Sturgeon Paisano, by Paisano

Sturgeon Paisano

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STURGEON PAISANO ZINE
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42 Pages black and white zine with a very light blue cardstock cover.

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1.	Crank Sturgeon - A1 Yer Cheatin’ Heart/ Herman Wouk Ode 16:37	info
2.	Crank Sturgeon - A2 Jeff An’Tony Correspond Via I-95 02:11	info
3.	Crank Sturgeon - A3 Goiter Jig 05:55	info
4.	Crank Sturgeon - A4 Squirl 02:10	info
5.	Paisano - B1 First Contribution 11:05	info
6.	Paisano - B2 Second Contribution 09:46	info
7.	Paisano - B3 Third Contribution 08:12	info
8.	Untitled Contribution (Track #2) 03:27	info
9.	Untitled Contribution (Track #3) 07:27	info	buy track
10.	Daniel Mitha (Sano) - A1 A Stugeon ode and a sorely missed microphone 14:06	info
11.	Daniel Mitha (Sano) - B1 In a tireless revolt against the electronica movement I have opted to become one with nature for almost 2 minutes 02:05	info
12.	Daniel Mitha (Sano) - B2 Dissapointed, fame was sought elsewhere. Drove south to our State’s capital and sounded off to the hello kitties at the midnight sun 05:52	info
13.	Daniel Mitha (Sano), Jeph Jermann, Aaron Wintersong, Dave Knott - B3 In a quest for musical interaction and re-action, an 8 minute distraction is provided by Jerman, Wintersong, Mitha, Knott from April of 1997. Kim Novak was present in the spirit of the guitarist. 07:08	info
14.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A1 Swiss Excerpt 05:27	info
15.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A2 Swiss Excerpt 04:45	info
16.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A3 Swiss Excerpt 00:12	info
17.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A4 Swiss Exceprt 03:30	info
18.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A5 Swiss Exceprt 00:08	info
19.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A6 Swiss Excerpt 01:56	info
20.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A7 Swiss Excerpt 04:31	info
21.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A8 Swiss Excerpt 00:51	info
22.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A9 Swiss Excerpt 05:22	info
23.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A10 A Message to Daniel 00:44	info
24.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B1 Swiss Excerpt 03:28	info
25.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B2 Swiss Excerpt 02:50	info
26.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B3 Swiss Excerpt 02:22	info
27.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B4 Swiss Excerpt 02:32	info
28.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B5 Swiss Excerpt 04:30	info
29.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A1 Nathan Solo 04:30	info
30.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A2 Nathan Solo 10:35	info
31.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A3 Nathan Solo 09:57	info
32.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - A4 Nathan Solo 02:56	info
33.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B1 Nathan Solo 05:40	info
34.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B2 Nathan Solo 04:40	info
35.	Nathan Caskey (Pai) - B3 Nathan Solo 02:29	info

about

Paisano was the brainchild of Nathan Caskey and Daniel Mitha, two music-loving teenagers living in Kirkland, WA, just across the bridge from Seattle grunge city. Following the discovery of the music of Sonic Youth and the Dead C the pair would deeply immerse themselves into the 90’s underground «experimental» music culture. After catching a few live shows and collecting records, tapes, zines, and distro catalogs compulsively, the duo would eventually try their hands at creating their own kind of noise music. Paisano then began wreaking havoc from Mitha’s family home basement after school and on weekends eventually sending a tape recording of their experiment to Maine-based noise musician Crank Sturgeon. This cassette exchange eventually resulted in the production of the 1996 self-released and hand-made Sturgeon Paisano split tape. Limited to 50 copies, the split was mostly given away to friends and people who, in the band’s own words “were just not interested and didn’t care to keep it around”. Shortly after releasing the tape, Nathan would leave for Switzerland, and by the beginning of the school year 1997, the duo would part ways, leaving for college and ultimately ceasing all of its musical activities.

The downloadable musical material included with this zine is made up of all the music from the aforementioned Sturgeon Paisano split cassette (including Crank Sturgeon’s side!) and more than 2 hours of previously unreleased material. This includes 2 unreleased Paisano tracks, as well as 3 cassettes worth of field recordings, tape collage, sonic études, or various oddities laid down on tape as solo material from Nathan and Daniel during the Paisanic years.

“It’s actually quite nice to know that Paisano continues to generate some listens. I was quite blown away from the first cassette they sent me- mad, grating, anxious work - simply amazing stuff.
It was a pleasure to have shared a tape with them.” -Crank Sturgeon, January 2020

***At least 1$ out of the sale of every copy of this zine will be donated to Taking What We Need. An informal community group dedicated to helping low-income transwomen in Montreal get what they need through discretionary funding.***

credits

released October 23, 2020

Crank Sturgeon - Electronics, Noises [All Stuph Sturgeon Electric And Broken Dobro]
Paisano - Guitar, Bass, Drums, Tape, (Broken) Lightbulb, Lollipop, Walkie-Talkie, Broken Glass, Found Objects, Office Furnitures, Squashroom Explosions, Garage Reverb, Field Recording, Gargling, Etc.

-Crank Sturgeon/Paisano: Sturgeon Paisano
Originally released in an edition of 50 copies in 1996.

-Paisano: 96 Demo
Two unreleased tracks from Paisano: 96 Demo ( AKA The Crank Sturgeon demo tape), recorded winter 95/96

-Daniel Mitha (Sano): Some Paisanic Soundings in the absence of N.C. (Les parapluies de Cherboug have shielded us from the downpour of noise until a suprisingly young man from Bellevue shed some light to the outer limits of WA.) Previously unreleased, recorded in 1997.
*Track B3 recorded at Anomolous records with Jeph Jerman, Aaron Wintersong and Dave Knott in April 1997

-Nathan Caskey (PAI): Excerpts from Switzlerland tape
Previously unreleased, recorded in 1996-1997

- Nathan Caskey (Pai): Excerpts from Nathan’s Tape
Previously unreleased, most likely recorded in 1995-1996

THANKS TO CRANK STURGEON, DANIEL MITHA, NATHAN CASKEY, JEPH JERMANN, DAVE KNOT, AARON WINTERSONG, EYVIND KANG, ÉMILIE GIRARD-CHAREST, MARK MOLNAR, VICKY METTLER, OLIVIA WIEN, PAIGE STEWART, MARIELLE GROVEN, AARON LUMLEY, PATRICK SHIROISHI, BRYAN QU, FLORENCE CARDINAL AND GABRIELLE GODBOUT.

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