katharsis / live at the 455 / 1988

katharsis - live at the 455 (tape 1988 SSS Productions sss16)

Katharsis was a band from San Francisco, formed by: Daniel Malson , Jano Sanguine , Mary Andre and Tim Vickers (from 1988). Daniel Malson also got a side project: Bast, that released a tape through The Happiest Place on Earth. Here we find a tape each side got a different live recording but both at the same place the 455 gallery in SF. 

Side-a was recorded in october 1987. I don't know if the photo of the cover is the real band...hovewer Katharsis are an industrial band with punk attitude, is more in the power electronics vein, they don't have a lot of percussion..zero percussive..it's only about the fatness of the noise sound..the thickness, about the low frequencies. 'Imitate' is the best track. 'Fate' the most post-punk, 'Hostile Witness' the punkest, 'My father's Dead' the scariest...

Released on the Pittsburgh based label: SSS Production.

seite A / Live 10/17/1987: 1. Intro, 2. Imitate, 3. My Father's dead, 4. Fruits of Toil, 5. End

seite B / Live 1/29/1988: 1. Hostile Witness, 2. Just Passina.., 3. ..Through, 4. Leviathan, 5. Fate



get the tape here (ripped by Sickness Abouns now Sickness still Abouns [great blog!])
!!! listen loud.