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Howdy ya'll.  This has been a strange summer for sure.  Looks like there's a new record coming out very soon. CD actually, no vinyl this time.  All the info for it's downstairs...I think it's pretty darn good. Still don't know why I decided to put my name in front of the band, probably won't in the future.  I'll just keep them separate from now on. I swear. 

Gifted Children Records is proud to announce a new release from Adam Payne's Residual Echoes entitled, Seconds EP: Penitentiary Loaf due out September 16th, 2008. This nine track limited edition CD features tracks recorded between 2006-2008.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Adam Payne was another mulatto weirdo tike schlepping through private schools, I'm guessing playing SST and Frank Zappa tapes in his mom's car during rush hour traffic. Played in punk rock bands in Jr. high school, getting in and out of jazz soon followed. Eventually he booked it to red-alert status Santa Cruz in September 2001 where one gets the feeling he was really born, and born while bored. Residual Echoes fell into Payne's lap from the ashes of meat-thrashers, AMCIS (Another Midget Caught In Spokes), two weeks before begging to play a flag burning Fourth of July party. Immediately after their set, they were accosted & taken prisoner by a bevy of bespectacled Trotskyite radicals and prodded with endless hours of interrogation concering their motives. They were released under the agreement that they would have as many people join the band as they could. As it was, "Residual Echoes" was a name set aside for recording projects only, but after the self-release of their "1st Album" album, Payne decided to truck on, playing out to see what happened, and thank God he did.
After several releases, an ever changing line-up, and years (and years and years) of home recordings under Payne's belt, Seconds brings us half-breed acoustolectrik folk, rock, and doo-wop-pop hallucinations… All spun together with home-fi budget electronics and German excursions. Another engaging mess from the Echoes. (Limited Edition, 300 qty.

Preorders are available now.
$9, postage paid.

Go to www.giftedchildrenrecords.com to order!

Happy Trails Buckaroos!

Thanks to eveybody who ordered the 6789866 cassettes.  They are gone! Don't worry Stacie. You'll get your copy soon. Some of that stuff should pop up on some other release at some point. Mostly, the longing to be issued double LP "Near End Signals". Still working the kinks out on that one. 2010? dunno.   The "Seconds" CD is en producto and should be available soon on Gifted Children. There'll prolly be some shows for that too in the summer and such.  Also in the works is my first offically solo record. Considering that the original impetus behind Residual Echoes has more or less shriveled into a dusty scrotal casing, any more releases won't be tagged as such unless they feature the boys themselves. 

And speaking of the boys, Dave & Jerry's "San Francisco Water Cooler" LP is prime and essential spring-time listening.  http://www.kdvsrecordings.org/ This is up there as one of my favorite sunny records.  I know what these guys listen to so I won't drop a lot of obscuro 80's lo-fi references.

SFWC is gleefully tackling the noise and pop idea with one foot in irreverance and the other in the domain too-much-talent-for-their-own-good. I'm not talking about playing fast. I'm talking about ideas. They whizz past like gusts of Santa Ana winds and before you've sneezed something else has popped up.  Kicking through the first door is THE summer hit "Rocker's Escape". They strap on their jet packs right off the bat and go wide-eyed into the white dawn. The vocals float by like fuzzy thought bubbles housing hapless, stoned, and grinning faces just stoked to be here.  Buzzing trumpet and fuzzface guitar knock you over like stubbing your drunk toe.  Landing on a placid pond somewhere, "Bertha Roentgen's Left Hand Ring" smooths out the rollicking Denver-isms of the opener.  Rowing down the H2O with your loved one with a steady country rock groove.  One of the most obtuse vocal melodies ever written loops back around and around until it leads you to the front again.  It's hard to remember where you started.  Your tour guides might be stoned but they've rowed these waters 1,000 times before and could take you through it blindfolded in the pitch black of night.  Which rears it's furtive head on "First Emergence". Dark clouds of pitch black scuzz break apart and cause some serious turbulence. Sounds like they did make a wrong turn, but we must continue on. The sediment clears on side two and we make our way to shore. Some abandoned military outpost, decaying with mildew, vines..crumbling stone...infested with wet insects and birds too lazy to head south.  Time stays still where the "Winter Otter" sleeps.  Guess you'll make camp here.  Bundle up with said loved one. The guides disappear.  You drift off to slumber and are startled out of it by a brooding "Goat Head Apparition" in the form of a chord-organ guitar duel. It's only a dream.  There's a whole camp there waiting for you with food and drink. It's time to let the good times roll "Down By Dry Crik" and stay outside when the sun's out. 

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I still have a few cassettes left. $5.oo through paypal.  The CD-R however, will now be released as a Real CD on Gifted Children Records with a real cover and whatnot.  It won’t be finished for a while but please stay tuned.

I’ve just finished a series of archival material set for release.  The first is a 60 minute cassette of pre-Echoes sound material under the 6789866 moniker called "Electrik Basement Activity".  All stuff recorded from 1999-2003.  ltd. to 30 copies.  Write me if you’re interested. residualechoes@gmail.com

The second is a 30 minute CD-R for Penny Ante’s new CD-R project.  It will be under the Echoes moniker.  It’s called "Seconds EP:Penitentiary Loaf". It consists of all material recorded in San Francisco last December, buttressed  by an excerpt from the only recording by Orgeon featuring Nick, Chris, and Aaron from Mammatus and myself.   300 copies.