Golden Bear and Other Works EP
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Tokle – Bear Flag Revolution | 28:22
From the imaginary “Golden Bear and Other Works” EP
Los Angeles, 2007
We’re starting this blog out with the longest piece available. You read right: that’s 28 minutes and 22 seconds of pure audio content. Consider yourself warned.
Variously attributed to both When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and the eponymous site owner, this long track has been interpreted to be about subjects as diverse as the history of California, a treatise on the abuses visited upon the working immigrant during the industrial revolution, and the sleeping “potential universe” hidden inside a singularity. Whatever. With a length greater than that of your average episode of “King of Queens” all we know is that this little number has Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 written all over it!
Tokle – La Mort Heureuse | 12:46
From the imaginary “Golden Bear and Other Works” EP
Los Angeles, 2008
After the utter pretention that is the previous track we offer you to double-down on pretention: “La Mort Heureuse” (or “The Happy Death” for our Americans visitors). Named (in French) after a (French) book that we have neither read nor own by (French Existentialist) Albert Camus, this jaunty little 12+ minute long number will come as no surprise to those already sick of the first track. With long droning guitars, ultra-processed keyboard tones and a field recording from Languedoc, France (a town we have never visited) this piece is sure to please even the most demanding self-referential music snob. Take it from us: we are one!
Tokle – Het Mechanische Gebied van de Slaap | 9:00
From the imaginary “Golden Bear and Other Works” EP
Los Angeles, 2008
What is it about the Dutch that just seems to make experimental music so much more experimental? We sure as hell don’t know, but with a name like this you can bet it won’t be a long until we’re fielding offers from Mego and Touch records! Loosely translated (by Babelfish of course) as “The Mechanical Area of Sleep” we can vouch for neither the content nor the quality of this contextually “short” piece. All we know for sure is that there seems to be a bit of a whine in the high-mids, and if we cared much more about it we’d probably remix for the 32nd time – Goede Tijden!
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