Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033)

by Arrington de Dionyso

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    Includes digital pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around July 2, 2021
    edition of 75 

      €38 EUR or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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      €32 EUR or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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      €50 EUR or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around July 2, 2021
    edition of 75 

      €58 EUR or more 

     

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    Pre-order of Bobcat Flamethroat (IMP033). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases July 2, 2021

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1.
Wildcat 02:29
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2.
Elevator Shaft
3.
Salal Harvest Chant
4.
Broken (Everything Is Broken)
5.
My Nest
6.
I'm Crowded
7.
Blue Ears
8.
Baked Potato 01:33
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9.
Lucifer Peacock Raven
10.
Oyster Mushrooms
11.
Tukwila Joe
12.
That Big Thing
13.
Orange Peel
14.
Blue Rasputin
15.
Silver Moon Duck
16.
Bobcat And Turkey
17.
Ocean Trip (Ocean Shores)
18.
Railroad Maypole
19.
Chase The Badger 01:35
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20.
Polecat That

about

PRE-ORDER: Out July 2nd 2021.
300 copies, Ltd Edition of 75 on Acqua Green LP.

Originally released on cassette in 1993 and now for the first time on vinyl, this is an incredible document from a teenage Arrington de Dionyso. All the seeds of his 30+ career are engrained on these fully formed Tascam recordings.

"Bobcatflamethroat" was originally released as "Pine Cone Alley Cassette #9" in August of 1993. The songs were recorded on a Tascam Porta-One 4 Track cassette studio inside a secret area in the basement of the College Activities Building at the Evergreen State College, known as "Happyland". This album has never before seen a digital release of any kind, however there is one song "Everything is Broken" which later became part of the original "canon" of Old Time Relijun after that band was formed in 1995. That song was re-recorded on the first Old Time Relijun album "Songbook Vol. I" released in 1997.

I still dig most of the tunes on this one- these were all written and recorded while preparing to welcome a new young life into the world (my daughter Lucinda, born August 22, 1993). So while not specifically "Children's Music" per se, the tunes are wild, hopeful, optimistic yawps of playful abandon for all ages. There are a number of "inside jokes" that only would have made sense to the very tight knit inner circle hat I considered my "core" group of friends at that point in my life. I also think there are more than a few "hits" on here. I was 18 years old!

Anyone who has followed the last thirty years of my musical career should find something of interest and delight on this album. For some reason I chose to record most of the guitar and bass parts "direct" without an amplifier- I'm not sure why I did that but it's a unique sound in retrospect. There's a decent dose of throatsinging and other odd vocal techniques, proving that I dove deep into this territory of vocal exploration at a very young age. Also plenty of mouth harps, flutes, kazoos, and clarinet, although this was just BEFORE I bought my first bass clarinet. The song "Kite Dragon Hypnosis" showcases the very first time I EVER recorded anything with a saxophone!

The lyrics are reflective of my interests in the theories of "Ethnopoetics" as put forth by Jerome Rothenberg in many of his books such as "Shaking the Pumpkin" and "Technicians of the Sacred", as pathways to understanding the universality of myth and shamanism as connective threads through human poetic expression. And yes, if you know something about the Evergreen State College, I did indeed receive 16 credits for working on this album.

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releases July 2, 2021

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