Sketches of Several Southwestern Felons on the Eve of their Just Demise
Info
Digitalis Industries | Foxglove 139
Edition of 100 copies
Tracklist
from Tales of the Blue Guitar
1.- in Cold Hell and Thicket (for Tetuzi Akiyama)
2.- Badge in the Drink (for Old New Orleans)
from Tales of Hannah-He
4.- crawl spaces
5.- Kitty, don’t go
6.- squeamish
7.- haicoups
8.- Verso Napoli
9.- future blips
10.- Hi-Yi-Yi-Yo
11.- song for Billy reprise
12.- song for Billy
from Tales of the Tall and Not So (for Doc Charalambides)
14.- Gnarly Root Queen (let the Black Crosses fade)
Credits
composed by SAIKO
video stills by Noé Cuéllar
puppeteering by José Luis Vargas
Reviews
SAIKO is one of multiple monikers used by Berlin-by-way-of-Texas resident Jeff Gburek. As a friend and collaborator of such luminaries as Tetuzi Akiyama and Charalambides’ Tom Carter, Gburek extends his guitar into a world of otherness. Mixing in elements of obscured and manipulated vocals and minimal synthesizers, saiko is an cosmos-bound vessel appropriating the sea. this is the blues cut-up, pieced back together, and then drowned in the bathtub before ascending to the heavens.
Digitalis Industries, 2006