Burning Giraffe..And Siamese Urbain..Light In August..Chameleons..Drowning Pool..Autumnfair..17 Pygmies..Savage Republic..irr. app. (ext.)..coelacanth..Xasthur..Leviathan..Harvey Milk..Haters..The New Blockaders...Tarpis Tula...Spykes...american Tapes...Stentorian Tapes...Lona Records...Jandek...Broken Human Machine...Neu...Alu...Kraftwerk...ramleh...postage stamps...letterpress and printing technology...antique electronics and gizmos...trivia. The noisy unkempt music of Greasy...prog rock (but we disagree on Yes and always will)...the law of fives...genial misanthropy...cultural anthropology...literary theory...the blending of catastrophy and evolution...pharmacology...DIY theory, practice and we admit some proseletyzing as well...our wives...our pets...our friends and family...Broken Penis Orchestra...Mein Kinder...Pope on Acid...Daniel from Tulsa and the Brainsodomy family of freaks...Religious Knives...Waldteufel...the amazing art of Darryl Arry...Smegma...LAMFS...Menche...Rice...Derek Bailey...Dylan Nyoukis...Nihilist Spasm Band...At Jennie Richie...Double Leopards...Ear Venom...I sing the Hollow Body Electric...The Verlaines...Electric Blood...early technopop...Factory funk... real FUNK and Reggae...Dub...Screwed & Chopped hiphop...Pan Sonic...}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{{{{ Which then gets spit out as the ever increasing Soccer Mom Ebonics Discography. We are proud to present some of the most talented NW noise and experimental artists making a racket against the status quo1994/2003
6,000 Handcrafted/Collaged recordings in cassette, reel to reel, cassette singles, CDR, floppy disks and zip drive formats.
Names used at this time included Sparkle Girl, Schadenfraude
Miami Crack Machine, The Luther Bliss Memorial Orchestra
Patented Applicator and Abattoir Kitsch'en2001
Sparkle Girl - "Hand Drawn Sound" cassette in tin box (1 copy)2002
Sparkle Girl - "Blasted Live Fragments" cdr + audio floppy disc (10 copies)
Sparkle Girl - "Elitist Culture of Shit" cdr (20 copies)2003
Sparkle Girl - "Asymptote" Cassette Edition*12004
Sparkle Girl/The Black Sun/Door 64 - "Black Sparkle Door" cdr (10 copies)*2
Sparkle Girl - "Untitled" cassette (10 copies)
Sparkle Girl - "Music For Cats/Music for Teeth" cdr in dvd case (6 copies)*32005
Sparkle Girl - "Alterity 101" SME 001 CDR (227 copies)
Sparkle Girl - "Marefumi Box Set" edition of 1 for Marefumi Komura2006
Sparkle Girl - "Asymptote" SME 002 (200 copies)*4
"Porch Intruder Becomes Violent!" CDR Single (1 copy)
"Mystery Tape" Cassette Series, Ongoing (over 300 various copies to date)*5
"Mystery CDR" CDR Series, Ongoing (over 50 to date)*6Sparkle Girl/Slicing Grandpa - "Noise Brawls In Bathroom Stalls" Split CDR SME 003 (50 copies)Sparkle Girl - "Recycled Tape" Cassette Release on RRR Records, thank you Ron! (#?)*7Sparkle Girl -"American Ethnography Volume 1: Portland" CDR Sme 004 (100 copies)
"Help the Heavyland:RRRecycled tape on CDR" SME 005 (20 copies)Sparkle Girl/Torturing Nurse (Shanghai) - "Split" CDR SME 006 (59 copies)*8Sparkle Girl - "Gameplans For Disaster Survival" CDR SME 007 (50 copies)Wolf Eyes - "Live Corruption" C40 Cassette SME 008 co-released with Gods of Tundra (#?)*9Sparkle Girl - "The Organization of Appearances" 3" CDR SME 009 (20 copies)Sparkle Girl/Liquified (Seattle) - "Will Kill For Change" Split CDR SME 010 (100 copies)Sparkle Girl - "/// aka this is NOT a safe place" CDR SME 011 (12 copies)Sparkle Girl – “Morning In the Republic†2xCDR SME 012 (12 copies to date then to finish)Sparkle Girl/Jody McKane - "Hermeneutic Triangulation" Split CDR SME 013 (110 copies)Sparkle Girl – “Annular Fusion Is Our Friend†SME 014 (100 copies)Sparkle Girl – “Stations Of The Trickster†CDR SME 015 (50 copies)Climax Golden Twins – “Live at Electric Heavyland†Cassette SME 016 (25 copies)*10Sparkle Girl - "Ruida e Liberdade" 3" CDR SME 017 (20 copies)Slicing Grandpa - The Kid's on Fire 06' Live†Cassette SME 018 (20 copies)Hototogisu – “Two Shows/One Day Live in Seattle†CDR SME 019 (25 copies)Sparkle Girl - Stamp Set SME 020 (out of print edition of 6)Sparkle Girl – “The Organization of Appearances†Reissue CDR SME 0212007
Sparkle Girl – “Film Soundtrack for Rob Femur†CDR + Cassette SME 022 (1 copy)*11Sparkle Girl - Lathe Cut 10" Clear Vinyl SME 023 (100 copies with more details to come)*12Sparkle Girl/NovaheadVsChickentron – “Live Series Volume 1†CDR SME 024 (50 copies)Boosatali/Ear Venom - “NowhereLive†Split CDR SME 025 (100 copies)Sparkle Girl – “Live Series Volume 2†CDR SME 026 (50 copies)Value Added -"InStore Core" Cassette SME 027 (16 copies)Sparkle Girl – “Habitation of Dust†Digital Release on Brainsodomy,com*13Added Value – “Blue Unicorn In Reggae Understock†Cassette SME 028 (20 copies)
Added Value – “Fetish†Cassette SME 029 (30 copies)Du Hexen Hase - “How Much Is the Drug?…†CDR SME 030 (50 copies)Added Value - “An Incredible Journey Through the Underground†Cassette SME 031 (30 copies)Added Value – “Market Surveillance†Cassette SME 032 (10 copies)Addded Value – “Ghosts on Tape†Cassette SME 033 (14 copies)SME 034 - tbaSparkle Girl – “Box for Andy†CDR + Cassette Box SME 035 (1 copy)*14Sparkle Girl – “Hand Drawn Sound†Cassette Reissue of 2001 Release SME 036 (20 copies)SME 037 – tba
SME 038 - tba
SME 039 – tba
SME 040 – tbaAdded Value – “Market Mixtures†Remixed CDR SME 041 (5 copies)Added Value – "Base Desires, Flawed Designs" Remixed Full Release SME 042 (50 copies)Sparkle Girl – “Bag for Sturgeon†2 CDR + 2 Cassette SME 043 (1 copy)*15Sparkle Girl – “Vent to Grief†CDR SME 044 (50 copies)SME 045 – 090 TBDSparkle Girl – “Wireless Transmission†CDR Reissue of “American Ethnography Vol. 1†(40 copies)*16Discography Notes:*1 Special edition of 40 cassettes five of which came with 20pg Zine/Insert
content different from that of Asymptote cdr*2 A collaborative remix soundclash CDR with two other Seattle artists*3 The packaging of this and two other Soccer Mom Ebonics releases have been featured in a Wall of Sound Art Exhibit entitled Listen With Your Eyes alongside work of Dialing In, Sublime Frequencies, Jesse Paul Miller, Garek Venom and other visual/sound artists from the Seattle area.*4 As noted above the CDR version contained different material from the cassette version*5 The Mystery tape series is an ongoing project where we quickly run off various compilations of Sparkle Girl material on any form of cassette. These tapes are generally passed out at shows and gatherings and act as a continuation from our original guerilla releases as Soccer Mom Ebonics has grown over the years.*6 Same as Mystery Tapes only in CDR format*7 A true honor for us. Ron of RRR sent us a lovely matched set of ten red tapes now distributed and an unknown number on his part. This will stay in print and represents our first appearance on another label.*8 Total number of copies unknown. We loved our split with Shanghai’s Torturing Nurse and sincerely hope the Chinese piracy market disseminates Sparkle Girl far and wide.*9 There are four different versions of this co release with Wolf Eyes/Hair Police member Mike Connolly on his Gods of Tundra label. The Gods of Tundra UK tour only version, a cassette version sold only at the Electric Heavyland in Seattle (RIP), a CDR + Cassette version presented to Wolf Eyes and friends at the second Wooden Octopus pfestival and finally a fourth edition for Volcanic Tongue Records in Glasgow. This release was also listed in the official Wolf Eyes Discography in the Pfestival Zine.*10 We’ve done several projects of the Climax Golden Twins but this is the only one we’ve listed.*11 Packaged with actual 8mm film in canister.*12 Our first vinyl release sometime in 2007.*13 Our first digital only release. We’ve also appeared on two Brainsodomy comps and are quite pleased with how it turned out and meeting our other Brainsodomy brothers and sisters.*14 A truly talented visual artist we are currently developing a project with.*15 Another entry in our series of one offs this time a bag full of Sparkle Girl noise for Crank Sturgeon as a gift on his west coast tour. Sparkle Girl uses and endorses Crank Contact Mics!*16 This is a special release as it is a recording from Radio KBCS Bellevue on the show Flotation Device
with a full introduction by the host, noted Seattle composer/performer/writer/phonographer Christopher
DeLaurenti. This is a special reissue due to several requests from friends and family and as such is
an even smaller edition than the first. We just don't operate like other labels do we?
Ok, we lied. We admit it. We really love this recording and everything associated with it. We're proud to be played on public supported radio. We had the recycled packaging and spare cds so what the hell and lets make another 20.
Special thanks to Chris for giving us airplay experimental bands can only wish for....
Sounds Like: Review from Volcanic Tongue website ::Sparkle Girl
Asymptote
No Label No Cat
CD-R
£3.99Full-length album from this provocative American duo who combine cultural lampoon, the edifying sounds of riot and low-grade electronics/guitar jams that sludge somewhere between Sunn O))) and The Dead C. If youve ever spent a long afternoon with your nose deep in The Revolution Of Everyday Life and the first side of Operation Of The Sonne slow-panning across your brain, then you might wanna clear some space for this one. These guys have previously hi-jacked/collaborated with Sun City Girls and Birchville Cat Motel. Edition of 200 in hand-numbered card gatefold sleeves with stickers and insert.The Score
Sparkle GirlBy Christopher DeLaurenti
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Copy and paste:"A 'garbage noise duet' and 'cultural terrorist affinity group,' Sparkle Girl is a decidedly nonacademic, antihegemonic sonic circus of resentment. Sparkle Girl makes few concessions to taste, talent, quality, or other such mystical abstractions." So declares the manifesto included in Alterity 101, one of 6,000 handmade recordings on cassette, CD, MP3, and reel to reel released by Sparkle Girl under their own name and other monikers since the mid-1990s.The music matches the manifesto. Sparkle Girl—the duo of Kurt Delaney and Jim Evans with occasional collaborators—range from sound collages and defiantly lo-fi field recordings to "loose compositions" and hardcore electronics. Last May, they dedicated their set at the Baltic Room's late, lamented No Tomorrow series to Dee Snider of '80s hair band Twisted Sister. "Once I met Dee Snider," announced Delaney, "and he told me that an artist without a public is an artist without talent."Acting as a self-appointed doppelgänger to corporate music companies, Sparkle Girl find their own public through guerrilla distribution; most Sparkle Girl releases get passed out for free at protests, concerts, and "live actions." Perusing my own small stack, I see that every release is packaged differently (sleeves, envelopes, old-school jewel cases, pasteboard collages) in variously numbered editions of 1, 6, 10, 20, 44, 59, 64, and 227 copies.Are Sparkle Girl good? I should say yes, though Sparkle Girl probably prefer the quote from French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu inserted in their CD Asymptote: "Taste classifies and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects, classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make between the beautiful and the ugly, the distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective classifications is expressed or betrayed."Catch the Sparkle Girl Sextet, Novahead vs. ChickenTron, and others on Wed April 25 at Funhouse, 206 Fifth Ave N, 374-8400, 9:30 pm, $5.
Record Label: Soccer Mom Ebonics SG's home and host to many more
Type of Label: Indie