Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Late B.P. Experimental

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Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Late B.P. Experimental

Published Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

Last week we posted a live Music Tapes performance from the Japanese U.S. Pop Life series; this week we'll continue the theme with a rare Late B.P. Helium track, "Chant for the Birth of a Rising Sun," from Border Music...Flicker of a Smile: U.S. Pop Life Vol. 10 Athens Experimental. I guess I'm posting this to celebrate the release of AUX, another collection of experimental Athens recordings. Border Music is one of the more interesting U.S. Pop Life compilations, featuring Bablicon, Marta Tennae (Jeremy Barnes), Dixie Blood Mustache, and the Visitations, among many others. But it's rare to hear an "experimental" track from the otherwise firmly pop-fixated B.P. Helium, so I thought I'd share it--there are certainly enough B.P. fans who would want to hear it, I think. (Note: John Fernandes is credited with "African Water Drum.")

Chant for the Birth of a Rising Sun (The Late B.P. Helium)