This Is Where the Fish Lives

Jay in California sent me this e-mail after receiving a CD copy of The Lemon Kittens EP:

heya rj–

i got the cd today. kewl!

i really dig yer renditions of “lycanthrothene” and “what the cat brought in”. even more psychotic than the originals. i was reaching for the kitchen cutlery by the end of the last track.

very worthy covers, with a unique twist.

D’aw! Kinda makes me feel special.

And speaking of listeners, keep in mind that This Is Where the Fish Lives has made all three tracks from The Lemon Kittens EP available for free download on last.FM.

…and, in case you were looking for “serious business music” (well, serious enough that I released it under both my own name and that of my collaborator, rather than as This Is Where the Fish Lives), I’ve recently released “Music for Un Chien Andalou” via my lulu.com account. “…Un Chien Andalou” is an over sixteen minutes long piece of improvisational music recorded using electric viola (bowed and pizzicato), voice, mic’d throat, carefully directed feedback, synthesizer, snare, and bone flute for the Dalí and Buñuel collaborative film opus, Un Chien Andalou (France, silent, 1929). This differs from the original soundtrack (Wagner excerpts selected by Luis Buñuel to be played at screenings of the film), in that it is of a similar school of industrial/noise as Throbbing Gristle and Premature Ejaculation and idea-based avantgarde punk music as Lemon Kittens as Virgin Prunes.

This mix is very rough and this release is of the single unedited track. In Spring of 2008, we’re hoping to have a remastered “clean” version of the track that is better timed with the film, as well as at least one “remix”, all for a second release, and by Summer of 2008, hopefully a DVD or CD-ROM release of the film with the new music (as the film has lapsed into the public domain [cabbage-patches]).