Jean & Gene Cassette for Sale

The Jean & Gene cassette is a short, spontaneous collaboration between Jean and Gene. There are five songs, all of them written and recorded in the same evening, entirely crude and at moments totally cool. Jean had taken two Vicodin. Gene drank a glass of red wine. It was released in an edition of 50 by Tape It To The Limit, but you can get one from me, by sending 5 electronic shekels paypal to Anthonyatlas@gmail.com.  Songs:

A 

1.  Another Fool

2. Dream

3. I See Something

B

1. Killing No Pain

2. Early Man

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A New & Old Nodzzz Favorite

Pictured above is the Broken Strings LP, a little known treasure which came out in early 2008 and which I've only recently acquired. (I'm the last of the three Nodzzz to get a copy, and subsequently be obsessed with it). Adam Croce is the one man behind Broken Strings and was a Bay Area resident  before he relocated to Olympia, Washington. There he's doing similar music projects and possibly milling around with a boom box. (He was the last time I was there.) Anyway, this LP (recorded sometime in 2006) and the trove of other unreleased stuff by Adam is deep pop of the highest caliber. Dynamic, strange and just stunning Summer-spent-in-the-bedroom type of songwriting. Unfortunately, I don't know the current status of the LP. It was released on True Panther Sounds in a limited edition of 300. But it should (and hopefully will) proliferate in numbers a hundred times that. Similar bands have let loose a song/band aesthetic which sings through a fog of Californian sprawl, boredom and surf-myth, but I don't think any of them have laid it out as beautifully as Adam has with Broken Strings. Download the free "Eyes of the World" single here, along with the rest of the LP for the chump change cost of 7.99.