NEW RESIDENTS STUFF ANNOUNCED ON KLANGGALERIE

Announced :


THE RESIDENTS
Refused
CD album | gg314

The Residents are an American art collective best known for their over 60 studio albums that were recorded over a period of over forty years. They also created some outstanding multimedia works, mainly three CD ROM projects and ten DVDs. Working as an anonymous collective, their identitites were kept secret until in 2017 Hardy Fox revealed himself as their primary composer. Hardy died in October 2018, but the group continue to record and perform. The compilation album Refused was originally released by the band's own Ralph America label in 1999 and collected 11 versions of the track "Santa Dog". For our 2019 Christmas re-issue, we have collected a total of 17 variations and have adapted the original artwork.

Full tracklist:
1. Fire
2. Santa Dog '78
3. Santa Dog '84
4. Santa Dog '84 (Unfinished - A Work In Progress)
5. Santa Dog '88
6. Santa Dog N.Y.E. (Live)
7. Where Are Your Dogs? Show Us Your Ugly!
8. Famine
9. Pestilence
10. Flood
11. Plague
12. Fire '99/Santa Dog 2nd Millennium
13. Santa Dog 2006
14. Santa Dog 2017
15. Santa Dog For Gamelan Orchestra
16. Santa Cow
17. Santa Dog 2007

BLACK TAR AND THE CRY BABIES
Black Tar And The Cry Babies
CD album | gg311

Hardy Fox was the primary composer of The Residents. He created an incredible body of work, using all kinds of names other than The Residents, amongst them Combo De Mechanio, Sonidas De La Noche, Dead Eye Dick, Charles Bobuck or Black Tar And The Cry Babies. The Tar projects were generally created to help raise money for needy projects for poverty, mass destruction in fire, and to fight the evil of Trump uprising. Season Of The Witch was released for Halloween 2015 and was available from October 17th to November 2nd of that year as a download only. Left With The Fires was published two years later and was available as a free download from Hardy's bandcamp page. Any donations given were matched dollar by dollar by himself and used to help the Sonoma Humane Society who cares for pets during wildfire disasters. After this, six more songs were released as freebies with the Hacienda Bridge newsletter, but these were ironic sound clips often not even using Hardy's own music. So the three tracks compiled on this album are the complete works composed by Hardy as Black Tar. Hardy never saw this music as a commercial product so we releasing this for Halloween 2019 as a small run CD on Klanggalerie and TOOK in an edition of 300 copies only, available solely through mail order.

Full tracklist:
1. Season Of The Witch
2. Left With The Fires
3. The Fires.