- Title: Induces Vomitting
- Artist: IPECAC
- Timespan: 28 August 1988
- Theme: first album as IPECAC
- Length: 52:59
- Tracks: 9
- Lyrics: 6
- MP3s: 9 play all locally
- Rating: ** [2] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
# | title | lyrics | time | download | listen | started | recorded | rating |
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1 | Chug-a-lug a Slug | - | 4:51 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | ** (1) |
2 | One Last Note | lyrics | 0:17 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | * (1) |
3 | Ants-covered Chocolate | - | 7:49 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | *** (1) |
4 | Six Strings in Sync | - | 5:49 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | *½ (1) |
5 | Hallogen | lyrics | 6:31 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | *** (1) |
6 | Cacaphony and Euphony | lyrics | 5:53 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | ** (1) |
7 | Tune Drops | lyrics | 5:03 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | ** (1) |
8 | Cacaphony 2 | lyrics | 2:34 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | * (1) |
9 | The Challenge | lyrics | 14:12 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-08-28 | * (1) |
Total | 52:59 | play all locally | album rating: | ** (1) |
Notes
For our second album, Induces Vomitting, we decided to keep the recording process as loose and fast as possible. We were probably getting tired of the overdubbing techniques we had used on Gourmet. So, this time, we improvised everything, and (I think) managed to finish the entire album in a single day.
Working quickly was fun, but the end result was mixed. I like the funky jams and (often accidental) harmonies, but some of the songs were very annoying. The lack of editing meant left this is a very "warty" (as in "warts and all") effort.
Our "official line" at the time was that the album's obnoxious bits were intended to make the listener sick. The music was supposed to fit our new band name (IPECAC). We also wanted to make it clear to our family, friends, and selves that we didn't take our music seriously, and therefore should be immune to criticism. Read into that what you will.
Induces Vomitting ended up being our longest album. This was due in part to "The Challenge", which is nearly fifteen minutes of me trying to out-play Jon on sax (it was a joke). It also helped that we weren't using dictaphones to speed up the music (as we had on Apostrophe and Gourmet).
The highlights are "Ants-covered Chocolate" and "Hallogen", which are both funky jams. The rest of the album is full of "cacaphonic" outbursts mixed with occasionally interesting ideas.
Songs
Chug-a-lug a Slug
- Induces Vomitting track 1
- Complete IPECAC track 13
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 4:51
- Travis Emmitt - sax
- Jon Friesen - Casio CT-310
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One Last Note
- Induces Vomitting track 2
- Complete IPECAC track 14
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 0:17
- Travis Emmitt - sax, talking
- Jon Friesen - talking
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This is mercifully short. I think Jon was eager for me to put down his sax.
Lyrics to "One Last Note":
[spoken] JON: ok, want to listen to it? TRAV: no, no, one last note one last [???]
Ants-covered Chocolate
- Induces Vomitting track 3
- Complete IPECAC track 15
- IPECAC Picks track 2
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 7:49
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax
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The Trav-on-sax thing wasn't working, so we moved back to our proper roles. This time, we decided to try to make something tuneful and rhythmic. We sketched out a rough idea and then kicked into a long disco-y jam.
Despite the long, atonal intro, and sloppiness, there are parts in the jam that are really funky. I liked this song enough to later propose it as the opening track of an instrumental best-of album (which we never created).
This ended up being one of my favorite IPECAC songs from 1988.
Six Strings in Sync
- Induces Vomitting track 4
- Complete IPECAC track 16
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 5:49
- Travis Emmitt - acoustic guitar, cornet, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax, Casio CT-310
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This is the first IPECAC song to use a guitar. It's pretty horrid. Jon played keyboard while I fumbled along on acoustic guitar and cornet.
Stick to keyboards, Trav!
Hallogen
- Induces Vomitting track 5
- Complete IPECAC track 17
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 6:31
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, cornet, sax, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax, talking
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
We must've rehearsed this a couple times; it sounds too tight to be completely improvised. It's IPECAC at our funkiest. We liked this song enough to record it two more times later (on Best of IPECAC and Here and Now).
You can tell Jon was getting really good at sax. As for my cornet (or mellophone) playing, well... Ummm... I'm pretty sure I played sax in here too. The keyboard was on auto-pilot.
Lyrics to "Hallogen":
TRAV: wooh yeah rockin' funky woah JON: ??? TRAV: funky
Cacaphony and Euphony
- Induces Vomitting track 6
- Complete IPECAC track 18
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- other names: Junkie
- length: 5:53
- Travis Emmitt - sax, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax, talking
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This is a simple duet with me and Jon on sax. I played the lower, repetitive part and Jon played the melody and solos. Credit for any nice bits should go to Jon. The honking is my contribution.
Near the end, Jon stopped playing our song and broke out into solos. At the time, I thought he was creating them on the spot. Years later, after I got into jazz, I realized Jon had been quoting famous solos.
Jon called this song "Junkie" on his Best of IPECAC tape cover. Perhaps that was a reference to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane? Or maybe he just thought it was disposable.
Lyrics to "Cacaphony and Euphony":
JON: 1 2 3 4 TRAV: yeah JON: ???
Tune Drops
- Induces Vomitting track 7
- Complete IPECAC track 19
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 5:03
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, cornet, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
This starts off slow and dirge-like and gradually speeds up. Unfortunately, nothing cool ever happens. It just gets faster. That's it. No cool solos, no cool harmonies. No rhythms other than the canned keyboard drums. Just... faster. And faster. And then at the end it abruptly slows back down to a crawl.
The best thing about it is the title.
Lyrics to "Tune Drops":
TRAV: hit it
Cacaphony 2
- Induces Vomitting track 8
- Complete IPECAC track 20
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 2:34
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Horrid. What were we thinking??? Thankfully, it's very short.
Lyrics to "Cacaphony 2":
TRAV: uno dos tres quatro
The Challenge
- Induces Vomitting track 9
- Complete IPECAC track 21
- recorded: 1988-08-28
- length: 14:12
- Travis Emmitt - sax, talking
- Jon Friesen - sax, talking
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Lyrics to "The Challenge":
TRAV: here we go it's jon versus travis in the saxophone duel called "The Challenge" travis said "i can take first charge" jon said "no you can't" since there's only two chairs jon and me, that's one and two if you know what that makes, two um, only two chairs so travis definitely wants first chair and here it is it will last probably hours and days ok, ready JON: we will first the first event that we'll challenge with is the single note let's see TRAV: see we're gonna see who can have the best - who has the best tone quality and remember that travis has been playing the saxophone much longer than jessica so here we go he has far more experience this should be decisive JON: pick a note pick a note TRAV: this one JON: uh, that one [mumbled] oh that one [playing] TRAV: you didn't say vibrato JON: what? i need tone quality [???] TRAV: ok JON: that's [???] that's person number one that's one note that's person number one jazz tone TRAV: jazz tone JON: you be the judge now, now we're going to try multiple notes pick anything i'm gonna play like the [sings] pick any, any little TRAV: just a short little JON: or [sing] TRAV: this person number one ok i get another try JON: ok, person A gets another try hey you can play [sings] TRAV: ok, here's [???] JON: i have to play that same thing TRAV: i think we're out of tune JON: uh, ok TRAV: third try ok now, it's long songs jon's gonna play his piece that he's making up, improvision, right now JON: improvision? uh, well, i, let's see let me play let me play the solo let me play the, you know, the herbie hancock solo TRAV: and now here's travis oh, excuse me person number 1 ok excuse me, that was jessica here we go JON: you're gonna break the tape now, uh, we are now gonna do scales pick a scale, any scale, c major scale, g major scale g minor scale, any scale you want TRAV: this one JON: ok that skill good luck here we go TRAV: person number 1 JON: ok, that's b minor scale TRAV: [???] JON: ok now we're going to do chromatic scales as low as you can go to as high as you can go [???] TRAV: ok JON: [???] TRAV: i'm ready JON: ok, you decide now who is better TRAV: wait, this is the last thing the grand finale jon, you can play anything you want JON: all right TRAV: make it up now, in this key gimme a key TRAV: a minor JON: ok now let's have an audience appreciation thing ok, who votes for person b? TRAV: who is person b? JON: ok, how about person a? yay yay TRAV: i am, i'm person a JON: i know yay yay TRAV: yay! person a again, last words, here is person a JON: ok person b, i mean person a was disqualified for playing while person b was doing his thing TRAV: but just to show that we are real sportsman-like we are going to play a tune together that we entitle "Tune of the Challenge" 1, 2, wait, 1, 2, ready go ready? come on come on 1, 2 um JON: you decide TRAV: you decide JON: [???] person a was disqualifed TRAV: ten times ok here it is again JON: here what is again? no, no! TRAV: jon will tell a story tell a story JON: once upon a time a warrior died the end how much tape are we [???] over TRAV: very little here's jon's gonna tell a story and i'll do the melody to it JON: once upon a time wait a minute let me do the once upon a time bit i'll tell you when to come in once upon a time a warrior died the end now you can come in TRAV: tell the story seriously JON: once upon a time a warrior lived the end TRAV: seriously JON: once upon a time a warrior died but then came to life again the end TRAV: serious JON: once upon a time a warrior lived, died, lived, then met a maiden, lived happily ever after the end once upon a time a resurrected warrior met a maiden, got married, lived happily ever after and then got an ulcer from high taxes the end once upon a time ipecac got together one person was travis the mighty keyboard player part time drummer and guitarist and uh cacaphone player now, another member was jonathon being, being about ten times handsomer than travis he was - just kidding on that last part uh, he was the full time saxophone player part time keyboard player uh, drummer, harmonicist computer programmer one day they were at a concert the groupies, the groupies were going wild so then travis started playing the saxophone the vomit, the vomit rolled down the aisles and everybody drow--, and everybody drowned in it except for jonathon and travis who got ten million dollars in commercial rights TRAV: what? JON: and then left the end la la la... TRAV: going out [???] JON: good, does that mean you have to stop? TRAV: no JON: oh darn TRAV: [???] JON: no, play softer please [scat] oh trav, what a racket travis great why must you, travis TRAV: one last note JON: oh god TRAV: the last riff of the day