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Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog was the second cassette tape release of my solo project Dog As Master. I recorded this album during the time that I lived at 821 North Pennsylvania Street in Indianapolis, Indiana. The music was constructed with a Fostex X-15 four-track cassette recorder. Side One of the Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog tape is titled "Slimy Stew And Pussy Gruel", a bizarre collage with strange voices, tape manipulations, electronics, disjointed acoustic piano, percussion and screeching noise...a noisy nightmare soundtrack. Side Two is "Slash Gash Hard And Cruel", a 17-minute onslaught of distortion, feedback, and noise created entirely with electric guitar, delay and 4-track. Released on the Cause And Effect label. Originally released on cassette in 1984, C30

Side A: "Slimy Stew And Pussy Gruel" 15:09 20.8 MB 192 kbps mp3

Side B: "Slash Gash Hard And Cruel" 14:27 -- 19.8 MB mp3 19.8 MB 192 kbps mp3

Hal McGee and Zan Hoffman in the Cause And Effect studio, November 1984. Zan recorded three of his early tapes -- Zanstones 3 > Crawling Up The Wall To Trip Over the Ceiling, Zanstones 8 >Achtesteinzeitaltermusik and the Prostitution of Absurdity during two of his three visits to our homes.