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!