Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Fake Reverb
- Artist: IPECAC
- Timespan: 24 September 1988
- Theme: four lost jams
- Length: 22:35
- Tracks: 4
- Lyrics: 1
- MP3s: 4 play all
- Rating: *** [3] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
| # | title | lyrics | time | listen | download | started | recorded | rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Familiar | - | 4:01 | listen | download | - | 1988-09-24 | *** (1) |
| 2 | Recumbency | - | 4:59 | listen | download | - | 1988-09-24 | **½ (1) |
| 3 | Fortify | lyrics | 9:25 | listen | download | - | 1988-09-24 | *** (1) |
| 4 | Dead Air | - | 4:10 | listen | download | - | 1988-09-24 | *½ (1) |
| Total | 22:35 | play all | album rating: | *** (1) | ||||
Notes
Fake Reverb was a "pure improv" session, consisting of long and "funky" instrumentals and no previously written songs. We recorded everything "live" (with no overdubs) [NOTE: but what about "Dead Air"?] and didn't take very many musical risks. This project was our attempt at "winging it" like we did in Induces Vomitting, but with more restraint.
The results were listenable but not very exciting. It wasn't turning out as catchy and memorable as we'd hoped. In reaction, we decided to abandon the album and go write some songs before recording again. [hey, wasn't that our "resolution" after Best of IPECAC? I guess sitting down and writing songs wasn't as easy as we'd thought.]
We must've really disliked Fake Reverb a lot, since we lost the tape for two years!
Songs
My Familiar
- Fake Reverb track 1
- Complete IPECAC track 31
- recorded: 1988-09-24
- other names: Smooth Syrum
- length: 4:01
- mp3: listen download
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310
- Jon Friesen - sax
For such as simple orchestration (me on keyboards, Jon on sax, no drums, no overdubs), we got a surprisingly rock-ish feel out of this song. We ended up recording it twice more.
The original title was "Smooth Syrum". Perhaps it was intended as our post-Apostrophe theme song? We later renamed it "My Familiar" (on Catharsis).
Recumbency
- Fake Reverb track 2
- Complete IPECAC track 32
- recorded: 1988-09-24
- length: 4:59
- mp3: listen download
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, cornet- wrote: music
- Jon Friesen - sax
This song is half reggae choppiness, half canon-esque sappy glop.
Yeah, these liner notes are getting less and less formal as I proceed through the albums. Oh well. So much for preserving IPECAC's dignity.
Snort!
Fortify
- Fake Reverb track 3
- Complete IPECAC track 33
- recorded: 1988-09-24
- length: 9:25
- mp3: listen download
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, cornet, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax, talking
Relentless, funky disco-jam. Nice solos by Jon. This is my favorite song on Fake Reverb.
It goes on a little too long, though. You can only get so many minutes out of the same canned drum beat and bassline before monotonotonotony sets in.
Lyrics to "Fortify":
TRAV: hit it wooh JON: yeah, hit it
Dead Air
- Fake Reverb track 4
- Complete IPECAC track 34
- recorded: 1988-09-24
- length: 4:10
- mp3: listen download
- Travis Emmitt - sax, cornet
- Jon Friesen - Casio CT-310