#tom recchion

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Dot and the Whale (1986)

Scary ass movie

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Tom RECCHION

"Proscenium"

(LP+7". Elevator Bath. 2012) [US]

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V/A [Tom RECCHION / ANT FARM / Jad FAIR]

"Slowscan vol.4"

(cassette. Slowscan. 1986) [US]

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Celsius Drop Monster Mash w/guests Tom Recchion & Fredrik Nilsen (10.31.19)

This show features tracks by

John Zacherle and Bobby "boris" Pickett & The Crypt-kickers.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

You might not think of exotica as the most likely candidate among music genres for the sci-fi treatment, but that's just what Tom Recchion gives it. The alumnus of the legendary '70s avant-garde collective the Los Angeles Free Music Society deconstructs the familiar Polynesian bounce and tropical flutter that endeared artists like Martin Denny, Esquivel, and Les Baxter to the hearts of many in the '50s (and then again in the '90s). 

On his aptly titled 1996 Birdman release, Chaotica (actually recorded in 1985-6), Recchion uses prerecorded tape loops, keyboards, and effects to turn exotica into something positively otherworldly. The results are deliciously and dizzyingly strange: this is the music you'd expect to hear in the tiki bar of a 22nd century space station. Since crafting chaotica isn't exactly lucrative, Recchion's bread and butter over the years has been designing album covers. 

He has created art for an incredibly eclectic group of artists, including American Music Club, Jane's Addiction, R. Kelly, Alanis Morissette, Prince, R.E.M., Joshua Redman, and Jonathan Richman. Recchion is also involved in Extended Organ, a radical free music project which also features fellow LAFMS alum Fredrik Nilsen.

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Tom Recchion - Ships at Sea  1996

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“It’s a collection of experiments he did in the mid-80′s using tape-loops as the sound-medium, and they churn along like post-Zappa, Cage-leering ambient shifters, suppressing the noise therein with environmental whatsis...melodically and harmolodically non-linear and weird. Weird is good. Especially here.”

TOM RECCHION review by MIKE KINNEY, Editor

 OSMOTIC TONGUE PRESSURE #5  (page 57) 1996  

TOM RECCHION can be found at the excellent LAFMS site with a link to his myspace page (!)

BIRDMAN RECORDS has an excellent and (historically) informative site too, even though it doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2012. Check it out before a domain name payment is late and it gets hijacked by domain name hijackers.

OSMOTIC TONGUE PRESSURE originated from San Diego and then Portland, Oregon. Jay Hinman posted the cover of OTP #3 at Dynamite Hemorrhage

Thanks to KC Schiele for the OMT #5 excavation and share