Extraordinary Pigeons
Extraordinary Pigeons are a loose collective of Seattle noisemakers. They seem to often have the core of Jeremiah Smith, Jason Young and Richard Rehm. Noise is a decent way to describe them in that that term does really mean too much specifically. Listening to the selection of releases that Jeremiah brought in Monday, I am happy to find each one a bit different. They’ve all got the hallmarks of noise - indefinable sounds, lack of concern with melody or rhythm, long sprawling development. But some are a little heavier, like the “Wasted Tapes” cassette, and some more subdued, like the “Intergalactic Scavengers” CDR, with the nice echoy and spacious opening track “Repeat Procedure”. A lot of times they are a mix, too rough to be ambient background and not painful like power electronics. What they do have is lots of great electronics noises and effects which seems to be more of a sit down and enjoy experience. In addition to the above mentioned 2009 releases, we got the older CDRs “Desghidorah”, “Help Jason Eat”, “Rotten Apple” and the out of print Debacle title “What The Fuck Are You Looking At Sugar Tits???”. With the exception of the the last title, which was an edition of 100 copies, all of these are in micro editions of 10 to 12 copies. On a related note, Jeremiah also brought us “The Date Fork Seeps the River Volume Two” a compilation which features Extraordinary Pigeons along with Alvarius B, Sun City Girls, The Haters, Id M Theft Able, and a ton of unknown and very weird acts.