This is a live recording made in Seattle in 2019, the final show of Virtual Balboa's west coast tour, a bumpy ride full of high highs and low lows, pan flute beatboxers, sadboy rappers, burglary, and unexpected detours into soggy terrain. The Virtual boys (Bennett, Darrup, and Lipson) were joined by trumpeter Greg Kelley for a type of saprophytic music that could only occur in an super-saturated environment.
The artwork, by Vancouver, BC-based artist Woojae Kim, consists of a sequence of a photograph being progressively decomposed by bacteria and fungi that were cultured from the very rock outcropping that the photo depicts.
The liner notes are a tall tale "based on actual events" as reported by none other than the most regular of Regular Guys, Rick Weaver. It's a true story of disintegration - biological, psychological, and societal, giving up the ghost of boundaries and deliquescing into a fertile, Pacific Northwestern humus. It is printed in a font so small that it would be hard to read were it not for the credit-card-sized magnifying lens included in the CD wallet. Now that the credit card companies have jacked up their processing fees to around 4%, it may be time to upgrade to Clear, which could also help you inspect your corpus for parasitoids.
1. Petrichor 29:05
Zach Darrup - guitar
Evan Lipson - double bass
Ben Bennett - percussion
Greg Kelley - Trumpet
