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Who is VivaL'AmericanDeathRayMusic? Jeffrey Bouck, drummer/percussionist (Lithops, Polyphonic Spree), and a designer chef who specializes in cooking in confined spaces. Harlan T. Bobo, bassist (The Limes, Timothy Prudomme), who also cooks, but mainly for himself and occaisonally Shawn, is stricken with night blindness yet he still is able to construct mechanical simiens and sings at breathlessly low decibals. Nicholas Ray, singer/guitarist (The Limes, Valentines), is graced with the gift to work just about any job, some of which are hard to actually classify as 'jobs' and although he has no decernable expieriance in the art, he none the less harbours the belief he would make a good shoe maker. So why do these men with such prodigous and nebulous skills bother to steal away into the dark night after night to play "music" to trodden and often malicious groupings of various size? And why do they gather in living quarters and various "studios" to record there musings as it were" Nicholas states, "we do these things for the large sums of money we recieve". But are we glibly to be lead to believe that this gathering of minds is simply for the temporal venture of "moneys". Possibly, But I believe there is more to this strange case. Come along shall we. What is VivaL'AmericanDeathRayMusic? For this question we shall put aside the obvious ramifications of their elongated and lofty title and their trepanacious and often shifty social-politico ideas that they align with said title a

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