Magnified Lyle by Friendly RichMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Friendly Rich calls his book/CD combination release "an anti-music video." The single track is matched with an illustration of its narrative lyrics in "Magnified Lyle". The work concludes with a reading of dramatic personae, which adds to its theatrical quality. It is a morbid tale of a child's ant-burning antics becoming a global holocaust. Fans of Captain Beefheart lyrics (one line: "her melanoma chuckled") and Tom Green's humor will appreciate this... Elaborating on this theme, Friendly Rich offers the cryptic "De Rien." This is a collection of essays and poems along with a "listening activity" called "Mercy." No track listing accompanies the CD, which in this case does not follow the text. The audio is live audio miscellany and field recordings from a carousel organ rally. The two are "blended" for your schizophrenic pleasure. However, "De Rien" is not presently commercially available.
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