Bobuck Plays The Residents

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Release Date: 2016-09-19

Label: Klanggalerie

Released in a glossy three panel digipak.
Track durations do not appear on CD or sleeve, but are taken from a media player.

Notes from release:
I have to admit that when Walter Robotka from Klanggalerie first suggested that I record an album of Residents songs, I thought he was joking considering that I had co-written them. When he said that I should sing the songs, I knew for sure he was joking. I had never sung in the shower, I preferred to listen to instrumental music, I always have.

In 2015, Walter released my song collection, THIS, and heard my feeble warbling of "Never Known Questions". He said he would like to hear more from me in that stylistic direction.

I lacked confidence that I could make anything that anyone would want to listen to, and asked Walter to act as the voice of reason, a producer, and be brutally honest with me as I sent tests to him.

I think he quickly saw what I was up against, a huge lack of talent, so he started suggesting songs to try from The Residents' vast library that a weak voice could be considered an asset for emoting. Perhaps less singing and more a plea for help.

Over time I started getting into it, started enjoying singing. Walter said that if I was enjoying myself, that I should stop. It was the lack of comfort, the intangible embarrassment of singing, that gave the recordings their immediacy. That a listener of the album would assume the role of a sadistic voyeur, taking pleasure from hearing me squirm in discomfort.

So here is the result of my squirming for all you sadistic voyeurs.

Charles Bobuck, 2016.

Charles Bobuck was the primary composer for The Residents 1956-2016.

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