Anamnestic Tincture is a live album by virtuosic musical carpenter
Paul Metzger, culled from many hours of concert recordings. Side one
comprises Metzger's public debut on his modified banjo, recorded in
2002 at a former church-turned-underground art space in Minneapolis.
One of his most memorable compositions, "After Milo" later turned up
as an untitled improvisation on his CD for the Chairkickers label.
Jumping ahead six years (and several more banjo alterations later) to
side two, the glittering "Orans" gets a workout at a memorial show for
the artist Matt Zaun. As an acknowledgment of the occasion, Metzger
also gave a one-time-only performance -- "Dark Green Water" -- on
another of his mutant instruments: an acoustic guitar with the body
drilled out to accommodate a cymbal set into its face, and ten
assorted strings of varying lengths laid over the top, giving it a
particularly metallic and dissonant sound.

Anamnestic Tincture is released in an edition of 425 copies, with an
original vintage snapshot mounted on each cover; go to
www.paulmetzger.net to view a gallery of selected photographs and
listen to song samples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UkzRUWdbOU

NEW RECORDING AVAILABLE ON ARCHIVE:

PAUL METZGER "Canticle of Ignat/ All Glass" aRCHIVE46

CD pressing of 500, and CD+7" Lathe cut 45rpm pressing of 100. One track played on modified acoustic guitar and one track played on modified Banjo. For those unfamiliar with Saint Paul's Mr. Metzger, his works offer and amazing mix of Indian ragas crossed with a junk yard band feel, highly evolved and incredible unique. Recorded by Scott Slimm in 2007 at BigJar in Philly a fantastic piece of documentation offered in unaltered form. The CD edition comes housed in a slightly taller sleeve with two color silk screen work by Alan Sherry of SIWA on a heavyweight 140lb paper. The front cover is die cut with and inserted picture from the performance printed on vellum, all hand glued and assembled. Graphic work by Demian Johnston. The 7" LATHE CUT + CD edition. Comes house in the same exact sleeve except re-sized to fit the 7" 45rpm lathe cut by Mr. King of New Zealand. The lathe cut edition contains no extra audio from the CD version but merely offers 5min edits of each track in a different format.

Available from the artist @
www.paulmetzger.net