Half Life (tape release 1988)

by Schedule II

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Full Digital Discography

18

releases

Get all 18 Schedule II releases available on Bandcamp and save 85%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Lesser Animal Arkestra, The Last Coward on Earth, The Brown Acid, Down With People, I Built the Golden Gate Bridge, Serenity Prayer, Scatterings (1989-2001), I Love the Little Birds, and 10 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more (85% OFF)

1.	Chernobyl 02:24		buy track
2.	Praise the Lord 02:17	info	buy track
3.	Aloha 243 03:13	info	buy track
4.	Psycho Boogie 02:11	info	buy track
5.	Hermit Thrush 03:16	info	buy track
6.	Don't Ask Me Why (Guess I Should've Been a Sailor) 03:33	info	buy track
7.	Man and Woman 01:51	info	buy track
8.	Bottle Flies 02:43	lyrics	buy track
Butterflies flies in webs of light. Bottle flies crawl on my face. Green the color green I say. Melting down the mountains sway. Thrush calls weaving mindspell daze In the light lichens amaze Drinking water, pleasant spring Feel my earth, kneel on me There is morning filtered light There is naught to do today There is nothing ordinary There is nothing more to say
9.	Happy Hands 03:44	lyrics	buy track
Happy hands, busy hands, that whole scheme of things
10.	A Little Glimpse of Heaven/Slow Death 07:07	info	buy track
11.	Pat Robertson 04:00	info	buy track
12.	Thawing Fish 05:38	info	buy track
13.	Music 441b (Drug-free America, Slow Death, A Promise) 17:05	info	buy track
14.	First Child 02:31		buy track

about

Yamaha MT1X 4-track cassette solo compositions 1986-88. Originally compiled as "Half Life" on SA-60 tapes that only found their way into a local (Tucson) underground record store at the time and Aquarius Records in SF several years later. Lifted from original cassette mixes and mastered correctly (October 2021, 35 years after acquisition of the MT1X).

credits

released October 25, 2021

All real drums are Bruce Treadaway. Bass on Pat Robertson by Joel Moore. All other sounds by Schedule II.

Synth drums are treated recordings of preset beats from a Casio type "mall" organ ("my father's organ")

All live recordings used a single Radio Shack Hi-Ball microphone.

12 and 6 string acoustic guitars, Les Paul/Marshall combo, lap steel, bow, bass, handful of Boss and MXR guitar pedals, a REX-50, a 60's era Moog, pots and pans, radio and television sound sources, found tapes and records, piano, broken guitar cable, anything else I could find.

Thanks to the salesman at Guitar Workshop (Tucson, 1986) who steered me away from the immensely popular TASCAM Portastudio to the MT1X as it was the first cassette 4 track with an auxiliary effects loop that proved vital to all these recordings, allowed a cornucopia of treatments.

Special thanks to Bruce and Joel, who played together since childhood. I came into their world "late", at 17. Their chemistry is fully displayed on Pat Robertson.

Photo: MT1X and original tapes today.

license

about

Schedule II San Francisco, California

Tape, electronic, sound experiments, 1984-present.

Product of head injuries of varying severity spanning 60+ years.

Solo works of Bill C. (Conflict (US), Faith in Jones, Layer #7)

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Schedule II

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

Schedule II recommends:

Get Rich Or Die
by The Noriegas

Local (Bay Area) guys who mostly improv and have an excellent sense for noise, drone, hypnorock Schedule II
go to album
The Itinerant Lanternist LP
by F/i

F/i created long form noise rock in the mid/early 80's that I found particularly inspiring. Not exactly sure what all is here on Bandcamp but their works from that era are worth digging up Schedule II
go to album
The Wolf Hour (Live 1984)
by Hunting Lodge

I'm not sure what the world of low fi layered noise would be like today if it werent for Hunting Lodge's work in the early 80's Schedule II
go to album

If you like Schedule II, you may also like:

COSMIC SESSIONS
by autotectonic

Ontario act Autotectonic offers up 10 stunning experimental tracks, fusing drone, power electronics & noise into a gripping whole. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2020
go to album
It's Yours
by Earth Ball

Wild noise rock on Upset the Rhythm that chucks free jazz, punk, and drone into a blender and presses “puree.” Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 20, 2024
go to album
Oscillating Forest
by Tangled Thoughts of Leaving

The Australian instrumental band juxtapose classical pianos and ambient swells with uncompromising, proggy post-metal. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 9, 2023
go to album