Paradoxal Pterodactyl

snacktime - hxxs @ davelybob's virtual birthday show

if it wasn't totally obvious, the pp staff have had a bit of a love affair with hxxs the last couple years.  currently residing in kansas city, brad played a show with them in denver and then sent them to davelybob for booking in STL.  practically overnight they became the touring band he brought to town the most in his 19 years as a promoter.  when dave says he is 99% retired from booking activities, that remaining 1% is reserved for hxxs and very few others. dave was super stoked that gavin and jeannie and their sometimes-drummer ricky were down to play his birthday show, and very pleased to share their set with you now.
we shan't try to describe their music, it is beyond words, and beyond belief. those who have heard the recordings know what's up. those who have seen them live are *obsessed*.  to say these songs are powerful is an understatement, "these songs could start a cult if they wanted to" is more like it.
on top of all that they're also the nicest, kindest, just best people. In a logical world, this music would make them gazillionaires. but this world is what it is, and them being the sincere passionate leftists they are, they have a habit of throwing their earnings towards solving problems around them and bettering their  community.  which is noble, but left them in an awfully tight spot a few months back, when a senseless act of violence on their block claimed their tour van (which also served as their daytime money-maker) as collateral damage.  they have been struggling to recoup their losses since, and are almost back on their feet. a gofundme is linked below, and gavin has been regularly livestreaming improv sets with high fidelity recordings available for donations.  and you could always buy their records.  just saying, help 'em out, they are good kids making important music.
also, let's all take a second real quick to recognize that goddamn banger "ful health" as the plague anthem to end all plague anthems.  jeeeeezus.
wearehxxs.bandcamp.com
@wearehxxs on most social .media platforms
https://www.gofundme.com/f/replacement-van-for-jeannie-gavin-and-hxxs
 
NOW, are you READY? Tomorrow's the big day, the main event we have been building up to with all these snacktimes...
 
PARADOXAL PTERODACTYL EPISODE 50.  TWO HOURS.  TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING.  WE WEREN'T BULLSHITTING, THAT *WAS* A BANANA IN OUR POCKET, AND WE *ARE* HAPPY TO SEE YOU.

snacktime - buddhist regret @way out weirdo wednesday #42

davelybob started booking shows 19 years ago in the stlpunk scene. years later his first gigs as a performer were sitting in with catholic guilt as part of a rather lengthy list of rotating musicians supplementing the core trio of sean burk, joe stein, and nick zengerling (who dave knew from booking his old band krafted in korea).
fast forward over a decade of reigning as one of STL's most celebrated and perverse noise units, and catholic guilt has been in an extended hiatus pretty much since releasing their box set & dvd board game a couple years ago (you heard me), further deepened by sean moving to california.  they are not dead though, merely sleeping
anyways, the writing had been on the wall for davelybob, and anticipating winding down most of his booking activities, he wanted nothing more than to blast the way out club with his homies one last time, so he lassoed joe and zeng for this monster of a set. it didn't seem right using the catholic guilt name without sean, hence the tongue in cheek moniker ;)
yeah.  good times.

snacktime - ali naeini @ davelybob's virtual birthday party

two years ago on his birthday, davelybob unexpectedly had to put down his dog after a sudden turn in health.  last year on his birthday (the big four oh), he was at the hospital with his wife, who was recovering from brain surgery.  this year covid quarantine began just a week or so before his birthday.  determined to make some goddamn lemonade, he booked himself a birthday concert with some of his favorite acts nationwide on facebook live, one of the very first online fests to pop up during the pandemic.
if you didn't catch ali naeini playing his santoor (persian hammered dulcimer) when he lived in st louis, well that's your bad, dumbass- we tried to tell you!  he was already a regular performer at festival of nations when he befriended davelybob at their day job. We quickly booked him on a way out weirdo wednesday, and everyone went wild for him.  collaborations with percussionists drew gowran and alberto patino followed, and prior to his move to san francisco, he was toying with ideas for a fusion band blending rock and several global traditional musics, which he was jamming out with some members of the st. louis symphony orchestra.  in an alternate universe somewhere, you are all going ape shit over that right now.
ali is dedicated to his instrument in a way that in our long careers we have rarely seen, and obscenely modest about his immense talent. he's got a wicked sense of humor too.
thank you for playing my birthday party ali!  we love you and miss you! let's talk soon, i have some ideas.

snacktime - animals rule oslo @way out weirdo wednesday #43

animals rule oslo is the once and future collaboration of david bell (jaded evil lambs, etc) and john forrest (sunwyrm, aluminum sasquatch trio).  Their performance from the last way out weirdo wednesday back on march 4th (did you parse that properly?  hmmm, probably...) is as yet their only recording, but no doubt not their last.
how's that for a brief and concise blurb, eh?  lol.

snacktime - instinct control @ kismet creative center 3/25/2016

"action permeates as fiber—an unwitting participant breathes and the act is suddenly thrown from a predicted path. resist urges to tighten constraint. re-imagine rigid systems as fluid opportunity: //instinct control// -- outmoded technologies, devices, pathways, turned upon themselves and us in new ways of being. metonymic transmitters and receivers all."
this performance was recorded by davelybob at his 37th birthday party at the sorely missed kismet creative center (you can catch tommy slinging his vinyl at wax rats now if you wanna say hi and catch up).
instinct control for this performance consisted of ryan t. dunn, his hands, a reel-to-reel player, his foot, a vcr, his other foot, and an answering machine.
get more: instinctcontrol.bandcamp.com
dig his other project, maoƟ: vimeo.com/457884363

snacktime - datewithdeath "thrush urn"

hey!  a snacktime!  what a novel idea!  sure has been awhile since those were a regular thing!  why, i bet those pterodactyl boys are sitting on a whole heap of bright shiny eggs right now...
one of the few pieces of good news in 2020 is the recently announced un-retirement of floridian friend of the podcast (and really interesting person to know if you are into gardening), travis johnson.  his compilation series & digital label poverty electronics is back to serve up more slammin' leftist experimental techno, hip hop, ambient, and noise (poverty electronics vol. 4 just dropped at the end of august) as well as his own project datewithdeath, which is currently taking pre-orders through 10/30 for the new album slow talker.  we are pleased to present an advance track from the album, thrush urn, which on 10/16 will be released as a single with exclusive remixes by teen smoking, all the stores are closed, mhzesent, and jukka-pekka kervinen!  it's fire, go check it all out at:
povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com
 

paradoxal pterodactyl - episode 49

curated by chad.  specimens: chad and his orchestra, chadwerk, adam & roy, bryan hobein (4:56), mad at dad feat. davelybob (6:48), kenny, penn, bob, terry patch (9:54), ben, matt, germ v, husky sombrero & chad (14:09), joe kile (16:11)

paradoxal pterodactyl - episode 48

curated by chad.  specimens: chad and his orchestra, mad at chadwerk, chad's mom, bryan hobein (2:53), son of chad, stasia & michelle, joe kile (8:38), bryan hobein again (10:57), the insidious device (12:02), the sun (15:44), cryptic composure (20:07)

paradoxal pterodactyl - episode 47

curated by chad.  specimens: penn, george hrab, chad and his orchestra, kenny, chadwerk, husky sombrero & chad feat. fone friends (4:04), mad at chad feat. c.w. burnside, son of chad, the news man, the insidious device (7:16), mad at dad (11:43), dave & alaina, chadwerk (17:01) / snatch patch (19:12)
 
Check out the mad-fresh new track from The Insidious Device!  More songs available on spotify and youtube.

paradoxal pterodactyl - episode 46

curated by chad.  specimens: chad and his strange orchestra, chadwerk, bryan hobein (4:32 - 4:58, 7:20 - 10:52), distant pony