The RPM Challenge - The Annenberg Fund

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The Annenberg Fund produces sounds from an automatronic banjolator, among other instrumentational devices, warbling vocalizations, an anemic accordionatron, and ukelelemation. Also, The Annenberg Fund has a drum kit (a "drum kit") which is in actual reality a toy chest with a kick pedal, and a wash board. The Annenberg Fund owns one microphone.

The Annenberg Fund only recently (last week) purchased its first computerized equipment, and so to save time will record it's RPM challenge on the old equipment, a Tascam four-track, patched through a 70's Panasonic tape decoding device, and then patched once more through the GarageBand computerized sound capturing and transmittal device (GBCSCATD). These will then be displayed for your consumption.

This album is based entirely on books we are currently reading, and we wholeheartedly incourage you to purchase these books at an independent bookstore of your choice, and to recognize that the themes if not direct words of the songs are courtesy of Rivka Galchen, Denis Johnson, Sasa Stanisic, Tod Wodicka, Lauren Groff....

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2008 RPM Album Info

Date mailed or hand-delivered:	02/28/2008
Date Received:	03/03/2008
Genre:	Alternative
Album Name:	ARCs and Galleys
Album Description:	Each song is based on a book we are currently reading. All new releases, all unfinished as of February 1st.
Tracks (w/numbers):	1. Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen 2. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 3. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone by Sasa Stanisic 4. All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka 5. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff 6. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano 7. Johnny One-Eye by Jerome Charyn 8. Yalo by Elias Khoury 9. The Last Musketeer by Jason
Preferred Track:	3. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone by Sasa Stanisic
Band Bio:	The Annenberg Fund is a collective from Seattle Washington. This album was written and recorded in a basement, on an analog Tascam 4-track. The Annenberg Fund prefers organic red wines.
Band Members & Instruments Played:	Christopher Sabatini: banjo, guitar, accordion, homemade drum kit, ukulele, tremola, glockenspiel, harmonica, jaw harp, voices.
Band Location (city, state or province, and country):	Seattle, WA

music, etc

RPM 2008 demos, works-in-progress, or tracks-finished-early... a musical sketchbook. This is just a sampler -- complete and finished albums will be uploaded into the real jukebox in March!

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