Label: Zaius Tapes – ZT-009
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 11 Nov 2024
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Lo-Fi, Experimental
Chaotic lo-fi action splatter, more soon!!! (Mint / New)
Zaius Tapes is proud to announce the repress of Jim Shepard's dark, cathartic masterpiece, 'Picking Through The Wreckage with A Stick' lp. Originally released by Siltbreeze in 1995, it seemed no plans were in order to see it in print again, so we took matters into our own hands. And you will all be the better for it!
'Wreckage bears little to no resemblance to Shepard's proto metal-prog rock band, Vertical Slit. If anything it follows the trajectory of his debut lp, 'Slit And Pre Slit'. Both albums were made in the midst of grievous personal trauma & play out like Burroughsian cutups, interspersing Shepard's gallows wit against his distinctive sense of forbode. Or in the parlance of these dark times, something for everyone. I cannot think of any particular release or artist with which to pigeonhole, but it is certainly in the orbit of other unassailable iconoclasts such as Jandek, Kenji Haino, & Jackson C. Frank. As Shepard himself writes in the liner notes, "Space is deep, El Fukko."
Tracklist
A1 Exile On Brown Street
A2 Treena's Strobe Light Party
A3 Dali's Lair (Excerpt)
A4 Quotients & Numbers
A5 Bingle Bangle
A6 Dusted
A7 A Streetcar Named Depression
A8 I Owe You Nothing
B1 Space Is Deep
B2 U.F.O.logy
B3 Guitar Solo With Right Hand Attached
B4 Too Personal
B5 Table For 2. Big Ashtray
B6 Pull The Switch, Henry
B7 I Thought I'd Seen Everything
B8 Peter Tork
B9 El Fukko
B10 Fat John / Your Uncle Is Dead / Wreckage
