2011 - SAMARKAND - SILENCE AND CONTRADICTION

2011 - SAMARKAND - SILENCE AND CONTRADICTION - CD

2011 Samarkand greatest hits 20 songs 1992-1999

SAMARKAND
SILENCE AND CONTRADICTION
2011 compilation

1. 01.28.92 (from the 1992 green Samarkand tape, featuring Stephanie)
2. Down In The Valley (For Diva) (from the 1993 white Samarkand tape)
3. Involution (from 1996 Samarkand album Painful Realization)
4. This Time Of Year (from 1995 Samarkand album In Bursts)
5. Window (white tape)
6. Living With The Pain (Painful Realization)
7. Retaliation (from the 1993 Samarkand album Sensitive)
8. Exgirlfriend (Sensitive)
9. Eye (white tape)
10. Equal Force (green tape, Stephanie singing)
11. Vitriol (In Bursts)
12. Beautiful Kiss (from the 1993 Samarkand EP Behind The Veil Of Obscurity)
13. Life Is Fucked (from the 1995 Samarkand album Fucking Huge)
14. Time To Quit/Change (Fucking Huge)
15. Bloomer (Behind The Veil Of Obscurity)
16. Pitch Wheel (from the 1999 Samarkand split album with MJB)
17. Hotel Pool (Behind The Veil Of Obscurity)
18. Pool (from the 1994 Samarkand release Territory)
19. Starfucker (Sensitive)
20. Analysis (from the 1999 split release with fzzy pmpr)

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EXGIRLFRIEND

SAMARKAND FRENZY WEEK, DAY THREE Samarkand "Exgirlfriend" MP3 This song is from the limited release cassette Sensitive , which was issued in a handpainted edition of 10 in January 1993. Naturally. Sensitive was 60 minutes of almost entirely brand new material, only one or two songs were recycled. It was recorded during what I thought would be my winter break from Berklee in 1992. Of course that turned out to be my permanent break from Berklee in 1992 since the cash had completely run out for my tuition. All the songs were recorded on a borrowed 4-track, possibly Ray's Porta 05. I also had my uncle's massive Carvin PA, Sennheiser mics & Ludwig drums in my basement. All of which feature prominently on this here release, along with the brand new Zoom 9002 effects. Which was an amazing combination at the time, I really felt like the boundaries were down on the equipment end of things for the first time. "Exgirlfriend" is a riff recycled from Domestik Quarrel...

ACCOUNTABILITY

Ian C Stewart "Accountability" MP3 Hah, remember those Maxell Capsule tapes? Nice. This mixdown album.... laughingly titled Mama .... which came from one of the XTC live-on-radio 1989 acoustic recordings. At the very very end of one of the songs, Andy Partridge sang "mama," for no apparent reason. Maybe he was trying to tack on a Led Zeppelin-esque effect. Whatever, it was funny as hell at the time & I made it my goal to finish every song on this tape the same way.... anyway, this album features an early appearance by the Boss DR-550 drum machine that I got in August 1991. Mama was the first or second batch of recordings. That's also the time just after Evil Bread disbanded. I answered a Drummer Wanted flier & jammed a few times with a nice but directionless trio of older musicians. The guitarist left all his gear at my place, as was the custom at the time. So between jam sessions I spent hours (no, really) upon hours experimenting with his e-bow (well.....

THESE CHORDS ARE LIKE FAMILY TO ME

Ian C Stewart "These Chords are like Family to Me" MP3 From the 2003 made-to-be-made-not-made-to-be-heard album I Don't Know Why You Think I Won't Kill You .... this is the last song. This was the beginning of my dabbling with intentional randomness in songwriting. The lyrics for the whole album were compiled from albums by other artists that I enjoyed a lot, such as Adrian Belew's Twang Bar King , The Cure's Pornography , Voivod Nothingface , Mercyful Fate Melissa etc. I wrote out entire lines of their phrases and chopped them together. I think at the time I described it as 'sad psychedelic love songs about satan' overall, which is really being too generous. The music was also randomly chosen from tablature found on t'interwebs for favorite songs of mine. In general I played the chords in reverse order to the original songs but I can still kind of tell in a couple of places what the songs were. The titles were my own, obviously. Although I did cho...

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