NEHEMIAH ST-DANGER – THE SLOW AND PAINFUL BIRTH OF

An autobiographical meta-operetta about post 9-11 America, Antedeluvian mysteries, and self-aggrandizing myth. Originally recorded in Oakland in 2005, with more bits and revisions done in 2008. Nehemiah was squatting at Mills College when he discovered Morton Subotnick’s Buchla synth and began using the facilities at the San Francisco Tape Music Center covertly. While there he picked the brains of avant luminaries Cecil Taylor, Fred Frith and Pauline Oliveros, passing for an anonymous graduate student. Nehemiah then toiling away in poverty, retreated to a 4-track in his bedroom and composed “The slow and Painful Birth Of”. He composed and recorded the album using 4-track cassette, open-source software, and “artificially-sentient” computer programs mining elements from disparate sources as did the Velvet Underground. Nehemiah could well be the new harbinger of american folk music. Killer Lo-Fi punk folk with electronics ala Ariel Pink.