Jack Ruby Volume Two

• Jack Ruby – Destroy/Lost
• Jack Ruby – Beryllium Blues
• Jack Ruby – Parietal Cha Cha
• Jack Ruby – Lithium Serenade

• 1. Destroy/Lost
• 2. Beryllium Blues
• 3. Parietal Cha Cha
• 4. Lithium Serenade
• 5. Hydrogen Lullaby
• 6. Palaatine March
• 7. Sphenoid Waltz
• 8. Sodium Nocturne
• 9. Temporal Tango
• 10. Mandible Mango
• 11. Ghost Not

Second volume of the killer Jack Ruby archival series from Massacheusetts shop and label Feeding Tube. Jack Ruby was a legendary New York New Wave band -- "like the velvet underground in a car crash".

"The central core of the album is the 16 & a 1/2 minute track, "Destroy/Lost," recorded at the band's rehearsal space in January '74. Robin Hall vocalizes and Boris plays electric viola, but the bulk of the piece is screaming analog synth weirdness from Randy Cohen's Serge synthesizer. According to Robin, the track was recorded in hopes that it might be pared down to a single. Additional players appear on some of the shorter tracks -- new music/free jazz saxophonist, Pete van Riper, on "Lithium Serenade"; Boris's electric viola on "Hydrogen Lullaby"; Chris Gray's guitar on "Mandible Mambo"; Rich Gold's Serge joins Boris' strings on "Ghost Note." The rest is the product of Randy's whacked-out compositional notions and his mastery of the Serge's patch-cords. Heard as a whole, it is a bizarrely shaped piece of the pre-punk/free-form puzzle that was Jack Ruby." --Byron Coley