Ethan Persoff, http://www.ep.tc

RECORDINGS / MUSIC PAGE

Hello - Posted below is a gallery of album artwork / packaging. While most of these are out of print, we have mp3s freely available and encourage any non-commercial distribution for them as you see fit. Thanks for visiting. Our most recent album is Live At Harry's Loft, directly below the music players.

Embeddable players,
courtesy WFMU's Free Music Archive:

 

Recordings from 1993-Present:

2009 - " LIVE AT HARRY'S LOFT"
(sides one and two of four, full notes)

SIDE ONE
01 BEGINNING/INTRODUCTION
02 DISNEYLAND
03 I LOVE YOU
04 AN EMPTY GLASS
05 G-D BLESS US ALL

SIDE TWO
06 A POLISH BULLFIGHT
07 GINGER
08 THE FIGHT AGAINST V.D.
09 PEW SONG #2
10 A TRASHCAN FOR YOUR BRAIN
11 THE TELEPHONE IS RINGING
12 WHEN YOU SLEEP DO YOU HAVE DREAMS

2008 - " Dinger" (single)


New for Tuesday July 8, 2008

♪ New music added ♪

8-second piece:

"Dinger" (loop)
cc.2008, Ethan Persoff

http://www.ep.tc/ ++++ http://www.ep.tc/music/

"DINGER" is an eight second piece of looping music. Commissioned by Dublab for their Into Infinity project. Have fun with Dinger.

DOWNLOAD THE DINGER LOOP
(hires Aif file and mp3 example)

2007 - DISNEYLAND (single)

Horse #006

DISNEYLAND SINGLE
(October 10 2007)

To a new life, and in memory of a good friend. Seven self-pressed 12" acetates, single side. mp3 available at link.

Click Here for
the DISNEYLAND PAGE
Link contains mp3 and three additional pieces

2005
SPREE: An Escape from Reality

Horse #005

SPREE: An Escape from Reality

Dedicated to Alger Hiss and Ernie Kovacs

Album art folds out to form a Las Vegas stage with small stand for disc.

Click for an enlarged image

Produced in three limited pressings in early 2005/2006 - vinyl LP forthcoming.

CD is thirteen tracks, covering the album's four sides. Special SUPRAPHON Czechoslovakian Label.

To Listen to/Download:

Click Here for
the SPREE PAGE
Link contains mp3s of the entire album,
along with many images

2004
Best of album

Compilation CD distributed at NYC MOCCA Festival when Pogostick was up for a Harvey Award. 50 copies produced - each of these folded into a pocket made from a different sheet of aging newsprint from 1950s porno/exploitation magazines. Sample pages contained headlines like "CAN A MAN BE RAPED" and "SEX BINGE BINGO".

Here's one of the few ones of these left:

Here are few other examples:

tracklisting:

 

LISTEN TO: "..and goodbye"
(track is from the
forty minutes album, see below)

2003
January CDR

Title: January CDR [Horse# 004]
Release Date / Recording Date: January 2003

Two tracks: "I Stayed Home..." and "Side B"
40 copies, small 3" CD, out of print. For a long time this was our favorite recording. We still like it a great deal.

LISTEN TO: "I STAYED HOME..."

 

2002
"25 Lessons in HYPNOTISM"

 

visit the 25 Lessons page on this website

Title: "25 Lessons in HYPNOTISM" [Horse# 003]
Release Date: October 2002

Recorded March through September 2002

Title is a carryover from the hypnodisc theme from SNAP. Lots of loud electronic techniques, computer, noise, analog circuits, toys, much sampling, etc. As much a sketchbook as a proper album. Numerous moments of sincere jokes and good messages.

200 copies, out of print. White digipack with letterpress 25 imprint on each cover - a few card inserts. Special Lorne Greene disc shown below:


To Listen to/Download:
CLICK HERE FOR THE 25 LESSONS PAGE
Link contains mp3s of the entire album, and addtl images

2001
"SNAP!"

Title: "SNAP!" [Horse# 002]
Release Date: May 2001

Recorded September 2000 through April 2001

A dedicated hand-spliced effort. Many consider this their favorite (or second favorite) recording of the catalogue; others prefer the later work. Last use of splice tape and other analog editing methods, like manipulating a reel-to-reel for pitch effects. No computer used. Title refers to a state of mind, but is also a structural description of how sounds in this piece pop together like puzzle pieces; no overdubbing.

Album tells a story.(notes)
Released and created in conjunction with Teddy.

100 copies, out of print. CD shown below. Worked as a hypnodisc with instructions for listeners to place their hands on CD case and their thumb on the disc, and work like a toy. More information.

To Listen to/Download:
CLICK HERE FOR THE "SNAP!" PAGE
Link contains mp3s of both sides one and two of album

1999
Forty Minutes Forty Memories

Title: "Forty Minutes Forty Memories:
Horrible Music by Ethan Persoff" [Horse# 001]
Release Date: January 1999

First album. Recorded one night at Harry's Loft, 1999 and issued for sale on CD four days later. A heavily upset time in our life yields a very funny recording. Raw and Bent as it gets. Perfect for heavy drug parties, or pissing off the entire neighborhood when played at maximum volume. Thus, please play on maximum volume, and while bending on heavy drugs.

35 copies produced, 1999, and 15 copies produced in conjunction with SNAP in 2001 -- this 2nd version issued on CD re-writable disc with "It's a VALUE, You Can Erase" purple factory sticker. Both editions out of print.

Re-issued as a limited digital edition in 2007

DOWNLOAD ENTIRE ALBUM
(Link goes to a zip file, includes album art jpegs)
Download number reached, will be posted again at a later date.

track listing:

AND FINALLY:

1993-1997


Title: "SAVE THIS FOR LATER,
it's not music"
1993-1997, chicago [Horse# 000]
Released as a collection: December 2003.

FULL TRACK LISTING:

DISC ONE:
01 Do you Hear the Frog?
02 Horror Film (they're at the door)
03 Part One
04 Part Two
05 CHIRP
06 Flying Saucers (flying saucers)
07 Chimney
08 Roof
09 Oh Yes
10 Loop
11 clackCLACK
12 static
13 voice
14 abstract A
15 abstract B
16 abstract C
17 Short Diddy
18 Sad Saw
19 Ripping Off John Cage
20 Epilogue

 DISC TWO:
01 clicksaw
02 dumbo
03 sketches
04 Bass Loop
05 Miss Amanda Jones
06 3:15 a.m. on the Highway Bridge
07 WIN!
08 Clatter
09 classical music
10 Pop Organ Trio
11 Tumblin' Dice
12 Saw one
13 Saw two
14 Saw three
15 Saw four
16 Oscillate
17 DING
18 Grasshopper
19 Saw five
20 sssssLLLp
21 a night out
22 untitled #1
23 untitled #4
24 untitled #17
25 untitled #6
26 Ending no. One
27 Ending no. Two
28 Ending no. Three

DESCRIPTION: Sound work, noise sculpture, pranks, hysteria, experiments, smart assing, etc done while living in Chicago, 93-97. Our earliest sound work. Despite our snub at this work above, there's some really good stuff here, alot of it with a good sense of humor, too.

200 copies, produced as a collection, December 2003. Out of print. We'll release a few mp3s here from time to time.

For Download / Our Sentimental Favorites:

DO YOU HEAR THE FROG? (1993)
Produced during our first exposure to any recording equipment, and is our first recording. Track is unrecreatable for its mayhem and loud good feeling. Play this one at high volume when visiting the folks for Thanksgiving. Instruments include: four See and Says, a Mickey Mouse toy telephone, and screaming (both live and sampled). Completely hand-spliced, over 400+ cuts on recordable 1/4" tape. Mixed to four-track and presented in three sections. Got played on Radio DaDa and was included in a couple art events around Chicago at the time, which mattered then, age 18.

CHIRP (1994)
Chicago is depressing as it gets, and makes you miss nature (or hills, or trees, or sun, etc) - and we started making electronic friends to compensate. This features early examples of the mechanical and electronic birds. Also some self-made instruments, a big metal rotating drum, reel-to-reel tape loops, four small battery-operated tin cups, other props. Live recording at a performance gallery, later edited down to 4:50 for this recording.

...And that's about it.

- More early mp3s will be posted at a later date -

Thanks - Ethan

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