Blondie - Thanks For Sharing
(Krim Kram) CD $12.75
You know Andy Heck Boyd: wanted to write but typing caused too much pain (tendonitis), and so began to experiment with tape recording after getting into it around early 2017. Has never performed live, but has exhibited paintings at galleries in Seattle, Maine, NYC. Coupla comics to his name. Yeah, that’s the guy. He goes out on the daily with a tape recorder all the time, sometimes switches it up with Super-8 or drawing or collage work. You know how it is. Some tracks here were made using an amp, SK-1 keyboard, and microphone, lyrics composed on the spot. On another, the blood of a woodpecker caught by a friend’s cat is the muse. For others, a short dead-end road and a hiking trail in the Red River Gorge area are the stages where Heck “recorded my thoughts and improvised ideas, I like to perform in a sense, embellish or exaggerate things I see and observe, and I like to analyze layers wherever I go, layers of things that require looking at one thing or area slowly for a little bit, in the supermarket that day I was looking around the produce section at people smiling and some gathered in small groups talking and stuff, and saw glittery, cheap USA flags adorned everywhere around the bread and donuts near the bakery.”
Green Glass
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Further broadcasts from two champions of true-brow / street level sound art, or is it an imageless art movie for your ears? Either way, belief makes real. Edition of 60
Munterated Merropity
(Chocolate Monk - choc.560) Magazine + CDR $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Whether or not you believe that the gloved mouse is pulling the levers to our reality, Kentucky curveball Andy Heck Boyd is here to bring more confusion to the seed swap. Priscilla Presley is watching Pinocchio on mute, someone decided to eat all Paul McCartney’s food, the mouse died three days in a row, there is a neon slime face-sit, and so much more to decipher. Just be sure to take a right at the end of Spalding Lane. Energize! Energize! Energize! 36 pages, color. Includes Parking Lot three-inch CDr featuring The Frankenberrys and The Gay Zorros, six-by-four photograph, and one-inch badge. Numbered edition of 54
This Is Not A Tape
(Chocolate Monk - choc.621) CDR $8.00
Part split, part collaboration of audio diary gubbins, in which Spencer first turn their back on their usual “sound artsy” style and embrace the joy of a new tape player, framing everyday domestic nonsense with ferricobalt and asking us to come graze on the shrubbery of failure. Andy Heck Boyd responds with insights from his digs out west, including a rare appearance by Uncle Dog & The Sickos. The disc ends with a 12-minute collaboration that shines a spotlight on the “special relationship,” sweet Transatlantic hiss and wonk. God save the beans.