Album Notes

Ed Shepp is that quirky guy you knew in college who was always tinkering with his radio, mixing friends' voices and peculiar sounds into Madonna songs on his duct-taped together boombox, and spouting the most unusual comments at random times. If he sounds odd, remember that he grew up in Florida before moving to New York in 1999, where he became the sound sculptor, blogger and megadork that he is today. His first CD, Bling, appeared in 2002; compiled from journal scrawlings, old emails and song ideas, it's a wild, weird romp through the mind of an iconoclast. The follow-up to Bling was Superpowerpusssy, Ed Shepp's home-recorded lo-fi splatsterpiece. 2003 saw the arrival of Images of Rapture from the Boggle Woggle, a collection of more narrative-based pieces. Ed Shepp's fourth CD, Radio Friendly, landed in 2004, introducing the world to his Ed Shepp Exposes series of pieces, educational excursions on today's hottest topics. In his latest offering, Five, Ed Shepp continues his usual oddness with a number of Ed Shepp Exposes pieces and peculiar spoken pieces backed by liberal doses of electro ear candy.

Ed Shepp's music has been played on various radio stations, including WFMU, WXDU, WXYC and others. In 2005, in addition to launching his new CD, Ed Shepp is also launching a summer radio show on WFMU, entitled The Ed Shepp Radio Experiment. It will air Fridays from 6-7pm weekly, starting June 17 and airing through the summer.

Ed Shepp also pens a monthly column on American politics and culture for Swiss magazine Rote Fabrik Kulturzen. You can find out more about Ed Shepp at his blog, http://edshepp.blogspot.com, and purchase his CDs at http://www.cdbaby.com.