Bwang!: “One Track Punkfier EP”
Bwang-One-Track_Punkifier.zip (22 Mb)
Could be an appendix to the Sixogy, could be just a bad Angry Cops side project. What it’s billed as is a brief goofing on hardcore punk, Bwang! style.
March 29, 2009
November 7, 2008
Bwang!: “The Church of Holy Crap of Latter-Day Bwang!”
Bwang-The_Church_of_Holy_Crap_of_Latter-Day_Bwang.zip (87.8 Mb)
A compilation of previously uncollected/unreleased Bwang! tracks. And with that, I announce that I’m all out of Bwang! stuff for a while — to the relief of many, no doubt.
Bwang!: “Lost in Pez-Land”
Bwang-Lost_In_Pez-Land.zip (96.5 Mb)
The first post-Sixogy Bwang! album, and possibly the only one recorded all on the same day with more or less the same lineup. A rambling and heavily atmospheric meditation on The Dead C and the Stacy Peck-composed Page 5 Girl instrumental “Pez,” by turns clattery, spacey, and doomy — and then suddenly at the end Neils Thulstrup shows up and lightens the mood up with a rollicking version of the Andy Buck theme. One of my favorites.
November 5, 2008
Bwang!: “What If The Bwang!?”
Bwang-What_If_The_Bwang.zip (92.6 Mb)
An addendum to the sixogy, as its contents were recorded around the same time. However, this particular set focuses around Bwang! jams featuring the improvised rants of Peter Vanderwall, which were the central component of What If The Man?, including a completely over-the-top cover version of “Stone Cold Loaded.”
November 3, 2008
Bwang!: “…And I Saved the World”
Bwang-And_I_Saved_the_World.zip (100.5 Mb)
One of the later Bwang! albums, from after the Sixogy era when the jam/recording sessions weren’t as much of a continuous daily occurrence. Psychedelic noise rock jams with sloppy drums and weird recording.
November 2, 2008
Bwang! – The Sixogy
During the summer of 1996 as the Ragman scene was kind of taking off — in the sense that there were a lot of kids hanging around Ruth’s cooking up shenanigans and banging on instruments — I got the idea to record some of the impromptu jams that would frequently occur on a little portable cassette recorder, and incorporate them into a conceptual “band that everyone is in” called Bwang!. The band name came from an onomotopeia that my high school friend Seth Thomson used to utter to express the sound of an out-of-tune guitar chord being suddenly struck, since most of the jams occurred without tuning (sometimes oven on instruments that were hardly tunable). Bwang! continued to be the catch-all for these kinds of jam sessions for some years, but the first burst of recordings yielded hours upon hours of tape that were gradually edited down, over a period of years, to the most interesting bits, eventually yielding a 6-CD cycle I call “The Sixogy.”
Bwang-Ultrasonik.zip (99.5 Mb)
Bwang-Steve_Flips_Out.zip (103.0 Mb)
Bwang-Broken_Music_for_Deaf_People.zip (91.4 Mb)
Bwang-Harnessing_Disaster.zip (97.2 Mb)
