Eat it...Eat it Raw!

After more than half a century as a vegetarian, I'm trying something new. My daughter is a life-long vegetarian & several years back she went vegan. She's always giving me the business about it. We used to dine at a raw joint called The Green Boheme (they recently moved to Roseville & we haven't made it to their new location). They always challenged everyone to go raw for a month. Well, I decided I'd one up Lao & go raw.

Now, I'm a Taurus & as bull-headed as they come, so sticking to something I start is no big deal. But man oh man…all I do now-a-days is dream about food, whether I'm awake or sleeping. Now it's started creeping into my musick. See what you think of RAW!!!

Portion Control – Dining on the Fresh C10 cassette & flexi-disc,
In Phase Records POR CON 004, 1981.
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Cassette

Side A –

Better Place

Wippy Dippy Dappy Do!

Side B –

Untitled

Sweet Julia (new version)

Flexi Disc

Side 1 –

Across the Fence

Side 2 –

All of My Time

 

Minimal Man - Hunger is All She has Ever Known, Play it Again Sam Records BIAS71LP, 1988.

Side 1 –

Interviews

Say

A Little Surrender

Christine Says

Run, Devil, Run

Side 2 –

I Want You to Know

Safari

Dead Tired

I Heard

 

 

Bruce Gilbert – Music for Fruit, Mute STUMM77, 1991.

Side A –

Music for Fruit (edited)

Side B –

Push

You Might be Called

 

 

Sun City Girls –Kaliflower, Abduction ABDT001, 1994.

Side One –

X + Y = Fuck You

Dead Chick in the River

& So the Dead Tongue Sang

Cigar Shaped the Moonlight

Archaeoptryx in the Slammer

Side Two –

The Venerable Uncle Tompa

I Knew a Jew Named Frankenstein

 

 

Tommy Guerrero – Soul Food Taqueria, Mo Wax MWR158CD, 2003.

Tracklist –

(intro) ‘lectric Chile Goat

Abierto

Organism

Thank You (MK)

Tatanka

(interlude) Train of Thought

It Gets Heavy (featuring Gresham Taylor)

Thin Brown Layer

(interlude) So Many Years Ago / Terra Unfirma

Getting it Together (featuring Lyrics Born)

Another Brother Gone

Broken Blood

(interlude) & the Day Goes By

Lost Unfound

The Color of Life

Falling Awake

 

 

Grand National – A Drink & a Quick Decision, Recall 128, 2007.

Tracklist –

Reason to Hide In

Weird Ideas at Work

Animal Sounds

By the Time I get Home There Won’t be Much of a Place for Me

Cut by the Brakes

Tongue

Going to Switch the Lights On

New Space to Throw

Joker & clown

Close Approximation

Pack All the Things You Need

Part of a Corner

 

 

 

Pleasant dining,

NØ

A Man with Everything Against Him

Patrick Miller, leader of underground ensemble Minimal Man, was born in Glendale, California, on 2 January 1952. He studied art at Sonoma State University, where he concentrated chiefly on silk-screening. In 1979 he moved to San Francisco & began working on experimental musick & film. Minimal Man began as a vehicle to produce soundtracks for his films. Miller also began to collaborate with a wide variety of punk, new wave & industrial musicians, including Tuxedomoon. By October Minimal Man was performing at the legendary Deaf Club & other venues around the city. As the musick blossomed, Miller became less interested in film & more interested in the music itself.

Minimal Man cut two albums of dark industrial punk rock (The Shroud Of… &  Safari ) while in San Francisco. The debut Minimal Man album The Shroud Of... was originally released by Berkeley label Subterranean Records in 1981, when the core band was a trio made up of: Miller – vocals, keyboards, & tape manipulation; Andrew Baumer – bass & saxophone & Lliam Hart (Pansy Division) - drums. Minimal Man became one of a select handful of influential groups from this era to bridge punk & industrial music. They mixed punk aggression with tape-loops & atmospheric electronics, creating a dissonant, unsettling sound described at the time as ‘antimusic’. Although usually classified as industrial punk, Minimal Mam’a musick contained elements of cold wave, art rock, post-punk, new wave, avant-garde, experimental electronics & noise.

Although the foundation of the band was Miller, Baumer, & Hart, Miller wanted the group to be more of a musical collective, so their debut record featured contributions from a myriad of artists: Hitoshi Sasaki; Stephen Wymore (Pink Section); Stefano Paolillo; Michael Belfer (Sleepers, Tuxedomoon); Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon); Michael Fox (Code of Honor) & Gary Miles. However, only their debut & Slave Lullabyes (featured here) would showcase such an array of collaborators.

Miller relocated to Europe in 1985 after the dismal response to the band here in America, settling in Brussels alongside fellow SF expats Tuxedomoon. While there, the band released four albums: Sex With God; Slave Lullabyes; Hunger is All She has Ever Known;  & Pure.

In the 1990's Miller returned to America, settling first in New York, then back to California, working as a set dresser in the movie business. He stayed in that line of work & never recorded any further music. He died at his home in Eagle Rock, California on 14th December 2003 from Hepatitis C.

 Minimal Man – Slave Lullayes, Fundamental SAVE 11, 1986. 

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Side One –

Trains

Heaven Lies

Far Away

War at Nite

The Light

Noose Gets Tight

Side Two –

I Wish

Rue du Cinema

Voice of Vacaville

Fun!

Enjoy,

NØ