Tanja Feichtmair / Damon Smith / Gino Robair - The Shrilling of Frogs BPA -11 (March 2021 Balance Point Acoustics)

1. Throw Off the last veil 04:57

2. Bitterest Joys 10:51

3. Drowned in Yellow Streets 05:38

4. Carpets on the Barren Land 06:44

5. Sank into the Gold 06:34

6. Astray in Everything 01:40

7. My Thousand Greedy Wishes 05:00

8. Nothing's Dull or Rough 05:52

9. Boil Over & Blossom 08:49

10. Transfigured Ground 02:04

11. Thought is Untrue 01:48

12. A First Decision 05:26

13. Various Costumes 03:55

Tanja Fechtmair - alto saxophone & Bass clarinet

Damon Smith - double bass

Gino Robair - percussion

Recorded by Scott R. Looney 8/11/2003 at 1510 Studios Oakland, Ca

Mastered by Weasel Walter

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Splatter Trio - Splatter Trio (RASTASCAN RECORDS 2018)

Guitarist Myles Boisen likens a Splatter Trio show to watching an artist paint: "...you get to see us creating our art in front of you rather than offering prepackaged musical experiences." 

The name of the band reflects the messy act of creation: "We chose the name 'Splatter' because that's what we wanted the music to be like. Painterly, but also kind of bloody... half-Pollock and half-Peckinpah." 

Splatter formed after saxophonist Dave Barrett (then a member of Club Foot Orchestra) saw a 1987 performance of John Zorn's Cobra Ensemble that included Myles and Gino. Years of collective experience with the likes of Anthony Braxton, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Snakefinger, Fred Frith, and Dead Kennedys gave the three exceptional skill with experimentation and improvisation. 

Rather than being slaves to song structure, they play with it. Gino calls structure "our main material, like sonic playdough... as if the playdough just sort of appears as we play." Myles says, "We don't get lost, but we also don't know where we're going." 

When these musicians play together, they seem intent on surprising and delighting each other. They typically have no set list; instead, one of them starts playing something and the others play whatever makes sense at the time, sometimes complementing the other musicians, sometimes going off in a completely different direction. The result gives the audience a constantly changing stream of squawks, beats, swirls, jokes, splashes, and noise, an improv soundtrack for the listener's own private contribution. 

"When the musicians play together each goes his own way, but they meet from time to time."

Cambodian proverb

Dave Barrett: saxophones, other winds, black eye

Myles Boisen: doubleneck electric guitar/bass, Casio

Gino Robair: drums, marimba

1. If Then 00:37

2. Crumple 01:36

3. Progress 01:24

4. Angry Instances 01:10

5. Splatter Waltz 03:00

6. Music (for Mingus) 05:19

7. Garden 03:27

8. Peck 'n Paw 01:53

9. Sunda 05:11

10. Python 05:43

11. Burnt Norton 01:53

12. '66 Station Wagon Theme 01:53

13. Cigarettes 04:43

14. Jesus deSade 04:32

15. Islam in Berdoo 06:08

16. Above Paradise 03:18

17. Outdiana 05:55

18. Shit Hits The Fan 02:58

19. KPFA Theme 00:12

20. Sheesh (Monk's Dilemma) 01:11

21. Dissolve/I Found My Thrill (for Miki) 03:07

22. Sludge Hiatus 02:28

23. If Then (Brief Reprise) 00:05

Splatter Trio - Anagrams (RASTASCAN RECORDS 2018)

"Like the soundtrack to an insect's thoughts before, during and after it hits the windshield."

--Gavin Report 

"Fun noise, the brilliance of chance exuberance, the mysteries of communication - that's all here."

--S.F. Weekly

What happens when you take the basic elements of your tunes and reorganize them as you play? That was the basic operating principle of the Splatter Trio at the time this album was recorded. 

Using the anagram as a metaphor, Splatter regularly juxtaposed its melodies, riffs, chord progressions and beats in new and unexpected ways during each performance. Songs were rarely played the same way twice, and the results often lead to the creation of new tunes. 

Describing the band's approach on this album, the poet Steve Benson wrote "The whole is an explosion of the sum of its parts' incongruence."

Dave Barrett: saxophones, saxcello, ocarina, DX-7

Myles Boisen: doubleneck guitar/bass, Casio

Gino Robair: drums, percussion, sampler, radio

1. Three Tests for Detecting a Lack of Control 04:19

2. Urban Ethnic 04:26

3. 11/02 #4 Stretched 01:18

4. Matching Tye (for Eddie Prevost) 04:32

5. Twilight Erie 03:37

6. We Are Ordinary, C'mere 03:55

7. Splatter vs. The Titans 03:05

8. 1920 06:50

9. SatUrN ReseArch 02:52

10. El Cerrito 01:17

11. Tango Big Boy 04:26

12. Sin Wing Swinging 05:55

13. Field of Lost Edges 03:55

14. The Pardon Me Shower 00:56

15. Dear Jonathan 06:57

16. Not For Strangers 06:18

Splatter 3+N - Clear The Club (RASTASCAN RECORDS 2018)

Clear the Club began as a series of studio-based jams by Splatter 3+3, which added Michaelle Goerlitz, Len Paterson, and Dave Slusser to the Splatter Trio. Other friends were invited to do overdubs and snippets of live and studio recordings were added. 

Produced by the Splatter Trio. Basic tracks engineered by Joshua Heller. Mixing and additional engineering by Myles Boisen and Gino Robair at Guerrilla Recording and Solitary Confinement. Mastered by Myles Boisen at the Headless Buddha Mastering Lab, Oakland, CA. 

Synthspotter: Buchla Electric Music Box on track 2; transistor organ on track 3; Maestro theremin on track 4; Oberheim OB-8 on tracks 3 and 14: Moog Sonic Six on track 5; Analogue Systems and Blacet synth modules on track 15.

Splatter Trio:

Dave Barrett—saxophones, saxello

Myles Boisen—guitar/bass doubleneck, sonics

Gino Robair—drums, synths, keyboards, theremin, guitar

with

Michaelle Goerlitz—percussion

Len Paterson—guitar

Dave Slusser—saxophone, Slussomatic

Sheldon Brown—reeds

J.A. Deane—live sampling

Chris Grady—trumpet

Mark Growden—reeds

Jake Rivera—bass

John Shiurba—guitar

Ellie Schoenwetter—bass

1. Top of the Hour 00:48

2. Michaelle's Theme 05:10

3. Ruminations 07:51

4. Space Calculated in Seconds 03:16

5. Butter Churner (3/4/5) 04:03

6. Sselim 07:50

7. Teo 02:31

8. Peter Herley Pt. III 04:08

9. Stares at the Sun 04:09

10. Glitchfarben 02:02

11. Base 5 Curly Motherfucker 02:01

12. Nevada 02:47

13. In That Dark World 03:22

14. Peter Herley Pt. IV 05:27

15. The Mumbler 02:12