THE LATEST WEASEL WALTER MASTERPIECE
Seriously: Fuck The Entire World

by Weasel Walter

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

slightly more than 60 minutes of utter bullshit, comes with PDF liner notes. Includes renditions of compositions made popular by Paul McCartney, Captain Beefheart, Edgard Varese, Queen, Band Aid, Sammy Davis Jr., Nitro, Neil Hamburger, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.

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	1.	Jet ('Anti-Karaoke', 2003) 03:59
	2.	Live And Let Die ('Anti-Karaoke', 2003) 03:04
	3.	Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey ('Anti-Karaoke', 2003) 04:28
	4.	We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions ('Anti-Karaoke', 2003) 04:59
	5.	Roxanne ('Anti-Karaoke', 2003) 03:08
	6.	Do They Know It's Christmas ('Anti-Karaoke', 2003) 04:02
	7.	Flash Gordon's Ape (2003) 04:16
	8.	Hyperprism (2004) 03:45
	9.	Shaking Hands And Kissing Babies Covered In Bacteria (2003) 02:53
	10.	'West Side Story' Medley/Tribute To Sammy (2001) 05:15
	11.	Bohemian Rhapsody (2002) 05:07
	12.	Outfuckingrageous Supermix (2002) 05:53
	13.	Teenage Taylor And The Swifts (2014) 01:06
	14.	Live In Köln 11.15.00 (2002) 08:17

about

A compilation of cover songs recorded by Weasel Walter between 2000 and 2014. Excerpts from the liner notes:

"I started writing a really long, incendiary paean to Rock and Roll-as-lifestyle, but, at alarming rate it got way too personal to the extent that I started to realize very few of you could handle it. So, I’m just going to say that for a while around the early 2000s, I was dealing with a bunch of major paradigm shifts, and, for whatever reason, my lifelong allegiance to rock music was rearing its head in a number of sordid ways. . . Cynical and heartfelt at the same time, without a conundrum in sight, I have always found joy, mirth and energy in gleefully SLAUGHTERING various hallowed (and not-so-hallowed) lambs of popular music. This collection encompasses several previously unreleased archival recordings, as well as obscure solo compilation tracks."

credits

released December 16, 2015

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks Live 12.11.15 documentation

Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - Live Brooklyn December 11, 2016

Weasel Walter Large Ensemble - November 22, 2015, JACK, Brooklyn, NY

Entertainment (2015)

Most of you cannot handle this movie. "Entertainment" is a declaration of war on the U.S. white status quo. You want to be happy. Fulfilled. You want to think there's a point to life. This movie is a stunning epic of tedium, boredom, apathy, sadness and banal horror, painted in esoteric allegorical strokes. It is complete nihilism, deftly articulated. It is excellent.

What happens when art is the only thing keeping somebody alive, yet it is obviously their death sentence at the same time? "The Comedian" in this film repeatedly points out and ridicules the total ugliness in life and then slams face first over and over into that ugliness, not to mention that the only audience who seems to ever "get it" are the ugliest garbage on the earth.

If we are going strictly by movie titles, "Entertainment" makes "Happiness" look like Laurel and Hardy. "Entertainment" is a two hour-long utter death-screech of a threnody for the first world artiste. It is the sound that some of us make while we bang our heads against the concrete of reality until torrents of blood come gushing out. Naturally, it took a master comedian like Gregg Turkington to create one of the most bleak existential nightmares imaginable. He possesses the reckless sensitivity to stare hard into his own personal void and show it to us with no mercy. He finds that the world is neither laughing with him or at him - rather it just doesn't care at all.

The obvious "laughs" are basically over in the first five minutes. During the opening salvo, the moribund pandering of a sad clown/mime to the lowest common denominator sets an unbearably awkward tone which never resolves. The world of "Entertainment" is one where idiots and perverts win, and the artist is valueless trash. Early on, John C. Reilly is momentarily hysterical as a bumbling, artless capitalist who senses value in The Comedian's work, but just cannot get it. The Capitalist feels compelled to siphon some sort of perceived authenticity from The Comedian. The exchange is ultimately hollow.

The scenes all last too long, on purpose. The soundtrack is mostly muted, dissonant cacophony, surrounded by stretches of awkward silence. The only time The Comedian actually comes alive is during the short bursts when he is on stage. Even then, confrontation and disaster is the goal, or punch line. His act is mostly about brutal ridicule of the pointlessness and fleetingly temporary futility of celebrity. In the film, we hear the exact same stilted Neil Hamburger jokes he has been making for more than 15 years (to my recollection), and that's the point - The Comedian has come to a cross road, where his material no longer falls into any meaningful context. His work has reached an impasse, and all that's left is death.

The Comedian lives to create discomfort people don't want, yet he needs people who don't want it to accomplish that goal. It's a catch-22. Ultimately, The Comedian is more impotent than Don Quixote. He is a vortex, closing in on himself. He has made his whole life about proving that everything sucks, only to find that everything sucks. This movie is a protracted suicide note.

I suppose this movie resonates with me so strongly because I've always been a comedian, first and foremost. All of my music is comedic, often in the blackest ways, but sometimes in the most base sense, but even when it's obvious, I'm generally trying to do something far below the surface. I can't help it. This is the lens I view life through: I am coping with existence the best way I know how - trying to keep some kind of motivation, while acknowledging, mocking and sometimes finding the exquisite beauty in chaos. This is not a popular angle. I don't expect anybody to get it or care at this point. It's largely self-serving. Hell, it's no less pointless than what everybody else on this planet does, so I continue. It's what makes sense to me. Where that's going is another matter altogether.

In "Entertainment", Gregg Turkington, as The Comedian, is basically trapped in a wasteland full of vapid automatons who don't understand why he would even bother. He no longer communicates to anyone. The world doesn't want or need him, yet he has shunned those who do in order to play out a terminal directive. He is outnumbered and doomed, regardless of the clarity of his vision. The fall downhill begins to gain rapid momentum as the artist finally starts wondering why his life's work means anything even to himself.

New Releases at Bandcamp: Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Walter/Pitsiokos, Weasel Walter solo guitar!

new albums at
http://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/:

lydia lunch retrovirus "live in zurich" - a full live show from june 2015, mixed from multitrack soundboard audio sources

weasel walter "for andrew ortmann" - a shearing live 30 minute guitar improvisation by the weez

weasel walter/chris pitsiokos "unplanned obsolescence" - digital reissue of ultra limited LP only live album documenting their first musical meeting

New Weasel Walter Products Spring 2015

i have fine new wares available. prices are postage paid in the US
paypal = weaselw@juno.com
foreign orders, please write for quote:

Lydia Lunch Retrovirus "Urge To Kill" CD 14.00 postage paid in US

The brand new studio recordings by this touring unit featuring Lunch, Weasel Walter, Tim Dahl and Bob Bert. Nine bracing re-examinations of material from her early musical period. Intense modern no-wave rock outbursts.

Deadly Orgone Radiation "Power Trips" CD 14.00 postage paid in US

Manic, intelligent free-rock improvisation by this trio featuring Weasel Walter (drums) and guitarists Alex Ward and James Sedwards. Dissonant, intense displays of control and fury.

Henry Kaiser/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter "Plane Crash 2" CD 14.00 postage paid in the US

Building off the 2009 ugEXPLODE release "Plane Crash", this wooly trio featuring guitar, double bass and drums emits another disaster of detail and interplay, recording with stunning fidelity. More painterly than the debut, but no less uncompromising.

Order all three above CDs as a package in the US for only 36 dollars and save!
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Weasel Walter/David Buddin "Quodlibet" download

http://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/quodlibet
59 minutes of excoriating Modernism fusing the austere, unpredictable serialist piano compositions of David Buddin and the lightspeed improvisational drumming of Weasel Walter. Download includes 7 page PDF file with artwork by Dominika Michalowska and extensive liner notes.

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I also have limited quantites of the following releases - please inquire:

Chris Pitsiokos/Weasel Walter "Drawn and Quartered" LP (ltd to 150, almost gone)

Yoni Kretzmer/Pascal Niggenkemper/Weasel Walter "Protestmusic" CD

coming this year:

Cellular Chaos - album title tk LP/CD

Andrew Hock/Joe Morris/Weasel Walter - Jigsaw CD

Henry Kaiser/Weasel Walter with Melvin Gibbs and Chris Pitsiokos - album title tk CD

thanks,

weasel

A Dionysian evening of sound and fury, as this 12 piece ensemble lead by Weasel Walter and Henry Kaiser evokes colliding planets and endless apocalypse with this brutal grouping of heavy New York players during two hour-long sets of structured improvisation. Don't miss it. Fans of the Globe Unity/"Machine Gun"/"Ascension" school of aural violence will be highly gratified by this unforgettable performance.

JACK - 505 1/2 Waverly Ave. Brooklyn NY 11238
Wednesday April 22, 2015 - 8pm
Both sets $10 in advance from www.brownpapertickets.com
$15 at the door

New Weasel Walter solo release: "Fragments"

Weasel Walter "Fragments"

20 maniacal shards of previously unreleased complex composition from 1999 to the present by the prolific master of disaster, Weasel Walter. Fans of Flying Luttenbachers albums like "Systems Emerge From Complete Disorder", "Incarceration By Abstraction" and "Cataclysm" as well as Behold The Arctopus' "Horroscension" take heed. Download comes with extensive 9 page PDF liner note document.

http://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/fragments