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- a box of beware the haberdash { on cassette }
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- the first cassette release — in absentia
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- cassettes two and three — tuscany and crutchfield
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- and the final cassettes — mckinley and deniro
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- a close up of the little boy from in absentia
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- the stolen perfume ad imagery that became the brand for our second album tuscany
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- crutchfield devolves into the most experimental and messy recordings by beware the haberdash
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- mckinley is less musically experimental, but still imbued with dark humor and subconscia
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- and deniro is perhaps the most commercial-sounding haberdash album, a simulated band vibe all done through overdubs for the studio recording sessions
last night i found a box in the basement, a treasure
as much as Marco and i buckled under the legal pressures brought on by our contractual relationship to XeXeX | OBLiViON back in the ’90s and stopped recording our beware the haberdash material on carefully planned, sequential schedule — we did move forward in our secret underground recording studio to capture that haberdash magic on tape to create a veritable bucketful of bootleggy sounds
only select tracks made it to any official releases over the years, however, as litigation got rather nasty and we both chose to focus on the positive experience of making music over fighting against ‘The Man’ every step of the way to merely preserve this rather eclectic and strange post-deathmen project we both still treasure to this day
so here you have it — the visually-designed artifactual remains of the overarching master gameplan for every pre-Sewingbox beware the haberdash release as envisioned and begun back in the late 1990s / early 2000s