Mondo Bungle

Jesus Troubled the Carenter's Salad - Starving Rotation

Overview: This marks the end of the earliest era if Salad, the dawn of the age. At this point, this thing wasn't so much a new project as just a new page that housed a split album between Trouble Salad and Frownland's Jesus the Carpenter. It ushered in a new Saladian epoch, as with this release I had to start composing and structuring music as opposed to the improv if before. Audiomulch was just a free trial so I switched to a new thing and here we go, this was my first effort. Frownland will have to explain the cover... And his portion of the album if he really wants to.

1. Cursed to Walk this Earth by Those Who Scorn Their Blood
Sound and Style: I'm not entirely sure, but this could have been the first track I did with the new program. It's very simplistic, windy sounding ambiance with uneven volume levels.
Trivia, Influences, and Origins: This phrase was heard as an ominous chant during a hypnagogic experience. As I descended further into darkness and evil, the chant grew louder. I kinda gave it some interpretation, like being condemned to Earth by deities who despise the physical universe or something. Then I started a religious theme with the other tracks.
But How?: I wasn't well versed in the program and hadn't yet discovered the wide world of outside samples, so it's pretty undynamic. Edited some sound included with the program to make it sound like wind.

2. Ehud Ben Gera
Sound and Style: more simplistic stuff, a bit if a dark ambient sound and monotonous static drone.
Trivia, Origins, and Influences: "Ehud ben‑Gera (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בֶּן־גֵּרָא‎, Standard Ehud ben‑Gera Tiberian ʾĒhûḏ ben‑Gērāʾ) is described in the biblical Book of Judges [1] as a judge who was sent by God to deliver the Israelites from Moabite domination. He is described as being left-handed and a member of the Tribe of Benjamin."
But How?: this utilizes a reversed organ sample

3. Crucifried
Sound and Style: the finest achievement so far. More reverse organ lines that would be accompanied by some nice textural noise. It's like my arena Rick song
Trivia, Origins, and Influences: it's a play on words :0

4. Beneath the Red Sea
Sound and Style: only analog track here, the most peculiar too. Hard to describe, but it has a deep aquatic feel, and bizarre twangy goodness
Trivia, Origins, and Influences: originally titled "Big Gulp Salad" (see below).
But How?: this was an interesting jam session. Using a straw, pen, rubber band, and a big gulp cup with varying amounts of water, I pretensed up some whack ****. Hitting the runner band with the straw, using the beneath to modulate pitch (prepared rubber band?), and eventually using the straw as a bow to conjure more textures.

4. The Blistered Soles of the Wandering Jew
Sound and Style: first try at a big drone track, cones out noticeably choppy and kinda weak sounding
Trivia, Origins, and Influences: a reference to the story if the Wandering Jew, cursed to roam the earth for eternity after insulting Christ, or something like that.

5. Jesus the Carpenter Ant
Sound and Style: wouldn't be a stretch to call this my mist disposable and pointless track. 40 seconds of random reverse organ notes.
Trivia, Origins, and Influences: reference to JtC

Artist's Verdict: the place where I wanted to be was still very far off, and you can tell. Not super full and dense, but the bloom of some good ideas. I was always kinda disappointed that there's two of my sickest song titles ever in tracks 1 and 4, that the songs definitely don't live up to

Then JtC comes in with a 38 minute track, linger than my whole side, and still two more. Bitch.

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