Sam Gas Can - Gone Doing
Portobello Season begins with ceremonial pageantry, my son slides his ipods in shaking his head. "It's just a fun intro", the words reflect off an apple shield. Look standing over there, don't you see Sam Gas Can flickering into reality? Like David Haskell's portrayal of John the Baptist in Godspell, Sam Gaskin winks with a grin as Gone Doing begins. Follow the words, "catch the wave, ride the curve, so the whole damn thing is a big blue blur". If Day by Day is a big hit, a six line chorus repeated over and over again, the song Gone Doing is like an atomic bomb. Maybe Sam Gas Can should have started off with "Frog Pond", lure listeners in.... nah Portobello Season is perfect.
Gone Doing pulls together fourteen tracks in just under twenty six minutes. With a skilled pedigree filled with lyrics, noise, ambience and beats, Sam Gas Can releases coming before Gone Doing, are a spiral pattern spinning and contracting. Music shrapnel like floating debris from an explosion in Sam Gaskin's mind. Now the sonic bomb expert carefully stitching the sounds back together. Tracks slowly approaching singularity, but the playful nature of Sam Gas Can will continue to add a perfectly woven in oddities, sounds that don't fit but they do. The second longest track on this cassette is titled "N.M.P.", a slow release of feedback through a haze of ambient guitar and voice. The next track, "White Baby (w/ Zack lyrics)" shows how tones and tempo change directions instantly. By the time the longest track " I Shall Be Released" sends listeners off with melodic acuity, the entire journey of Gone Doing can begin to be processed. Like looking through telescope at a small object in the
sky, for a moment the view is on target and perfect, then lost in the
vast expanse. This is the beauty of Sam Gas Can, there is perfect groovy listening and then there is being lost in all the fun.
Released on Already Dead Tapes and Records in a cassette edition of one hundred. Copies are currently available. There is a lathe edition alternative of Gone Doing on Feeding Tube Records. Sam Gas Can has releases on Crash Symbols, Moss Archive, Phase!, HEC Tapes to name some labels he has worked with. The Gone Doing cassette on Already Dead is an excellent place to start, dive in from there.
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