16 November 2022

A Rose for Randy’s

Charles Bobuck was Hardy Winfred Fox, Jr, one of the few known members of The Residents.


Fox was co-founder & primary composer of this Obscurity group.



According to the Cryptic Cprporation propoganda:
      "Chuck’s Ghost Stories is one of a string of Residents releases related to the group's Talking Light tour. It is a soundtrack album for the Randy's Ghost Stories video project, which stars the group's lead singer Randy Rose. The album contains music written & performed mostly by Charles Bobuck, the group's long-time composer & keyboardist.

It directly preceded the introduction of Bobuck's solo "contraptions", an outlet for extra-Residential recording activities which he could not pursue fully with the group. The first of these "contraptions" was the 2012 album Codgers on the Moon, though Bobuck had recorded similar projects as early as the 1990s.

Originally issued solely through the group's now-defunct Robot Selling Device online MP3 store & credited to "The Residents' Talking Light", Chuck's Ghost Music was later released on a USB thumb drive with a lanyard sold exclusively at stops on the Talking Light tour & again later in 2012 as a CD-R, credited in part as a Bobuck contraption."


Chuck's Ghost Music was reissued physically again on February 20th 2021 via Klanggalerie, credited simply to "Bobuck". This reissue features a new remaster of the album, as well as new cover art, both created by Hardy Fox prior to his death on October 30th 2018."

This is the 2012 CDR issue. 

 

Charles Bobuck - Chuck’s Ghost Stories, A Chuck Bobuck Contraption, 2012.
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Perchance to Dream   
Milton   
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Sleepwalker   
Unseen Sister   
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3 comments:

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  2. Hey Nathan maybe you're aware of this but it's equally spooky and rewarding.
    Made under his terminal illness it was released close to his passing.
    A Resident till the very end
    Diego
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220htkOvszA

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  3. Diego, thanks for the link. Along with Leonard Cohen's You Want it Dark & David Bowie's Blackstar, this is one of the greatest "Final Curtain" releases ever. As you so rightly sez: "A Resident till the very end". Respect.

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