On July Fourth, 1986, a huge ceremony was held in New York and New Jersey to unveil a big fix-up on the Statue Of Liberty. Meanwhile, back at Robert Silverman’s home in Albany, California, a freeform improvisational music session was taking place. The intersection of these two activities was a dadaesque poke at an expensive display of American nationalist pride.

Long time friend Stuart Sands joined Goff, Kaswan, and Silverman for this musical collaboration. His guitar and a live input from a television colored the soundscapes produced that day in a few new shades when compared to the July Fourth recordings of the previous two years. At one point, Sands actually fingered bits from the Star Bangled Banner as television reporters chatted up the big Liberty celebration. As in previous years, the entire session was recorded on the Taped Rugs Frippertronic-style tape loop system.

The group played off and on over the course of several hours that day. In fact, even after the less interesting portions of the recordings were discarded, there was so much music to showcase from the session that Taped Rugs needed to produce two cassettes to properly release it all. One of those cassettes, entitled “Liberty,” is filled with ninety minutes of sounds from the session. The other, entitled “Declaration,” includes another forty-five minutes from the session. Both tapes were released in 1989.

This podcast features three pieces, totaling about forty minutes:

From LIBERTY:

1) “Liberty” (spacey sonics, lots of Liberty Statue TV blah blah blah)
2) “Dance Of The Golden Monkeys” (rhythmic and intuitive finger pickings)

From DECLARATION:

3) “Three Molar Crown" (Silverman vocals, TV weirdness, wacky guitar noises, tape manipulations)

THE AUDIO COMPONENT OF THIS PODCAST HAS BEEN REMOVED. IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.archive.org/details/HOTESTapeLoopImprovisationsVol5