Album name: Electric Field Donut
Release date: July 9, 1996
Release format: cassette
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio
Tracks:
1. Safety in Numbers
2. Free
3. Simple G
4. Rain Fusion
5. Farmer's Anguish
6. No Soul
7. Mama Got Caught
8. Jay's Mambo
9. The Long and Winding Road
10. I Saw Her Standing There
11. Nowhere Man
12. Yesterday
13. Help
14. Hey Jude
15. Let It Be
16. Rocky Mountain Way
17. Wicked Game
18. Flipcharts
This album came from a jam session that Harry and Jason had on February 5, 1995 in Jason's basement. The Metal XOR Studio was still under construction so the jam was done among the construction materials. They filled three 45-minute 4-track master cassettes and from those tapes this album was created.
It was a few months after the jam that Jason went back to the master tapes and started adding drums (most of the songs were recorded without drums since it was just the two of them), additional keyboards, and guitars. Once the songs were complete they were compiled for an album. Then it was time to name the album and the project. After a LOT of suggestions for a project name, they settled on Isthmus. And Harry came up with the album name. He saw a picture of lightning striking a baseball stadium and he said "Electric Field Donut!"
Most of the jam was them creating their own music and lyrics as they went, it was all ad-libbed. After their creative steam ran out they got out Jason's book of Beatles songs and started recording Beatles songs. Side A of the tape is their originals and side B is their Beatles covers.
This album also started an Isthmus tradition. The song "Wicked Game" has appeared on every Isthmus album in one form or another. And this was the first album to feature it.
For most of the album Jason played the guitar and Harry was on keyboard. They took turns singing. And this jam session was recorded with a video camera. There have been talks of releasing a video tape from the session but that has not yet materialized.
Below is the schematic for how the equipment was hooked up for this session.
Next week's Album of the Week: Lambskin Temple by Isthmus from 1996.
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