Points Of Friction: "Sackcloth And Ashes" (CD) on Anomalous Records.

Originally released by the LAFMS offshoot label Solid Eye [who were also responsible for
releases by Doo-Dooettes, The Romans, Tom Recchion, Dinosaurs with Horns, and Fredrick
Nilsen] on cassette in 1984, Sackcloth and Ashes is the most electronic and perhaps most
polished incarnation of this multimedia collective. The unorthodox exploration of keyboards,
guitars, toy instruments, the assemblage of field recordings, noise improvisations, and tape loops
tantalize the senses with arousing emotive power. The opus title track is a compendium of
improvisational soundings and field recordings that include a chorus of squeaky swings, a cat's
purring, snapping shrimp, a diseased lung, and cacophony on a yard sale card rack. Exquisitely
abrasive and haunting tracks 1 through 6 yield to the perfumed machinery and melodious hypnosis
of the remaining tracks. All were originally performed under cover of live film and slide
projections with optical manipulations at alternative music venues in and around Los Angeles
including Al's Bar, the Anti-Club, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions(LACE), etc., and
aboard the U.S.S. Cormerant ("Noise at Sea"), with bands such as the Minutemen, the Meat
Puppets, Whitehouse, Ke-Da-Vi, and the Monique Experience in the mid-1980's. Every piece on
this album has such (currently archived) visual underscoring. Re-released on CD, the disc is
lavishly packaged in beautiful silver and black in an eye-rattling multi-paneled silk-screened die-
cut architypically Frictionesque cobbly world.

Digitally remastered by Thomas Di muzio.