Spurred on by a 200 blank tape order and the chronic unemployment of Nut’s President David Craig, Nut Music is destined to make a comeback in the tape label world.
Alzo Boszormenyi and the Acid Achievers release Ouagagoudou. The tape is the remaining songs from the recording session that produced the band’s “No Good Men” 7″ e.p.. The material was recorded and produced by Rob Christiansen on December 11, 1993.
(Q&A) Answering the questions no one has asked:
1) Why did it take over two years to put out the tape?
First of all it took six months to mix the material. Okay, so it was two different mixing sessions, six months apart. The single came out in February of 1995, so most of the attention was focused on seeing that released. This project was then delayed by technical difficulties. It was not clear that we had all the material available and we were waiting to digitally transfer the material from one source to another but that proved unnecessary. We’re just glad it’s finally out.
2) Why did you put the worst song on the tape first?
Well, you have surely stumbled on to a Nut Music tradition. Many of the band members would like to have seen “Nietzsche on a Saturday Night” be the lead song, but in order to preserve sound quality the songs were released in the order they were recorded.
3) How did you record all this material in one day?
The band’s not sure other than that the tape recorder was definitely on.
4) Why should anyone care about this Alzo Boszormenyi release?
Because it’s brilliant, chaotic, nonsensical, fun, stupid, crazed, funky, goofy, loud, obnoxious, schizophrenic, weird, challenging, earsplitting, insane, wordy (no, literary), and wacky too. If you care about things like that you’ll probably care about it.
The cassette “Ouagagoudou” and the 7″ e.p. “No Good Men” are $3 each, or get both for only $4 from the address at the bottom. Please make checks and money orders payable to D. Craig.
Other news:
Nut is currently in the midst of attempting to sign Salesianum, a band from Blacksburg, Virginia with a great name and sound. (They never returned the contract even if it was goofy.) The band plays chaotic, crunching horns that shriek from lung and lip power. There is still hope for a Salesianum Nut release soon.
The Pablo Project should see completion in early May. This is a compilation tape where contributors were asked to complete the story of “The Adventures of Pablo the Circus Boy.”