House for Sale.....
1. Lisa Takes It to the Next Level.
2. House for Sale. (Herselman)
3. The Kitchen Synch. (Herselman)
4. Blow Up. (Hector and Herselman)
5. Wishbones. (Herselman)
6. Sweating the Big Stuff. (Herselman)
7. Mysterical Behaviour. (Parts 1 - 4) (Herselman)
8. Back in the Backyard. (Herselman)
9. Longest Night of the Year. (Herselman)
10. Trance and Dental. (Herselman)
11. Blind. (Herselman and Fiehabe)
12. Himalayan Lamp. (Herselman)
13. Techno Prisoners. (Herselman)
14. After School. (Herselman)

This album is primarily a result of how time opened up when Jakes Rawlinson donated a laptop with which to continue endeavours in the field of music, after a Blue Screen of Death and shit had laid some malevolence on the one that Casper Lab had given us. What followed was a fairly long and (for me) complicated process, which, no doubt, resulted in a modicum of madness... Essentially, it revolved around three matters:
1. Getting some sort of arrangement together that would deal with the aspect of introducing organic sound into the system, within a no budget parameter.
2. Dealing with another dreaded virus threat and the subsequent plethora of either missing, or duplicated files and folders, amongst other delights of modern day diseases.
3. Learning how to work with loops, while clawing through the confusion of operating a system of multi-tracking .that was completely foreign to me, as well as the much maligned Windows 10 - and 64 bit peculiarities. Most of this album (which had somehow evolved into a double album over time) was probably recorded (more like edited, actually) with a procedure which feels more like painting, somewhere out in space between twelve at night and six in the morning, initially just to stick it to said virus. The next idea was to get some shit hot players to perform on a track each, but this would have taken time and required resources (some as basic as a constantly reliable connection to the interweb, which didn't gobble up bundles of money) that weren't available to us at the time. The result is that the only live instruments are the bass and acoustic guitar I played on After School. The tracks that didn't make it to House for Sale will be released at a later date, as Fuck This Album.
Chardonay's rap was recorded on her brother's phone, in Delft, Cape Town, and sent back to synch with the beats supplied her at an earlier stage. The beats are lifted from a song for Johannes Kerkorrel that should be released on a Gary Kerel album soon. Chardonay has other recordings available on Bandcamp (search Chardonay). In the case of Blow Up, specifically, the charm was impossible to resist. As already mentioned to her, what struck me most is the way she gets her words to skip onto the beats which cause the whole damn thing to swing, like jazz swing, like, rather than try to rock something down the listener's throat. Much respect.

Zoey's vocals were recorded in the bedroom at Lisa's house, where the rest of the recording also took place. She has been recording her own stuff too and an album should be available soon. Nkosi's (aaaarrgh) vox is something I asked him to leave for me, upon hearing him make that sound while he was here for a visit and to continue his own personal, obsessive, compulsive write and record disorder. Nkosi can do quite a bit more than make that sound and I find his work to be of a standard that can be highly recommended, without hesitation. (He is contactable through facebook, profile Nkosi X Masset, or find his work on Bandcamp, profile nkosi X.)

Without whom:
Lisa Perold, for amplified speakers and headphones, accomodation and etcetera....
Suzanne Price, for almost everything.
Hanepoot van Tonder and Willem Moller, for locating and securing a compatible audio interface. Willem, for microphones, advice and discs with numerous apps, loops and other dubious stuff.
Gary Crawford and Dave Shackley, for their assistance with Reaper.

Thanks, also, to Leon Erasmus, Gordon Wiliamson and Andrew Ingpen for assistance with much technical business.

More thanks must go to everyone who lives and works in Loop City.

For Mingus, who prefers biltong, raw fish and chicken, to loud sounds.

Warning! Indulgence level : High.

Peace, Gary Kerel.

New albums currently in the works: Gaaning Aan – Piet Pers. Fuck This Album - Herselman. Stealing Sweets - Gary Kerel. Wasn't Me – Kak Attitude. (Covers album) Transparent – Spook. Also available: The Kerels – Chrome Sweet Chrome and Ek Se. Die Lemme – Rigtingbefok - and remixes, by Warrick Sony. Spook – Because. Gary Kerel – Bones (free demo album)..... These are on Bandcamp, on the Die Lemme page and there's a smattering of videos on YouYube, mostly due to the persistence of Michael Cross, of Rogue Productions, which reminds me that my hopes for getting Archie Pelago – City Country (and the live to two-track album recorded by Lloyd Ross at Shifty) onto the interweb somewhere soon, have not been dashed. Fuck me, but that's one awkward sentence...

Cover by Suzanne Price.

Thanks to Warrick Sony, at Milestone Studios, for assistance in setting up an alternate page. Warrick's page, which represents a number of independently recorded South African artists and his work as Kalahari Surfers is at www.sjambokmusic.com


Suurbraak - March 2018.