Cap'n Jazz

Analphabetapolothology CD/2xLP

Jade Tree Records January 13, 1998 / June 15, 2010

Tracks 1-12 originally released as "Burritos, inspiration point, card in the spokes, automatic biographies, kites, kung fu, trophies, banana peels we've slipped on and egg shells we've tippy toed over." LP/CD on Mark Corley's Man With Gun Records. Recorded December 1994 by Casey Rice at Idful Music Corporation. "Kitty, kitty cats" on Little League by Anja Westerweck. Kevin J. Frank appears on the piano in Bluegrass. Track 6's "I'm dying to tell you I'm dying. I don't need a reason" are Bob Nanna's words. Refer to Friction's "Auburn" ca. 1994.

FORGET WHO WE ARE. OLERUD. The last twp songs ever written and polar opposites of each other. Written in the "C" tuning now made infamous by the Promise Ring. Recorded live by Adam Jacob's Sonic Archives Mobile Recording Unit at the Fireside Bowl, July 7, 1995---their last show in Chicago.

OOH DO I LOVE YOU. TAKE ON ME. TOKYO. HEY MA . . . Except for Take on Me, none of these recordings were ever considered finished or intended to be released. Take on Me was supposed to be on some 80's covers compilation which apparently never cane to fruition and Hey Ma . . . Ended up on Matt Werth's File 13 Records' "We've Lost Beauty" comp. It features Mike doing most of the singing while Tim harmonica'd. Recorded March 1995 by Robroy Campbell and Kevin J. Frank on Elliot Dicks' old 8-track. Elliot then fixed up the sound a little in August 1997, but there really wasn't much he could do.

WE ARE SCIENTISTS! SEA TEA. TROUBLED BY INSECTS. Originally released as "Sometimes if you stand further away from something, it does not seem as big. Sometimes you can stand so close to something you can not tell what you are looking at." 7" on Underdog Records. Recorded October 1993 by Neal Jensen and Kevin J. at Old Plank. Kevin also played guitar noise on Sea Tea.

ROCKY ROCOCO. was recorded at the same time and originally released on the "Nothing Dies With Blue Skies" split 7" with Friction on Scott Snot's own Shakefork Records. All tracks include guest bass player Sudden Porthole. Tracks 5-9 recorded by Neal Jensen at Old Plank, June 1993.

IN THE CLEAR. NO USE FOR . . . Originally released Pete Havernak's Subfuse Records' "How the Midwest was Won" double 7" comp. SORIA. Originally released on Basil Shadid's Further Beyond Records' "Picking More Daises" double 7" comp.

SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS. Originally released on Shakefork Records' "It's a Punk Thing" comp.

BLUEGRASS. Originally released on Mark Pearsall's Slave Cut Records' "Ghost Dance" double 7" comp. Four different labels, one medium sized suburb.

WINTER WONDERLAND. Originally released on The Rocco Empires' "A Very Punk Christmas" comp. Recorded in time for Christmas 1993 by cousin Andrew J. Blake in his basement with the Kinsella mother on the keys and a chorus of cousins. Ben Weasel called it "the proof that caP'n Jazz is the crudiest and most pretentious band in Chicago."

THEME FROM 90210. Originally released on Icky's Red Dawg Records' "Punk TV" comp. Recorded Spring 1995 in our parents' basement on a 4-track, Mike playing all the guitars and Tim the drum.

AOK. GEHEIM. SERGIO VALENTE. EASY DRIVER. Originally released as "Boys 16-18 Years . . . Age of Action" 7" on Further Beyond Records. Recorded March 1993 by Neal Jensen at Old Plank. Backing vocals on Geheim by Kevin J. Backing vocals on Sergio Valente by Erik Bocek, Keven J., Neal, Aaron Lipke, and Shane Mason.

OOH DO I LOVE YOU. Originally released on Braid's Core for Care's "Ooh Do I Love You," double CD comp. Recorded on our 4-track well after CaP'n Jazz broke up, Mike on guitar and Tim singing = the Kink'd Rakes.

Compiled by Casey Rice at Dhanse Howll Qlazikx October 1997
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side, NJ
Layout by Jason Gnewikow
Live Photos by Shawn Scallen
Others by Kevin J, Jenny Tabor, Donna Kinsella, and the Band

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