Blue Sausage Infant – Flight of the Solstice Queens

In Flight of the Solstice Queens, Blue Sausage Infant offers a deep dose of sonic escapism, ranging from the layered drone of pure head music (The Sentimental Communist) to earthy krautrock grooves (Radiant Arc). Through these methods and a reckless thirst for improvisation, BSI’s singular motive is to conjure trance states by any means necessary.

Washington DC’s Chester Hawkins has performed as Blue Sausage Infant since 1986, cross-contaminating the far corners of psychedelia (bitter noise, pastoral soundscapes, dadaist editing) to produce unique and demanding music. Tools include an even mix of electronics and organics: everything from synth and bass to harmonicas, scrap aluminum, and amplified electric toothbrushes.

Blue Sausage Infant has produced 14 handmade releases under the Intangible Arts imprint and has contributed to compilations across the USA and elsewhere. Past collaborators include Violet, Haunted Toilet, Changes to Blind, New Carrollton, Lida Husik, and Stolen Government Binder Clip. A selection of BSI material has been used for the soundtrack to Tim Ashby’s film Surface To Air, due for release in 2010. For Flight of the Solstice Queens, Hawkins drafted Chicago’s Michael Shanahan on drums (tracks 2 & 7) as well as DC’s Jeff Surak (a.k.a. Violet, track 3), Jason Mullinax (a.k.a. Pilesar, acoustics track 4), and Gary Rouzer (un-prepared bass & amplified textures, track 4).

With a renewed focus on live events (including two celebrated performances at the Sonic Circuits Festival in 2008 and 2009), Blue Sausage Infant is spreading a new and deeply interior breed of feral freakout music that insists upon an active partnership with the listener: All BSI tracks remain unfinished until they reach the brain of a willing host.

Listen to “Flight of the Solstice Queens”

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