Catasonic Records
Catasonic
Records is a joint project of Mark Wheaton and Weba Garretson to release
and promote interesting work by us and our friends that would normally fall
through the cracks of normal record labels.
Catasonic
Records began as an independant record label in 1994 with the
release of Webaworld. In 1995, we released four other records: Matt
Heckert's Mechanical Sound Orchestra, Gynomite, 2 Bass Hit and Mark Wheaton
Play's America's Favorite Award Winning Tunes. In 1997 we released Jac
Zinder's Stay Home. We have just released as
of October 2006 the new Puttansesca CD
Catasonic
is offering selected releases through CD Baby
Please
follow links below to the CD Baby site. These
CDs are also being made available for paid download via such services as iTunes. for
releases that are not currently available through CD Baby feel free to email
us and we can send instructions on Snail Mail ordering
(info@catasonic.com)
and check at the bottom of the list for some of our favorite
CDs by friends and family...
Puttanesca
Puttanesca
CS-007
visit the Puttanesca site to find out more:
Available from soon
from CD Baby
Jac Zinder
chairs i have known
CS-006
"...a rare glass-to-the-door listening to the real lounge scene where
musicians and fans gather for the music, not the fashion-page frolic."
- Caeri Bertrand, HITS Magazine
chairs i have
known was recorded in 1988-1989 in the garage of Alec's Mom's. It was recorded
on a Fostex 8 track. The personnel was Jac Zinder on Keyboards, Alec Boehm on
stringed instruments, Joseph Berardi on percussion and drums and Spencer Savage
on Drums.
Catasonic released
the CD in 1996 as a collaboration with a group of Jac's friends as a rememberance
of Jac who died in a car accident Thanksgiving night in 1994.
the song "5/4
of a man" is presented here in it's entirety
Available from CD
Baby
WebaWorld
Welcome To Weba World CS-001
"Weba blasts tiny bubbles right out of the cocktail lounge."
- SF Weekly
Weba Garretson was initially
known as the star of the Weba Show in the early eighties. a performance cabaret
extravaganza directed by noted theater director David Schweizer and featuring
Weba on vocals accompanied by Jerry Frankel on Piano and Phillip Littel on
physical movement and ironic non verbal commentary. The Weba Show played
to sold out club audiences in LA and was featured at the Playboy Jazz Festival
and the Alan Thicke late night talk show.
Later Weba began a series
of spoken/sung performance pieces accompanied by a free jazz combo featuring
Joe Baiza on Guitar, Richie West on Drums, Rafa Gorodetsky on Bass and Scott
Looney on Organ. The band played in clubs in LA and San Francisco and recorded
this CD in 1994.
Following the Weba World
project Weba formed the group Puttanseca with
Rafa, Joe Baiza and Wayne Griffith.Look for a secial Made To Order release
of the Puttanesca sessions here in the very near future.
Currently Weba is about
to release a recording of her interpretations of the music of Kurt Weill,
Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with the Eastside
Sinfonietta
Find out more
on the Weba Site
WebaWorld-F.O.G. (mp3 / 1.1 meg)
Available Now from CD
Baby
Mark
Wheaton
Plays Americas Favorite
Award Winning Tunes!! CS-005
"If you want to freak someone out, bring them into your room and blast
this as loud as you can."
- STRENGTH Magazine
Mark has composed
music for performance artists since 1980 when he began working with Johanna
Went. Many of the tracks on this CD were recorded as backing tracks for Johanna
Went and Shrimps performances during the mid to late 1980's. Many of these tracks
made use of early digital synths and samplers such as the Casio CZ-101, the
Ensoniq Mirage, and several Roland instruments. They were sequenced on a Mac
Plus using Opcode's Midimac Sequencer (preceding the product called StudioVision).
The recordings were mixed to DAT in early versions of the Catasonic Studios
on Oceanview Ave. in LA.
find out more
about Mark on the Timeline page
Mark Wheaton-A Low Pitched Regurgitation
(mp3 / 1 meg)
Available from CD
Baby
GYNOMITE
fearless, feminist pornography
CS-004
"Literature's oral tradition has rarely been so tasty."
- Eveylyn McDonnald, BUST
A live recording of performances
by a wide range of LA based Poets performing; not erotic, but pornographic works.
The recordings were done at Luna Park in west LA.
To find out current Gynomite
info visit Liz Belile's Gynomite
site
Here is an excerpt from a
funny story by Michele Serros entitled shower Power Hippie Man
Michele Serros- Shower Power Hippie Man (mp3
/ 1 meg)
Available Soon from
CD Baby
2 Bass Hit
Occupied World CS-003
featuring members of Universal Congress OF
Scruffy hip hop/jazz trouble makers create the 2 Bass Hit sound!
2 Bass Hit was a recording
project organized by Rafa Gorodetsky who was also playing in Universal Congress
of and later Mecolodiacs as well as Webaworld, Puttanesca, Eastside Sinfonietta
and currently is with Resistant (www.resistantculture.com) Other players on
this CD include Victor Balogh, Bobby Fitzer, Danny Frankel, Jeff Holly, Paul
Lines, Stay-C Little and Vince Meghrouni.
please email us if
you wish to purchase this CD
Matt Heckert
Mechanical Sound Orchestra CS-002
The Mechanical Sound Orchestra created by Matt Heckert
formerly of Survival Research Laboratories.
Featuring live recordings
of Mechanical Sound Orchestra performances in Europe and the USA (1992-1994)
From the liner notes by Larry
Rinder:
"Matt Heckert's Mechanical
Sound Orchestra consists of a variety of computer controlled mechanical sound
sculptures... In performance, Heckert's pieces create a feeling of imminent
danger as they lurch into loud and unexpected motion."
This excerpt is called To
the Trough and was recorded at the Marstall Theater in Munich Germany Oct 7&8
1994. Engineer Jurgen Neumann-Hossle
Find out more about Matt
Heckert
Matt Heckert- To the Trough (mp3 / 1 meg)
Now
available on iTunes
Mark Wheaton
Objects of the Dealer
CS-007
this a commercially replicated
CD and wil play on any CD player.
This CD was produced as part
of the catalog for the exhibition Commotions: Martin Kersels a retrospective
of Martin's early work presented by the Madison Art Center, Wisconsin in 1998.
Martin asked Mark to collaborate on a piece which was in that show entitled
Objects of the Dealer with soundtracks, 1995.
There were a limited number
of CDs produced for the catalog and the pressing had an over run of a few hundred
copies. We are excited to now make these available. This is a collector's item
and carries a higher price as a result.
Mark composed fourteen short
soundtracks that were triggered when someone used the various "objects"
that make up Martin's art dealer's office such as a fax machine, computer (Mac
Plus) Desk Drawers, Dewalt Drill, Filo fax etc.Martin had rigged each object
with a mercury switch that started a portable cassette with speakers that contained
that soundtrack in a loop cassette such as was used in a answering machine.
Mark and Martin have collaborated many times over the years including work that
was done for Shrimps performances of which Martin was a member and Mark created
soundtracks for in collaboration with Steve Stewart.
Here is an excerpt
from one the Objects:
You can find
excerpts from each Object on the Martin
Kersels page
Refrigerator
(mp3 / 274K
Please email us if
you wish to purchase this item
Chinas Comidas
Chinas Comidas
limited release of 100 copies available on CD Baby
Featuring songs from 1977-1980
studio and live recordings with historic photos and liner notes by Chinas
herself
Find out more at the Chinas site
Available from CD
Baby
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