Cassette Gods: HORAFLORA - LP / / 7"

HORAFLORA - LP / / 7"

Horaflora, the long running project of Oakland, CA's Raub Roy, has been confusing and astounding folks up and down both coasts for a number of years with his objects and electronics live acts, but his recent vinyl releases (a 7" with Bromp Treb, a 12" Secret Boyfriend and a full length LP) have really put his music in a new context for me. Taken in as pure audio, these dense artifacts taken on the proportions of a trek through uncharted sound worlds full of wild and strange creatures creeping through mists and cackling incantations.

Start here for a small size of the Horaflora Soundsystem b/w Fat Worm of Error's rhythmic ace Neel Young

Who's her secret boyfriend? Why he's the master of all things unholy round Chapel Hill, NC

The Gland Canyon is a cassette on Raub Roy's new Weird Ear Records where you'll get to take an extended dive, or mule ride, through his sound:

Horaflora's new LP "Craterellus Cornucopioides" is named after an edible mushroom, and what a tasty treat it is! You'll surely want to sample this platter on wax. Horaflora-"Trumpet of Death". Purchase from Weirdo Records.

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It should be obvious, this is a webzine we created to put cassette releases and the format of cassette itself on a pedestal. We are not doing this to be some sort of cassette snob, more-DIY-than-thou elitists or anything. We are doing it because all the formats that sound can be presented on are exciting and provide unique ways of shaping the listeners experience... so it is a shame that any one of these formats would fall by the wayside. Cassettes provide a listening experience that is similar to vinyl because of the intermission/moment of pause created by changing sides of the tape, but can be of almost any length between 30 seconds a side to an hour. Tapes can also be listened to in a car or while jogging.
While today this format helps keep the home label alive, its almost a dream to remember that once every musician from Michael Jackson to REM had their releases on cassette. Cassettes were a legitimate format, not just for the DIY underground. Maybe we (thats you too) are the last guardians of this format. Maybe someone, someday will popularize cassettes again. In the meantime we keep the reels turning. A little offering because at least there are a few of you that know there is more than one god of this land.

-- first CG post by Brian Miller April 2007