Charles Rice Goff III
“Heartbreaking Randomness”
Heartbreaking Randomness
by Charles Rice Goff III
1 The Least Is Part Of All
2 Late Here
3 Surface Tension
4 Diddly Squat Jackpot
5 Lena Still Lurks Hereabouts
6 In The Stars
7 The Uniforms Will All Be Stained
8 Chop Chop Flip Flop
9 Not Enough Pixels On My Screen
10 Sensing
11 Kind Hearts Butter Others’ Parsnips
12 Holophote
The Following Were Used In The Creation Of This Audio Collection :
Computer OS: Windows XP, Windows 10
Software: Cool Edit Pro II, Audacity, Midisoft MIDI Scorewriter, Windows Media Player, Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder, Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects, Fruity Loops, Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI Converter, Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter
Instrumentation: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Effected Vocals, Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer, Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer, Casio AP-24 Electric Piano, Korg Z1 Synthesizer, Fender Hello Kitty Stratocaster Electronic Guitar, Fender Reflector Squire Electronic Guitar, Aklot Electro-Acoustic Soprano Ukulele, Various Analog Foot Pedal Sound Effects, Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator, Various Percussion, Music Boxes, Animal Calls, Cassette Tape Manipulation, Original And Prerecorded Sound Samples, A cheap/4-channel Radio Shack Mixer, Diane The Mannequin Hand
All performances, recordings, editing, production, lyrics etc. by Charles Rice Goff III, except where indicated below.
A-Lex Butler – Baby Voices on “Late Here”
Eric Matchett – Takamine F-360s Acoustic Guitar on “Lena Still Lurks Hereabouts”
Michael LaGrega – Alesis A6 Andromeda Synthesizer on “In The Stars”
LjdB – Yamaha PSR-E263 Synthesizer, Digital Sound Effects, on “Chop Chop Flip Flop”
Justin Jackley – Executive Production, Album Cover Art
Of Possible Interest:
All of Goff’s piano and Matchett’s guitar bits on “Lena Still Lurks Hereabouts” were influenced by the untimely passing of Turkey Makes Me Sleepy member: Michael Adams, in January, 2022. The lyrics of “Lena Still Lurks Hereabouts” are a collage of verbiage extracted from several Michael Adams original recordings.
Goff dreamed the vocal melody for “In The Stars” on February 18, 2021.
Goff dreamed the overall melody for “Holophote” on April 14, 2022.
The following artists provided particular inspiration for creating the unique pieces presented in this collection: Taemin, 2NE1, The Residents, Billlie, Frank Zappa, Everglow, Robert Fripp, Lee Hi, Brian Eno, Todd Rundgren
Heartbreaking Randomness is the first-ever collection of Goff’s recordings to be released in a vinyl record format (that means about 50 years of Goff’s recordings precede this historic release).
Vinyl Distribution by Herby Records – https://herbyrecords.bandcamp.com
This archive post contains scans of inserts which are contained in the vinyl record jackets of the Herby release. Included are:
Handpainted (by Goff) lyric sheets
Album notes with hand-sketched illustration (by Goff)