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BRUCE LICHER - Tundra

from Tape Excavation by Various Artists

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    Black vinyl edition of the Tape Excavation compilation LP limited to 200 numbered copies for sale. This 14-song limited edition vinyl LP was created to accompany the deluxe edition of the Savage Impressions book published by P22 in February 2020. Tape Excavation was compiled by Bruce Licher in early 2019 after scouring through dozens of boxes of cassette tapes from rehearsals, demos, and other recordings to find previously unheard nuggets from his various musical endeavors. Dating from his first recordings for Independent Project Records in 1980 to a rehearsal demo of his current musical endeavor SR2, a collaboration with his wife Karen Nielsen Licher, this compilation contains 14 intriguing windows into the ongoing evolution of Licher’s sound and musical vision.


    The Track listing on the limited edition vinyl LP is:


    Side 1:
    1. PROJECT 197 - The Out Sound (unreleased studio out-take, 1980)
    2. BRIDGE - Bridge (UCLA parking garage reel-to-reel 4-track recording, 1981)
    3. FINAL REPUBLIC - Chase (Theodorakis song, garage rehearsal from 1982)
    4. FINAL REPUBLIC - The Unknown (garage rehearsal experiment, 1982)
    5. SAVAGE REPUBLIC - First Siege (1983 Rough Trade demo)
    6. SAVAGE REPUBLIC - Assembly of The Dead (1983 Rough Trade demo)
    7. LEMON WEDGES - Untitled (mid-90’s home rehearsal - Karen & Bruce)
    8. BRUCE LICHER - Cedar (Scenic demo circa 1997)
    9. BRUCE LICHER - Tundra (Scenic demo circa 1997)


    Side 2:
    1. SCENIC - Theme For Better Times (late 90’s rehearsal demo)
    2. LANTERNA w/BRUCE LICHER - B Minor (recorded live in Sedona, 2004)
    3. RANK - Advancement (version) (film soundtrack session with Michael Krassner recorded at The Ice House, Phoenix, AZ mid-2000’s)
    4. BRUCE LICHER - Birthdaysong (7x7 is) (home demo circa 2007)
    5. SR2 - The Great Escape (rehearsal demo, April 2019)


    The earlier recordings were digitally transferred from the original source cassette tapes and then pre-mastered along with several later digital recordings by Michael Krassner in April of 2019. We give thanks to all of the musicians that have collaborated on the music presented on this LP for their contributions. All songs are copyrighted by their creators and most are published by The Independent Project Music (BMI).


    Tape Excavation is a co-release from Independent Project Records and P22 Records. The respective catalog numbers are IP073 / P22-019. There is no bar code associated with the release.

    www.p22.com / www.independentprojectpress.com

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    Signed & numbered edition of 22 copies, in choice of gold or silver print editions
    Designed and printed by Bruce Licher
    18" x 26", printed on plain brown chipboard
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BRUCE LICHER - Tundra (solo demo circa 1997)

A year after the Acquatica LP by his group Scenic had been released in 1996, Bruce Licher began to demo new songs for a proposed third album. Wanting to get back to a similar conceptual idea to their first album, Incident At Cima, he began to work on a suite of songs intended to be a soundtrack for the Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah. Licher had recently been listening to the Younger Than Yesterday album by The Byrds and was taken by the guitar intro to the song Why and wanted to try incorporating a similar opening to a new song he had been playing around with. Scenic later worked on the song, performing it live several times, and came close to creating a decent full band demo of the track, but for an unfortunate wrong note that Licher played at one point. They always thought they’d get back to re-recording the song, but ended up going in a different direction for their third album.

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from Tape Excavation, released March 20, 2020
Bruce Licher plays both the rhythm and lead guitars on this recording.

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Bruce Licher Bishop, California

Bruce Licher has had over four decades of experience as a musician, a record label owner and, perhaps most famously, as an artist and graphic designer. He founded Independent Project Records, as well as a related effort for his graphic work in general, Independent Project Press. ... more

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