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new Phinney/McGee collaboration!

8/30/2018

Hal McGee and I are happy to present
our 22nd collaboration since 1989
microcassettera

1. I know myself! 15:36
2. do not turn off your computer! 15:36
3. neck vertebrae & mechanical apparatus 14:03
4. chug it, don't go without! 15:34

microcassette assemblages
by Chris Phinney and Hal McGee
recorded June - August 2018
in Memphis, Tennessee and Gainesville, Florida

sounds of everyday life
spoken words
violin-uke, acoustic guitar, diddley bow, and canjo
analog and digital synthesizers

available on CDR by request
for $8 postage paid worldwide
PayPal to [email protected]

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Chris Phinney

I used to run Harsh Reality Music, started the label in 1982 releasing my own music in various groups. They were Mental Anguish, Pungent Odor who became The Skoptzies, Misfeasance, Macroglossia, RSVP which became Cancerous Growth, Viktimized Karcass, Planet Zero.

Anyway I started releasing tapes by artists that I liked. Over 350 tapes, some vinyl, CDs, CD-Rs, and videos on VHS. Also did distribution of some LPs. Did some writing for mags, some mail art, I did a lot of compilations as well.

Helped run Tapegerm with Bryan Baker, Scott Carr & J Mundok, for 10 years or more, a collaborative site too intense to explain here.

Had my own domain for HRM, shut down the label due to several reasons around 2006 if memory serves.

You can see some of the releases on Hal’s site, the HRM section. Quit Tapegerm around 2010.

Took a 5 year hiatus due to personal reasons but came out of it & did Mental Anguish - Frozen Lake & a few Phinney/McGee microcassette releases.

I have collaborated extensively with Hal McGee, Carl Howard - Nomuzic, Mike Jackson, plus others Prescott, Jeff Central, Charlie Goff, John Hudak, Minóy, Alien Planetscapes, Lord Litter, Don Campau, Angwana which was with Al Margolis hence the name, Pat Grafik, Isaac Ersoff, & a CD-R with a PDF comic book by Matt Howarth released on his label!

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