MIKE KITCHER - Processed Snippets: Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 LP Alternative I quit college and moved

I quit college and moved to Hollywood in the fall of 1976 and though I wasn't connected to any scene there I tried to convince Mark to move his band out

mail art and avant-rock in permissive and anarchic sessions at the Raymond Building and Poo-Bah Record Shop in old Pasadena

Their DC debut was in 1980 at the first Wilson Center show

and again in August 2006

old cans of paint strewn about

MIKE KITCHER - Processed Snippets: Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 LP Alternative I quit college and movedProcessed Snippets falls firmly into the category of new exotica, a music created from a specific location that becomes placeless through abstraction. Mike Kitcher reworks moments recorded from the SWP re mastered release of Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957, a collection of recordings by Hugh Tracey. Tracey, a pioneering documenter of traditional music across the continent of Africa was notable for the extent of his travels and the breadth of his work,