Joy Unspeakable Joy, by mark bingham

Joy Unspeakable Joy

by mark bingham

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

26

releases

Get all 26 mark bingham releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of MOUNTWEAZEL, FOR H, Sucking For Comfort, SINGLES, William Blake In Bakersfield, Back To Doghead, To And From The Afterlife, The Crisco Mountain Boys, and 18 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$113.10 USD or more (35% OFF)

1.	Great Club 00:17		buy track
2.	O Japan 04:29		buy track
3.	Joy Unspeakable Joy 04:10		buy track
4.	Capital Of The Universe 05:12		buy track
5.	Sex Swamp 01:10		buy track
6.	Move To NY 00:10		buy track
7.	Fuck It Up 05:11		buy track
8.	Saturn Man 03:15	info	buy track
9.	Standing In The Need 07:10	info	buy track
10.	Critical Distance 04:01	info	buy track
11.	Shortnin Bread 04:12	info	buy track
12.	Heckle And Jeckle 04:39	info	buy track
13.	Charlie Chan In Soho 06:04	info	buy track

about

social climbers touring took a hit when Dick Connette decided to stop touring . which put the live band back to where it started- as a duo.
The prep for the next tour included recording Dick reciting lines. From there , i made loops and copied the loops over to cassettes . It worked like this... Before we went on, the audience would be barraged by 3 boom boxes featuring Dick, Michael Smith and Lea Floden speaking on many subjects. Jean Shaw and I would play over the talking plus we used the yakking to fill up the dead air that happened when I had to set the drum machines for the next piece. This had been Dick’s job. I had a bag of cassettes with the talking and a crib sheet with drum machine settings and we’d wing it every night. After a heckler was relentless in taunting us with “ hey Sonny , why dont you let Cher sing, hey Sonny why dont you let Cher talk” we began planting hecklers to yell that and used that as part of the show.
For 6 weeks we schlepped the Midwest, through the south to Texas and back . I had a stereo mic and a decent Sony recorder- we recorded every show. When we returned to NY, i picked out good takes from all the gigs since 1980 and started messing with editing. Took the edited tapes and trasfered to 8 track at Brendan Harkin’s studio out near JFK airport. We added to the cassette recordings, layering real drums , doubling the bass here and there, adding keys that werent there before and or layering on existing keys. did I double vocals ? Cant remember. All this took a few weeks , with Brendan acting as co-producer and engineer. We got it done and Elliot Sharp was going to release it on Zoar records but... the band broke up and both the 2nd studio LP and the live stuff was shelved - for 40 years . Joy Unspeakable Joy gives you a good idea what it was like to hear the Social Climbers live in the early 80s.
in 2017 , I added to the original Joy , finding more tour cuts presented as they happened plus a cut from the band’s last gig at La Bamba on 2nd Ave and 12th street in Manhattan. ( where we alternated weekends with the Swollen Monkeys through the summer of 1982 ) Heckle and Jeckle features Jerome Deupree on drums and Kyle Sims on lead bass. The last Climbers show was the week before Halloween 1982.

credits

released February 1, 2023

jean shaw- bass
mark bingham- guitar, bass, vocals
dick connette - keys and voice
chris adams - drums on japan, joy, capitol, saturn man ,fuck it up
tony martucci - drums on Fuck It Up
lea floden - voice
kyle sims - bass on heckle and jeckle
jerome deupree- drums on heckle and jeckle,
michael smith - voice
dave miller - trumpet on critical distance
recorded live / 1982 in bloomington, austin, houston, NYC 1980-82 produced by brendan harkin and mark bingham
additional recording at leroy sound 133 mercer st , NYC

license

about

mark bingham New Orleans, Louisiana

contact / help

Contact mark bingham

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like mark bingham, you may also like:

Daydream Utopia
by Chris Coco

Atmospheric downtempo electronica with gauzy, rippling synths laid atop gentle, pillowy rhythms. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 8, 2024
go to album
Planet Hearth
by Calibre

A personal, poignant record from the Belfast DJ and producer, dedicated to a close friend of his who passed away last year. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 10, 2019
go to album
Echoes In Bloom
by Lomea

Lomea’s edgy electronic music runs from jittery, drum ’n’ bass style rhythms to pools of oceanic ambient. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 1, 2019
go to album
Music For Modular
by Lazy H

Lazy H bridges the gap between dark London jazz clubs and electronic music. Bandcamp New & Notable May 4, 2024
go to album
Elevations
by Contours

UK percussionist and producer Tom Buford contrasts minimalist electronic experiments with vast soundscapes shaped by classical and jazz. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2024
go to album
House of (S)PUNK VOL.5
by TTRRAACCAA, Lola Kay, La Fraicheur & Leonard de Leonard, KOTIK, Störung

The excellent Barcelona label House of (S)PUNK is back with a five-song comp showcasing the local hardgroove scene. Bandcamp New & Notable May 1, 2024
go to album
Yucca
by Church Andrews & Matt Davies

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 30, 2024
go to album