Obscure Medicines (1987)

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	1.	Naked Came The Memory 18:50
	2.	Obscure Medicines 03:45
	3.	Brothers And Sisters Have I None 07:36
	4.	Li Ten 04:25
	5.	Flying 14:28
	6.	Eskalith 05:16
	7.	Disturbing Windows 04:24

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Review: "Have you ever screwed up something so bad or got caught doing something so embarrassing that the memory of it, even years later, is physically painful? Well, Minóy has just composed a sound collage for you if you have. The opening track, "Naked Came The Memory", begins with mechanical chattering, industrial pounding, a stringed instrument suffering rape and torture, and a haunting drone that sounds like a far off air raid siren stuck on a middle tone. All this builds up, ebbs away and then comes back full in your face like the naked truths we must face from time to time. On the title track it sounds like every stringed instrument in Torrance, California tuning up in Minóy's living room until the sounds swirl and rotate about each other like some discordant tornado. Five more equally disturbing or masochistically pleasing tunes follow, perfect background music when your Uncle Bob overstays his welcome, drinks the last shot of Old Thompson and still won't go home." (Sound Choice 1987)

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released September 2, 2019

All sounds recorded by Minóy in May 1987.

Digitized and remastered by Phillip B. Klingler (PBK) from the original master cassette in 2019. Graphic design by Phillip B. Klingler using digital photography by Minóy.

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Minóy Torrance, California

Minóy was the pseudonym of the electronic musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (October 30, 1951 - March 19, 2010). He was a major figure in the DIY noise music and homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. Minóy produced some of the most remarkably engrossing, beautiful and imaginative work-of-art albums released on cassette in the 1980s, often with handmade covers. ... more

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