A recent order from the always awesome Feral Kid Tapes came with this gratis cassette tape from Renobs, and Disaster Amnesiac has been blown away by the sheer oddness of
JAZZHANDJOBBED. This tape features music that sounds like some sort of psychedelic carnival, or perhaps a lysergic party. For the life of me I can't figure out if Renobs is a solo act or a collective effort, yet either way it's an incredibly mysterious slice of independently produced strangeness that will surely have all of its listeners, and I hope there are many of them, scratching their heads as its sounds swirl around their head in the most 'shroomed of manners. The song titles play with intellectual aesthetics, my favorite being
Bible, Religions, Myth. That said,
JAZZHANDJOBBED's sounds feature crazed ensemble vocals that, on account of their layers, and again it's impossible for this listener to parse whether or not their sung by and actual group or overdubbed, manifest as a kind of glossolalia which has this listener alternately laughing or puzzling as to how they came up with this concept. The music resembles calliopes paired with some type of Industrial Noise makers. Perhaps a bit of primitive guitar. This combination of sound sources, played with some real delicious aggro, pushes the recording into the outer limits of odd. As Disaster Amnesiac has listened to
JAZZHANDJOBBED, I've thought of the many of the standard outsider musicians that get tossed around within discussions of these types of pursuits, but really Renobs must be commended for releasing a truly singular piece of sonic creativity here. It stands on its own, and any fan of unique sound artistry should get to work immediately to find it. Eight tracks of glorious eccentricity will be discovered, should they find
JAZZHANDJOBBED out there somewhere. Best of luck!
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