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Album Review: What Is It Like to Be a Bat

Review

While not knowing what it's like to be a bat, it should become fairly obvious within a few minutes what it's like to listen to a recording so unbelievably complex, organized, and chaotically funny that one can forget all one knows about contemporary music and its various genres. This is punk rock without punk rock and free jazz transformed by a reliance on found sounds; stop-on-a-dime arrangement; insane, seedy Lower East Side production; and absolutely no songs. The no songs part isn't a detriment, as Brazelton and partner in disorder and mania Dafna Naphtali wreak havoc with great glee upon notions of song, electronic production, improvisation, and avant-garde music as well. Using all manners of guitars, samplers, drums, and machines, this duo (with the help of a couple of friends) rips the entire postscript that is postmodern rock to the ground. And they laugh their asses off while doing it. It will not do to pretend and classify this kind of "fun" as the same kind offered by Los Lobos, Jad Fair, Yuka Honda, and Captain Beefheart, but it is safe to say that there is nothing whatsoever safe or reassuring on this recording. Brilliant and dangerous. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Batch 1-2 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (1:02)
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Batch 3 ... Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (1:37)
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Batch 4 (Ha!) Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (1:02)
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Batch 5 Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (:37)
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Batch 6 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (2:11)
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Batch 7-8 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (3:42)
She Said - She Said, "Can You Sing Sermonette With Me?": Trance Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (16:04)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Aria 1 Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (2:00)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Answer 1 Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (:27)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Aria 2 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (2:43)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Answer 2 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (:59)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Aria 3 Kitty Brazelton (3:28)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Answer 3 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (2:36)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Aria 4 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (2:32)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Answer 4 Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (1:28)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Aria 5 Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (1:45)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Answer 5 Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali (6:43)
5 Dreams; Marriage: Glory Chorale Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton Dafna Naphtali, Kitty Brazelton (1:24)
[Untitled Hidden Track] Kitty Brazelton (2:43)

Credits

Marc PoKempner (Photography), John Zorn (Executive Producer), Dafna Naphtali (Composer), Kazunori Sugiyama (Associate Producer), Dafna Naphtali (Max), Scott Hull (Mastering), Kitty Brazelton (Arranger), Danny Tunick (Bass (Electric)), Kitty Brazelton (Mixing), Kitty Brazelton (Editing), Kitty Brazelton (Vocals), Kitty Brazelton (Engineer), Dafna Naphtali (Vocals), Dafna Naphtali (Arranger), Jill Peltzman (Cover Photo), Kitty Brazelton (Computers), Jamie Saft (Mixing), Paul Geluso (Engineer), Paul Geluso (Vocals), Kitty Brazelton (Field Recording), Danny Tunick (Drums), Dafna Naphtali (Guitar (Electric)), Dafna Naphtali (Mixing), Danny Tunick (Octopad), Kitty Brazelton (Sampling), Danny Tunick (Vocals), Dafna Naphtali (Editing), Dafna Naphtali (Programming), Paul Geluso (Editing), Danny Tunick (Sampling), Jill Peltzman (Inlay Photography), Kitty Brazelton (Bass (Electric)), Kitty Brazelton (Composer), Danny Tunick (Recorder (Soprano)), Paul Geluso (Mixing), Kitty Brazelton (Processing), Heung-Heung "Chippy" Chin (Design), Tom Mark (Engineer), Dafna Naphtali (Live Recording)
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