Look, I don’t know what Skeleton
Pals is, but George Fiero III built instruments for Danny Elfman for the
thing. That’s enough to get my attention for a split second, so the music he
made during the same time, using guitar, tape, the “reverberations of his room,”
along with more guitar and synthesizer, passes through my cassette player in
joyful hope. Joyful hope is rewarded with joyful listening. George Fiero III
has got something going on here.
I’m a huge fan of lo-fi, and this is as lo-fi as it gets. The recorded
tape is actually manipulated at points, the stop and play buttons actually part
of the performance. The guitar dreamily wafts as if it’s wooden, and the room
is wooden, and the space the sound passes through is wooden. The tape warbles
and warps. Magnets attract filament. Decomposition occurs. A glorious piece
called “One Day the Mountains Will Grow Legs and Walk Back into the Sea” ends
side A on the highest note possible.
“Light Virgin” and “Glass Rain” comprise the B-side, 32 minutes of
synthesizer and guitar experimentation. Vastly different from side A, these two
tracks grow and reverberate, filling rooms and minds with glistening fractal
patterns and misshapen melodic fragments. Easy to get lost in, easy to glaze
out to. I vibed out and came to hours later. Didn’t know what hit me.
https://georgefierroiii.bandcamp.com/
https://ubatubatapes.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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