Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance are an experimental music outfit from New Hampshire, spearheaded by Brent Field, who ran Nauscopy Records. The first known appearance was in the August 1990 issue of Maximum Rocknroll wherein Lance Hahn described them as "unbelievably awful". Later, in 1996 and 2006, they would appear on albums with the Feederz[1][2] and the Sun City Girls[3][4], respectively. They are labelmates with Happy Flowers on the Lost Frog label in Tokyo. They also had several releases on Nauscopy, and at least one member, Brent Field, was in the band Sheep Squeeze[5][6]. One unique aspect of the band is that they have sworn to never play a live show, insisting that doing so constitutes "whoredom". They also build some of their own unique instruments, for example, guitar components combined with a record player/8-track player combo that had sympathetic strings and could be plugged into an amplifier (the record player serving as the "guitar" body). They have also had several name changes, such as "Injected With Diarrhea" and "The Crucifucktards" (moniker created after Doc Dart disfriended them for being fans of Robert Anton Wilson and Taoism). The band has experimented heavily with recording lathes, found sounds, circuit bending and other hardware manipulation, and transgressive themes, one fan even comparing them to Costes[7]. They also did the soundtrack to a short film called "Alla Snow"[8]. The band are influenced by the likes of Caroliner, Death in June, Negativland, Dr. Demento, the Almanac Singers, Arabic music, Hanatarash, Eeyore Power Tool, and RRRecords alter-ego Charlie Ward (insisting that the split LP with Baz was actually put out by someone in the Northwest Territories and not the actual label, Nauscopy). They have also claimed to have invented their own musical scale, using the 15th root of two and 115 hertz, instead of the more usual 12th root of two with 440 hertz. Notable fans of EBDVI include Geza X, Thurston Moore, Martha Colburn, Brown Cuts Neighbors, and Fat Worm of Error.
Partial discography
edit- Split 7" e.p. with An Oxygen Auction (featuring a cover of the Sun City Girls song "Horse Cock Phepner"[9]) (Nauscopy)
- Split LP with Baz (Nauscopy, 2001) (album featured a different, handmade cover for each individual record - even the names of the bands were changed)
- "Reality Is Dead" online album (Lost Frog)
- "Never Rape Your Friend's Corpse on a Thursday" K7 (Selva Elettrica)
- "Save an Absurdist, Eat a Rationalist" K7 (as "Edith Qbert's Squash Insurance") (Zeikzak)
- s/t 2CD (Beniffer)
- "Dedicated to Ampiphany" CD-R (Mangdisc)
- "Dying" CD-R (Nauscopy)
- "I Stabbed Some Space, It Ate My Face" CD (Reality Impaired)
References
edit- ^ Compilation CD featuring "Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit" and the Feederz
- ^ same compilation, with review and full band name
- ^ Compilation LP featuring EBDVI with the Sun City Girls (discogs.com)
- ^ Same compilation, this time on CD-R, with review
- ^ Sheep Squeeze official myspace page
- ^ Fusetron EBDVI listing confirming name "Brent Field"
- ^ blogspot.com post
- ^ film featured at antireality.org
- ^ EBDVI at suncitygirls.com