''Host'' is the second

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

Critters Buggin Critters Buggin is a Seattle, Washington-based instrumental group which performs in a jazz, rock and African-influenced, eclectic style. The band is composed of Matt Chamberlain (drums, percussion, piano, programming, synths, loops, samples and d ...

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and was released in 1997. It was recorded December 18–20 at Bad Animals and December 21–23 live at

OK Hotel The OK Hotel was an American bar and music venue located at 212 Alaskan Way South in Seattle's Pioneer Square district. The club's 15-year-plus life span came to an end with the Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001, which damaged numerous ...

1995.liner notes Originally released by Loosegroove, ''Host'' was reissued by Kufala Recordings in 2004.

Track listing

# "Mount Blasta" - 4:22 # "Mullet Cut" - 5:40 # "Crowley Dissertation" - 0:49 # "Bill Gates 5:52 # "Red Eyed Wonder" - 6:12 # "I Ain't No Adobe Hut" - 3:33 # "Bubble Boy" - 0:59 # "Sheets" - 4:59 # "Manhog's Day in the Park" - 5:50 # "B.H. Goes to a Freak" - 5:07 # "Sex Doily Intro" - 3:45 # "Sex Doily" - 5:08 # "Nahmani" - 1:53 # "Bonus track" - 3:20

Personnel

Matt Chamberlain Matthew Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967) is an American session musician, drummer, producer and songwriter. Biography Life and career Chamberlain was born in San Pedro, California on April 17, 1967. He began learning how to play the drums ...

- drums set, tabla, guitar, lap slide, loops, percussion *

Brad Houser John Bradley Houser (born September 7, 1960) is an American bass guitar, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet player, originally from Dallas, Texas. He was a co-founding member of the New Bohemians, later to become known as Edie Brickell & New Boh ...

- bass, bass clarinet *

Skerik Skerik is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, he is a pioneer in a playing style that has been called saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critt ...

- saxophone, piano, rhodes and guitar *Doug Stringer - djembe on "B.H. Goes to a Freak" *Tim Young is Bubble Boy *Doc Britton - the voice of

Francis E. Dec Francis Edward Dec (January 6, 1926January 21, 1996) was an American lawyer and outsider art, outsider writer who was best known for his typewritten diatribes that he independently mailed and published from the late 1960s onward. His works are c ...

on "Bill Gates"

References

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