LIR Podcasts

(“God Is Winded” from Frozen Bears’ disc “Hey! That’s A Good Lookin’ Sportcoat”. Directed by Adam Waller.)

Message to anyone that has a working Tascam Portastudio: Guard it with your life or sell it for what it’s worth. Right now, your 4-track cassette Portastudio will have vultures(myself included) circling around until you sell it. For voice interviews, I recently switched back to recording with audio tape cassettes. Ask Bob Pollard or anyone with Guided By Voices if in retrospect, if they would’ve rather recorded “Bee Thousand” in digital. Don’t dare ask Frozen Bears such a ridiculous question either. The same ingenuity could not be realized. Aural morphing via an analog palette versus tinkering with zeros and ones are spoken English and Russian, respectively.


Frozen Bears 2000 and Hey! That’s A Good Lookin’ Sportcoat are not for the masses, they are indeed for the passionate ones. Baton Rouge LA based music journalist Alex V. Cook named FB 2000 the most intriguing area album for 2009 in a writeup in 225 Magazine. The fandom of passionate ones is becoming geographically widespread, based on WFMU airplay and respect from Chuck Eddy, specialist of music critique of the acrobatic via books such as Stairway To Hell and periodicals(tangible and online) The Village Voice and Rhapsody.


The craft in recording these albums aside from merely putting them on audio tape cassette must be rather inventive in order to get the varied results of tape saturation heard on these efforts. I didn’t ask specifics on this, nor should I. The mysteries involving this shall remain veiled. Kevin Hurstell does explain many things involving the creative process during this two-part LIR Podcast interview.


frozenbears.org

Frozen Bears on myspace


LIR Podcast: Frozen Bears(part one of two)

LIR Podcast: Frozen Bears(part two of two)