#smorgasbords

Swedes began immigrating from rural Sweden to the United States in significant numbers in the 1870s, but it took a while before Swedish smörgåsbords were introduced to the American public. The earliest ones opened in cities in the 1910s, but even in the 1930s proprietors still found it necessary to explain the concept to Americans who were not of Swedish ancestry. In 1912 a self-proclaimed…

"It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender."

In Print: Animal Meditations vols. 1-3, engineered by Colin Everest, are available here. Nice press is here.

"The possessed are not possessed by what is coming but by what is coming back."

Forthcoming: net cong, La Troisieme Depeche (Netcong Records #027A-C). Depeche Men, Mar. 2, 2017; Depeche Moves, Mar. 9, 2017; Depeche Moses, Mar. 16, 2017;

Craig Champlin, Ernie Bedlam Stories (Netcong Records #028 (TXT)), Mar. nth, 2017.

The Natural Blush, Anouk Aimee (tentative?) (Netcong Records #029), Apr. nth, 2017.

net cong, Processional Music, Sioux Falls, SD, June 3, 2017, venue TBD.

"Life is so continuous that we divide it into stages, and we call one of them death."

Retirements:

Netcong Records #010A The Natural Blush, The Moment of the Natural Blush (Raw Materials);

 Netcong Records #010B The Natural Blush, The Moment of the Natural Blush (Completely Conditioned);

Netcong Records #011 The Natural Blush, “Shanks/Monroe Doctrine,” b/w “I Will Make a Fisher” & “Small Symphony”;

Netcong Records #013 net cong, Week w/ Two Sundays” b/w “First Laguna Suite”.

"The room was a portrait of an empty stomach."

News from #netcong: the house was empty but the bed was warm.

Why we play the game #22.

All excerpts above from Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H (1964).

Aloha,

The Caper (Netcong Records #020);

The Diviner (Netcong Records #023); 

Korea (Netcong Records #024);

B. Ives (Netcong Records #009);