So, no more singles. I’m trying to figure out what works in this modern musical world and I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing works. I hate singles, and you probably do too. So I’m releasing all the singles in one convenient package here, while I work on my first album in a while.
released June 2, 2025
“Interesting” times imply high future variance, but usually begin during relative stability. A calm before a storm, a moment of misleading respite – but a bit of peace, nonetheless. Clouds come and clouds go, and only some have lingering impact. What peace will last, and what will come after?
Featuring 8-bit sounds from the Famicom, also known as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
“Interesting” times imply high future variance, but usually begin during relative stability. A calm before a storm, a moment of misleading respite – but a bit of peace, nonetheless. What peace will last, and what will come after?
Featuring 8-bit sounds from the Famicom, also known as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
Starting from somewhere, and going someplace. Mislaid mariachi, mothballed in space. Is it a party? Is it a wake? Perhaps it is neither, but is simply displaced.
Featuring a mariachi band from “El Mariachi”, a virtual instrument developed by Libre Wave.
There is an argument that, regardless of complexity, all is theoretically knowable from prior conditions. Cause and effect explain all that was, is, and will be – if only we could gather and compute with the data. But even proponents of this argument will generally acknowledge that such a feat is unlikely – we come from, and are going to, an incalculable gumbo.
Featuring reverb, modulated by volume, accompanied by synthesized drums and effects, all triggered by a minimal infinitely-growing pattern in Conway’s Game of Life.
There is an argument that, regardless of complexity, all is theoretically knowable from prior conditions. Cause and effect explain all that was, is, and will be – if only we could gather and compute with the data. But even proponents of this argument will generally acknowledge that such a feat is unlikely – we come from, and are going to, an incalculable gumbo.
Featuring reverb, modulated by volume, accompanied by synthesized drums and effects, all triggered by a minimal infinitely-growing pattern in Conway’s Game of Life.
Halfway to a thousand, rushing along – passing and weaving through the throng. Whether miles or meters, the goal isn’t near – but it is the journey that we must hold dear.
Featuring jazz quartet of piano, upright bass, drum kit, and clarinet.
The Panther Running Loose
by Charles Rice Goff III
1 The Coal Dust On The Noose
2 Hip Lip Rip
3 A Wooden Stake For The Heart Of AI
4 Pillows For Neverland
5 Discothequeno
6 Refining The Effluent
7 Baby Break My Circuit
8 The Sanguinary Hacking Of Torakusu Yamaha
9 Rockin’ The Hey Wagon
10 Open To The Public
BACKGROUND :
Goff created the recordings for “The Panther Running Loose” between 2023 and 2025. None, except “The Sanguinary Hacking Of Torakusu Yamaha” has ever previously been released by Taped Rugs Productions (see specifics below). This collection was produced in cooperation with Netlabel Radio Day, July, 2025, at the following link:
https://netlabelday.org .
No artificial intelligence (AI) was employed in molding this presentation.
Tracks 2, 5, 7, and 9 all first appeared on the Herby Records release of a seven inch vinyl record entitled “Discothequeno” in December, 2024, at the following link:
https://herbyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/discothequeno .
Goff produced a collection of videos to accompany these four recordings, released in January, 2025, at the following link:
https://archive.org/details/DiscothequenoVideos .
Track 3 first appeared on the Aural Films online collection: “Horror Films 2024” in October, 2024, at the following link:
https://thismusicplantstrees.bandcamp.com/album/horror-films-2024 .
Track 8 first appeared on the Aural Films online collection: “Horror Films 2023” in October, 2023,
at the following link:
https://auralfilms1.bandcamp.com/album/horror-films-2023 .
The reference to Torakusu Yamaha in the title is a nod to how the creation of the piece involved original methods of playing (ie: “hacking”) a Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer (Torakusu was the 19th Century founder of Yamaha technologies). The piece was later renamed and included in Goff’s “Calumet” collection, released by Taped Rugs in early 2024.
Tracks 1, 4, 6, and 10 have never previously been released by any label, including Taped Rugs.
INSTRUMENTATION :
Voice
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer
Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer
Artiphon Orba
Casio AP-24 Electric Piano
Le Mega IR 1 Internet Radio
Original Sound Samples
Musescore MIDI Scorewriter
Kikkerland “Make Your Own Music Box” Kit
Aklot Electro-Acoustic Soprano Ukulele
Ibanez DM 1000 Digital Delay
Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
Panasonic Portable Cassette Tape Recorder
Canon Digital Camera Recorder
SOFTWARE :
Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI Converter
Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter
Musescore MIDI Scorewriter
Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder
Cool Edit Pro II Multitrack Recorder
Audacity Multitrack Recorder
Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
Suffering, like all sensation, comes in finely varying degrees. Pain can be debilitating, or simply a distraction – or sometimes, a ghost.
Featuring clarinet.
We already know to avoid yellow snow – but that isn’t the only danger. More insidious, subtly causing ill effect – bad cream enters, lingers, grows. As with all things, it will eventually pass – though, it is a question of direction.
Featuring synthesizers, generative sequencers, arpeggiators, electric keys, and effects.
An event, not quite right – but, it works. Unindicated, not unerring, simply suggestive. Follow the suggestion, and vindicate retroactively. Resonances rebound, and eventually align.
Featuring improvised piano.
The syntax of sin, the tax of sines – a trial to share, a signal from tines. To see and to stare are two different things, so to those bemused – beware puzzling.
Featuring synthesizers, drum machines, flute, orchestral strings, brass, choir, piano, kitchen cups, baby toys, and effects.
Unplanned, it begins. Unstructured, it continues. Unknown, it develops. Yet as time passes, it takes shape.
Featuring string orchestra, flute, piano, french horn, trumpet, clarinet, and oboe.
Something discovered – invented, considered, imagined. Set aside. Forgotten. Lost. Mourned. Wondered. Mythologized. Lionized. Reconsidered. Reinvented. Replaced?
Featuring improvised piano.
Tilting saints has meanings two – it could refer to saints askew. But “tilting at” could also be our purpose: challenge the holy.
This 5/4 version of “When The Saints Go Marching In” features clarinet, xylophone, shakers, synthesizers, trumpet, melodica, cello, and drum machine.
Are kiss of promised springtime you. Lonely long makes seem that the winter. Are breathless evening hush of the you. A brink lovely of on that the song trembles.
This reordering of “All The Things You Are” features a jazz quintet of alto saxophone, vibraphone, piano, upright bass, and brushed drums.
Some things are burned to remember – others, to forget. When systems are burning knowledge is lost, and the fire spreads. The past is lost twice – first slowly, then all at once.
Featuring clarinet, accompanied by bass drum, hi-hat, crackling fire, and tom drums.
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There comes a point where the easiest thing to do is simply play – and it can be joyful, sorrowful, frivolous, and dire. But while it is all of these things, there is something it is not – amelioration. I should practice.
Featuring clarinet.
Thoughts continue – meander. Though seemingly less directed, there is a form of order. Wandering is simply a form of searching for something you don’t yet know you’re looking for.
Featuring improvised piano.
Thogonal – or, how lines may independently proceed. Or, why angles vary regularly. Or, how contours crease liminal boundaries. Or, thogonal.
Featuring improvised piano.
When Dave and Sebastian’s paths crossed at djummi records in 2019 and they began exchanging ideas about music through their correspondence, it quickly became clear that an interesting overlap was opening up. John Bonham, for example. Dave found him fascinating as one of those drummers who like to play his instrument sometimes without the rest of the band. Sebastian, in turn, appreciated his uncompromising, expansive sound. Dave sparked Sebastian’s interest in Jon Hassell, and Sebastian inspired Dave with Tortoise and Trans Am. They also agree on the Violent Femmes.
Krautrock is always a recurring theme, but so is ambient. Sebastian didn’t understand this music for a long time because it seemed to dispense with rhythm. Dave instead was looking for the sound for his solo drumming there. The goal: a percussion section that sheds its brutality, achieves a lightness of touch, and is thus capable of telling its own stories. In Sebastian’s previous work, lightness expresses itself more as a playfulness in the handling of ideas than in a reduction of means. His songs are often weighty and rich in sounds, motifs, and ideas.
With suralarm, these intersectional opposites meet and intertwine perfectly. Through a ping-pong of ideas, the two developed the EP’s four tracks. Each musician brought two basic ideas into the ring as a starting point. The title track, “train of thought,” perhaps symbolises the record’s creation process. It corresponds to the equally figurative German word “Gedankengang” (Gedankengang). Just as one thought connects to another during reflection, ideally with the goal of insight, this track develops throughout the successive musical ideas, like how this little album came about.
It’s kraut, it’s ambient. At times powerful, at times light. It offers material for the listener’s undivided attention, but certainly also has the potential to be elevator music. If so, then Paternoster, please!
Supposedly, (un)naturally, things are organized. Entropy strikes – coordination (de)creases. Branches span the structure-holding apertures. A larger picture emerges – formulaic, for some.
Featuring alto saxophone and reverb.
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released March 25, 2025
The Anti-meanies played everything
Album cover art by Ejler Berry
