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Sewn to the Sky

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Length
  
37:58

Artist
  
Bill Callahan

Label
  
Disaster Records

Sewn to the Sky (1990)
  
Floating (1991)

Release date
  
1990

Genre
  
Experimental music

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Released
  
1990 (LP on Disaster) November 17, 1995 (CD on Drag City) January 30, 1996 (LP on Drag City) 2001 (CD on Drag City)

Similar
  
Wild Love, The Doctor Came at Dawn, Forgotten Foundation, Dongs of Sevotion, Rain on Lens

Smog fruit bats


Sewn to the Sky is the first album by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog), released in 1990 on Disaster Records. It was later re-released on Drag City and manifested Callahan's importance for the lo-fi music in the early 1990s. This highly experimental album combined home recording, substandard instruments and repetitive and noisy songwriting structures for what was later called the pioneering of the lo-fi genre. The liner notes stated it was recorded on a "dumpster Portastudio".

Contents

The track, "A Jar of Sand", was re-recorded for the 'Neath the Puke Tree EP in 2000.

The track "I Want to Tell You About a Man", written about Jesus Christ, refers to Philip K. Dick in the line "He doesn't read Dick K. Philips", reversing Dick's name ostensibly for humor.

Side one

  1. "Souped Up II"
  2. "Kings Tongue"
  3. "Garb"
  4. "Hollow Out Cakes"
  5. "Confederate Bills and Pinball Slugs"
  6. "Coconut Cataract"
  7. "Fruit Bats"
  8. "Peach Pit"
  9. "Disgust"
  10. "Russian Winter"

Side two

  1. "Polio Shimmy"
  2. "Smog"
  3. "Lost My Key"
  4. "Fried Piper"
  5. "Fables"
  6. "Puritan Work Ethic"
  7. "A Jar of Sand"
  8. "I Want to Tell You About a Man"
  9. "Olive Drab Spectre"
  10. "The Weightlifter"

Songs

1Souped Up II1:23
2Kings Tongue3:02
3Garb1:46

References

Sewn to the Sky Wikipedia
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