Barry Schwam - Demos & Rarities flac album

Limited CD-R Edition Including Demos And Rarities From All The Official Recording Sessions Of The Residents' Collaborator Randy Schwam (known as Schwump, Of "Aphids In The Hall" Fame - The Notorious Single on Ralph. Weird Psych Exotica-Folk Songs With Home Electronics, odd tapes, RESIDENSQUE Childish Vocals Echoing Around And Strange Instrumentation (Sometimes Sounding Totally Cosmic Or In The Darker Realms Of Fantasy). During The Song "Here Come The Ants" There I s A Reference To The Mysterious R. Senada (Of The Pre-Residents Mythology). As You Probably Already Know N. Senada (1907-1993) was a Bavarian composer and music theorist who formulated the "Theory of Obscurity" and the "Theory of Phonetic Organization". It is speculated that N. Senada wasn't a real person, but he was conjured up by Residents, The. Other rumors speculating that N. Senada was Captain Beefheart or even the wellknown avant-garde composer and instrument-designer Harry Partch, whose musical infuences are quite obvious in early Residents works. THIS IS A LIMITED CD-R EDITION WTH COVER ART AND A RARE PHOTO OF THE RESIDENTS ON THE BACK COVER. Schwam's Reminding His Friends THE RESIDENTS: Strange Vocals, Home Electronics, Theremin, Weird Instrumentation - Crazier Stuff Than The "Aphids In The Hall"! Special Limited Edition!AN INTERVIEW: RANDY SCHWAM TALKS ABOUT HIS MEETING WITH THE RESIDENTS (VILENESS FATS ERA): P: Please tell us about the early years of SCHWUMP. I understand you were a musician relatively early on, and performed as a street musician.S: I started in high school with a band known as "The Acid Indigestion." But we were hardly street musicians, just a bunch of crazy kids from the suburbs. Among the instrumentation for that band was me on vocals and harmonica, one guy playing a bug sprayer; another bouncing a basketball; and still another playing a bowl of "Rice Krispies" (Snap, crackle, pop.) Later on in college, I did a one-man band act, with a set of trap drums and various percussion instruments. I played college concerts and parties. I was actually approached by a band member of Frank Zappa's The Mother's of Invention to come and meet Frank, but I was too paranoid to do it. I continued playing my drum act for many years until I discovered the autoharp in the mid 70's. Up until then, I composed music while playing the drums. I wouldn't say I was ever really a street musician though. P: According to the Residents' website (www.Residents.com): "In the mid-70s one of The Residents traveled to Portland, Oregon, to meet an unusual radio show host by the name of Schwump. He had apparently attracted the band's attention when they heard about his all-frog opera, which he'd broadcast on his show." Is this true? Please tell us about how it came to pass that you met the Residents.S: I was working on a musical, "Adventures of the Titanic Toad," which was to feature a lot of Schwump songs based on a story about a toad named Tad, who left his home in search of adventure. But the Residents had not heard this or of me until a fellow named Bill Reinhardt introduced us. Bill was the program director at KBOO FM in Portland; the station where I had my weekly radio show. Bill used to play the Residents on his own show, and had the brilliant idea that The Residents and Schwump should meet; and so he arranged it all. P: I know about the autoharp, how do you play the frog?S: The frog will actually be a toad, and it will be an actor dressed in a toad costume. This will be a musical stage play. P: According to legend, the "First Four" unreleased Residents recordings were broadcast on KBOO, were you and/or Bill responsible for this?S: It would have been Bill Reinhardt. P: There's a promotional photo of you from the production of the Residents movie "Vileness Fats." Could you tell us about your role(s) in the film?S: I only had one role as I recall before the film was cancelled. I was a midget miner in some underground cavern, surrounded by giant balloons. I was in blackface, in a striped prisoner-looking outfit, and wore a miners' lantern on my head. The set took up a huge space in The Residents studios/living quarters, I think was in the basement area. P: It's been said that you performed "Mammy" in Vileness Fats, is this true?S: I vaguely recall singing "Mammy" but I don't think it made it to the film. It may have been in a rehearsal. P: Do you remember any of your lines outside of this?S: I don't recall having any lines. P: According to the Cryptic Guide to the Residents, the 3-song "Aphids in the Hall" single was culled from an 8-song tape. Could you tell us about the circumstances of this recording?S: The basic tracks to recordings were made by only one of the Residents and myself. Everything else was added later. We made the three songs from the "Aphids' single, in one afternoon, and then worked on the other songs throughout the week. The idea was to produce a full album. I can recall two of the other songs.. one was a sad love ballad that I wrote, that the Residents later pumped up into a loud rock song, with Snakefinger doing the lead. Another song was a not-so-great version of "God Bless America." I don't know how that came to be, but it was not good, and I am glad it was never released. The album cover was the still of me in blackface from "Vileness Fats." P: Will we EVER get to hear those other 5 songs?S: I personally hope these songs are not heard, as I don't feel they are of neither Residents, nor Schwump quality. P: I think it's unfortunate that you don't want that material released, especially since Snakefinger is sadly gone. Is it that the material is substandard, or that it's "dark" as you've mentioned?S: I didn't like how I personally butchered "God Bless America." I was ashamed of it, actually. And I didn't like the Residents' version of my song, "Singer of Sad Songs." It is a slow, sad ballad. The Residents cranked it up so much that it lost its' whole feeling. So on that one I am coming from the point of view of an artist whose material has been altered drastically by somebody else. This was not the case with any of the songs on the Aphids single. I think the post production by the Residents in those songs was masterful!