the highest concepts fuse with the lowest urges to make up the fire show, the band that rose from the ashes of number one cup... let olias nil and m. resplendent take you on a tour of a landscape littered with the ghosts of aggro past and the production of tomorrow. worlds away from # 1 cup, seth cohen and michael lenzi (olias and m. respectively) find their own voice in the fire show and shamelessly never look back...

Resplendent II

wing beneath the sills

Resplendent I in a wilderness

Saint The Fire Show is the third release from Chicago's The Fire Show. Here we find tfs rolling out the penultimate statement of their highly-engineered virulent strain of rock and roll.with saint the fire show, olias nil, m. resplendent and klos have not "done it again" - instead, now they've really done it. this is a staggering work encompassing allusion and illusion, invasion and evasion, rock, romance and 'rithmetic. we, uh, like it.

song titles
the making of dead hollow
the rabbit of my sould is king of his ghost
brittlebones
deviator feel like a crook
dollar and cent supplicants
the godforsaken angels of epistemology
a few small infamies in arrears
useless romo cravings
magellan was a felon
you are my sunshine

bonus videos are on this disc as well - sharply shot by michael zandlo we see the fire show doing their thing and explaining themselves in the process...

continuing in their self-invented tradition of high-contrast black & white art rock, the fire show have strung together an essential collection of high-anxiety and soul searching epics. ornette coleman-inspired horn lines and sabbath-style riffage. a haunting, angular number which asserts "we must put you into this ethereal quality of ghostliness." the sound of mucking about in the stultifying ennui of a creative life. dubbed "release 1.5" by the band, this is 42-minute bridge between their great first album and up-coming second album. "are you still into it / like i am into it?" download cover art from www.fire-show.com (2001)

recorded by brian deck at clava studio

track listing
(click on linked titles for sample mp3 clip! - 128KB/Stereo):
designing a steeper cliff - heart muscle mass - black & white trees line the paths of sleep - 1986.6 - you the ghost - sonny liston, dead like latin - bed w/ambulance police light on top - album credits

debut cd. guitar puzzles and bloody romantic epics from m. resplendent and olias nil. the scent of scorched earth. monarchs of the scabrous art song. panic. grace. dub mixes and pop reconstructions unfold with surgical ease & become 21st century medicine. orchestral strings, radio static, tape loops and other odd bits of sound dodge around the skeleton and through the bloodstream of a rock band willingly going under the knife. music for people who haven’t given up yet. (2000)

recorded by brian deck at clava studio

credits
m. resplendent - voise, guitar olias nil - guitar, voise e.s. roth - drumms craig lubinsky - bas... strings arranged by e.s. roth with o. nil

track listing
(click on linked titles for sample mp3 clip! - 128KB/Stereo):
f.pilate - please kill the barium swallows - explosion: cerebellum - the antipathetic - 4 times through the angel - conception blues - who do you love? - _____ - pilate f.