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Ball of Wax Volume 24

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  1. Gene Pool & Chris Poage “Ten Thousand Books”
  2. Househeld Objects “The Never Wills and the Also Rans”
  3. Can the Boy Tell Time? “Forward”
  4. Tito Ramsey “Stay in Line”
  5. Ora Cogan “Gather”
  6. Led To Sea “Dark Like Night”
  7. Levi Fuller “Sick Day”
  8. Vinca Minor “Here”
  9. This Blinding Light “Oh My Lord”
  10. An Invitation to Love “Donna (To James)”
  11. Hail Citizen “No Intentions”
  12. B. Arson “Afraid of Flying”
  13. Norman Baker “Stork & Bow”
  14. Slow Skate “One to Remember”
  15. Mojo Spliff  “My Heart Needs to Love”
  16. The Magic of Multiples “Alex in 2K7”
  17. The Way It Is “Triple Word Score”
  18. The Foghorns “More than Jesus”
  1. Stenobot “Fallen Leaves”
  2. City Light “Here Tonight”
  3. Blouse (u.s.a.) “Girl B”
  4. Particle Gods “Knights through the Corridor”
  5. The Scrams “B.H.J.”
  6. Shiv Hurrah “Oh Oh Oh”
  7. Ghosts I’ve Met “Out with the Embers”
  8. Prairie Empire “To Be Certain”
  9. The Graze – “Trip Song”
  10. Richard Wilson “On a Horse of Gold”
  11. Moore + Sons “Silent Vows”
  12. Levi Fuller “They Like You”
  13. Virgin of the Birds “Sisters at the Sounds of Dawn (Morning Version)”
  14. Michele Khazak “Atheists Don’t Believe in God, God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists, I Don’t Believe in Either-What Does That Make Me?”
  15. Arthur C. Lee with Whit Walker “View from a Tree”

Features the last recorded output of the Graze. For now at least.

  1. Air Museum “Helium Balloon”
  2. Casey Alexander “The Best Thing You Can Give”
  3. Bundy “Col. Cpt. Boss Man”
  4. Sip’s Odyssey “Terrible”
  5. TheM all “American Highway”
  6. Brad DerManouelian “The Dark”
  7. Peter Vukmirovic Stevensand FM3 “Nine Pieces For Solo Piano And Buddha Machine – Loop Five”
  8. Colin J Nelson “Hot spring”
  9. FUNSHIP “FUNSHIP”
  10. Virgin of the Birds “They Wake”
  11. Amateur Radio Operator “Waiting on the Tide”
  12. Your Heart Breaks “Instrumental 1”
  13. Sun Tunnels “Teenager”
  14. Galapaghost “The Demise of Me”
  15. The Washover Fans “Soldier”
  16. Brian Erickson “What a Melody”
  17. Sunday Evening Whiskey Club “Everything Is True”
  18. Robert Deeble “Heart Like Feathers”
  19. City Light “Down the Central Coast
  20. The Magic of Multiples “Womb to Womb”
  21. Molly Rose “Today Is a New Day”
Features the first released track from Sun Tunnels, and of course tons of other stuff.
Released: Spring 2011
Catalog#: CD-BW24
Label: Ball of Wax

On the web: ballofwax.org/volumes/volume-24/

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Ball of Wax Volume 22

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  1. Gene Pool & Chris Poage “Ten Thousand Books”
  2. Househeld Objects “The Never Wills and the Also Rans”
  3. Can the Boy Tell Time? “Forward”
  4. Tito Ramsey “Stay in Line”
  5. Ora Cogan “Gather”
  6. Led To Sea “Dark Like Night”
  7. Levi Fuller “Sick Day”
  8. Vinca Minor “Here”
  9. This Blinding Light “Oh My Lord”
  10. An Invitation to Love “Donna (To James)”
  11. Hail Citizen “No Intentions”
  12. B. Arson “Afraid of Flying”
  13. Norman Baker “Stork & Bow”
  14. Slow Skate “One to Remember”
  15. Mojo Spliff  “My Heart Needs to Love”
  16. The Magic of Multiples “Alex in 2K7”
  17. The Way It Is “Triple Word Score”
  18. The Foghorns “More than Jesus”
  1. Stenobot “Fallen Leaves”
  2. City Light “Here Tonight”
  3. Blouse (u.s.a.) “Girl B”
  4. Particle Gods “Knights through the Corridor”
  5. The Scrams “B.H.J.”
  6. Shiv Hurrah “Oh Oh Oh”
  7. Ghosts I’ve Met “Out with the Embers”
  8. Prairie Empire “To Be Certain”
  9. The Graze – “Trip Song”
  10. Richard Wilson “On a Horse of Gold”
  11. Moore + Sons “Silent Vows”
  12. Levi Fuller “They Like You”
  13. Virgin of the Birds “Sisters at the Sounds of Dawn (Morning Version)”
  14. Michele Khazak “Atheists Don’t Believe in God, God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists, I Don’t Believe in Either-What Does That Make Me?”
  15. Arthur C. Lee with Whit Walker “View from a Tree”

Features the last recorded output of the Graze. For now at least.

Released: Autumn 2010
Catalog#: CD-BW22
Label: Ball of Wax

On the web: ballofwax.org/volumes/volume22/

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Ball of Wax Volume 19

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  1. Gene Pool & Chris Poage “Ten Thousand Books”
  2. Househeld Objects “The Never Wills and the Also Rans”
  3. Can the Boy Tell Time? “Forward”
  4. Tito Ramsey “Stay in Line”
  5. Ora Cogan “Gather”
  6. Led To Sea “Dark Like Night”
  7. Levi Fuller “Sick Day”
  8. Vinca Minor “Here”
  9. This Blinding Light “Oh My Lord”
  10. An Invitation to Love “Donna (To James)”
  11. Hail Citizen “No Intentions”
  12. B. Arson “Afraid of Flying”
  13. Norman Baker “Stork & Bow”
  14. Slow Skate “One to Remember”
  15. Mojo Spliff  “My Heart Needs to Love”
  16. The Magic of Multiples “Alex in 2K7”
  17. The Way It Is “Triple Word Score”
  18. The Foghorns “More than Jesus”
Released: Winter 2010
Catalog#: CD-BW19
Label: Ball of Wax

On the web: ballofwax.org/volumes/volume19/

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Ball of Wax Volume 18

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  1. Wesafari – Mako Moon
  2. The Pica Beats – Nettles
  3. Poland – Living with Victoria
  4. John Totten – 44 Women
  5. Ken Cormier – Everybody Kind
  6. Shenandoah Davis – Use Your Hands
  7. Oldman Winter – Bump in the Night
  8. The Way It Is – Sing Seven Up
  9. Steven Kattenbraker – How Much
  10. Slow Skate – Orange Curtain
  11. Webelos – Black Funnel Cloud Tail
  12. Dandelion Gold – Version Volcano
  13. City Light – Born to Die
  14. m. Lord – S.I.L.
  15. L.A.P.D.ants – Your Body Is Not Your Friend
  16. Ben + Joey – Snuggle Bear
  17. What What Now – Bundle of Dynamite (Up Your Ass)
  18. My Printer Broke, – Time Is When It Tells Time
  19. Salo + Will – Kill All Your Friends
  20. False Walls – Throwing Stars
  21. Ravenna Woods – Intermission
  22. Emory Liu – Misfortune Cookie
  23. Virgin of the Birds – In Praise of Marrying Widows
  24. Mostly Dimes – We Won’t Give Up So Easily
  25. Hot Or Huguenot? – If You Deny Me
  26. Levi Fuller – So Great
  27. Seth Howard – Do/Buy
  28. Another Bedroom Baby – Long Face
  29. Thundercats, Ho! – Skeletons
  30. I, Cordyceps – Deny the Dinosaur
  31. Open Choir Fire – Clara
  32. Ainara LeGardon – The Morning of the Earthquake
  33. Bucks T-4 – Headin’ to the Mountains
  34. The Glass Notes – Eve
  35. The Bawds of Euphony – Madrid
  36. Prkr – Valentine
  37. Glow Crow – Prize Prize
  38. Starfarsafari – Take Me Home
  39. Splinters – Prophelaxing
  40. Brian Baillie – An Abandoned Chess Game
  41. Mark Schlipper – Sunset Comes
  42. Chocolate Shoes – Monah Sea
  43. Alicia Amiri – Solidaire/Solitaire
  44. Unbunny – Ex-Girlfriend’s Car
  45. Tonjia Atomic – Holding

Emory from Beep Repaired imagined a Ball of Wax compilation filled with songs no longer than 2 minutes. Many artists joined in and now here it is.

Released: Autumn 2009
Catalog#: CD-BW18
Label: Ball of Wax

On the web: www.beeprepaired.com/oms.html

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Ball of Wax Volume 11

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  1. Dental Dude Donkey – That’ll Do
  2. Daughters of Darkness – Ilona, You Should Still Be My Vampire Attendant
  3. Purple Ether Molasses – Bones Triptych
  4. The Silent En-Yay – Medicine/Red Line of Flight
  5. The Heatlamps – Have it Your Way
  6. Beach Carnival – Deep Freeze
  7. The Sunday Toppings – The River
  8. Motorcycles in the Rain – Apparition
  9. Knowledge Masters – (We) Fought with Guns Last Night
  10. The Gweducs – B Smrt
  11. Free Reed Aerophone – Punjabi
  12. Dolphin Cobra Eye Mother – Sagan

The Harry Candy edition of Levi Fuller’s venerable Ball of Wax quarterly compilation. What is Harry Candy? Each song on this comp is the product of the random placement of musicians into makeshift bands tasked with writing and recording one song in one day. The results appear on BoW volume 11.

Check out the project’s Flickr pool.

Released: 3/2/2008
Catalog#: CD-BW11
Label: Ball of Wax

On the web: ballofwax.org

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