Keystone Cyclops, by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

Keystone Cyclops

by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

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JOHN P O'NEIL I feel the lumps breaking in my body as I tell aunt rhody, it ain’t me babe.

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1.	It's Weird To Leave Bones When You're A Guest In Someone's Home 01:39		buy track
2.	Hominid Brunch 01:58		buy track
3.	Go Tell Aunt Rhody 03:41	info	buy track
4.	Die Verpflichtung Des Scheißhundes 11:15	info	buy track
5.	That's My Ideal 05:11	info	buy track
6.	I Have Seen Mannequins On The Moon 06:13		buy track
7.	They Sniff His Throne Like Beagles 04:40		buy track
8.	Is Paugi 04:41		buy track
9.	Deafening Silent Wails Of His Wilting Soul 07:28		buy track
10.	She Immediately Expresses Her Gratitude By Vomiting Enzyme-Laden Gut Juice All Over The Tiny Acrobat 04:19		buy track

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Kinda-sorta but not really a concept album, noise opera or what-have-you, the final 2020 release by Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble is named after a one-eyed turkey from one of the many unreasonably vivid and detailed dreams that tiger-lily their way out of the subconscious of Gnarlos for life on the material plane. While the album is free of all reference to Les Nessman, it instead jumps across time and space, logic and proportion, and intersects with scenes of obliquely rendered insurrection led by the titular character who, in addition to being that most ill-tempered of the class of land fowl known as “delicious,” also happens to be a superhero. No, it doesn’t make sense, just leave such hopes in a paper bag somewhere and move on. The group keeps things moving at a zippy pace, layering objects-only jam sessions, field recordings, guitar treatments, tape manipulation, and primitive electronic garnk that drops trough the ceiling like a fat man stepping off the beams on the attic floor. You might actually omg aloud once immersed in this loop-saturated, collage-heavy snart-nado of dystopian pop culture and sci-fi, where Elton John, Wanda Jackson, Lenny Bruce, Mr. French, and an ugly bag of mostly old hotdog water masquerading as a talk radio host enhance the spectrum. Not surprisingly, audio boosted from homemade internet videos, persistent voicemail scams, silverscreen classics, cornball commercials of yesteryear, and thrift store cassettes abounds, while on the other hand, no one foresaw cover versions of Destroy All Monsters’ classic nihilist anthem, Edward Alderson’s delirious visions of revolt, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s gavotte-slash-inexplicably-affecting-lullabye-dirge (voiced with maximum creep factor by newest Ensemble inductee Commodore Slaiman and Jon The Baptist). Overall, it’s a screwball empire toppling as heard through a cellphone infected by nano-parasites that are eating the transmission.

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released November 26, 2020

Participants: Lucian Tielens, The City Councilman, Jon The Baptist, Gnarlos, Tom Chimpson, Commodore Slaiman, Fuzzy, Lala Lu, The Professor, Lily McBilly, Genki Teddy (Rip)
Recording: Hazel’s ’Lectric Washhouse, Oakland; Fluxus Enigma, Fair Oaks; No Spray 205, San Francisco. Mixed and editing at No Spray 205
Cover photo by Toni Smith

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