No Clear Records

Brain Time Now

2011-08-11T09:34:00.001-07:00

Blast and the Detergents' new full length album "Brain Time Now" is available for download here: http://blastandthedetergents.bandcamp.com/. Listen for free or pay 11 dollars through that site for the download. We are using this money to afford to press this album as an LP. If you pay the 11 dollars for download, you will get an LP once we can afford it. All music by Nadeau, Nadeau and Mast, recording by James Bess and cover art by Christopher Nadeau.

No Clear Records 010!

Permanent Makeup - NCR 009

2011-04-26T17:08:00.001-07:00

8 songs of post punk magic featuring James Bess guitaring/voice, Susan Dickson drumming/voice and Chris Nadeau bassing/voice. Cover art by Susan Dickson and recording by James Bess. Free Download here: permanentmakeup.bandcamp.com

No Clear No Eyes #1

2011-01-12T16:01:00.001-08:00

Blast and the Detergents/Ghost Hospital 7 inch

2010-09-02T17:54:00.000-07:00

Blast and the Detergent's first wax offering and Ghost Hospital's second, a punk classic from Pinellas County, Florida.

*2 tracks on each side, a short program of whats going on right now.
*An international release, split between Scotch Tapes of Canada and my label, No Clear Records.
*Cover art by legendary Florida collage artist, Brad Kokay.

Interested parties hit the button below! (6 dollars for the record and 2 for shipping)

or visit www.scotchtapes.ca

Violent Space Beat (Modern TV)

2010-01-26T06:44:00.000-08:00

IMPROVISATION
Meandering thoughts pulsate through the dark filter of my scattered brain as I hit "record" on a microcassette recorder intended to collect professional dissertations at the push of a button and a loosening of the throat. Three instruments fill a room formerly inhabited by a bed that occupied the entire floorspace. Two grown people with furniture too large for their 2 bedroom 1920 cottage, unwilling to relent in their self motivated task of filling every millimeter of this house with markers of vacations and better times. They look in from the past, a recent history of giving up on America and fleeing the current education dump. No looking back. The guitar, bought in the northernmost corner of the continental US, buzzes with excitement. Borrowed drums and a cassette player purchased from a dead man's estate sale filled with a tape that hit me in the neck a few years ago.

Transitions Art Gallery, 2007ish:
A whirlwind of sound mixing voices, rewinding, noise and hiss fills the air at the punk art space. Tapes chucked into the audience by experimental auteurs Hal McGee and Andrew Chadwick. A high velocity cassette collides with my neck and I choke on my own laughter and short breath. "Ironing Folk," says the tape.

Present Day:
Mind blank with anticipation, I turn the ceiling fan on for some extra background noise. We set a timer to give the improv one of two concrete reality cornerstones: Time must have a stop. 3 movements. Go.

Download the track Violent Space Beat here:
http://www.box.net/shared/tpsks61ak6

Ghost Hospital Interview

2010-01-24T19:54:00.000-08:00

Interview: Blast & the Detergents vs. Ghost Hospital: Mike from Ghost Hospital and I have played a lot of shows together, he even performed with my improv noise group, The Billfolds, at 2008’s International Noise Conference in Miami. We share a split lo-fi cassette as I play my alter ego Modern TV. Needless to say, this is a loaded interview between two friends.

Christopher Nadeau: yo
Ghost Hospital: so whats happening?
CN: not much. biked downtown and nothing was going on so we pretended like there was for an hour and now we're home. hey I have a serious question for you. who would win in a fight? a t rex or a flying saucer?
GH: a flying saucer, i'm afraid. those little arms just don't cut it.
CN: hmm. i see what you're saying. one good chomp though...
GH: true. hey check this out: rocket reducer in chicago picked up some copies of the record. just got em in today. SS picked up some too and Florida's Dying. SS and Flo Dy both sold out the first day (SS in 4 hours) and had to reorder.
CN: that is huge news! its great to think that more than just a circle of friends is hearing yr tunes. i love that feeling.
GH: its nice to hear when complete strangers besides your friends dig the music you put out. its rewarding.
CN: so you just went through the process of mastering some recordings of yours, dealing with a vinyl pressing plant and putting out your own 7 inch record on your label, Teen Ape Recordings. how was that whole experience?
GH: it was quite a learning experience trying to shop around and find the best quality work for the best price. i shopped around for months trying to find the best that i could afford. i mastered with Jason Martin of this band Starflyer 59. he does all his recording and i'm a big fan of the sound. reverb soaked surf pop.
CN: where is he geographically?
GH: riverside, ca- south east of LA. lots of pressing plants have their own in-house master guys, but from what i heard, they usually suck. unless you go thru united and they sub with Prarie Cat who is the best around and cheapest from what i heard.
CN: its amazing how america sprawls and sprawls. i feel somewhat cut off down here in florida, but here we are dealing with east of LA and San Francisco and Indiana and bla bla bla. for example, you started playing music in Pittsburg- how does playing music up there differ from down here in flor-ee-da?
GH: its more eclectic here… kind of like the population seems- like no one is really from here. pittsburg to me has a more regionalized sound… which happens to be bad. there are like 250 strokes rip off bands in pittsburg
CN: ha- thats not good for anyone.
GH: this band Kim Phuc from there put out a great single last year.
CN: your 7 inch has been moving around the country quite a bit in the couple weeks since you've unleashed it on an unsuspecting public. how would you describe the ghost hospital sound in 12 words or less? COUNT EM DAMNIT!!!!
GH: single white male seeking alpha male seeking robot fireflies in outer space. i really think florida has a lot of good shit going on right now.
CN: ha- we played at the brass mug last night and the band that played before us covered rebel girl by bikini kill.
GH: oh wow-how was it?
CN: they did a pretty lame version b/c i think their guitarist was into different music like eric clapton or something.
GH: that's hilarious. he had no clue.
CN: so when we played we asked your bassist, kat magyar, to sing hamster baby with us and she totally owned that bar for 3 minutes. it was amazing.
GH: cool that you guys pulled it out of the hat like that. im still convinced that transitions is probably the most receptive to Blast and the Detergents bar none. i love that place.
CN: yeah transitions art gallery consistently bleeds integrity, situated in the beautiful old rusty industrial sector of tampa behind the skatepark of tampa.
all ages shows are just the way to go. bar crowds down here are all washed up grubby socialites. but thats ok- whatever works for them, you know?
GH: yeah, seems like that everywhere. 21 and up you get these really snobby, stella drinking art critics constantly NOT having a good time. punk to me is a good time
CN: haha they wouldn't know art if i took a shit on their face. what is the best way to make a guitar feedback for a full two minutes with the least amount of effort?
GH: a dan electro and the gain on 11. it also helps to be broken hearted.
CN: on that note- thank you for your slapdash answers to my slapdash questions. i'm going to cut and paste this interview like a bastard burroughs wet dream and hope to salvage a couple lines for our friends in san francisco- lets hope the dinosaurs and flying saucers at least have a coherent message for us when the time comes.

Christopher Nadeau skronks, contorts, writes songs and guitars in Blast & the Detergents and Modern TV and he’s sponsored by no one… d’uh.

No Clear Radio episode 1

2009-06-22T20:24:00.000-07:00

Brand new podcast radio show of recent and upcoming releases! this set is a little Mess Folk heavy because I am very excited about their cd-r that is about to come out soon!

mess folk-graveyard
blast and the detergents-not disposable
ghost hospital-head is gone
mess folk-nothing to me
chitter chatter
hal mcgee-small font lower case cracked improvisation
mess folk-black heart
the bay mayfields-doesn't matter
otolathe-ignore the mimes
blast and the detergents-maybe if i were a man
mess folk-hunt you down

Apartment Show # 7 part 1

2009-05-26T20:51:00.000-07:00

Hal Mcgee has curated 6 minimalist experimental improvisation shows at his flat in Gainesville, Florida. He brought the circus to St Petersburg this month and we put together an early afternoon show of improvisation at varying volumes in different rooms of my apartment. We drew cards randomly to choose partners in order to support the cut and paste burroughs environment we cling to in order to sculpt some sanity into our slapdash lives. Here's the first three videos from that show:
Kat Magyar and Christopher Nadeau

Hal McGee and Otolathe

Hal McGee and Christopher Nadeau

Obligitory First Post

2009-05-04T19:46:00.000-07:00

No Clear Records started as a fake record label name used to shove on cd-r releases of my bands starting about 3 years ago. From home recordings to the studio, No Clear continues to surf the wave of raw immediacy and slapdash schizophrenia. Caustic live performances of bands like Blast and the Detergents, The Billfolds and Modern TV haunt the state of Florida and beyond every chance we get. Too wild for most bars in the area, a few all ages venues tolerate our antics a little more readily than the local beer flops. Here, words are boring:

The Art of No Clear Records

2009-05-04T19:35:00.000-07:00

No music uploaded yet, so we'll ease you into our visual aesthetic first:

First, a show flyer from last year

by Christopher Nadeau, Brad Kokay and Susan Dickson

Cover of No Clear Records 003

Cover of No Clear Records 004

Show flyer

All art Christopher Nadeau except where noted

More crap art to come. Anyone can make art- there is no special club and no such thing as talent.