Off Duty Beelzebub

by Herd Of The Ether Space

1 Mephistopheles Under My Fingernails
2 Ezekiel's Brass Feet
3 Floss Your Soul
4 St. Peter Cottontail's Crown Of Thorns
5 Deities For Dollars
6 Scary Iscariot
7 Hymnal Hums

Participants:

George Gibson, Charles Rice Goff III, Killr "Mark" Kaswan, Stuart Sands, Robert Silverman

In producing Off Duty Beelzebub, Goff's objective was to put together a cassette album focused around controversial readings and interpretations of Biblical prophesies and Evangelical Christian preachings. To create this heretical concoction, Goff employed a four track tape recorder as a makeshift cauldron, in which he stirred together carefully chosen vials of improvised Ether to serve up a tonic which flows with quirky and haunting mystery. The recipe for this brew called for a stereo cassette recording made by Goff, George Gibson, and Robert Silverman on November 18th, 1989, another stereo recording concocted by Goff and Gibson on April 13th, 1990, and a Frippertronics-style tape loop recording made by Goff, Silverman, Killr "Mark" Kaswan, and Stuart Sands sometime in 1988.

All of the members of the Herd express their candidacies for exorcism by preaching, petitioning, proselytizing, chanting, and speaking in tongues. The whole production comes across like a sacrilegious gospel opera starring Jim and Tammy Baker, Satan, and Jesus. The setting for this drama lies somewhere between outer space and hell (graphically put into perspective through Silverman's improvised tale of Dadaesque terror in "Floss Your Soul"). The collaged improvised music itself exists in a disturbing world of its own, having no more than a vague relationship to any established genres.

Off Duty Beelzebub was released as a 90 minute cassette album by Taped Rugs Productions in 1991. The album was co-released by ECTO Tapes of Oklahoma City.


Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
by Taped Rugs Productions
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