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Artist
Pneumershonic (Paul Bourre)
2+ albums
psychedelicoutsider
about
This is a nineties "outsider art" project that also created a movie entitled THE MARK OF THE BEAST. A clip of that is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-0yfHQ93G4 . CMJ wrote a review of Pneumershonic: below is a review of Pneumershonic's 'Frequencies of the Beast' taken from CMJ (trade edition) 4/14/97... PNEUMERSHONIC Frequencies Of The Beast Tray Full Of Lab Mice Pneumershonic is one Paul Bourre, homeless for over 20 years and nuts for probably as long (luckily his poison is coffee), and his songs have all the elements that make up the familiar "ain't it weird" genre. But that's exactly not why we like this disc. Bourre is talented, to be sure -- he improvises his songs on the spot, and unlike, say, Wesley Willis or Daniel Johnston, he can actually sing, when he wants to, with a soft, mellifluous voice and phrasing like a slight, quiet Elvis. Our favorite parts of Frequencies, though, are Tray Full Of Lab Mice label-head Matt Jasper's arrangements. Heavy on the Optigon (a sound we're not sick of... yet), marimbas and free-range guitars, light on any kind of recognizable meter, the music cascades around Bourre's rants about girls and Martians and hippies and love and more girls. The brief, untitled track seven is a perfect jewel of overlaps and repetition, with jungle beats derailed into free-rhythm land. And Bourre himself has a few tricks up his sleeve: "Paul Emulates Trumpet" is just that, and "Farewell, Marimba Bimbo" has him scatting in an abstract duck-
