Ghastly Grimey Orchestra of New Orleans, by Ghastly Grimey Orchestra of New Orleans

Ghastly Grimey Orchestra of New Orleans

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It was 2002 when the Ghastly Grimey Orchestra of New Orleans was drawn together during a New Orleans summer heat that smelled of almost sickeningly sweet flowers. There was a poster on the wall of Edward Gorey's illustrated alphabet, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies." For each letter in Gorey's alphabet a child dies in an unusual way. For each child's demise the Orchestra created a song. Instruments and musicians were gathered from around the crannies of the city. Theramins, typewriters, little children's toys and clattering teeth were thrown into the mix and from the inside of elevator shafts all the way to living rooms, the Orchestra played. There were simple rules: a song was written just by those present, it was run through twice, recorded and never played again. Ever.

Times flies, as it does and things get lost: memories of who played on which song and even sometimes who was even there at all. A few songs themselves wandered away. The master tapes are gone; robbed from "Marla's House" along with the recording equipment used. Even the warehouse and the dwellings where the songs were recorded are not as they were, chunks stolen away by Hurricane Katrina.

Covers Printed by Black Owl Trading Company
Cover Art by Myrtle Von Damitz III

Linear Notes by Natalia

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released October 31, 2006

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