As promised in the last excerpt of this podcast series, here Taped Rugs presents two more recordings of rehearsals for the Herd Of The Ether Space show that took place on August 11th, 1990:

1 “Mister Bojangles” (recorded at the Taped Rugs Studio July 28th, 1990)
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2 “Dada’s Little Girl” (recorded at the Taped Rugs Studio August 5th, 1990)

Both of these pieces were included on the “Dada’s Little Psycho” cassette album released by Taped Rugs Productions in late 1990. “Dada’s Little Psycho” was co-released by IRRE Tapes of West Germany. The Ether Space members who played on and, thus, composed these pieces were: George Gibson, C. Goff III, Killr “Mark” Kaswan, and Robert Silverman. Variants of these compositions opened up the August 11th Ether extravaganza in Oakland, California, but, unfortunately, those portions of the performance were not recorded.

“Mr. Bojangles” is a Dadaesque tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr., who had died in the weeks immediately preceding the HOTES performance. During the live presentation, Gibson, wearing a suit which was covered in electronic buttons which triggered various percussive sounds, tapped out a vigorous dance which would have likely pleased both Davis and John Cage.

“Dada’s Little Girl” features Kaswan reading and improvising verbiage from a book which came from his daughter’s personal library: “Max’s First Word” by Rosemary Wells. Taped verbalizations from Kaswan’s daughter were incorporated into the performance of this piece as well.

The next podcast in this series will feature the portions of the August 11th show which were recorded.

THE AUDIO COMPONENT OF THIS PODCAST HAS BEEN REMOVED TO ALLOW MORE EPISODES IN THIS SERIES TO BE POSTED. IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE LINK BELOW:
http://www.archive.org/details/DadasLittlePsychoandDadasLittlePsychosRelatives