Galaxie 500 – CBGB 12.13.88 [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Richard Francis is a sound

Richard Francis is a sound artist working with electronics and field recordings

By its conclusion the solitary singer is left brutally alone

as evidenced on their next full LP 'A Thousand Leaves'

even suggested to a rather enigmatic buyer (who I once witnessed arriving on a unicycle) that one floor would be made up of all 20th Century music

producing arrangements where all the style and the sonic atmosphere meet in a happy junk room and elaborating his delirious patchwork studio from magneto-phone tapes

Galaxie 500 – CBGB 12.13.88 [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Richard Francis is a sound"After a storied first year as a band releasing and touring behind their critically acclaimed debut album Today, Galaxie 500 closed out 1988 with a quintessential performance at New York Citys famed CBGB with every bit of their signature intimacy and autumnal bombast on display. The unusual bill which also included Sonic Youth, B. A. L. L. and Unsane was a benefit show for the zine shop See Hear. Captured here in a raw but inspired board mix by Kramer