HEDWIG GORSKI - "Polish Gypsy With Ghost" (1992)

This is a very cool four song 7" EP I got from the phenomenal Hedwig Gorski back in the early 90's. In a real world, one of these songs should have been a hit 1992. Thirty years later, maybe there's still a chance. It was called "Polish Gypsy With Ghost" and Hedwig's band was called East Of Eden Band. The members of East Of Eden Band were percussionist Booka Michel, Guitarist D'Jalma Matthew Garnier III, and Bass player Horatio Rodriguez. These guys cook and give Hedwig the perfect background to tell you her stories.

Lucky me, my copy is numbered 1/200.

I don't know why, and they have very little in common except maybe a kindred spirit, but for some reason when I hear this song I think of the late Christina Joy Amphlett of The Divinyls.

Hedwig Gorski's detailed story can be found on Wikipedia.

But in the meantime, here's

HEDWIG GORSKI with EAST OF EDEN BAND - "Intellectual Love"

DIG - "Metropolitan Surfer" (1986)

 

I sent the 76th copy of our first tape "The Worm's Turn" to "Miracle Music Unlimited" in Seattle, and this 45 by DIG is what I got in return.

 

The band consisted of Darryn Brott on Drums, Tim Chamberlain on Bass, with Mark Horn and Lee Conley on Guitars.

The A Side was titled "Don't You Have Any Feelings, and the B Side was..........

DIG - "Metropolitan Surfer"

CHRIS PHINNEY & ED DRURY - "Did You Get My Letter?" (2022)

 

I wondered why I hadn't heard from Chris Phinney in a while, then I realized I probably didn't get his letter! 

Chris & Ed have been busy! Covid didn't stop them, nothing seems to slow them down, and I think they are getting even better. Follow the path of their many releases over the past year or so, and you'll find it's like a musical diary written by the two of them, and just like life, there's good days, and sometimes there's bad days!

Today was a good day!

CHRIS PHINNEY & ED DRURY - "Did You Get My Letter?"

RICH ARITHMETIC - "I Wonder Why" (1991)

 

Rich Horton released this Rich Arithmetic 45 on his Optional Art label back in 1991.

This was his debut single as "Rich Arithmetic." He had an earlier EP in 1985 in which he was called "Richard H," a moniker that died not long afterwards.

 

The A Side is a song called "Cambridge, and the B Side was titled "I Wonder Why."

The cassingle of this contained a bonus track -- so 3 songs instead of 2!

Although I normally go for the more uptempo songs, this time I'm opting for the mellower B Side with it's wild Country Joe style guitar intro.

I don't know why the song "I Wonder Why" shown here is called "I Don't Know Why." Maybe Rich don't know why either. Rich is a perfectionist, so I'm sure it's something he did on porpoise.

RICH ARITHMETIC - "I Wonder Why"

 (c) Hortones, 1991, (p) Optional Art, 1991

JOHN BARTLES - "Erie Niagara Noir" (2005)

As the liner notes say, "Erie Niagara Noir" is the third in the Summer 2005 Series of free jazz projects by John Bartles. This style suits John well, and sets the mood for Summer 2022 as well.

Here's the third cut on this CD. It features John telling you all about it, with Todd Whitman providing the atmosphere with his saxophone stylings.

JOHN BARTLES - "The Sphinx"

AL PERRY - "Happy Accident" (1992)

 

In 1992, Doggybag Records in Germany released kind of a greatest hits package of Al Perry And The Cattle's music called "Happy Accident."

The songs included here were all recorded in between 1986 and 1989.

The Cattle consisted of Al Perry on Vocals, Guitars, and Keyboard, Dave Roads on the Bass, and Julia Mueller playing the Drums and some Vocals.

The very cool artwork was done by Al's pal, and fellow musician Fish Karma.

 

Here's a sample of some very classic Cattle!

AL PERRY AND THE CATTLE - "El Dio"

THE GUZBRO MUSIC CATALOGUE (1992)

 

By 1992, I decided we had enough material that we should probably have some kind of catalogue, so this is what I came up with!

 

 

Pretty good deal for free, the catalogue featured lots of art from Gary Wray and Brian James Riedel. The top left photo was from a project Gary did with underground comix artist Roy Tompkins.

There were eighteen pages in total that included lots of the art from our tapes too.

Also included were lots of quotes and reviews from various magazines like  "Akin to a high fever" from Dark Chaos, or "On the verge of chaos" from Gajoob.

One of my favorite reviews came from The Affiliate, who called our music "Self-inflicted punishment."

Slim The Drifter was also on the "Guzbro" label before he signed with "Gang Of Hair."

These two pages featured a submission request for our "Offbeat" public access TV show, and some tapes from my friend Guido of SHM in Germany that we were trying to help distribute for the groups Meadow Meal, GV, and The Dirk Hartung Combo.

More stuff from Brian and Gary, and more reviews.

Since these were pre-computer days, all the images were duplicated on a copy machine, and then cut up, collaged, glued together by hand, and re-copied.

 

Some of this stuff is still available in one form or another.