Tray Full of Lab Mice...
Pneumershonic


Pneumershonic is:
 Paul Bourre <-> vocals, most lyrics (improvised usually), voice horns
Matt Jasper <-> optigan organ arrangements, upright bass on 2nd song, guitar, marxolin, samplers
Beatrice and Max <-> marimbas
Chris Hall <-> bass
Nick Weathersbee <-> flute
Cosmic Ray Brunelle <-> drums, digital mastering



Frequencies of the Beast...

track listing
Hippy Freakout
The Mark of the Beast
Clothespin Cha Cha
Creature Double Feature
Martian Girlfriend
Greetings Earth
Paul Emulates Trumpet
The Ticking
Beyond the Moon
Thelonious Paul
She's My Chicken Pie
Pretty Young Lady
Bubonic Plague
Backwards
Table Girl
Farewell,Marimba Bimbo



below is a review of Pneumershonic's 'Frequencies of the Beast' taken from CMJ (trade edition) 4/14/97...

PNEUMERSHONIC
Frequencies Of The Beast
Tray Full Of Lab Mice, P.O. Box 356, Durham, NH 03824

Pneumershonic is one Paul Bourre, homeless for over 20 years and nuts for probably as long (luckily his poison is coffee), and his songs have all the elements that make up the familiar "ain't it weird" genre. But that's exactly not why we like this disc. Bourre is talented, to be sure -- he improvises his songs on the spot, and unlike, say, Wesley Willis or Daniel Johnston, he can actually sing, when he wants to, with a soft, mellifluous voice and phrasing like a slight, quiet Elvis. Our favorite parts of Frequencies, though, are Tray Full Of Lab Mice label-head Matt Jasper's arrangements. Heavy on the Optigon (a sound we're not sick of... yet), marimbas and free-range guitars, light on any kind of recognizable meter, the music cascades around Bourre's rants about girls and Martians and hippies and love and more girls. The brief, untitled track seven is a perfect jewel of overlaps and repetition, with jungle beats derailed into free-rhythm land. And Bourre himself has a few tricks up his sleeve: "Paul Emulates Trumpet" is just that, and "Farewell, Marimba Bimbo" has him scatting in an abstract duck-and-spittle voice. "Table Girl" multi-tracks Bourre's voice, turning the song into a round for a crowd of Pauls: some mumble, some whisper, some croon, but all eventually get around to singing the same song, if not all at the same time.

Robin Edgerton: 200 Warren St. #1, Jersey City, NJ 07302 201.433.4041 rme@panix.com
Douglas Wolk, c/o CMJ; douglasw@cmjmusic.com




mailing address
TRAY FULL OF LAB MICE
P.O. BOX 356
DURHAM, NH 03824

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