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New Release - November 2010 |
Personal Effects, Colorblind James Experience, The Essentials, The Wilderness Family and Absolute Grey all released some of their finest work on Earring Records. Three former members of Personal Effects now play with Margaret Explosion Earring Records has ten cds available for purchase online. All cds are $10 including shipping (US). Outside US add $3.bClick on the CDs for for more information and sample mp3s. |
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Gone Dead Gone, is "Jim Thompson rock," after the author of legendary pulp-crime novels such as The Grifters. Rowdy and literate, filled with guitar and songs about killers, victims, fringe dwellers and bars. The title track is the story of a demented guy who thinks he's helping out a woman by luring a man to a lonely shack and killing him. For those who need to get the blood off their hands, and bathe in the cynicism of the times, "Everybody Must Get Rehab" borrows heavily from Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35." |
Live Dive" features all new material recorded over a four year period at various Rochester venues (Little Theater Cafe, Bug Jar, RIT, Flat Iron Cafe and Bop Shop). Guest artists include Pete LaBonne, Jack Schaefer, Phil Marshall and Charles Jaffe. Rochester's D&C says, "The music burns with a cool blue flame. It is cocktails in space, an accident with a starting time, creating a dialogue through improvisation." Songs are creations of the moment, unwritten, rarely to be heard again. |
"This band has a haunting, unique sound based on musical ability, not gimmicks." "Accessible without selling out...great hooks and interesting guitar work, neo-psychedelic Iyrics...Highly recommended." "PERSONAL EFFECTS new album is a masterpiece." |
"One of the most original and unusual bands in Rochester; a five-piece ensemble exploring all sorts of musical dimensions linked to free jazz, Third World melodies, exotic instrumentation and a spacey, enveloping sort of music. " – Jack Garner - D&C "The Margaret Explosion's music is infinite, eternally elegant, and mystical. Their esoteric wonder paints pictures in my head nonstop." - Frank DeBlase - Rochester City Newspaper |
An organic exploration of wide open sonic landscapes. Recorded live to four tracks at Studio 55, the sax, guitar, drums and bass lineup seeks to recapature that period that zoomed by when rock met jazz. The Margaret Explosion line-up now includes three former members of Personal Effects and the new cd includes an instrumental of “Don’t Wake Me” from Personal Effects’ 1983 debut album. |
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Recorded live at the Little Theatre Café in 2004 Featuring 10 tracks from 8 artists
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City Newspaper said: "Margaret Explosion is an otherworldly lounge band that played an esoteric weekly Friday night happy hour at the Bug Jar. The ethereal soundtrack they provided cast an often eerie, slow-motion effect on the just-out-of-work crowd's revelries. The group's improvised minor-key melodies bathed the room in a melancholy glow, suggesting old eight-millimeter home movies, and blurring the line between experience and reminiscence."
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These twelve songs from the legendary Pete LaBonne fit together so well that they might contain the secrets of the universe. Only repeated listening will tell. City Newspaper says "Pete Labonne is a genius. A master of the little word/big concept school of songwriting." |
"Outta Sight, Outta Mind" is instrumental so it works in all languages. It rocks the sub- conscience. Invisible Idiot's music is drenched in a Sunday afternoon daydream. "Outta Sight, Outta Mind" will make you see things with your ears. A limited edition of 500 cds was engraved in two colors at Paul Klem's in Rochester, New York. The band logo is blind embossed. The package is as seductive as the music. City Newspaper says "Outta Sight, Outta Mind" is a brilliant soundtrack, for whatever movie happens to come along" |
Bob Martin, formerly with Personal Effects and currently with Margaret Explosion, has crafted this guitar-based, instrumental collection of worldly soundscapes for yoga teachers and massage therapists to use in their work. If you aren't into either of these practices, it's perfect for spacing out on your own. |
Margaret Explosion
Personal Effects
