Psych / folk fans - free tape??

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Hasn't WFMU been responsible for these kind of scams in the past?

It's tempting. I just ordered one. I'll post here if anything comes.

JB, Monday, 5 May 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is insane. I didn't get a tape at all, but today I did get a lathe cut 7" credited to Son Rise and the Moray Elk Choir that sounds like the grooves were cut into it with a safety pin. There was no cover, and it had an old school paper sleeve with writing on it. SEVERE and troubled religious folk damage with group vocals. I also got a pamphlet about how Roman Catholics are in league with the devil and not true Christians. Time to investigate...

I would like to hear the tape now - should I write again and push my luck? anyone wanna trade copy for copy?

roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is all too fucked up - isn't there something in revelations about "yey, and the vinyl will be distributed to those who need, and the angel Custos will seperate the green CDs from the gold, and there will be much confusion."

Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got the tape – scary Christina Ricci-like lady in lamé superhero-lady suit witha shotgun on the cover. Songs themselves sound like the Christian Nurse With Wound. Very weird and repetitive. Also, the woman's name is Parula Byrd.

Fivvy (Fivvy), Monday, 19 May 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

My tape doesn't look anything like that!! Mine has a drawing of a bunch of ragged people looking at the sun from a hill - very hippie scene. The zip on the return address is 3060-something (i lost the envelope). The music is sort of avant folk, acoustic guitar and electric guitar solos, and more than two voices singing. I really like it.

Roger, write me, I'd love to trade a copy for one of that single you have!

Eric Hoffman, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

you guys haven't been forced into any cult ritual shit yet have you? you haven't gotten tons of pamphlets on your doorstep? they didn't tell you that to get the tape you'd have to all wear Nikes and await the spaceship to take you off this planet?

cause i just emailed the guy.

JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eric - check your email dude

The journalist in me is trying to ruin this, i know, but i think there's a clue in the different post-mark thing. Could this be something perpetuated by more than one group of people? Does anyone know of the postmark that Eric speaks of? I know California starts with 9, correct? Mine was from NYC. I Googled "Parula Byrd" and came up with nothing. Just how big IS this cult of Jandekian Jesus People??

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

mine had a ny postmark..but all done intern like..hmmmm..i am only on 2 media mailing lists..matadors and fmu's..so between the two of them there is probably a mouse afoot
dan

dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

i was just cleaning out my garage and found this tape. sounds a lot better than i remember it sounding back then. i have the tape with the golden masked girl on her knees with a gun. i did a search for Otem Edwards & Parula Byrd and the only webpage ever that references them is this one. wtf?

jaxon, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

The Parula warbler is a "small dainty bird" says one source; its song is considered "a bad omen," says another. Otem Relik is a band on MySpace, their track "Cassette Tape" is kind of finger-picking emo-hop.

dow, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link

i did a search for Otem Edwards & Parula Byrd and the only webpage ever that references them is this one. wtf?

that's great :)

Ludo, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link

I didn't get a tape at all, but today I did get a lathe cut 7" credited to Son Rise and the Moray Elk Choir that sounds like the grooves were cut into it with a safety pin.

I found a review of a reissue of what Roger said he'd received: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=1125

Looks like they've been here before, including Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice mini tour
Wooden Wand + Sightings & Wooden Wand + Michael Hurley (wherein Roger discusses his involvement with the groups in question)

So was this just some half-baked viral hype? Are they any good? They seem to have been very popular among sockpuppets.

dad a, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm sorry if I just spoiled everyone's fun.

dad a, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link

so you're saying roger adultery is behind it? not unplausable.

jaxon, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Aww, funny thread. Would love to believe it's not a hoax.

NickB, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link

the tape i got was just a bunch of racist rants

jeff, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Moray Elk Choir = Moray Elk Themes? Weird. Probably not a coincidence...

What's a Moray Elk?

Email to that address listed above just bounced back

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Moray Elks Eat the Holy Modal Rounders.

ian, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link

(yes i know it's eels.)

ian, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link

listening to it again, it's definitely someone in the know and not a real xtian group

jaxon, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Roger Adultery = J4m3s T0th: is that right?

NickB, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link

yes

wilter, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link

amongst other things

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

the tape i got was just a bunch of racist rants

the tape i got WAS ERASED BY PC THUGS

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Mine had a cover of "I'm Only Sleeping" by Suggs

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link

anyone find the lord b/c of this tape

Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Eric Hoffman who started this thread appears to be another name for Roger Adultery/Roger Fidelity, since Roger mentioned him here: Piggy (Voivod) est mort The guys in Voivod had cool, punk rock named like "Piggy" and "Snake." That was way cooler than calling yourself "Eric Hoffman" or "Chuck Schuldiner" or "Alex Scolinik."

YOU JUST GOT FREAKFOLK'D

dad a, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

i kinda want to hear this tape.

t0dd swiss, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Eric Hoffman is in Deicide I think

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link

"I also got a pamphlet about how Roman Catholics are in league with the devil and not true Christians"

as a Catholic, I can certify this as absolutely true.

Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't care if this is a hoax or what, this kinda shit is great. Is there any way I can hear this tape 5 years later?

RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Is there any way I can hear this tape 5 years later?

― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:58 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

what i got is HOOS for the capitalism (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 2 November 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link

SEVERE and troubled religious folk damage with group vocals

This should be on the label of the single. You know, how they used to put "Vocal With Orchestra" or whatever.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 2 November 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link

six years pass...

i found my copy of one of these today, an untitled cassette (which unfortunately i haven't got the means to play at the moment). did anything come to light about these guys? all the searches i've done just lead back to this thread.

dogs, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link


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