Like the band featured in this blog's previous post, The Hoosier Hot Shots, this group also performs on homemade instruments. However, one group is considered "novelty" and the other "avant-garde." It's all rather arbitrary, and class-ist. This band isn't quite as funny as the Hoosiers of course, but they are plenty tuneful, with nice toe-tapping compositions sometimes derived from Indonesian gamelan music, something ex-members of this group would explore further with the (I believe) still-running band of fellow New York arty-smarties, Gamelan Son of Lion.
I just wish I could see these instruments. I could only find one photo (right), and no videos. Despite their academic background, this is fun stuff, not just self-indulgent banging around - hence, not a completely unlikely companion to the Hot Shots. The track "Inside the Compound" is even a kind of mutant blues. An excellent album that should have had greater distribution. This was a cassette-only release. So, yeah, this file is taken from a tape, but still sounds pretty good.
Music for Homemade Instruments- A Decade of Debris (1988)
a1 Glyptodont (Skip La Plante)
a2 Inside the Compound (Geoffrey Gordon)
a3 Streetsong (Alice Eve Cohen) [not safe for work!]
b1 Ball Lead (Rolf Groesbeck)
b2 Native Cat Songs (David Simons)
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