IDIOTS, by The Hafler Trio (with the Partial Assistance of B.C. Gilbert)

IDIOTS

by The Hafler Trio (with the Partial Assistance of B.C. Gilbert)

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Heavyweight high-gloss embossed jackets with metallic Pantone. Each LP housed in polyethylene acid-free paper backed sleeves within consistently designed 12" sleeves for each record.

what *is* an idiot, anyway? can a double LP give you an idea? what if it isn’t the usual meaning?
what will you do then?
slaved over for aeons (at least it seems that way) this delightfully dressed debutante is marked
with the dirty paws of The Hafler Trio, with a smattering of the esteemed B.C. Gilbert
(size doesn’t matter, apparently) and will waltz away with your conceptions both pre- and post-
until the cows come home to roost. Mixed metaphors will be the nectar-like libation poured
into the frosted glass of your soul.

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	1.	ORDINARY 00:01
	2.	SUPER 00:01
	3.	ARCH 00:01
	4.	HOPELESS 00:01
	5.	COMPASSIONATE 00:01
	6.	SQUIRMING 00:01
	7.	SQUARE 00:01
	8.	ROUND 00:01
	9.	ZIGZAG 00:01
	10.	ENLIGHTENED 00:01
	11.	DOUBTING 00:01
	12.	SWAGGERING 00:01
	13.	BORN 00:01
	14.	PATENTED 00:01
	15.	PSYCHOPATHIC 00:01
	16.	POLYHEDRAL 00:01
	17.	–&5 00:01
	18.	AMBITIOUS 00:01
	19.	SUBJECTIVE  00:01
	20.	OLD 00:01
	21.	OBJECTIVE  00:01
	22.	UNIQUE 00:01
	23.	BACK TO THE BEGINNING 00:01

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IDIOTS: Laughing Matter

"Whoever has contact with reality is an Idiot, the word having two meanings:

A) to be oneself;

B) being so, to those in illusion, such a one behaves like an idiot."

Into which hole one falls is never a question of luck or happenstance; the magnetism of our own particular variety (or even 'brand') of stupidity dictates the body of water we shall flow into. An effort of will is not enough to change course; and what, we might ask, could possibly be beyond that?

"Stupid" here, if we care to examine it, means to be insensitive, and the aids to insensitivity are legion. Not only this, but officially sanctioned. Can it be possible (to posit yet another righteous confabulation) to use any medium at all—especially that designed to deaden—to circumvent the flow into dissolution, and move upstream?

To be blunt: the culture of deadening the person (leaving the question of "self" for another time, place and manifestation) being endemic, to look askance at it means to incite distrust, and even the most eloquent of minds will sneer at the fool that seeks to point out even the faintest refection in the dustiest of mirrors.

Conceived in such an environment, "IDIOTS: Laughing Matter" has taken years to finally complete for a variety of reasons, some of which might have come to pass without divine intervention. At the beginning, Mr. B.C. Gilbert supplied some material which related to it all, in all. After an ocean of time traversed, he bowed gracefully out, but the traces of those fingers are still left in the pie. The imprinted crumbs we are thankful for, indeed.

To complete is to offer up to three possibilities, and this one is the most honorable available. Initially promised to another, now suffused with the delights of release, it enters the realm of the tangible with little fanfare, but a succinct and pervasive impetus that is informed with intention of an exceptionally high quality.

Remember: the higher climbs the monkey, the more he shows his ass.

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released August 18, 2023

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Panicsville is a Chicago noise music group founded in 1992 by Andy Ortmann (Nihilist Records) with David Forquer and Ryan Kohler. It has become an ongoing project for Ortmann to work with other musicians. Early shows consisted of pelting the audience with items like dry ice, meat, blood and insects. The group currently execute experiments of subliminal mind-control via "entertainment". ... more

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