Watching The Void: A Smattering of Panic Records & Tapes

Glass mastered CD in a 4 panel digipack, edition of 100 copies. Material dating from 1984-1990. Tracks 8-13 denote material recorded as part of regular sound collage happenings, referred to as "Void Watches", recorded at freeform radio station WZRD-Chicago. Burden of Friendship often released recordings that came from WZRD sessions, but in this particular case, the latter part of the CD contains material taken directly from raw tapes recorded at WZRD in real time, which may or may not have involved, at any given time, a rotating cast of Bill Meehan, Bob St. Clair, Doug Brown, Mark Giangrande, Jim Koehnline, Paul Rosen, Scott Sanders, Andy Jacobson, Kevin Coffey, Paul Silver, Jim Kube, Pete Wesley, Dave Purdie, Clay Grossman, Richard Theodore, and other guests. Passersby, staff members or not, would also drop in and out, to be mixed into the performances. "Unarco Jam" was recorded at an abandoned steel factory. Digital version includes bonus tracks.