The
first
Chandler
Travis Philharmonic CD in five years makes up
for lost time with forty-eight (yes- 48!) tracks of utter insanity,
including magnum opuses like "I'm Chandler's Butterfly", complete with
sitar, mandocello, and 4 drum kits; the afro-pop influenced "Vasco Da
Gama", which features about 50 vocal tracks; the Dave Brubeck-ish
instrumental "Ronald"; and the Prince-inspired "Dance Godammit" (not to
mention a "heavy", gothic, minor-key version of "Brown Eyed Girl"
that
could very well bury that one once and for all.)
A
June release
that opens with a Christmas song, "Tarnation" features pathologically
unstable inclinations wrapped in a facade of joyous party atmosphere,
and goes for almost an hour without showing the slightest sign of
restraint before finally going down in flames with the world's fastest
version of "I've Been Workin' On the Railroad".
All
in all,
we've got too many songs, too many musicians, and too many ideas to
ever be fully embraced by the people of earth, and at least one of the
songs on the cover, "I'd Fight Eels For You Baby", isn't on the album
anywhere (not to mention that two of the songs are almost completely
silent.)
Still, if nothing exceeds like excess, this
should hit
the spot.
Guests
include George Carlin, Ramona Silver, Bleu, many of Boston's best horn
players, and members of NRBQ and the Incredible Casuals.
Here's
an audio
preview of tracks 2
through 6, all together in one mp3:
Tarnation
and Alastair Sim preview
"Tarnation & Alastair Sim"
is now in stock and available for ordering on our catalog page - order yours
today!
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track listing
BONUS
CUTS:
1. It's Almost Christmas Again (Travis)
(2.18)
2.
I'm
Chandler's Butterfly (Travis) (4.25)
3.
Ronalto (Field-Travis)
(.21)
4.
Truck Hits Man - "The Horn Melted!" (Travis - Trailer) (.48)
5.
Apple Possum Time (Part One)
(Travis-Bates-Styklunas-Child-Chenevert-Powell) (.16)
6.
Wireless
(Travis) (3.26)
7. Brown Eyed Girl (Morrison) (1.35)
8.
Balzac
Without Balzac (Spring) (.28)
9. Do the Flaw (Travis-Spring)
(.06)
10.
Strong Strong String
(Travis-Spampinato-Chenevert-Dickie-Bates-Spring-Styklunas) (2.56)
11.
Money Won't Buy You Happiness (Travis) (3.22)
12.
Unibrow Man
Oatmeal #1 (Travis-Bates-Chenevert-Styklunas) (.15)
13.
'Tis
the
Season To Be Reversed (Travis) (.25)
14.
Friday, 2.28 am
(Carlin)
(.43)
15. Balzac (Travis-Child-Bates-unknown)
(.27)
16.
Drip, Fer
Chrissake (Spring) (.38)
17. Dance Godammit (Travis) (4.39)
18.
Jesus Teaches Lloyd Price About Remote Controls
(Travis-Trailer-Child) (1.35)
19. Here's Dinner
(Powell-Travis-Spring-Bates-Chenevert-Child) (1.19)
20.
Nola
(F.
Arndt-J.Burns, WB Music Corp., ASCAP) (1.10)
21.
Must Be Love
(Shook) (3.39)
22. Flaw Goes Surfin' (Travis-Spring)
(.12)
23.
Checking On Yoko's Flight (Travis- Spring) (.35)
24.
Yoko At
the
Airport (Travis-Spring-Child-Bleu) (2.17)
25.
Fluffy To the
Point of
Curliness (Travis-Trailer) (.29)
26. Sparky's Industrial
Popsicle
(Travis-Spampinato-Bates-Spring-Styklunas) (.19)
27.
Sunday,
11:56
-call back asap (Carlin) (.47)
28. Eje Ka Jo (Solanke) (3.16)
29.
Mr. Fleming's Outer Beauty (Travis Trailer) (.23)
30.
The
Bridge
Going This Way (Travis-Trailer) (.39)
31.
Festering Hope
Ministies
Presents: The Flaw (Spring) (.33)
32.
Ronald (Travis) (4.26)
33.
Vasco Da Gama (Travis) (3.11)
34. Apples For Charlie
(Travis-Conners-Pilkington-Spampinato-Dickie-Spring-Chenevert) (1.40)
35.
Biting Paw Paw (Travis-Child-Trailer) (1.11)
36.
Giant Bug
Bites
Back (Travis-Trailer) (1.07)
37. Apple Possum Time, Parts 2
& 3
(Travis-Bates-Styklunas-Child-Chenevert-Jetstream) (.09)
38.
Monday,
12.43 am- still a little concerned (Carlin) (.39)
39.
Climactic
Arrival in Florida Of Dirigible Long Thought Lost
(Travis) (.38)
PLAIN
OLD REGULAR CUTS:
40. silencio
(public
domain) (1.26)
41. Can't Think Of Anything
(Travis-Spring-Bates-Dickie-Pilkington-Conners) (1.17)
42.
Totally
Toiletry Tree Tyme
(Travis-Styklunas-Spring-Bates-Chenevert-Pilkington-Conners) (.54)
43.
Unibrow Man Oatmeal Too (Travis-Bates-Chenevert-Styklunas) (.28)
44.
Dinosaurs (Pilkington) (.49)
45. Unibrow Oatmeal Man Tree
(Travis-Bates-Chenevert-Styklunas) (.06)
46.
Hopelessly Out Of
Step
(Travis) (.36)
47. Takin' the Ol' 636 (public domain)
(6.37)
48.
I've Been Workin' On the Railroad (Land Speed Record) (P.D.) (1.01) |
Additional
Credits
Due
to limited space, the following credits are not included in the CD
booklet
Xmas Cavalcade at Johnny D's,
12/14/06
-"It's Almost Christmas Again":
CTP:
Chandler, Rikki, Phil Clements, John Styklunas, Dinty, (and Mark C. and
Steve L., though not on "It's Almost Xmas Again")
ATHOL THINGERTH:
Jennifer
Kimball, Amy Fairchild, Merry Amsterberg, Shaun Wortis, Dinty Child,
and Fred Boak
PHILHARMONIC
TROMBONE SHOUT BAND, ditto:
Bob Pilkington, Dave Harris,
Russell
Jewell, John Faieta, Chuck Katuska, Scott Flynn, Jeff Gallindo, George
Murphy, Dan Fox, Alex Beram, Seth Hamlin- trombones
Michael
Milnarik- tuba
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