(2020) Endless Boogie - The Gathered and Scattered





Review:

This collection of unrelenting Pre-Music comprise some selections previously only available on limited edition CDRs, almost half is entirely previously unreleased… Since the pandemic has made it impossible for the Endless Boogie gentlemen to gather in order to finally finish their new studio album they thought this an appropriate time to dig through the basement for some ancient fierce jams for you to relish and devour. These recordings were made mostly during the first decade of this century and it’s mostly entirely improvised rehearsal recordings, a couple of 3am jams after falling out of the bar, and hints of aborted and despairing recording sessions. The great sage Ben Ratliff, when reviewing the band for the New York Times one dry news day in 2013, perfectly captured the band’s spirit on these recordings: “a dank, cramped, low-expectations idea of eternity”. Besides the core line-up of Gray/Druzd, Eklow, Major and Mark O during this era we get glimmers of double Sweeneys (both Matt and Spencer), as well as Tim Evans, and, whoop dee, Andrew WK?!











Tracklist:

1. Life and Legend (08:54)

2. Basement Jam Ritual III (03:23)

3. Cretan Miniatures (09:31)

4. Crude Truth (08:59)

5. Bob Murphy Control (02:10)

6. Surplus to Requirements (10:38 )

7. Ruin Art (23:00)

8. Basement Jam Ritual V (07:04)

9. Hadrian’s Fall (13:10)

10. Magic Square (10:49)

11. Red Cloaks, Stained Shields (09:42)

12. Fat Man Loop ∞ (07:13)

13. Rattlesnake Shake (18:53)

14. Electioneering (02:31)

15. Basement Jam Ritual I (22:19)

16. Mother Fury (15:05)

17. Reconstruction (06:49)





Media Report:

Genre: psychedelic rock

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits