Olias Nil ~ The No-Fi Years (1990-2003), by Olias Nil

Olias Nil ~ The No-Fi Years (1990-2003)

by Olias Nil

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1.	Truancy in A Minor 02:32	buy track
2.	Our Modern Sanitary Sensibility 04:34	buy track
3.	Shower Me With Love 04:06	buy track
4.	Worst Wolf 07:18	buy track
5.	The Backwards Part 02:37	buy track
6.	The Mic Stands in for the Analyst's Promiscuous Ear 04:05	buy track
7.	Mess-Up-Otamia 06:12	buy track
8.	Clams in the Forest 02:30	buy track
9.	Something of Forwards 01:49	buy track
10.	Raga to Riches 03:11	buy track
11.	Burning Red Giant 02:03	buy track
12.	Bury Me, Damo Suzuki 03:21	buy track
13.	Life's Been Funny Lately 02:10	buy track
14.	Fallen Man 03:08	buy track
15.	Geraldine, Please 03:59	buy track
16.	My (Hot) Oven 03:21	buy track
17.	Subjected to Jackson Brown 02:26	buy track
18.	To My Ear 02:56	buy track
19.	When the Far-Gone Foreign Fades 03:05	buy track

about

Back in the days of yore - before the beforetimes - Olias Nil (of names_of_music and The Fire Show) oftimes found himself betwixt guitar and 4-track with sundry keyboards, drums, horns, violins, and noisy things. With nothing better than to make songs by recording them (or record them by making them), Nil poured heart and soul and humor and distortion and anxiety and foolish yearnings into a drawerfull of experio-ments and confessions that never left the drawer. Here we remedy that with this collection of offhanded, evenhanded, caught-redhanded, and backhanded complements to his elsewhere contributions. Offered humbly in the spirit (if not the letter) of Robert Wyatt, Alex Chilton, Robert Pollard, Smog, East River Pipe, and other denizens of the deepest, darkest recesses of fidelity.

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released February 20, 2023

All songs - top to bottom - by Olias Nil, but for M. Resplendent's help on a couple of them.

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The Fire Show Chicago, Illinois

The Fire Show & related things involving Olias Nil and/or
M. Resplendent.

"Stark, dubbish funk with punk penknife and splatter; left-wing epics constructed from right angles, made by (sm)art school punks interested in the feet and the brain, the ground and the lofty heavens."
(Jay Babcock,
L.A. Weekly) ... more

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