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Word Origami

by George Chen

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    Mumblecore standup comedy recording from a San Francisco video-store basement
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  • LIMITED Deluxe Edition double cassette
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    Released by our friends over at Deathbomb Arc, this is not only the Word Origami standup recording but more than an hour of comedy remixes by artists like:
    Greg Saunier, John Deiterich, Ed Rodriguez (Deerhoof), William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes (clipping.), Headboggle, Zachary James Watkins (Black Spirituals), Future/Hunter, Chaki, Mukqs, Margot Padilla, Malocculsion, Mike Shiflet, Cooling Prongs, Conscious Summary, Derek Gaines (Jerkagram), Steven Santa Maria (Chen Santa Maria), Spencer Owen. Plus more standup from 2018.
    Truly bizarre artifact. Limited edition of 100. Deathbomb Arc is out of their copies, these are just our artist copies! deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/word-origami-deluxe
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Transference 00:49
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Feral 01:53
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Evictory 02:44
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Catering 04:19
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Free Pizza 02:38

about

"In 1960, a young comic released an LP of his first-ever stage performance called, 'The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart'. It was the largest selling album ever, to that point.
Is there a Button-Down Mind for the Digital Age? It's George Chen!"
-Jello Biafra

Standup Comedy EP
Recorded Leap Day Feb 29, 2016 at The Cynic Cave / Lost Weekend Video, San Francisco Mission District.
Other performers on the bill were Nick Flanagan, Marga Gomez, and Lexie Mountain, hosted by Brandie Posey.

This was a documentation of the Cynic Cave basement which I helped start in 2012, a few days before Lost Weekend Video closed to move a block away. This was where I had the most stage time and thought it would be a shame if I didn’t get down a decent recording of my comedy as it was in the most hospitable room I had.
This also felt symbolic for me to mark moving away from the Bay Area, where I’d lived my entire life. The City and Oakland were irrevocably changing, my relationship was taking me to Los Angeles, and the venue I helped start was shutting down - a fitting trifecta of closure.
I didn’t headline the night or really promote that I was recording, which alleviated some pressure, and I’ve never done a continuous set up to this length before or since. Hopefully by the next Leap Day I will.
- June 2017

Co-host of Sup Doc Podcast supdocpodcast.com/about/
Bio link - zumonline.com/George-Chen
double cassette deluxe edition physical version plus remixes available via Deathbomb Arc late May 2019
deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/word-origami-deluxe

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released July 7, 2017

Engineering and recording by Will Scovill
Mixed and mastered by Kip Uhlhorn May 2017
cover art by Stephen Olson

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