Museo Ostrich

Paisley Thrash finds Orange Hat stripping off our polyester shirts and getting down to the basics while nearly injuring ourselves in a state of exuberant, idiot glee. Production and polish are thrown out the window as the Hat careens through 5 twisted tunes on a tsunami of adrenaline. Recorded by a dedicated blues man baffled by our demented orange-ness, Paisley Thrash is a great representation of the Hat’s early live sound. It’s an exceedingly short and simple EP with a story too long and complicated to tell here.

“Do you guys always play this fast?”

released September 22, 1989

Christo Harris – singing guitar organ
David Zeus Henderson – singing bass
Ron Pirkle – lead guitar
John “Beave” Myers – drums

recorded by Rick Ware at R.W. Studios
8/31/89 – 9/1/89
mixed by Zeus Henderson in 2011
mastered by Jason NeSmith
cover by Christo Harris

For many years, I kept an audio sketchbook full of found sound, tape loops, bursts of tape feedback and other aural experiments. Every year I collected these tracks on cassette, designed a cover and handed them out to friends. This album compiles selections from 1987 to 1989. The percussion track for “Whips, Chains & Witchcraft” was created by recording various percussive sounds on reel to reel tape, carefully splicing them together to create a rhythm, and then looping it. “Rhythm of Love” was a loop that repeated as the last track of one cassette release until the cassette reached the end of side two. “Gestalt” was the result of randomly splicing a copy of my previous release and then layering it with itself by tape-to-tape copies until the original sound became a mushy cacophony. The resulting track was distributed to my friends on a 12-minute looped cassette.

This percussion track for my song “Whips, Chains & Witchcraft” was created by recording various percussive sounds on reel to reel tape, carefully splicing them together to create a rhythm, and then looping it.