As in the previous excerpt of this podcast series, this excerpt presents material recorded on a Fourth of July. Members of the Taped Rugs Productions family actually got together for sonic improvising on several July Fourths during the 1980’s. In an effort to display a bit of continuity in this podcast series, the next few excerpts will feature July Fourth recordings.

For 1985’s midsummer rendezvous, Herd Of The Ether Space founders: Goff, Kaswan, and Silverman, gathered at the Taped Rugs main base on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California. Only four short recordings from this session survive in the Taped Rugs archives. They were released to the public (along with the recordings from the July Fourth, 1984, HOTES session) on the Taped Rugs cassette: “Independence Daze” in 1989. All four short recordings are presented here.

Cello, voices, prerecorded tapes, electronic guitars, and manipulations of the Frippertronics-style tape loop form the building blocks of these improvised audio collages. The moods, rhythms, and atmospheres shift around considerably, but the highly intuitive interactions among the participants glue the session together, exhibiting a consistent and inspired flow.

The illustration for this podcast is the first-ever Herd Of The Ether Space promotional poster, created in 1990 by Goff III.

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