Crust Jazz: Live in Slab City

by Mx. Flow

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	1.	Washboard Break 15:46
	2.	Meow (Sx Wk Stories) 24:56
	3.	Unable 15:55
	4.	Cowtoeing to Builder Bill 14:14

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Live recordings from avant garde performances done in slab city.

The purpose of the project was to encourage otherwise discouraged queers and poor folk to engage in genuine artistic expression within the modes of avant garde music and performance art. All sets were improvised, with only one having a decided theme ahead of time. All participants were encouraged to "play or say what feels right, when it feels right". This is a small slice of the greater number of performances that were done, which included sharing trauma stories and musical expressions of internal dissonance made external.

The central "point" wasn't to produce consonance or easy listening, but to express and exist authentically without compromise. To create with sounds and words that internal experiences we as oppressed people have. Specifically distinct from more consonant music that conveys such feelings through lyricism (ex: Pat the Bunny), I attempted to personally and communally express the more raw feeling and in the moment experience rather than a more pleasant sounding retrospective. Even as the spoken word sections are retrospective, the accompaniment attempts to reflect the feeling of being in it.

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released June 4, 2023

An impossibly large and strange number of dirty kids including Yoda on melodica and harmonica, Rob on saw and bass, Harper on spoons, Possum on washboard, Tammy on congas, Sincere on can with string, Penny on tambourine, Breeze on guitar and ukulele, Becky on bong, Crosswalk on trumpet, that one guy with the viola, someone who looks like a young Paul McCartney on drums, Ralph(?) on car exhaust system with sticks.

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I make art music for sad trans people and dirty kids. I play banjo and do everything myself.

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