Expensive People - released by Spleencoffin SP-72-CS
Expensive People are a trio of Bryan Day, L. Eugene Methe and Alex Boardman.
The material was recorded last year 2023 but has been released now by Spleen Coffin records as a handsomely designed cassette with eight tracks. Three on Side A and five on Side B.
As with the profiles of all the gentleman involved it's a pretty interesting conundrum of a musical material and pretty difficult to classify. It's on pair with improvised and outsider music in a very broad sense.
On one hand we have an instrument builder and music designer - Bryan Day who is ingeniously unpredictable and beautifully well-rounded musician that sounds like no one else. L. Eugene Methe that has a motto of DIY tattooed all over his body and ingeniously using different instruments but along with Alex Boardman of Shelf Life, Rake Cash, Watch the Stereo fame, they all use violin, electronics, invented instruments, synths, guitar, bass, and effects.
The effect sounds fresh and appealing as it unfolds itself. All three of them not only know how to gear up a nice set of pieces that are involving for a listener but also know how to wrap them up so they are not too short or too long and have a steady narrative which is important in that file of music. Looking forward to some new outings from those busy three.
Bios musicians involved:
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in San Francisco. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain.
L. Eugene Methe is a sub-underground DIY lifer. At age 17, Methe started performing at bars in Omaha, Nebraska, fronting a band with six guitars, bass and drums that sounded like a disparate mix of the Spacemen 3and Henry Mancini. He was a founding member of the Nebraska noise folk collective Naturaliste. Methe has since released dozens of recordings on numerous labels, moving in a variety of musical directions. He also owns and curates Gertrude Tapes, a label that since 2003 has released experimental vinyl and cassettes in small editions.
Alex Boardman is an Omaha-based guitarist who has played in numerous projects ranging from indie pop to electroacoustic free improvisation since the mid-‘90s. Boardman performs solo as Noiseboat and was a member of the improv ensemble Shelf Life also playing in the bands Watch The Stereo, Thunder Power as well as L.E. Methe’s Rake Kash
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