The latest Junglebook CD is called "Content Provider".  It's a collection of 23 original compositions recorded in 2001 here in San Francisco.  The album is mostly instrumental, with some voices from found and wild recordings chiming in here and there.  Several of the cuts are soundtrack pieces from a hypothetical documentary film titled "The Khaki Coup".  There are funky organ jams, clanging metallic rock-techno tracks,  abstract splatter-key piano freakouts, dystopian sludge-rock eco-dirges, wild-eyed all-percussion beatdowns, leftist guerrilla waltzes, gratuitous feedback worship, spacy urban ambient chillouts, heavy-metal cut-ups, moody tremelo soundscapes and ersatz Central European organ grinders.

You know, the usual stuff.

I produced and programmed and performed it, with some help from Jeff Left on drums for several tracks.  

1. Colombia is Spanish for Cambodia
2. Practice That Trick (featuring Abby Mandel, the Cuisinart lady)
3. Lay Off the Piano
4. Swingin' With Olaf
5. Angry White Males
6. Excelsior
7. Careful What You Wish For
8. Rolling Blackout
9. Trance Formation (featuring Summer from Domain Shift)
10. Orange Ribbon
11. Satan, Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas
12. Carl's Cadence (featuring Carl Palmer without his consent)
13. You May
14. Thugs 'n' Thieves
15. The Anarchists Say (Parts 3 & 4)
16. Eurail Pass
17. Watching Kyle Explode
18. Fighting City Hall
19. Clueless Puppet (featuring L. Sargent on bass)
20. Freelancer
21. The Federalist Society Has Broken the Weather
22. Hang Up and Drive
23. Mick and Rick's Reverse Freelance Gamelan

Technical Notes: "Content Provider"
(hypothetical scores & computer blues)

Written, Produced, Performed and Programmed by Junglebook

featuring:
Jeff Left: acoustic drums on tracks 2, 5, 7, 14, and 19;
L. Sargent: bass on track 19

Track 1  Samples taken from "La Granada" by Los Muchucambos from their LP "Percussive Latin Trio" (London, 1962), Hugo Montenegro and his Orchestra, "American Musical Theatre Overture"  (Stereotime, 1963), and 3 uncredited radio announcers from KSOL, KBRG and KIQI,  San Francisco, Spring 2001.
Track 2   All vocals and lyrics created from the voice-over narration by hostess and demonstrator Abby Mandel, from the "Cuisinart Home Video Classroom"
video, 1985.
Track 7  Uncredited announcer from "Barbarize", a bootleg LP of a 1984 KISS concert. 
Track 9  All vocals and lyrics created from "Domain Shift", a lecture from the Domain Shift Foundation by Summer and River Anderson, Menlo Park, CA, 1981.
Track 11   The Rev. Sun Myung Moon and an uncredited announcer from "The Late Great Planet Earth" LP, (Lindsay,1979), Peter Cook as the Devil from "Bedazzled", (20th Century Fox, 1967), Smelley Kelley from The Genuine Diamelles' Shoreline Amphitheater board tape (1989), Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons from the '84 "Barbarize" KISS bootleg LP, unattributed announcer from the EastWest Soundworks free sample demo CD, voices from Adventures of The Transformers "The Green Menace" tape, Whitley Strieber comments from his "Dreamland" radio show, and Michael Klein from "How to Sell Anything" (Dell Audiobooks, 1989).
Track 12  This track is a collage composition - or an extreme remix - created from one-, two-, and four-bar samples from drum solos performed by Carl Palmer in the recordings "Tank" and "Food For Your Soul" from the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer LP "Works" (Atlantic, 1977).  The crowd sounds are from a Cheap Trick concert at the Trocadero Transfer in San Francisco recorded by Forst Haus.  Stage comments from Randy X. and Junglebook from "The Lemmings Live at The Mabuhay Gardens" gig tape, and from Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon, from their live album "You Get What You Play For" (Epic, 1977).
Track 15  Co-written with cbrown.
Track 17  Contains samples from three uncredited commentators from the PBS documentary "Explosion!" (2000), and NASA recordings of the Mercury VII flight of Scott Carpenter.
Track 18  Choir vocal from Junglebook gig tape from The Sub Club, San Francisco, '85. 
Track 19  Co-written with Jeff Left and L. Sargent.  Samples of Bob Scheiffer and uncredited political correspondent from CBS News, November 2000.
Track 21  Art Bell's 20th century top of the hour siren noise, recorded from "Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell".
Track 23  Mick Jagger comments from "Summer of Love: Woodstock Nation" (Laserlight Audio Books, 1984).  Rick Nielsen comments from Trocadero gig tape [also a man resistant to change (from This American Life), The Trees, Mike Reject, Randy X again, the most recently elected president, some guy from Late Great, Run-DMC, The Germ, Martin Sheen, Richard Nixon, and Fred Astaire].

All other bass, guitar, percussion, keyboards and sequencing by Junglebook.

Songs 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19 and 21 from the unproduced PBS "Frontline" documentary, "The Khaki Coup" (Hypothetical Films, 2001).

Tracks 2, 5, 7, 14, 19 and 21 contain samples from a series of improvisational compositions recorded by Junglebook and Jeff Left.  Track 19 is built from an improvisational composition by Junglebook, Jeff Left, and L. Sargent.  Those sessions engineered and produced by Jeff Left and L. Sargent at Secret Studios, San Francisco, Spring 2001.  Several sound effects on various tracks from Digimode's "Sound Effects Volume 1 & 2" (1995) and from "Sounds of Nature and the Great Outdoors" (Madacy, 1994) Field recordings on tracks 4, 8, 12, 21, 22 and 23 by Junglebook.  Rick Nielsen comments and crowd atmospherics on tracks 12 and 23, recorded by Tim Heezelock at The Trocadero Transfer.  All other recording and production done at The Slurry Lab South, San Francisco, Winter and Spring 2001.  Recording and digital audio editing performed on a Dell PC with Sound Forge, Acid, Cakewalk, CoolEdit and Fruity Loops software.

These recordings are made by hand in small numbers for collectors and as a demonstration of production and performance abilities, no licenses granted or implied,  and usage is believed to be covered by the Fair Use Provision of the US Copyright Act of 1999.  Package design and photography by Junglebook+cbrown.  Original recordings, compositions, remixes and packaging all published and copyright 2001 by Mark Gunnion Music.

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