Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death

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Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death
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Studio album by Idiot Flesh
Released January 1, 1990 [1]
Genre Progressive rock, avant-garde rock, theatre, experimental music
Length50:24
Label Rock Against Rock Records
Producer Idiot Flesh
Mark Stichman
Idiot Flesh chronology
Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death
(1990)
The Nothing Show
(1993)

Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death is the 1990 debut studio album by avant-garde rock band Idiot Flesh.

Idiot Flesh was an American experimental rock band formed in Oakland, California in 1985, initially under the name Acid Rain. Their work was characterized by its "rock against rock" attitude and defied classification with its incorporation of marching band routines, puppet shows, and the playing of household items as tuned instruments.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Something" Nils Frykdahl 6:33
2."Thinking of a Number Above 17"Gene Jun2:56
3."Meditation"Jun6:45
4."Artstroking"Dan Rathbun4:36
5."The Tale"Daniel Roth4:32
6."Housewife"Frykdahl, Jun7:54
7."Heavy Metal Beer"Frykdahl, Jun5:52
8."Cosmic Interlude" 0:43
9."Get Floor!"Frykdahl4:50
10."The Widening Gyre"Roth5:43

Personnel

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Nils Frykdahl is an American musician most known for his work with the bands Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh. He is also a member of the bands Free Salamander Exhibit, Faun Fables, and Darling Freakhead, and used to be a member of Charming Hostess. Along with bandmates Carla Kihlstedt and Dan Rathbun, Frykdahl is active with the performance company Ink Boat. He is also the voice of Tigtone in the 2014 animated short, The Begun of Tigtone.

Guest musicians

Glockenspiel percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano

A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, moreover, is usually smaller and higher in pitch.

William Winant is an American percussionist.

Marimba percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets

The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with yarn or rubber mallets to produce musical tones. Resonators or pipes suspended underneath the bars amplify their sound. The bars of a chromatic marimba are arranged like the keys of a piano, with the groups of two and three accidentals raised vertically, overlapping the natural bars to aid the performer both visually and physically. This instrument is a type of idiophone, but with a more resonant and lower-pitched tessitura than the xylophone. A person who plays the marimba is called a marimbist or a marimba player.

Production

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