Frozen Lake by Chris Phinney at Gajoob!

5/2/2018

Editor's Note:
In 2016 Chris Phinney recorded his first new music as Mental Anguish in five years, "Frozen Lake", released on the HalTapes label. I mailed the Frozen Lake CDR to Bryan Baker of Gajoob and he reviewed the disc, interviewed Chris and created a YouTube video in which he opened the package and talked about the music.

Chris:
Review, interview, video of package being opened, article, by my good friend Bryan Baker with whom I have done recordings, plus we started Tapegerm together with Scott Carr & J. Mundok.

Check out Bryan's complete friendly and warm presentation of Frozen Lake at Gajoob!

10 Comments

C. Goff III link

5/2/2018 11:11:16

I like this album. I like Mental Anguish getting back to producing music again.

I call out for Bryan to join the EC party -- come on over!

Chris Phinney

5/2/2018 21:27:32

Charles I told him to come in over via email & phone!
Glad you like the album was a lot of fun working it up.

Frank

5/3/2018 01:58:43

I enjoyed listening to 'Frozen Lake', very much... in 32°Celsius. Nice album, Chris! I think it's the first time that I heard something from you.(Or maybe on a compilation from Hal, I must check that)

Chris Phinney

5/3/2018 09:15:05

Thank you Frank! Glad you enjoyed it. Did you make it all the way across the lake?

Frank

5/3/2018 20:31:34

Actually Chris, I didn't... my internet connection jumped off(happens daily) I'll have another listen later.

Chris Phinney

5/3/2018 21:56:47

Frank,

Understand, you need the whole piece to submerge yourself in the whole sound sculpture.

Frank

5/3/2018 23:02:41

It is in my collection now, so there's plenty of time to listen.

Hal McGee

5/4/2018 04:33:45

Frank, thank you for purchasing a download of Frozen Lake from my Bandcamp site!

Chris Phinney

5/4/2018 08:41:42

Frank,
That's good news that you have the whole piece now!

Jeff Central

5/10/2018 12:44:33

Frozen Lake is a wonderful release!! So glad Chris is recording again. Hopefully we'll hear more stuff soon!! :)

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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