Instruments we have employed live and recorded: drumkit, random percussion, prepared banjos, Hungarian flutes, wood fife, tenor sax, clarinet, trombone, sousaphone, electric guitar, bass guitar, processed horns, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, analog synthesizer, reel to reel tape loops........
Mark also plays/has played in CexFucx, Thee Oregon Artificial Limb Co., Cells, Au, Rubella, Bunny, solo, Kinetic Harpoon, Htoo Trio, Ghost to Falco, Portland Bike Ensemble, etc etc
Heather plays/has played in FlyFlyFlyFlyFly, CexFucx, Evolutionary Jass Band, Egon Hegone, etc etc
Influences
Good food and fine wine, our son Klook, world music the world over, people.
Let's face it folks, Myspace is stupid. We think Rupert Murdoch is a turd.
With that said, we use this space because, well, everyone uses it and we want to share a bare minimum of information with the world.
Both the tracks we have up right now are from the last cassette listed, on Portland Bad Date Line cassettes. Really it sounds much better in its original analog state so you should just buy one! We will put up a song from the new record too but not until the official release date of May 18!!
What follows is a listing of some releases we currently have, and you can buy them buy clicking on the PayPal button!
The 12" on white vinyl will be added shortly...
This one is out of print, we called it "Field Recordings", a bunch of super lo-fi hand-held cassette recorded things we did on a road trip to Montana. Instruments include tenor sax, drumkit, euphonium, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar. Hand made fabric covers. This one got written up in Italy's "Blow Up", along with the next cassette, while were over there last May. Recorded a few years back.
This one we made for our Italian tour, its called Klook, the middle name of our then unborn son. This is a classic rootsy jazz punk recording, all sounds were captured in our bedroom on Michigan St. in Portland Oregon straight to 2-track 1/4" reels....the first recording utilizing our famous RCA BK5 microphone.
We used tenor sax, drumkit, fife, and conga.
SOLD OUT!!!!
So this tape came about after my friend Pat saw us play a house show with electric guitar and drums. We only started this configuration because Heather's pregnant belly was getting too big for her to handle a sax. Thus begins a whole new chapter in the Hammer of Hathor sound. We haven't gone back to jazz, although once you "find" jazz it never leaves you!
We recorded this straight to a Tascam mastering cassette deck, not a 4 track. Two mics in, the RCA BK5 over the drums and a Shure dynamic in the grill of our tube amp.
This was released on Portland Bad Date Line tapes.
These tracks are super lofi and awesome sounding. We have copies of these left too. $6 shipped most places.
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Well here it is, the first record on Shimmering on a dim tide Records entitled "tooth eeth or teeth ooth".
We recorded this ourselves to an old Teac 1/4" 2 track machine, probably the last time it gets used for recording (it crapped out)!
Then we took those reels to Mike Lastra's studio (Smegma) and he mixed them to 2 fresh 1/4" reels which we then sent to John Golden who made the lacquer masters. Then the plating happened and then Bill Smith pressed 350 records on white vinyl.
All the tracks are recorded live using one or two mics, an RCA BK5 and a Shure dynamic. We used drumkit, electric guitar, flutes, cymbal orchestra, trombone, percussion.
4 tracks, maybe 30 minutes or so in length. Hand screen printed covers.
Mindblowing. I just pulled the old Sony out of the garage sale pile so I can listen to your tapes when I move into the RV. Simply awesome, yet not so simple. Well done friends.
