Leave it to Audio Savant to drop another fucking weirdo experimental record, this time from a project I've never heard of. 24 tracks and more than an hour of wacky material based around fucked up layers of samples and little bits and pieces of sound manipulation. Opening track "Phyllis Wilton" kicks it off right away with samples of a woman talking about "hidden bone and hidden gristle" in Hormel breakfast porksteaks at K-Mart or some shit - while "Jesus Loves Me" plays in the background as if delivered by an ice cream truck. That should give you an indication of what to expect here. Admittedly I do not care for humor in music at all, it's just not my thing. But even though this release is chock full of it, and I do feel like it's too long, I have to give this nutjob credit for picking up some hilarious oddball samples and splicing them together very well. I almost wish it was nothing but samples with no littered musical accompaniment, because sometimes it's a little hard to hear the contents, and the samples are genuinely amusing - which is extremely rare to say the least. "Hobo Lump" is among the more chaotic tracks, with lots of quick percussive cutups and random bits of singing that kind of comes across as a broken radio or whatnot; while "Triple Whoa" has some expertly spliced samples that are kind of shuffled around to change the end result just a bit from its original form (a tactic well performed throughout the disc, in fact). The title track is among the few that aren't clicking with me, as it's basically a Jam Handy reinterpretation through quoting the lines of sampled individuals such as the first track's "star" Phyllis Wilton, which just sounds a little plain and cheesy compared to the samples themselves. Sadly it seems that every CD-R Audio Savant sends me is mildly defective and ceases playback after a certain point, so I can't get past track 15 on this thing despite numerous attempts in a few different CD players. I'd be curious to hear "hot cuts" like "Porn Jam", "Breasts", or "You Bet We Give a Damn" since some of this stuff actually makes me laugh, but what can you do? The layout's chock full of insanely chaotic, brightly colored artwork collaged from various photos, scribbles, and then some. Very fitting of the music. It's extremely hyper and extremely schizophrenic, to say the least. It's hard as shit to read the song titles too, so I had to get them off of the internet so as to maintain my eyesight. I was kind of putting off reviewing this because I though it was gonna suck pretty voraciously and I wasn't in the mood to really have to be harshly critical of something, so I'm very pleased to confess that I was incorrect in my prejudgments, and this is actually an amusing and well executed disc for what it is. It's still not the kind of thing I would choose to listen to on a regular basis, but it's worth a chuckle, and it's the kind of thing you'd check out and play for your friends in one of those, "Dude, listen to this crazy shit," types of moments. So... I commend Jam Handy for indeed being handy with his brand of jams.
[Audio Savant]
Running time - 64:29, Tracks: 24
[Notable tracks: they all seem pretty consistent with one another, and most all have enjoyable moments]
Audio Savant - http://www.audiosavant.com
