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John Tabacco
Sans Lyrics Vol. 2

Album US 2016 on F of X Records label
Electronic, Jazz, Rock and Classical (Abstract, Contemporary Jazz, Neo-Classical, Classical)

This CD contains instrumental music for those individuals whose imagination goes beyond mere words and into the realm of enlightened cartoonery. There is also some serious music here with actual developmental type ideas. That would mostly be the last piece: Reasonable House Mates. This is a quintet featuring clarinet, vibes, piano, flute and bassoon. Each instrument represents a specific individual who I lived with at Sonic Underground Studios in Stony Brook NY from 1992 - 2004. The house mates in question are Gian DiMauro, Marci Geller, Paul Michael Barkan, Jim Dexter and myself. The work is broken into little sections that showcase each instrument and then the whole crew comes in for support. It took a while to construct but I think it comes off. The CD also features "Zeasoning" a mock guitar piece written for guitar virtuoso Mike Keneally and a brass piece called "Gunzel Pronce Rodentia" written for the Ed Palermo Big Band. Neither piece has been performed by the artists mentioned but I'm slowly working on it. The piece "Sperm Counting Music" was originally slated for the "Gateways" CD but it was not finished in time. It resides here with an off the cuff spoken word intro and outro by Gian DiMauro and myself. And if that weren’t enough, the most elaborate 8 track tape piece I ever realized is here as well : Eatingawaythesecondsinsidethethumbpinata. This work was created back in 1986, and it should have tipped off friends and family that this boy was clearly insane and headed for a rough musical career. Apparently nobody cared. The boy still forges on. Fun stuff that still sounds nifty in headphones. JT : Programming, Drums, Guitar, Engineer, Mixer etc... Gian DiMauro : Screaming on Amorcell, Intro and Outro talk on Sperm Counting Music Nick DiMauro : Voice - "Flush That Thing" and "I Don't Know What We're Gonna Do!" Meryl Mathews : Programming on Extended Indian Summer Deborah Jones : Heavenly vocals on Sweets For The Sweet W.S. : Yelling on Mbala Neurotic Suspicions Recorded at : Suburban Hermit Studios 1, St. James, NY (1984-86) Backdoor Studios, Huntington Station, NY (1987-89) Modern Voices Recording Studios, Centerport, NY (1990-92) Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY (1993 -2004) Suburban Hermit Studios II, St. James, NY (2006-12) SA3 (RISC) Mastering : Bob Ball and John Tabacco Sequencer programs used : Master Tracks Pro™ for Macintosh Opcode Studio Vision™ for Macintosh Logic Pro™ for Apple CD design : Farben Fosfeen Art Werks Front cover © 1979 by Arty Rukidin Dead, Spanish fish photography : Sirka Louca Black and White distorted JT : Gian DiMauro

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	John Tabacco key, voc, producer, engineer, instrumentation by, album by, keyboards, voice, drums, keyboards, bass, voice, drum programming, keyboards, electric guitar, sampler, keyboards, sampler, keyboards, drums, voice, guitar, percussion, drums, keyboards, electric guitar, keyboards, drum programming, dialog, keyboards, drum programming, sampler, drum programming, acoustic guitar, keyboards, vibraphone, acoustic guitar, drums, keyboards, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, drum machine, percussion, snare, drums, sampler, keyboards, drum programming, bass
	Gian DiMauro , voice, dialog
	Paul Michael Barkan key, voc, voice
	Nick DiMauro , voice
	Deborah Jones , vocals
	Stan Delman , saxophone
	Meryl Mathews , keyboards, drum programming
	W.S. , voice

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