Description from Tunecore.com:

"Eccentric and eclectic, Robin Radus is a keyboardist, vocalist, arranger, and composer of many original albums exploring a wide variety of concepts. Space Radus and the MPD Jam Band pushes the boundaries of form with free-association and improvisational chatter setting the direction for a madcap romp through various musical styles - from jazz, blues, fusion, rock, and country rhythms, to Stravinsky-like instrumental excursions and Stephen Foster-like refrains.  
 
"This freaky and amusing album is an improvisational jam session between three alternate versions of the same character, set in a universe other than this, where wild chickens once roamed the praries and everyone just seems so relaxed. In a peripheral vision of another America, you are right there in the studio with Space Radus and his musical friends as they take a meanderingly free-associative journey through the history, philosophy, culture, politics, and humor of another world. "
 
This madcap excursion into free improv music and perky chatter is the result of a project I did back at the beginning of 2003, originally entitled "Every Day For A Year." (It actually lasted a bit more than a month, with a couple of sessions in February and May.)  I went into the studio every day and created something new each time.  The point was to make everything up as I went along and ignore the outcome.  Nothing was preconceived.  I'd come up with a thought right there on the spot and make a song about it.  Sometimes I wouldn't sing at all. Other times I'd sing but let the drum machine back me up, if I felt particularly lazy.  And for every track on this album, there are dozens of others that never saw the light of day (and hopefully never will). 

About two years later, I mixed a bunch of stuff at random onto a cassette tape and listened to it for about four years before deciding to do something with it. At the time, I just thought it was so awful that no one in his or her right mind would listen to it. But I started to notice patterns in the music, and with some re-ordering of the tracks and a lot of work cleaning up the sound quality, I put the album together as it is today.  And the more I listened to it, the more patterns I discovered, the more inadvertently humorous moments I found.  It went from horrifying me to amusing the heck out of me, over time.

Stylistically, describing this album is a little difficult.  It's got elements of jazz, rock, funk, fusion, country, orchestral classical music of the 20th century, and even a dash of Stephen Foster thrown in.  And it features some very offbeat conversations.  It's not like anything else I've ever recorded.  "But will I like it?" you ask.  Well, If you like Frank Zappa, you might enjoy this.  If you're a science fiction fan who likes reading about alternate histories, this should appeal to you too.  But actually, it's really hard to listen to unless you enjoy weirdness and eccentricity for their own sake.  

This album is set in a recording studio in an America very similar to our own.
 


 
 
 

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