Before my report on the LA Frieze Art Fair, we begin by exploring the nexus between Musique Concrète, sound effects albums, studio-crafted comedy, novelty tunes, children’s records, and the concepts of shirts and clapping. Artists include Spike Jones & His City Slickers, the Ituri Pygmies of Cameroon, Bruce Haack, Steve Reich, Chris Watson, Bernard Parmegiani, Bonzo Dog Band, John Zorn, Donovan, Paulette Humanbeing, Malcolm McLaren, Wilhelm Reich and many more – including an AI generated “cover of Too Sexy for My Shirt in the style of The Shaggs!” ... ... ... We then interview Porter Hall, founding member of the long-standing improvisational audio collage group Mannlicher Carcano, and host of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour about the group’s new 4-disc set February is the Crewelist Moth, recorded and produced entirely in the month of February for the RPM Challenge. (Free download at https://alonetone.com/porterhall) ... ... ... Leading into my report on the LA Frieze Art Fair there is a selection of works by local favorites, including Arthur Nakane, Christian Cummings, The Collins Kids, Dinosaurs With Horns, and David Liebe Hart as Chip the Black Boy – not to be forgetting my Shadow Hills neighbor George “Genius Colossus Apotheotic” Allen! It all adds up to the 2nd best Less Art Radio Zine this year!
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"KPBJ ID"
Doug Harvey
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"Less Art Pulse Theme"
Doug Harvey
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"Spitting Out Our Medication"
Doug Harvey
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"Do You Hear Us?"
Mannlicher Carcano
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"The Sound Effects Man"
Spike Jones & His City Slickers
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"Bookkeeping Machine (The Sounds Of The Office)"
Michael Siegel
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"Hunting Cries Of Beaters; Arm Clapping (Signalling) And Shouting"
Pygmies Of The Ituri Forest (recorded by Colin Turnbull)
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"Clapping with Katy"
Bruce Haack
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"Clapping"
Steve Reich
10.
"Insect Hidden In The Leaf Litter, Rain Forest, Cameroon (DougH remix)"
Chris Watson
11.
"The Wonderful World of Sound"
Monty Python
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"Matières induites (De Natura Sonorum)"
Bernard Parmegiani
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"Shirt"
Bonzo Dog Band
14.
"Moderato (from Cobra)"
John Zorn
15.
"I Love My Shirt"
Donovan
16.
"I’m Too Sexy (for my shirt)"
Paulette Humanbeing with Mannlicher Carcano
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"I’m Too Sexy Says The Good Lord"
The Ladies’ Auxiliary
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"The Clapping Song"
Shirley Ellis
19.
"Something's Jumpin' In Your Shirt"
Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra with Lisa Marie
20.
"T-Shirt Salesmen, New Road, Kathmandu 2.21.05"
(recorded by) Aaron Dilloway
21.
"Mi T-Shirt De La Nasa"
Mexican Institute of Sound
22.
"Clap Yo' Hands"
The Hi-Lo's
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"Hello Darling"
Mannlicher Carcano
24.
"Interview with Porter Hall"
25.
"Ring of Fire"
Mannlicher Carcano
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"Harmonium"
Mannlicher Carcano
27.
"Now it's Time for Trump to Go"
Mannlicher Carcano
28.
"La Bamba"
El Jarocho
29.
"The Fertiliztion of New Eggs"
Christian Cummings
30.
"The Divide"
Chip the Black Boy
31.
"The Beetle-Bug-Bop"
Collins Kids
32.
"Sabertina's Country"
Dinosaurs With Horns
33.
"(Take Me Home) Country Roads"
Arthur Nakane
34.
"Nothin’ to Say About Art"
Kelsey Kuykendal
35.
"RG BDL EEE SYMPHONIZATION WAH SINE DELAY"
George “Genius Colossus Apotheotic” Allen
