CENTIPEDES CIRCUS
CAT LESIONS (2020 DIGITAL RELEASE)
MOUNTAINTOP MUZIC MTMZ-01
PLASTIC FACT RECORDS-015
CENTIPEDES CIRCUS IS A MULTIFARIOUS PROJECT FORMED SOMETIME AROUND THE MID-1990'S IN THE FOOTHILLS OF EASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY. THE PRIMARY CREATIVE FORCE BEHIND CENTIPEDES CIRCUS IS A RECLUSIVE, ECCENTRIC MUSICIAN WHO IS KNOWN SIMPLY AS RYAN H. HE BEGAN WRITING SONGS STARTING ABOUT 1994 AND CONTINUES TO WRITE MATERIAL UP TO THE PRESENT. THE LACK OF A SUSTAINED BACKING BAND HAS FORCED HIM TO MAINLY WRITE AND PLAY ACOUSTIC, FOLK-ORIENTED SONGS WITH ODD TITLES, QUIRKY LYRICS, WHICH SOMETIMES CONTAIN CRUDE AND OFFENSIVE SUBJECT MATTER. OVER THE DECADES, THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED SONGS PENNED UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF CENTIPEDES CIRCUS.
BETWEEN 1999 AND 2000, AT ZAROFF STUDIOS IN MOUNTAINTOP, CALIFORNIA, A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-THREE SONGS CALLED "CAT LESIONS" WERE ASSEMBLED AND RECORDED ON A FOUR-TRACK CASSETTE RECORDER, USING ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC GUITARS, SYNTHESIZERS, VARIOUS PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS, AND MISCELLANEOUS SAMPLES. IF THE MATERIAL HAD TO BE DESCRIBED, IT COULD BE COMPARED TO SOMETHING BETWEEN BECK, WEEN, AND MID 1960'S TO EARLY 1970'S PSYCHEDELIC ROCK, FOLK, AND AMERICANA. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE MUSIC AND WAS WRITTEN, ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY RYAN H., WITH SOME ADDITIONAL SONGWRITING BY SOMEONE CALLED ELLIOT C. GHALDING (WHO MAY OR MAY NOT NOW BE DECEASED). ALL LYRICS AND VOCALS WERE WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY RYAN H. THE BASS ON THIS RECORDING WAS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY BASSIST MIKE GRAY, AND LEAD GUITAR ON ONE TRACK, "LEAVING STONECREEK," WAS PERFORMED BY CHANCE BRAY.
"CAT LESIONS" WAS TRANSFERRED TO MP3 FORMAT AT SOME POINT, THEN SAT ON A HARD DRIVE FOR YEARS AFTER BEING FORGOTTEN ABOUT. IT WAS RECENTLY RECOVERED AND FINALLY RELEASED IN DIGITAL FORMAT BY PLASTIC FACT RECORDS IN COORDINATION WITH MOUNTAINTOP MUZIC. THIS IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE FILED UNDER LO-FI, AND CONTAINS SOME FAIRLY CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS, AS WELL AS LYRICS THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE. FAIR WARNING.
TRACKLIST:
1. INTRO
2. SPARK MORNING
3. SHE HAS A KID
4. FREE JOKE
5. COCAINE SNORTIN' ELEPHANT
6. BOTTOMLESS RIDDLES
7. ELEPHANT MAN
8. DIRTY FLY WITH BROKEN WINGS
9. MESSIAH'S DESTINY
10. GIRL IN THE CANYON
11. SOLID ROBIN
12. YOU'RE 16 NOW
13. THE HEYO DOME
14. LEAVING STONECREEK
15. COLD BREW
16. LADASCOPE
17. VOGUE n MATTER
18. WILLOW
19. HAWKY MONGROL
20. ATTACK OF THE FAD LEECHES
21. LARRY'S ION CHARGE OF THE BUMPER BOATS
22. DON'T GO AGAINST THE WALL
23. SOLSTICE
24. SHALLOW POND
25. PROCEED TO GO
26. EERIE TOWN
27. ELECTRIC BATH
28. THE SWORD MASTER
29. VOGUE
30. CANDLESTREAM
31. TIGHT WAD FEEL
32. CAT LEGIONS
33. PANDA REALITY
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