One and a Half for Two

by Vacum

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1.	Barrett: Astronomy Domine > 08:53	info	buy track
2.	San Francisco Bay Green Gazelle Boogie Woogie 16:51	info	buy track
3.	One of Three Survive part I 05:25	info	buy track
4.	One of Three Survive part II > 03:56	info	buy track
5.	Cabin Fever > 05:43	info	buy track
6.	Bitches Brew Motif 05:50	info	buy track
7.	New Age Moment (Anybody Home?) 01:49	info	buy track
8.	Variations on Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason: Careful with that Axe Eugene 02:26	info	buy track
9.	Barrett: Astronomy Domine reprise and variation 03:40	info	buy track

about

For the most part this was just one long take. There seem to have been a few edits, certainly one for the tape flip on the original cassette master. Productions notes are few.

This is the last recording session with Ezra Vacca on drums. This recording collected dust for almost a year before anyone got round to dealing with it.

The artwork for each cassette was hand-inked by S. Shah in an ultra-limited unnumbered edition. Difficult to say how many were made, or who has them.

Things got a bit silly on this one, as if it weren't silly enough already, as more vocal parts were introduced, and the sound moved away from visceral manic rock freakouts, and into more cerebral experimental territory. Big Daddy brought an improved level of fidelity to the project with the use of his Beacon Basement studio.

The same session produced the band elements on "The Potato Cooking Sessions". This may, actually, be the same take of "Astronomy Domine", but it is unclear if this session was held specifically to provide material for The Potato Cooking Sessions, or if some of it just got used for that. Again, production notes are pretty much non-existent.

This remaster was Made in Japan at The Nest from one of the cassettes distributed in the original edition at high resolution. By "remaster" we mean that a higher bit-rate digital conversion. No other digital fiddling has taken place.

credits

released April 20, 1995

Produced by Vacum

Niccolai "Big Daddy" Hulkenbar: wind synth, vocal
Gunter "Merlin" Forrest: guitar, vocal
Sven "Rockthing" Shah: bass guitar, vocal
Ezra "Loudness" Vacca: percussion, vocal

Recorded and mixed live in one enormous take
by Big Daddy at The Beacon Basement in July 1994

Mixed and mastered by S. Shah at Hotel Beeler in April 1995

● Originally released as an ultra-limited edition cassette by
Aquatic Space Music.
● Reissued from a first gen copy as a free mp3 download by BS Entertainment - busaichedelic.org in the 00's.
● Hi-Res digital remaster by Low&Slow.Disk at The Nest in June 2017.

1. "Barrett: Astronomy Domine" is a fairly faithful rendition of an early Pink Floyd song written by Syd Barrett, and influenced by the Voivod arrangement.
2. "San Francisco Bay Green Gazelle Boogie Woogie" was written by Chris Craychee, Shah, Forrest, Hulkenbar, Vacca.
3, 4, 6. "One of Three Survive", "Cabin Fever", and "New Age Moment (Anybody Home?)" were written by Shah, Forrest, Hulkenbar, Vacca.
5. "Bitches Brew Motif" based on Dave Holland's bass line in the Miles Davis composition, "Bitches Brew", and arranged by Shah, Hulkenbar, Forrest, Vacca.
6. "Variations on Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason: Careful with that Axe Eugene" is an improvisation based on themes in the Pink Floyd song, "Careful with that Axe Eugene".
7. "Barrett: Astronomy Domine reprise and variation" uses elements from the Syd Barrett penned Pink Floyd song, "Astronomy Domine", but assembles them in an original Forrest, Shah, Hulkenbar, Vacca arrangement, adding new lyrics by S. Shah.

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Vacum Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

An experimental rock freakout group active from between 1993 and 1995 with a penchant for covering early Floyd, gratuitous panning sweeps, and backwards everything.

One former member seems to have disappeared, while another is rumored to be working as an undercover agent the at-large members are just waiting on the right reunion offer. ... more

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