Trumans Water-Jubileeeee (1994)


 

Artist: Trumans Water

Title: Jubileeeee

Label: The Way Out Sound

Format: 7"

Cat #: WAY OUT 004

Year of Release: 1994

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994 two color letterpressed sleeve

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 10/8/21

Sell Price: $3.99

Discogs Last Sold: 10/28/21 $3.98 VG+/VG+

Low: $3.00

Median: $4.75

Average: $5.04

High: $6.74

Current low price: $3.37 NM/NM

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14

Have/Want: 131/48

Where Sold: Reno, NV

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Kim's Underground NYC mid 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C

Sad To See It Go: No

Avant indie 90's act from San Diego that were on Homestead for a time.  General single collecting made this single find it's way into my collection.  Why this and not many others just came down to the fact that it passed my fingers flipping through the bin.  I have no recollection of buying the record, but I do see the Kim's sticker on it and know I played the band on the radio.  Perhaps I was looking for new records WFDU didn't have since I was on air there at the time.

This was one of those 10 track 7" noise extravaganzas that would make radio play very difficult.  I'm sure I played a cut and not a side.  Or maybe I did play a side at 3:30 in the morning.  It's definitely a cool record, just not life altering.

You start to wonder why this genre is called "experimental."  It really isn't experimental at all, it sticks to it's genre.  It isn't THAT weird.  It sounds like detuned strings with some sorta Asian motif.   Or like a Pavement filler track.

After John Cage, can any recorded music be called an experiment if it sticks to it's inherent genre sound?  I get if someone like Metallica or Deep Purple or Pink Floyd says let's experiment with bringing in an orchestra for an album.  That is an experiment of deviation from a lineup and song performance structure.  The same could be said of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.   Lou was experimenting with how extreme a record he could put out on RCA and recording feedback.   But, if there is no deviation from the inherent mean, can you call something "experimental" outside of it's genre tag?

What we are hearing is not an experiment but a genre.


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