Manitou

'Manitou' is a wild ride: a patchwork of huge analog drones, mutant caffeinated space-punk, musique concrete, Krautrock-style jams, distorted industrial stomp, and deep electronic mind candy. This collection includes a new remake of the classic BSI track 'The Moss Takes Over' which first appeared in the 1990 cassette quot;Infinite Sky.quot; Guest musicians include members of Insect Factory, Pilesar, Violet, Tag Cloud, and Timmy Sells His Soul. The result is an hour-long celebration of reckless improvisation and joyful nightmares. Blue Sausage Infant is Chester Hawkins: synthesizers, oscillators, bass, lap-steel, rhythm machines, guitar, voice, wood flute, zither, ukulele, edits, toys, etc with guests Jeff Barsky: guitar (track 8) Daniel Euphrat: guitar (track 4) Jason Mullinax: drums, fire extinguisher (track 4, 8) Jeff Surak: electronics, turntable bacon shortwave (track 3) Chris Videll: electronics, bells, gongs, beer glass (track 9) Recorded fall/winter 2011 at Intangible Arts, Washington DC & The Gamelan, Takoma Park MD. Mastering by Anders Peterson. Cover art by Hawkins. Produced by BSI/Robert L. Pepper (PAS).