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  • Genre: Other

    Location MIAMI BEACH, Florida, Un

    Profile Views: 3780

    Last Login: 12/12/2010

    Member Since 11/18/2009

    Website tlasila.com

    Record Label Menlo Park, Savage Land, Blossoming Noise

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    In 1991, Tom Smith befriended South Beach local Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra. Falestra offered to help record and mix the Peach of Immortality studio recording "Spatters of a Royal Sperm" in Nov-Dec 1991. Next Peach of Immortality "30-minuten männercreme" was assembled from January 1992 to November 1993. While recording the two quickly set about crafting a new sound based on a mélange of the former love of musique concrète, dub, '70s glam, free-improvised music, and the works of a variety of transgressive authors and filmmakers. Contributions of a handful of guest musicians (including L’Trimm’s Tigra DeRougemont, Tracie Phillips, Oscar Perez, King Felix and Harry Pussy’s Bill Orcutt and Adris Hoyos). In 1993 Smith asked Falestra if he was interested in starting a new group by first dropping the Peach of Immortality name on "30-minuten männercreme" recording and releasing it under the name "To Live and Shave in L.A". The name was inspired by a Ron Jeremy porno parody of the film To Live and Die in L.A. They will also use the TLASILA name for the next recording and live performances, Falestra foolishly agreed with one stipulation that the next LP will have to have a new approach to recording. In late 1993 both started performing live at Churchill's and recording the next LP "Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell a release where Falestra to this day was not given proper credit for his recording and mixing work. 1994 saw the release of their first compact disc, 1994's 30-minuten männercreme, and the addition of Oscillator player Benjamin Wolcott. This line-up recorded everything from "Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell to "The Cortége". Falestra let Smith spend the down time hours in his studio so Smith could mix the 3rd LP "Vedder Vedder Bedwetter" which became Smith's least favorite Shave album. Falestra, of course, held the opposite point of view. This was the first time TLASILA were able to recycle their own live performance recordings plus it included Don Fleming's recording at Waterworks in NYC and radio and live performances accompanied by Weasel Walter and Nandor Nevai from the 1996 tour. A flood of recordings followed, many of which would not be issued until years later. TLASILA were acclaimed as the most literary group to arrive on the avant-garde rock scene, they made no effort to dilute their lyrics or soften their approach. Falestra was an experienced audio engineer and guitarist-bassist with both manic technique and a penchant for throwing his instrument into the crowd. Smith wrote the lyrics, developed the sonic collages which served as the band's backdrops, and matched Falestra's stage aggression lurch for sybaritic lurch. They were initially associated with Miami's burgeoning noise-rock scene of the early 1990s, but neither To Live and Shave in L.A. nor their contemporaries could be so easily labeled. .. .. .. After two U.S. tours in which transportation was supplied by Wolcott and Falestra, and the Tora Tora Tora! festival in Atlanta, Wolcott departed the group in 1996 due to personal conflicts with Smith.  Wolcott went on and joined another Miami group, Frosty. TLASILA as a live entity weathered numerous changes. Following a pair of European tours featuring Smith, Falestra, Nandor Nevai, Billy Taylor, Greg Chapman, Julien Betcourt and Andy Bolus. To Live and Shave in L.A. returned to America with their "PRE (R)ocktober 1999" tour, featuring a newly expanded roster that included Weasel Walter, Nandor Nevai, vocalist Liz "Misty Martinez" Armstrong. In 2000 Falestra introduced Smith to Gerard Klauder the proprietor and operator of The Smack Shire Label in which A&R creative consultants included Nondor Nevai & Smith... .. The quintet split up following the NYC Beer & Sausage festival appearance in 2000. Walter, Nevai and Armstong split from TLASILA due to personal and financial conflicts with Smith.  Walter, Nevai and Armstong set up small tour as To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 and invited Falestra to go along.  Falestra went ahead and joined To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 only because it would look as if they had thrown Smith out of the band.  Angered with Falestra's decision to tour with TLASILA 2 and other clone bands, Smith tried to call a halt to the project in 2000 but the whole thing became a joke followed by a slew of clone releases and performances.  Afterwards, Smith formed the ensemble OHNE with Swiss performance art provocateur Dave Phillips, German noise-core musician Daniel Lowenbrucke and Swiss laptop specialist Reto Mader in 2002... .. In 2002 after 5 years of Smith mixing and editing TLASILA's two-disc set, The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg, it was released.  Wigmaker received wide acclaim, landing at the top of many critics' best-of lists, and setting in motion a reconciliation between the group's founders... .. Falestra and Smith decided to revive To Live and Shave in L.A. during the mastering session for "God and Country Rally" in Miami Beach on December 30, 2003.  Falestra suggested that TLASILA should perform at Carlos Giffoni's No Fun Festival (which took place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in March 2004).  After No Fun TLASILA assembled what many observers claim to be the best line-up in the group's history. Respected guitarist/producer Don Fleming (friend of Smith's since the mid-1970s in Adel GA) and Mark Morgan of New York's  Sightings.  Multi-instrumentalist Andrew W.K. joined the band in April 2004, and Ben Wolcott signed back on in late July 2004.  Chris Grier was brought in by Don in August 2004.  An archival disc (God and Country Rally!) and tour followed in September 2004. Their next studio album, the W.K.-Fleming-Smith produced Noon and Eternity (recorded at Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon facility in New York, and featuring performances by Thurston Moore). .. .. TLASILA debuted the Noon and Eternity material in the nation's capitol in January 2005 at The Black Cat, at the Moore-Grier curated Noise Against Fascism festival, which featured like-minded artists such as Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano, Kim Gordon, Nate Young and Twig Harper, among others. .. .. In Aug-Sep 2006 a tour of Canada and a pair of shows New York City in support of their "chronological remix" compilation Horoscopo: Sanatorio de Moliere. Graham Moore was invited to lend his talents in August 2006... .. Weasel Walter performed with TLASILA again during the collective's April-May 2007 tour of the States in support of their Les Tricoteuses collection.   Liz Armstrong rejoined the group on that excursion as well. Andrew Barranca joined in May 2007... .. Liz Armstrong and Nandor Nevai recorded and performed with TLASILA in August 2007 during the sessions for the Cortége album.  Also former Peach of Immortality Mark Shellhaas, Kelly Jamison and Scraping Teeth drummer Dimthingshine also were included in the sessions.  Graham Moore-Fleming-Falestra produced The Cortége (recorded at Sonic Youth's Think Tank facility in New Jersey) was mixed by Graham Moore and Falestra in Miami Beach in December 2007 and Don Fleming mixed it in November 2008.  .. .. Smith was presenting the group under web sites Myspace and Blogger, but contaminating it with his own personal matters, opprobrious opinions and nonnative music projects in which did not represent the views or music of the other members in the group.  Smith had planned a TLASILA Europe tour in April-May 2008 knowing full well that Falestra had already planned a tour the entire month of April with the Laundry Room Squelchers and Ben Wolcott just returned to work after a long union walkout.  Smith was asked not to use the TLASILA name on his personal tour of Europe but he went ahead and did it anyway ignoring the other members request.  .. .. ......Rat Bastard's.......... To Live and Shave in LA.......... ........Discography.... .. .... ..  ..........The Cortége.. .. .... .. ......May be the finale TLASILA LP with the 14 year core unit. .. Tom Smith - Rat Bastard - Ben Wolcott.. ..  this 11 track LP includes our great friends:.. Don Fleming - Graham Moore - Chris Grier - Mark Morgan - Liz Armstrong - Nondor Nevai - Andrew Barranca .. Cherie Lily - Andrew W.K. - Dimthings - Kelly Jamison - Mark Shellhaas - Patrick Spurlock .. Recorded at Think Tank on August 25th-26th 2007 by Matt Azzarto & Don Fleming.. mixed by Rat Bastard & Graham Moore in November 2007 ........ .. ...... ..Test Press 1.... ..Test Press 2........ ........ Test Press 3.... ..Test Press 4.... ..Test Press 5.... .. .. .... ..Don Fleming's mix of "The Cortége".. mixed November 2008.. .. ....1.0)  Fur Piece.... ..1.1)  Bright Lights, Theatre, Fur.... ..1.2)  Options Denied.... ..1.3)  Full of Improbables.... ..1.4)  Poisoned Counterparts.... ..1.5)  Flattering Circles of Hell.... ..1.6)  The Last, Least Loved.... ..2.1)  'Til Their Legs Gave Way.... ..2.2)  If I am the Rodent.... ..2.3)  Three Fingers.... ..2.4)  I Found My Ruin Instead.... ..2.5)  The Cortége...... ...... .. ..***...... .... .. .. ....Les Tricoteuses...... .... .... .. 10-track CD,  May-August 1997 remix of TLASILA's An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers,.. Issued in 2007 by Savage Land. Sleeve design by Gregory Jacobsen... .. .... ..01) Too Much Kiff.... ..02) Gash of the Nomenclature.... 03) Last Stitch.. 04) Ed Karsh On The Brink.. 05) Gorls Gunman.. 06) Bursts Sedate.. 07) Dry Hustle.. 08) The Beaver County's Ironclad.. 09) Spinning Throat.. ..10) Muddied Died Dum........ .. .. ....***.. ........ .. ..Noon and Eternity...... ...... .. ..TLASILA return with it's core unit, Tom Smith (vocals), Rat Bastard (electronics) and Ben Wolcott (oscillator),..  plus: Don Fleming (guitar), Chris Grier (guitar), Thurston Moore (guitar), Mark Morgan (guitar), Andrew W.K. (drums). .. Recorded at Echo Canyon Studios in 2004. issued by Menlo Park Recordings in 2006... .. ....01) This Home and Fear.. 02) early 1880's.. 03) Percent Obstruct Street.. ..04) Mothers over Silverpoint...... .. .... ***.... ......Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière.... .. .. ......recorded 2002-2006; issued by blossoming noise........ .... ..Tom Smith / Rat Bastard / Ben Wolcott / Don Fleming / Chris Grier / Thurston Moore / Mark Morgan / Andrew W.K......... .. .... .. ........01) 1622.... 02) 1631.. 03) 1633.. ..04) 1641.... 05) 1643.. 06) 1662.. 07) 1665.. ..08) 1673...... .. .... ***.. .. ..God and Country Rally!.... .. ....Ten-track album, culled from live studio improvisations recorded throughout 1996. It was commissioned for a 1997 release on the Vulgar Tango label. .. Remixed throughout 2003, re-mastered by Rat Bastard, the album was issued by The Smack Shire in September 2004. ...... .. ........ .. .... ..01) A Girl Named Kiss Twat.... ..02) Medication, My She Bowels.... ..03) Demerol Tablets of the Little Boys.... ..04) he head the Police Obtain.... ..05) Little Sleeping Girls' Pills.... ..06) Got Up and Went To Piano Turds.... ..07) Man Elderly, Where Crying?.... ..08) Zum Astrologen.... ..09) Demons Hip Naltrexone with Sick.... ..10) "I Feel Like Shooting Up Now" Plate.... .. .... .. ....***.. .. ..The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg.... .. ....27-track double CD recorded 1995-2000; issued February 2002 by Menlo Park Recordings...... .. .... ...... ...... ..01) Travelogue One.... ..02) Blandina, Oberwilding '77.... ..03) Nor Swollen-Bellied Comet Blown.... ..04) Bled Into Minar Thirty-Aught.... ..05) Full-Choke Wigmaker's Vise.... ..06) New poem Dramatized For Lux Cudgel.... ..07) Travelogue Two.... ..08) Tortillon Fluff.... ..09) The 'Rose' The Vehicle Of Miss High Heels.... ..10) Ideas Make Men Hard.... ..11) When My Rifle Went Sour With Preposterous Headdress.... ..12) Fills Mouth And Cunt With 'Pathetic Route'.... ..13) Travelogue Three.... ..14) Travelogue Three (Reprise).... ..15) The Notorious D-1 And D-2.... ..16) Song Of Roland A Single Cockscrew Curl.... ..17) 'Twas He Who Pricked With An Awl.... ..18) Veit Harlan Brown Dress Bob.... ..19) Travelogue Four.... ..20) The Famous "Mad Bronze".... ..21) Is This Good For Vulva?.... ..22) Displaced By Double Bed.... ..23) Travelogue Five.... ..24) To Backstab, To Schism.... ..25) Loudspeakers For The Poet's Famous Disques.... ..26) Travelogue Six.... ..27) Honeycomb Tripe.... .... .. ...... ***.. .. ..Amour Fou on the Edge of Misogyny.... .. ....Eight tracks remixed from a disc of the dub versions created for Where a Horse...  The perverse brain-dead child of Billy Taylor, a member of the Euro-only edition of TLASILA (1997-8), and of Athens, GA collectives Chinny Chin Chin and Melted Men. .. Mixed and produced by Billy Taylor in February 1998; issued on CD-R 2001 by Gods of Tundra. .. ...... ........ .. .. .... ..01) The Women of K.I.L.L. T.O.M..... ..02) Mai Lai Shadow-Demons.... ..03) Lovemaking Lucifer la Centrale.... ..04) Trash Treasure Sierra.... ..05) Lady L'Amour Movie.... ..06) Saigon State Scarface.... ..07) The Four Turner Two.... ..08) Stars of Loose Siete.... .. .... ...... ...... ***.. .. ..Peter Criss vs. Peter Christopherson.... .. ....10-song CD-R of a collaboration between KF36, the British avant-collagecabal, and TLASILA. .. Recorded in spurts from mid-1995 to the Spring of’97; Kasra Mowlavi - voice, turntable, devices .. issued 2000 by Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers... .. ...... ........ .. ...... ..01) Huh, Baby?.... ..02) Wheah Yoah Limit Is....... ..03) Five on Number Five.... ..04) Wasn't Poah Galin'!.... ..05) B for Baby Ida.... ..06) So Flush on Rubbin' Lips Befoah.... ..07) Like Triphammers.... ..08) Peahs Lak Life Jus' Picks.... ..09) Trucks for Carnival Jeeps.... ..10) None of My Wheels Is Gimmicked........ .. ...... ***.. .... Where a Horse Has Been Standing and Where You Belong.... .. ....13-track CD of severe cut-ups of dub versions of the twelve songs from the then in progress Wigmaker... “The Snake Whose Head Would Not Be Crushed,” surfaced the previous year’s Tonal Harmony EP. .. Recorded Jan-Feb 1998; released March ’98 on Western Blot... .. ...... .... .. ..01) Vest Pants and Denim.... ..02) Both Mules $325, Shoes.... ..03) For Metal, $3650.... ..04) Four Chokers About.... ..05) Sheer $160!.... ..06) Cotton and Pale Cotton Leather.... ..07) $2110 Peasant.... ..08) Diamonds and $650, $500.... ..09) Bullfighter Biker Toreador Sleeves.... ..10) Overlay $1200, Overlay Tulle.... ..11) Sleeveless Sheer Signature.... ..12) And Volume-Plastic, Plastic Tulle.... ..13) Skincare Movement!.... ...... ........ .. .. ....***.. .. ..Tonal Harmony.... .. ....4-track CD EP recorded December 1996-May 1997..  featuring guest appearances from Electric Eels' John Morton and Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe..  released 1997 through UK imprint Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers... .. ...... ........ .. .... ..01) Premonitory (B).... ..02) The Snake Whose Head Would Not Be Crushed.... ..03) Untitled Song For Six Voices.... ..04) Volponi Museum........ .. .... .. ...... ***.. .. ..Wondrous, Failed Composites! / This Sore and Broken Blackpool Legacy EP.. .. .. ....7" split with Ceramic Hobs recorded 1995; issued on Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers.. .. .... .. .. ........01) Profane Time.... ..02) Dead Shanty Town Tease...... .. ..***.... .. .. ..New Songs with Drug and Pornographic Themes EP.. .. .... .. .. ....1995, Audible Hiss 7" AH 006.. Rat Bastard - bass / Ben Wolcott - oscillators / Tom Smith - voice and tape / Oscar Perez - backing vocals.. Recorded by May 1995 by Ariyah Okomoto at Churchill's Hideaway, Miami. Mixed and produced by Rat and Tom....... .. ..01) To Backstab, To Schism.... ..02) Fills Mouth and C nt with "Pathetic Route".... .. .. ***.... .. .. An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers.... .. ....9-track CD written, recorded, mixed, produced, and mastered in one day - August 14, 1995 - on a dare from Audible Hiss honcho Ned (Action Swingers) Hayden; .. released in 1995 by Audible Hiss. .. Suits at Caroline Distribution (who manufactured all Audible Hiss releases) nixed the album's original artwork, replacing a photo of the titular Bros. Mitchell with a portrait of TLASILA... ...... .... ...... .... .. .... ..01) Kopenhagen Lounge.... ..02) Flesh and Brimstone.... ..03) Scrimshaw Woman.... ..04) The Resurrection of Eve.... ..05) Beyond De Sade.... ..06) Never a Tender Moment.... ..07) CB Mamas.... ..08) Inside Marilyn Chambers.... ..09) Sodom and Gomorrah........ .. ...... ***.. .. ..Ride a Cock Overhorse EP.... .. .... .. ....7" recorded 1995; issued on Menlo Park / cover by Azita Youseffi of Scissor Girls.. .. .... ..01) The Genealogy of Orestes.... ..02) Honeycomb Tripe.... .. ***.. .. ..Vedder Vedder Bedwetter.... .. ....37-track CD recorded Feb-May 1995; issued 1995 on Fifth Column. .. Tom's least favorite Shave album. Rat, of course, holds the opposite point of view. .. ...... ........ .. ...... ..01) 5 Seconds Off Your Ass.... ..02) Grams, Paths.... ..03) Pig Off, Ass Full.... ..04) Bucks, Rears and Throws The Rider.... ..05) Dungstar Supervivisect!.... ..06) Throws Cunt a Tear.... ..07) O. Ruddock D. "H.S. Mauberly.... ..08) Long-Drawn and Staccato "Lousy Dime".... ..09) Shits Upon the Debris and Burns.... ..10) Handballed "Viet"-clasp.... ..11) The The, Which Radiance Overdrenched.... ..12) In Such Wise She Cannot Stir.... ..13) Miff Mole, Witch-Leery Scot.... ..14) Shut the Second She Clawed.... ..15) Rug Trilogy: Christus.... ..16) Like the Two-Part "Nod".... ..17) Nigh To The HM Threshold.... ..18) M. Polk, Prop..... ..19) Cobwebs With "Trap" Primrose.... ..20) Glas Employed an Urn.... ..21) Schwann Death in June Reference.... ..22) "Good Bait" Made Butt of Insult.... ..23) The Sink Mentioned In The Scriptures.... ..24) Rubberist, Unwept.... ..25) The The Perms.... ..26) And Hammer, The Crown of Thorns.... ..27) From Gloss "Polytope" Flexi.... ..28) "A", The Swinging She-River.... ..29) Blind Hole Without a Piss-Eye.... ..30) "Ulalume"/Fram Decal Split.... ..31) Brother Falling, Twat From Fool.... ..32) Left Bro. At Doors.... ..33) T.C.B. Dropskirt.... ..34) Die, One and Five........ .. .. ....***.. .. .."Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell.. .... ....34-track CD recorded June-November 1994.. ...... .... .. ..01) Root of Pop Compulsion.... ..02) Tina Russell, Free.... ..03) Take A Lot of Ofay.... ..04) The Ass God.... ..05) Open City.... ..06) Shit If They Hit.... ..07) Spelvin, the Righteous Bush.... ..08) Veinsearchin'.... ..09) Superhype Security Probe.... ..10) My Third Decade of Ultrafuck.... ..11) Crypt Rocket, Tomb Rocket, Turd Rocket.... ..12) The "Six" in the Six Wolves.... ..13) Mizrahi Speculum.... ..14) I Learn to Inject Morphia.... ..15) Lady Dedlock.... ..16) Hypecuff.... ..17) A Low Mass Will Be Said.... ..18) I Suppress Nothing.... ..19) Wanna Bust Up a Virgin Ass?.... ..20) One Naval Decline.... ..21) Rexroth, Cozy Cool.... ..22) I Used to Pay a Heavy Bribe.... ..23) Kama Sutra.... ..24) Anne's Eager Bottom.... ..25) Shivman Destroys Spoonman.... ..26) "Godspike" Soph. Hoax.... ..27) Theresa Soder in My Hot Hands.... ..28) Television's Over.... ..29) "American Car".... ..30) Gone and Bitched Up.... ..31) I Slur a Name.... ..32) Tealink.... ..33) First Pop Novice.... ..34) Lock of Gut Twine.... ..35) Balling Andrea True.... ..36) Bataille=No Stripe.... ..37) In the Assworks..... .. ....

  • Members

    Tom Smith, Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra, Ben Wolcott, Mark Morgan, Weasel Walter, Liz "Misty Martinez" Armstrong, Nandor Nevai, Don Fleming, Andrew W.K., Chris Grier, Graham Moore, Thurston Moore, Andrew Barranca, Greg Chapman, Billy Taylor, Julien Becourt.

  • Influences

    .. .. .."Free Glam '99" tour ..

  • Sounds Like

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. ..30-minuten männercreme .. .... ....40-track CD recorded 1992-1993; issued 1994 Love Is Sharing Pharmaceuticals....... .. .... ...... ..01) "Long Reach" Composite.... ..02) Pictures at an Exhibition.... ..03) Pull Chains of Memphis.... ..04) New! Skin Chamber Lite!.... ..05) We Demand the Right to Piss in Different Colors.... ..06) Amp.... ..07) This is Colleen's Incredible True-Life Story.... ..08) Se Vende "Humour Me" Demo.... ..09) Stefania.... ..10) Long Georgette Jacket.... ..11) Lee Krasner 1949.... ..12) Piss, My Heart.... ..13) Hitchhike to Oregon.... ..14) Weakness Spits.... ..15) No More Was Needed to Inflame My Balls.... ..16) Throbbing Gristle at the Berlin Wall.... ..17) Mandan on the Rise.... ..18) ..LEF..-Mux "Theme" Plasti-Cast.... ..19) Trip Right Over It.... ..20) Get Fit to Herbie Mann!.... ..21) Unobscured Miss.... ..22) For Your Pleasure.... ..23) Foul Therese.... ..24) Hackworth.... ..25) ..Slot..-Tod.... ..26) Strength into My Blows.... ..27) C-93 "Tag" Plague.... ..28) Good Old Gospel Ship.... ..29) Stars of Fingers.... ..30) I Shall Eat Peyote.... ..31) A Passerby.... ..32) Goetic Circle of Pacts.... ..33) A Thirst for Love.... ..34) Lena K..... ..35) Very Wide Pink.... ..36) When I Was With Estee Lauter.... ..37) Why Are Her Hands Ungloved?.... ..38) Hafler Trio Completists' Feud-Song.... ..39) Blind Women Blind Son.... ..40) Shot Your Mouth Off.... ...... .... .. .. ....***.. .... Commmiinnggg! and Practis'd the Black Art .... .. ....9-track CD recorded September 1995 in Los Angeles by Tom Van Dyke (unreleased).. ...... .... ...... .. ....***.. .. ..Prostitution Heute!.... .. ....6-track double 7" recorded 9/94; Nightcap Records (unreleased).. The group: Rat, TS, and Bill Orcutt. We later (1996) overdubbed Ben Wolcott's oscillators, but that version was never mixed... ...... .... .. ....The songs: "Modified Stock," "58, Pumphand," "Moschino Powerslum," "My F ck Sprang Out!," "Faultless High," and "Tongue and Lips Reclaim.".. .. ....***.. .. ..Spatters of a Royal Sperm.. .. (as Peach of Immortality) .. .. ....Four-song 7" EP Noiseville 1991 (unreleased)... The first recordings realized in the style of 30-minuten männercreme. .. Written and performed by TS, and recorded and mixed by Rat Bastard at Sync, Miami Beach... .... .. .... .. ..01) Bad Couple.... ..02) Pink Satin Mule.... ..03) The Plot That Failed.... ..04) I Have Named the Soul.... .. ***.. .. ..Tarot or Aorta: Memories of a PRE Festival.... .. ........ ....Festival ministered by TLASILA December 6-8 1996 at Dotties in Atlanta GA.. this compilation was recorded and mixed by TS, CD issued by The Smack Shire.. .... .. ***.. .. ..Tapes.... .. ..Marty Balin (Lady Granny), Spring '67 (EF Tapes, C-77).... .. .... .. .."Her-Her," the So Her, the Put-Mouth (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, C-75).... .. .... .. ..Live Versions of Songs from The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (Chocolate Monk, C-90).. .. .. .... .. .."23" of 26 State and Federal Obscenity Determinations (Chocolate Monk, C-74).. .. .. .... ...... ..Each Day Vomits Its Tomorrow (Teenage Whore, C-60).... .. .... .. .. ..Merley Ressurected (Heavy Psych, C-20).... .. .... .. .. ....all mp3's ripped @ 320 kbps / 44.1 kHz.. Rat recognized TLASILA releases only are listed on this page........ .... .... ...... .. ........ .. .... .. ........ .. .... .. .... .. ........ ...... ...... .. .... .. .... .. .. .... .. .... ...... .. .... .. .... .. ...... ........ .. .... .. ........ .. .... .. .... .. .... .. .. .... .. ........ .. .......... .. .. ........ .. .... .. ........ ..

Rat Bastard's TLASILA archive

In 1991, Tom Smith befriended South Beach local Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra. Falestra offered to help record and mix the Peach of Immortality studio recording "Spatters of a Royal Sperm" in Nov-Dec 1991. Next Peach of Immortality "30-minuten männercreme" was assembled from January 1992 to November 1993. While recording the two quickly set about crafting a new sound based on a mélange of the former love of musique concrète, dub, '70s glam, free-improvised music, and the works of a variety of transgressive authors and filmmakers. Contributions of a handful of guest musicians (including L’Trimm’s Tigra DeRougemont, Tracie Phillips, Oscar Perez, King Felix and Harry Pussy’s Bill Orcutt and Adris Hoyos).  In 1993 Smith asked Falestra if he was interested in starting a new group(1) by first dropping the Peach of Immortality name on "30-minuten männercreme" recording and releasing it under the name "To Live and Shave in L.A". The name was inspired by a Ron Jeremy porno parody of the film To Live and Die in L.A.  They will also use the TLASILA name for the next recording and live performances, Falestra foolishly agreed with one stipulation that the next LP will have to have a new approach to recording.  In late 1993 both started performing live at Churchill's and recording the next LP "Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell a release where Falestra to this day was not given proper credit for his recording and mixing work. 1994 saw the release of their first compact disc, 1994's 30-minuten männercreme, and the addition of Oscillator player Benjamin Wolcott.  This line-up recorded everything from "Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell to "The Cortége". Falestra let Smith spend the down time hours in his studio so Smith could mix the 3rd LP "Vedder Vedder Bedwetter" which became Smith's least favorite Shave album. Falestra, of course, held the opposite point of view.  This was the first time TLASILA were able to recycle their own live performance recordings plus it included Don Fleming's recording at Waterworks in NYC and radio and live performances accompanied by Weasel Walter and Nandor Nevai from the 1996 tour.  A flood of recordings followed, many of which would not be issued until years later.  TLASILA were acclaimed as the most literary group to arrive on the avant-garde rock scene, they made no effort to dilute their lyrics or soften their approach. Falestra was an experienced audio engineer and guitarist-bassist with both manic technique and a penchant for throwing his instrument into the crowd. Smith wrote the lyrics, developed the sonic collages which served as the band's backdrops, and matched Falestra's stage aggression lurch for sybaritic lurch. They were initially associated with Miami's burgeoning noise-rock scene of the early 1990s, but neither To Live and Shave in L.A. nor their contemporaries could be so easily labeled.

After two U.S. tours in which transportation was supplied by Wolcott and Falestra, and the Tora Tora Tora! festival in Atlanta, Wolcott departed the group in 1996 due to personal conflicts with Smith.  Wolcott went on and joined another Miami group, Frosty. TLASILA as a live entity weathered numerous changes. Following a pair of European tours featuring Smith, Falestra, Nandor Nevai, Billy Taylor, Greg Chapman, Julien Betcourt and Andy Bolus. To Live and Shave in L.A. returned to America with their "PRE (R)ocktober 1999" tour, featuring a newly expanded roster that included Weasel Walter, Nandor Nevai, vocalist Liz "Misty Martinez" Armstrong. In 2000 Falestra introduced Smith to Gerard Klauder the proprietor and operator of The Smack Shire Label in which A&R creative consultants included Nondor Nevai & Smith.

The quintet split up following the NYC Beer & Sausage festival appearance in 2000. Walter, Nevai and Armstong split from TLASILA due to personal and financial conflicts with Smith.  Walter, Nevai and Armstong set up small tour as To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 and invited Falestra to go along.  Falestra went ahead and joined To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 only because it would look as if they had thrown Smith out of the band.  Angered with Falestra's decision to tour with TLASILA 2 and other clone bands, Smith tried to call a halt to the project in 2000 but the whole thing became a joke followed by a slew of clone releases and performances.  Afterwards, Smith formed the ensemble OHNE with Swiss performance art provocateur Dave Phillips, German noise-core musician Daniel Lowenbrucke and Swiss laptop specialist Reto Mader in 2002.

In 2002 after 5 years of Smith mixing and editing TLASILA's two-disc set, The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg, it was released.  Wigmaker received wide acclaim, landing at the top of many critics' best-of lists, and setting in motion a reconciliation between the group's founders.

Falestra and Smith decided to revive To Live and Shave in L.A. during the mastering session for "God and Country Rally" in Miami Beach on December 30, 2003.  Falestra suggested that TLASILA should perform at Carlos Giffoni's No Fun Festival (which took place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in March 2004).  After No Fun TLASILA assembled what many observers claim to be the best line-up in the group's history. Respected guitarist/producer Don Fleming (friend of Smith's since the mid-1970s in Adel GA) and Mark Morgan of New York's  Sightings.  Multi-instrumentalist Andrew W.K. joined the band in April 2004, and Ben Wolcott signed back on in late July 2004.  Chris Grier was brought in by Don in August 2004.  An archival disc (God and Country Rally!) and tour followed in September 2004. Their next studio album, the W.K.-Fleming-Smith produced Noon and Eternity (recorded at Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon facility in New York, and featuring performances by Thurston Moore).

TLASILA debuted the Noon and Eternity material in the nation's capitol in January 2005 at The Black Cat, at the Moore-Grier curated Noise Against Fascism festival, which featured like-minded artists such as Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano, Kim Gordon, Nate Young and Twig Harper, among others.

In Aug-Sep 2006 a tour of Canada and a pair of shows New York City in support of their "chronological remix" compilation Horoscopo: Sanatorio de Moliere. Graham Moore was invited to lend his talents in August 2006.

Weasel Walter performed with TLASILA again during the collective's April-May 2007 tour of the States in support of their Les Tricoteuses collection.   Liz Armstrong rejoined the group on that excursion as well. Andrew Barranca joined in May 2007.

Liz Armstrong and Nandor Nevai recorded and performed with TLASILA in August 2007 during the sessions for "The Cortége" album.  Also former Peach of Immortality Mark Shellhaas, Kelly Jamison and Scraping Teeth drummer Dimthingshine also were included in the sessions.  Graham Moore-Fleming-Falestra produced "The Cortége" (recorded at Sonic Youth's Think Tank facility in New Jersey) was mixed by Graham Moore and Falestra in Miami Beach in December 2007 and by Don Fleming in November 2008.
To Live and Shave in LA was established in fall 1993 in Miami and its last event was in August 2007 in NYC.

Rat Bastard's
To Live and Shave in LA
Discography



 The Cortége



May be the finale TLASILA LP with the 14 year core unit.
Tom Smith - Rat Bastard - Ben Wolcott

 this 11 track LP includes our great friends:
Don Fleming - Graham Moore - Chris Grier - Mark Morgan - Liz Armstrong - Nondor Nevai - Andrew Barranca
Cherie Lily - Andrew W.K. - Dimthings - Kelly Jamison - Mark Shellhaas - Patrick Spurlock
Recorded at Think Tank on August 25th-26th 2007 by Matt Azzarto & Don Fleming
mixed by Rat Bastard & Graham Moore in November 2007

 Test Press 1
Test Press 2
 Test Press 3
Test Press 4
Test Press 5


Don Fleming's mix of "The Cortége"
mixed November 2008

1.0)  Fur Piece
1.1)  Bright Lights, Theatre, Fur
1.2)  Options Denied
1.3)  Full of Improbables
1.4)  Poisoned Counterparts
1.5)  Flattering Circles of Hell
1.6)  The Last, Least Loved
2.1)  'Til Their Legs Gave Way
2.2)  If I am the Rodent
2.3)  Three Fingers
2.4)  I Found My Ruin Instead
2.5)  The Cortége

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Les Tricoteuses



10-track CD,  May-August 1997 remix of TLASILA's An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers,
Issued in 2007 by Savage Land. Sleeve design by Gregory Jacobsen.

01) Too Much Kiff
02) Gash of the Nomenclature
03) Last Stitch
04) Ed Karsh On The Brink
05) Gorls Gunman
06) Bursts Sedate
07) Dry Hustle
08) The Beaver County's Ironclad
09) Spinning Throat
10) Muddied Died Dum


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 Noon and Eternity



TLASILA return with it's core unit, Tom Smith (vocals), Rat Bastard (electronics) and Ben Wolcott (oscillator),
 plus: Don Fleming (guitar), Chris Grier (guitar), Thurston Moore (guitar), Mark Morgan (guitar), Andrew W.K. (drums).
Recorded at Echo Canyon Studios in 2004. issued by Menlo Park Recordings in 2006.

01) This Home and Fear
02) early 1880's
03) Percent Obstruct Street
04) Mothers over Silverpoint



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Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière

recorded 2002-2006; issued by blossoming noise
 Tom Smith / Rat Bastard / Ben Wolcott / Don Fleming / Chris Grier / Thurston Moore / Mark Morgan / Andrew W.K.



01) 1622
02) 1631
03) 1633
04) 1641
05) 1643
06) 1662
07) 1665
08) 1673



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God and Country Rally!

Ten-track album, culled from live studio improvisations recorded throughout 1996. It was commissioned for a 1997 release on the Vulgar Tango label.
Remixed throughout 2003, re-mastered by Rat Bastard, the album was issued by The Smack Shire in September 2004.



01) A Girl Named Kiss Twat
02) Medication, My She Bowels
03) Demerol Tablets of the Little Boys
04) he head the Police Obtain
05) Little Sleeping Girls' Pills
06) Got Up and Went To Piano Turds
07) Man Elderly, Where Crying?
08) Zum Astrologen
09) Demons Hip Naltrexone with Sick
10) "I Feel Like Shooting Up Now" Plate
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The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg

27-track double CD recorded 1995-2000; issued February 2002 by Menlo Park Recordings




01) Travelogue One
02) Blandina, Oberwilding '77
03) Nor Swollen-Bellied Comet Blown
04) Bled Into Minar Thirty-Aught
05) Full-Choke Wigmaker's Vise
06) New poem Dramatized For Lux Cudgel
07) Travelogue Two
08) Tortillon Fluff
09) The 'Rose' The Vehicle Of Miss High Heels
10) Ideas Make Men Hard
11) When My Rifle Went Sour With Preposterous Headdress
12) Fills Mouth And Cunt With 'Pathetic Route'
13) Travelogue Three
14) Travelogue Three (Reprise)
15) The Notorious D-1 And D-2
16) Song Of Roland A Single Cockscrew Curl
17) 'Twas He Who Pricked With An Awl
18) Veit Harlan Brown Dress Bob
19) Travelogue Four
20) The Famous "Mad Bronze"
21) Is This Good For Vulva?
22) Displaced By Double Bed
23) Travelogue Five
24) To Backstab, To Schism
25) Loudspeakers For The Poet's Famous Disques
26) Travelogue Six
27) Honeycomb Tripe

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Amour Fou on the Edge of Misogyny

Eight tracks remixed from a disc of the dub versions created for Where a Horse.
 The perverse brain-dead child of Billy Taylor, a member of the Euro-only edition of TLASILA (1997-8), and of Athens, GA collectives Chinny Chin Chin and Melted Men.
Mixed and produced by Billy Taylor in February 1998; issued on CD-R 2001 by Gods of Tundra.




01) The Women of K.I.L.L. T.O.M.
02) Mai Lai Shadow-Demons
03) Lovemaking Lucifer la Centrale
04) Trash Treasure Sierra
05) Lady L'Amour Movie
06) Saigon State Scarface
07) The Four Turner Two
08) Stars of Loose Siete




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Peter Criss vs. Peter Christopherson

10-song CD-R of a collaboration between KF36, the British avant-collagecabal, and TLASILA.
Recorded in spurts from mid-1995 to the Spring of’97; Kasra Mowlavi - voice, turntable, devices
issued 2000 by Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers.





01) Huh, Baby?
02) Wheah Yoah Limit Is...
03) Five on Number Five
04) Wasn't Poah Galin'!
05) B for Baby Ida
06) So Flush on Rubbin' Lips Befoah
07) Like Triphammers
08) Peahs Lak Life Jus' Picks
09) Trucks for Carnival Jeeps
10) None of My Wheels Is Gimmicked


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Where a Horse Has Been Standing and Where You Belong

13-track CD of severe cut-ups of dub versions of the twelve songs from the then in progress Wigmaker.
“The Snake Whose Head Would Not Be Crushed,” surfaced the previous year’s Tonal Harmony EP.
Recorded Jan-Feb 1998; released March ’98 on Western Blot.




01) Vest Pants and Denim
02) Both Mules $325, Shoes
03) For Metal, $3650
04) Four Chokers About
05) Sheer $160!
06) Cotton and Pale Cotton Leather
07) $2110 Peasant
08) Diamonds and $650, $500
09) Bullfighter Biker Toreador Sleeves
10) Overlay $1200, Overlay Tulle
11) Sleeveless Sheer Signature
12) And Volume-Plastic, Plastic Tulle
13) Skincare Movement!




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Tonal Harmony

4-track CD EP recorded December 1996-May 1997
 featuring guest appearances from Electric Eels' John Morton and Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe
 released 1997 through UK imprint Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers.




 01) Premonitory (B)
02) The Snake Whose Head Would Not Be Crushed
03) Untitled Song For Six Voices
04) Volponi Museum




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Commmiinnggg! and Practis'd the Black Art

9-track CD recorded September 1995 in Los Angeles by Tom Van Dyke (to be released on Savage Land)




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Wondrous, Failed Composites! / This Sore and Broken Blackpool Legacy EP

 7" split with Ceramic Hobs recorded 1995; issued on Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers



 ....01) Profane Time
02) Dead Shanty Town Tease

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New Songs with Drug and Pornographic Themes EP
1995, Audible Hiss 7" AH 006
Rat Bastard - bass / Ben Wolcott - oscillators / Tom Smith - voice and tape / Oscar Perez - backing vocals
Recorded by May 1995 by Ariyah Okomoto at Churchill's Hideaway, Miami. Mixed and produced by Rat and Tom.

01) To Backstab, To Schism
02) Fills Mouth and Cunt with "Pathetic Route"


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An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers

9-track CD written, recorded, mixed, produced, and mastered in one day - August 14, 1995 - on a dare from Audible Hiss honcho Ned (Action Swingers) Hayden;
released in 1995 by Audible Hiss.
Suits at Caroline Distribution (who manufactured all Audible Hiss releases) nixed the album's original artwork, replacing a photo of the titular Bros. Mitchell with a portrait of TLASILA.





 01) Kopenhagen Lounge
02) Flesh and Brimstone
03) Scrimshaw Woman
04) The Resurrection of Eve
05) Beyond De Sade
06) Never a Tender Moment
07) CB Mamas
08) Inside Marilyn Chambers
09) Sodom and Gomorrah


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Ride a Cock Overhorse EP



7" recorded 1995; issued on Menlo Park / cover by Azita Youseffi of Scissor Girls

 01) The Genealogy of Orestes
02) Honeycomb Tripe

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Vedder Vedder Bedwetter

37-track CD recorded Feb-May 1995; issued 1995 on Fifth Column.
Tom's least favorite Shave album. Rat, of course, holds the opposite point of view.




01) 5 Seconds Off Your Ass
02) Grams, Paths
03) Pig Off, Ass Full
04) Bucks, Rears and Throws The Rider
05) Dungstar Supervivisect!
06) Throws Cunt a Tear
07) O. Ruddock D. "H.S. Mauberly
08) Long-Drawn and Staccato "Lousy Dime"
09) Shits Upon the Debris and Burns
10) Handballed "Viet"-clasp
11) The The, Which Radiance Overdrenched
12) In Such Wise She Cannot Stir
13) Miff Mole, Witch-Leery Scot
14) Shut the Second She Clawed
15) Rug Trilogy: Christus
16) Like the Two-Part "Nod"
17) Nigh To The HM Threshold
18) M. Polk, Prop.
19) Cobwebs With "Trap" Primrose
20) Glas Employed an Urn
21) Schwann Death in June Reference
22) "Good Bait" Made Butt of Insult
23) The Sink Mentioned In The Scriptures
24) Rubberist, Unwept
..25) The The Perms
26) And Hammer, The Crown of Thorns
27) From Gloss "Polytope" Flexi
28) "A", The Swinging She-River
29) Blind Hole Without a Piss-Eye
30) "Ulalume"/Fram Decal Split
31) Brother Falling, Twat From Fool
32) Left Bro. At Doors
33) T.C.B. Dropskirt
34) Die, One and Five


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"Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell

34-track CD recorded June-November 1994



01) Root of Pop Compulsion
02) Tina Russell, Free
03) Take A Lot of Ofay
04) The Ass God
05) Open City
06) Shit If They Hit
07) Spelvin, the Righteous Bush
08) Veinsearchin'
09) Superhype Security Probe
10) My Third Decade of Ultrafuck
11) Crypt Rocket, Tomb Rocket, Turd Rocket
12) The "Six" in the Six Wolves
13) Mizrahi Speculum
14) I Learn to Inject Morphia
15) Lady Dedlock
16) Hypecuff
17) A Low Mass Will Be Said
18) I Suppress Nothing
19) Wanna Bust Up a Virgin Ass?
20) One Naval Decline
21) Rexroth, Cozy Cool
22) I Used to Pay a Heavy Bribe
23) Kama Sutra
24) Anne's Eager Bottom
25) Shivman Destroys Spoonman
26) "Godspike" Soph. Hoax
27) Theresa Soder in My Hot Hands
28) Television's Over
29) "American Car"
30) Gone and Bitched Up
31) I Slur a Name
32) Tealink
33) First Pop Novice
34) Lock of Gut Twine
35) Balling Andrea True
36) Bataille=No Stripe
37) In the Assworks
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Prostitution Heute!

6-track double 7" recorded 9/94; Nightcap Records (unreleased)
The group: Rat, TS, and Bill Orcutt. We later (1996) overdubbed Ben Wolcott's oscillators, but that version was never mixed.



The songs: "Modified Stock," "58, Pumphand," "Moschino Powerslum," "My Fuck Sprang Out!," "Faultless High," and "Tongue and Lips Reclaim."


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30-minuten männercreme

40-track CD recorded 1992-1993; issued 1994 Love Is Sharing Pharmaceuticals.




01) "Long Reach" Composite
02) Pictures at an Exhibition
03) Pull Chains of Memphis
04) New! Skin Chamber Lite!
05) We Demand the Right to Piss in Different Colors
06) Amp
07) This is Colleen's Incredible True-Life Story
08) Se Vende "Humour Me" Demo
09) Stefania
10) Long Georgette Jacket
11) Lee Krasner 1949
12) Piss, My Heart
13) Hitchhike to Oregon
14) Weakness Spits
15) No More Was Needed to Inflame My Balls
16) Throbbing Gristle at the Berlin Wall
17) Mandan on the Rise
18) LEF-Mux "Theme" Plasti-Cast
19) Trip Right Over It
20) Get Fit to Herbie Mann!
21) Unobscured Miss
22) For Your Pleasure
23) Foul Therese
24) Hackworth
25) Slot-Tod
26) Strength into My Blows
27) C-93 "Tag" Plague
28) Good Old Gospel Ship
29) Stars of Fingers
30) I Shall Eat Peyote
31) A Passerby
32) Goetic Circle of Pacts
33) A Thirst for Love
34) Lena K.
35) Very Wide Pink
36) When I Was With Estee Lauter
37) Why Are Her Hands Ungloved?
38) Hafler Trio Completists' Feud-Song
39) Blind Women Blind Son
40) Shot Your Mouth Off




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Spatters of a Royal Sperm (as Peach of Immortality)

Four-song 7" EP Noiseville 1991 (unreleased).
The first recordings realized in the style of 30-minuten männercreme.
Written and performed by TS, and recorded and mixed by Rat Bastard at Sync, Miami Beach.


01) Bad Couple
02) Pink Satin Mule
03) The Plot That Failed
04) I Have Named the Soul



Tarot or Aorta: Memories of a PRE Festival


Festival ministered by TLASILA December 6-8 1996 at Dotties in Atlanta GA
this compilation was recorded and mixed by TS, CD issued by The Smack Shire
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Tapes

Marty Balin (Lady Granny), Spring '67 (EF Tapes, C-77)



"Her-Her," the So Her, the Put-Mouth (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, C-75)



Live Versions of Songs from The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (Chocolate Monk, C-90)


"23" of 26 State and Federal Obscenity Determinations (Chocolate Monk, C-74)


Each Day Vomits Its Tomorrow (Teenage Whore, C-60)




Merley Ressurected (Heavy Psych, C-20)




all mp3's ripped @ 320 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Rat recognized TLASILA releases only are listed on this page

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