new SNOOSE forthcoming

The new SNOOSE JUNCTION release, "The Echo Parks Department," will be available on Cosmic Primitive this February 2nd, 2011. Here's a preview for ya:



Echo Park Lake Goes Down The Drain, part 2 by Cosmic Primitive

Snoose Junction South on the L. A. Record Winter Solstice Mixtape

Hi kids,

Here's a link to the Winter Solstice Mixtape 2010 listening experience at L. A. Record:
http://www.larecord.com/radio/2010/12/21/l-a-record-winter-solstice-mixtape

if you check the last song on "side 2"
you will find something by Snoose Junction called "EPD5".
What that is, is this:

Gerry Amandes ... keys
Ian McKagan ... guitar
Secret Weapon Woody ... guitar
5-Track ... guitar

It's from an album called "Snoose Junction Presents: The Echo Parks Department", recorded, mixed and edited by 5-Track at Duane St, Coronado, and Cat Valley in Echo Park, Los Angeles, USA, Earth, in mid-winter or very early spring of 2008, and due to be released on Cosmic Primitive Records on February 2nd, 2011!!

ZOOMSQUAD

out today:
reissue/remaster/reiteration edition of ZOOMSQUAD's debut




Zackery ... electric guitar
5-Track ... electric guitar
Danny ... bass
Nate ... drums

http://zoomsquad.cosmicprimitive.com

100% mind-melting "psychedelic" improv for your life

an mp3 of relevant improvisations

Summer Solstice 1999: Tapping The Channel (Bruce) by Cosmic Primitive

mp3: WILD WILD WILD CRAZY CRAZY WEST

Wild Wild Wild Crazy Crazy West (Snoose Junction) by Cosmic Primitive

RADIO FREE SNOOSE JUNCTION 12-28-2009

AKA Lutefisk Night at the Chai House ... the soon-to-be-defunct Chai House ... so it REALLY IS the Last Daze Of Ballard, after all ...

here's a recording made by Garrett Kelly of Hollow Earth Radio, featuring (so far as I can tell) John Leighton Beezer (guitar), Gerry Amandes (synth noise? guitar?), N8 (drumz!), John Foss (super-barrista-serenader) and the usual gang of idiots...

CLICK HERE FOR LUTEFISK SNOOSE

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live GLASS GOBLINS featuring Snoose alumni

...including Cadets Woody and Evan *guitar & bass*, 5-Track *guitar* and Snoose Junction South (Echo Parks Department) honorary member Scott Keil *drums*


dig it:
http://www.archive.org/details/glassgoblins2009-08-28.amandasbasement

Listen Here: THE BEST SNOOSE EVER

I'll allow it could be possible, but I'll be amazed if we ever find a better Snoose Junction recording than this one:

http://www.archive.org/details/Snoose2007-06-26.Jewelbox

(Although... that one on CD-R Volume 2 is really nice in a completely different way... and this one doesn't even have Evan on it anywhere!! Hmm... I guess debating about the merits of different shows is part of the fun, yes?)

The sound is very guitar heavy - a nice big room to stretch out in - sparse pounding drum beats and droning distortion, washed-out space-keys and deranged vocals from Foss and Julianna The Human Theremin. Very Krautrock. Cause to rejoice.

This was recorded at the Rendezvous / Jewelbox Theater, a bit off the Snoose Junction beaten path, all the way out there in Belltown, Seattle, Earth.


Personnel includes:
John Leighton Beezer (guitar), 5-Track (bass guitar), Gerry Amandes (guitar), Vince Amandes (drums), John Foss (voices in your head), Julianna Brandon (The Human Theremin), Troy Swanson (keys etc)



"Songs" include:

01 Snoose In The Jewelbox
02 The Human Theremin / Calling Planet Ballard / Get Man Back Into Space
03 Swim Before You Crawl / D BOON Died Too Young!!
04 Jeff & Louise (Back Into Space reprise)

Track 3 is for Watt



If you need instant gratification, start with track 2. But it's ALL good. Just a lot of it hangs around a slow boil for infinite durations of shimmerness.


love & good luck,
5-Track

PAPER DOLLHOUSE JAM

There's some new improvs on this facespace page, featuring N8 and Zack and some other familiar noises:

http://www.myspace.com/paperdollrecordings

...courtesy of Paper Doll Recordings


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focus on JOHN LEIGHTON BEEZER

Hello peoples,

for those of you rabid Beezerphiles, an interview with him has just been published on the web-mag PERFECT SOUND FOREVER. You can read the article here: http://www.furious.com/perfect/johnleightonbeezer.html


In case you want to know more about his work with Snoose Junction, here is a link to all articles on this blog which pertain directly to him: http://www.furious.com/perfect/johnleightonbeezer.html


good luck,
~5

Snoose Junction volume 4 - free music for your life

I'd been planning, for, like, years, to make this another CDr release, straight from the master minidisc to your earholes... But, thing is, there's studio recordings which are bound to come out and they, well, were recorded a lot better than these. So if I'm gonna ask for money for those, maybe I shouldn't be asking money for these. So - no more lo-fi CDrs - just hi-fi ones. And Snoose Junction volume 4 is now available here:

http://www.archive.org/details/snoose2007-01-22

...featuring musical contributions from Lindsay Vari, John Foss, Evan Strauss, 5-Track and friends.



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ChromaSnoose

Courtesy of John Leighton Beezer:

http://johnbeezer.com/music/chroma.html

These are an assortment of excerpts from the Snoose conflagration of October 2008 which took place in the Chromasound Studios (last known home of the Greenwood Posse), compiled by John Leighton Beezer from the original 2-track recordings. Included is most of an improv set by Consider The Source, as well as jams featuring Gerry Amandes, Andrew Woods, 5-Track & John Foss and so forth. So far I like what I hear.

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5

An online review of our LAST DAYS OF BALLARD SAGA CYCLE (otherwise Live On KEXP), from ExMogul Music

ExMogul Music, run by Susan White, has given our live-on-KEXP downloadable album ("The Last Days Of Ballard Saga Cycle") a short and glowing notice:

http://exmogulmusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/snoose-junction.html

Somebody likes us! Thanks, Susan.


np: Zinnia is singing to the cat

FREEEEELLLAAAAAAABBBBBB!!!!!

Neon Brown Presents has moved, and may now be found and listened to at:

http://ffrreeeellaabb.blogspot.com


The current entry includes contributions by Snoose Commander John Leighton Beezer:
http://ffrreeeellaabb.blogspot.com/2008/12/neon-brown-presents-full-of-life-and.html


Check back there for a constant stream of semi-biweekly improvised goodies from Andrew Woods and company...

Snoose-related video treat

a short video introduction to: "The Naturalization Of The Cetacean Nation" by 5-Track & Abalone Sandwich

directed by Christian Peet

musicians you can hear on this video include Andrew Woods (electric guitar), Donovan Raymond (electric bass guitar), 5-Track (electric guitar)

cd available here: www.5-Track.com

Resolution

Alright, the sounds and the images are back, y'all can crawl back out from wherever you were hiding in a panic of tremors and bask once again in the soothing balm of SNOOSE JUNCTION

Minor Technical Issues

Yeah, so maybe or maybe not you noticed, none of the mp3s or pictures are working right? Hmm? No? Well, don't be alarmed whatever. They'll be back in the near now. The site on which most of the media files are stored has just moved full-time to www.5-Track.com, and I gots to update a MESS of links!

FREE Album Download - Sonarchy Radio (5's mix)

www.5-Track.com/CDSonarchy.html

Personnel = John Leighton Beezer, Evan Strauss, Wesley Amundsen, Vince Amandes, 5-Track, John Foss

Not to take away from Doug Haire's broadcast mix of this same material, but I wanted to hear it the way I wanted to hear it. So click up above or on the image and you can check it out.

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5

(we had a) Big Skunk Ape Party @ Chromasound, featuring Snoose Junction & Consider The Source

Wow, that was just exactly what I needed in my life!

At 8pm on Wednesday August 27 2008 I arrived with Gerry Amandes (Greenwood Posse) and John Foss (Greenwood Posse, Cantenna, Snoose Ringleader: The Iron Stomach) at ChromaSound Studios in Seattle, WA, Earth. John Leighton Beezer (The Thrown-Ups, Stomach Pump, Cantenna, El Grande Conquistadore, Snoose Commander) was already there, and so were the guys from Consider The Source, an instrumental trio from New York whose genre might be best-described as belly-dance-funk-fusion (or something). Usually they play songs, but we told them they weren't allowed.

Michael Faulhaber (Thrown-Ups, Snoose Admiral, Cantenna) was there, and Steve Turnidge. So were a few other folks including the studio techs and some short-term visitors, and in short order the jamming began with me on bass, JohnLeightonBeezer on guitar, Mr Faulhaber on drums, Mr Turnidge on the Hammond B-3, and lo - we brought forth a mellifluous shag-carpet of luminous groove.

Not sure if that one made it to tape, but most of the rest of the night did. Next set was me on bass again with Michael F still on the drums but with the addition of Gerry Amandes on the nightmare/wet-dream feedback guitar. Sounded like Les Rallizes Denudes without the songs or the bile. Possibly my favorite part of the night, certainly the bit I most look forward to hearing back!

It may have been around this time that Whiting Tennis (El Grande Conquistadore) played some drums, also. And Chavon sang at some point, as did John Foss.

Then came a MAD PHAT UNACCOUNTABLY AMAZING set by Consider The Source, during the course of which we received attendees straight from Neon Brown Presents @ Mr Spot's Chai House: Andrew Woods (Neon Brown), Evan Strauss, Woody Frank, Patrick Lenon, Zack The Orginal Guitar Player For Variety Pack Who Now Plays Saxophone (all 4 from Variety Pack), and several beautiful friends. Damn, they got there at a good time. We all boogied like mad with our jaws hanging down to our navels while Consider The Source altered the consistency of the walls of our mutual universe!

I believe the surprisingly funky round after that one belonged to JohnLeightonBeezer (bass), Davey B (drums), and Andrew Woods (guitar and sing). They were gradually augmented / replaced with myself (guitar), Woody (guitar), Evan (bass), Zack (horn) and Patrick (drums). Fun fun fun fun fun. Again, I can't wait to hear it back, though I suspect it was more fun to play that particular set than it will be to listen to it.

More from Consider The Source with JohnLeighton Beezer on 2nd guitar, then more from Evan, Woody, etc and me. Think that was it. Six hours worth, and most of it got recorded, live to 2-track digital.

Tracks should be forthcoming, um, a good healthy while from now when you've just about forgotten it ever happened - look forward to it!

Thanks to everyone involved - that was possibly the most fun I've had all year!

love
5

Late date: Snoose On Sonarchy KEXP

I just discovered, quite some time after the fact, that our performance on KEXP Sonarchy Radio can be listened to on Archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/KEXPSonarchyRadio_SnooseJunction

check it out - it's a good one, and the sound quality is GREAT.

I put together my own mix of this, by the way, and will probably post it somewhere eventually... If that interests anyone!

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