1 Confessions Of Hiss 2 As Far As The Eye Could See/The Lord Sayeth Unto Abraham 3 Stress Related Disability Claim 4 Desperately Waltzing With Spock
Released by Taped Rugs Productions in 1990, the cassette album: “Beyond The Confessions Of Hiss” is a powerful sonic martini stirred together from three recording sessions conducted by Charles Rice Goff III and Robert Silverman.
One of those recording sessions predates all other Ether Space recordings, having been made during the days when the Taped Rugs project called "–ING" was still in its infancy. On June 7th, 1981, Goff joined Silverman for a Frippertronics-style, electronic guitar tape loop session at Silverman’s home overlooking Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills. Goff blended portions of the recordings made that day with recordings that he and Silverman had made on November 2nd, 1989, to create the first side (tracks 1-2) of the Beyond The Confessions Of Hiss cassette album.
The second side of the cassette album (tracks 3-4) contains recordings that Goff and Silverman created on September 30th, 1989. Both 1989 sessions were recorded with a standard stereo cassette deck and did not employ any Frippertronic-style tape loops. However, a number of prerecorded materials were mixed “live” into both 1989 sessions. Among these were:
* A tape of prerecorded Goff vocals, fed through a cassette deck that Goff had redesigned to play tapes backwards.
* A tape of strange recordings made by Herd Of The Ether Space member George Gibson, entitled “Short Stream Long Dream.”
Guitars, voices, keyboards, toys, and several oddly-played record albums made up most of the rest of the source materials for the 1989 recordings. Goff created the final mixes for the cassette album on a four track tape recorder, fully taking advantage of the mixing controls.
An odd bit of coincidence also came into play during the November, 1989, session. Silverman had brought a record of Edward R. Murrow news reports to incorporate into the session. As he and Goff grooved to Murrow’s historic reports about the Cold War and the building of the Berlin Wall, people in Germany were actually beginning to chip away at the Berlin Wall, which was finally breached a week later on November 9th, 1989. The “Hiss” in “Beyond The Confessions Of Hiss” refers to Murrow’s reports about accused Communist Alger Hiss, as well to the hiss of the old 1981 tape loop recording used in the mix.
The Beyond The Confessions Of Hiss cassette album was co-released in 1990 on the Norwegian Yecch Music Mania label of Anders Moe.
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