Nasturtium (2004) was a short-lived group project carried out in Spring 2004 in the other corner of the basement (aka Den Haag) of the Reckankomplex during the final stages of Multiples as something of a fun palate-cleanser (in the way that Barton Fink was during the production of Miller’s Crossing) as a continuation of the “Feedback Rattling a Snare Drum” recording concepts laid out in the piece “Feedback Zwei” on Playthroughs.

Stemming from a desire to compose repetitive music for a heavily electrified quartet (two six-stringed guitarists, two four-stringed bassists) a series of pieces (riffs, essentially) began to take shape & were recorded in April; shortly thereafter we decided to tackle canonic works of Minimalism (a thinly veiled realization of Steve Reich’s “Piano Phase” as arranged for this lineup was recorded at the second wave of sessions in June). At some point there was a whole fake back-story (written during one of those manic, insomia-fueled late night sessions during which so many of my worst ideas form) but I’ll spare you that now.

A combined LP & 7” release on the ill-fated Mimaroglu “House Brand” no was met with the same fate as the Brandon Terzakis & Benjamin Nelson split LP, the Geoff Mullen & Keith Fullerton Whitman 2LP, the reissue of Von Himmel’s “Space Communion,” & many other well-meaning social music projects when the pressing plant we’d paid to make all of these collapsed (literally & figuratively) in late 2010. Only the “Bonus Single” made it out alive (although there are test pressings of the LP floating around, some with missing tracks) & can be found for sale on Discogs.

Later on (November, 2023) the entire suite was made available to hear on all of the streaming apps for posterity (YouTube™ embed to your right/below).