The Nature of Sap by Portastatic (CD, Mar-1997, Merge) new sealed

Detailed item info
Album Features
UPC:    036172942022
Artist:    Portastatic
Format:    CD
Release Year:    1997
Record Label:    Merge
Genre:    Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. You Know Where to Find Me
2. A Lovely Niles
3. Hurricane Warning (Ignored)
4. Reverse Lester
5. Flare
6. Jonathan's Organ
7. Before You Sailed Around the World
8. Ben's Revenge
9. Impolite Cheers
10. Spying on the Spys
11. BJJT
12. Landed
13. If You Could Sing
14. The Nature of Sap
15. [Untitled Hidden Track] - (hidden track)
16. [Untitled Hidden Track] - (hidden track)

Details
Playing Time:    47 min.
Contributing Artists:    Jonathan Marx
Producer:    Mac McCaughan, Jerry Kee
Distributor:    Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:    Studio
Recording Mode:    Stereo
SPAR Code:    n/a

Album Notes
Portastatic includes: Mac McCaughan.Additional personnel includes: Jonathan Marx, Jerry Kee, Matthew McCaughan.Personnel: Jonathan Marx (clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, organ, percussion); Matt McCaughan (drums, percussion); Jerry Kee (percussion).Recording information: Duck Kee Studios, Mebane, NC (1996).Photographers: Laura Ballance; Mac McCaughan.It wouldn't be entirely unfair to think of Portastatic as a kinder. gentler Superchunk. After all, they're both the love children of Mac McCaughan. And what's a guy supposed to do when he's got more melodies running through his head than one band can perform? On Portastaic's third full length there are guest appearances by Jonathan Marx on clarinet, sax and trumpet and Mac's brother, Matt on drums. Otherwise it's mostly McCaughan's solo outing, sounding pretty much like it was recorded with whatever happened to be lying around his apartment. It has a casual and intimate feel, topped off with Big Mac's endearing and nasal yelp.