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LORLAII features: Lora Bloom: vocals Caleb Cliff: bass Steve Murtaugh: guitar Matt Stevenson: keyboards, electronics, fx with Linda Ranieri: cat bass on 10 Matt Triffiletti: guitar on 8, 9 Recorded on four-track cassette at Matt's apartment in Center City, Philly, 1998-1999. Almost Wish I Was recorded live at City Gardens, Trenton, NJ in February 1999 - at the first-ever live Radio Eris gig. Matt once wrote: "So, I got my hands on a 4-track recorder, probably via Sean (O'Donnell, collaborator on the first Burning Machine recording), and, inspired by his use of loops in our session, resolved to get some kind of “looper.” I wound up with a Boss 202 “Dr. Sample.” Beloved device. I also around this point stumbled on the trick of creating a feedback loop using nothing but guitar pedals and a Rockman compressor/sustainer, long since broken. I spent a lot of time recording and collaborated with Caleb Cliff on some material, including brief participation in his band Datura Tide with Matt Tiffiletti. Then, one day, I was walking down Samson Street near where I lived and Lora and I bumped into each other for the first time in years, since we’d attended WCU. Around that time she was involved with her Siren’s Silence poetry journal and was organizing a series of readings. I volunteered to “do sound” and provide backing noise, and when she asked for a tag to list on the fliers, I used “Radio Eris,” (sometimes, illogically, E.R.I.S.), which I’d hit upon as a title for mix
