sunburned hand of the man

lately i've been checking out sunburned hand of the man, an arty, amorphous troupe from boston whose sprawling, anarchic jams put me in mind of stuff like harry partch, frank zappa's "return of the sun of monster magnet" (only less structured), eugene chadbourne in a rustic free-jazz mood, the "field recordings" on trout mask replica, don cherry's eurojazz-meets-gamelan experiment eternal rhythm, and even local eccentrics like russ walton, or cadillac fraf's sunday night midnight cd-r. back in 2003, they took a roadtrip up to alaska to play at a wedding on the longest day of the yr, which they recorded (on vhs tape, just like wizard o' sound andre edmonson does w/the wreck room wednesday night jams) and released as the wedlock double lp. some of it's audio-verite collages of the ceremonies, some of it's tribal 'n' percussion-heavy, some of it sounds like extremely acid-addled psych. equally useful for vibing up first thing in the morning or drifting off late at night.