BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT

Blue Sausage Infant has been in operation since about 1986. It's hard to tell. Depends on when you start the clock. The noise has been happening since about 1977 if you want to get technical. But we are ORGANISMS goddammit, dancing meat and spirit-infused sinew. There is no technical. What? Oh yes.

So BSI has been largely a kitchen-sink operation since the '80s, churning out DIY releases for the few [un]lucky enough to network with me in the old tape-trading scene: Lovingly handcrafted cassettes and later, CDRs. Never more than 100 copies of anything was made and *poof*, they vanished into that ephemeral creeping vacuum of forgotten noise. Played a few gigs in magical places like DC Space and the Takoma Park planetarium... Then came the DARK AGES, from early 2001 until June of 2008, when The Muse fell into a drooling coma on the floor of the studio, hogging all that precious space in that appallingly powerless fetal position. Was she dead? Would she ever revive? Muse? Hello?

In the summer of 2008 I gave that inert slacker Muse a kick in the ribs, handed her a cup of extremely strong coffee (or was it Absinthe Duplais? Memory fails me...) and she got to work on me. And she became a Lovely Muse again. BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT came roaring back like a horny sailor on his first shore-leave in decades. Eyeballs exploding with possibilities. Then came the shows, beginning with that Electric Possible gig at George Washington University. And it was clear right away that The Muse wasn't just back, she was ON FIRE, vomiting joy like a cosmic termite queen with a fountain of Goddess Eggs  coursing from her ample birth canal... Oh christ, I thought, there are still such lovely sounds to be made...

The live download release+CDR followed all that, and now, the first "proper" release in 20+ years is nearing completion. By "proper" I mean manufactured by real robots in marketable quantities and represented by the graceful NoisePolice at Zeromoon. Because the time has come.

Blue Sausage Infant: A Cooling Board Bacchanal will be born on 17april10. Guest performers include the very fine Mike Shanahan on drums (see his contribution to BSI in the District of Noise vol.2 compilation), Gary Rouzer on [un]prepared bass and amplified textures, Jason Mullinax (aka Pilesar) on acoustic misfittery, and Jeff Surak (Violet) on god-knows-what. Fans of recent live shows will recognize the vibe: We're into some heavy space here. Heavy, thick, oily space. Many layers and textures, with occasional roaring grooves. Uh, excuse me, sir? Your spacerock is showing...

Watch this site for more details on the CD launch party, tentatively set for 17April10 at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Ave in DC.  Save the date. And buy the CD. It'll be a great show... like a long lost pagan Sabbat, but with psychedelic drone and experimental audio pranks. And ping pong. And beer. An event for the ages.