Other Musics 1989 - present

The Big Body of Venus Lacy (1989 - 90)
Beating rap-rock to the punch by 7 years (give or take), BBVL was a noisy rock band with a full-time turntablist. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, BBVL played a handful of shows and never released anything...until now...if this counts as releasing something. (Seth: guitar, vocals; John Przyborowski: bass, vocals; Brad Larrabee: turntables; Eric R. Dummer: drums.)

The Ballad of Jean-Paul Sartre (live at O'Cayz Corral 10 January 1990)


Eliot (1990 - 1993)
Pop with a capital P and some lower-case odds and ends, Eliot made low-profile rock with nooks ands crannies full of hidden gems. One single on Den-Tel Records. (Seth: guitar, vocals; John Przyborowski: bass, vocals; Don Yanek: drums.)

Squeaky Fromme (live on Airplay, WNUR 3 October 1992)
Black & White #2 (live at Lounge Ax 25 June 1992)

Three Gorgeous Dam (1997)
A solo endeavor for an 8" hand-lathed plexiglass single released on Don Yanek's Dibber Records. Multiple-personality lo-fi. (Seth: everything.)

Burning Red Giant (recorded brokenhearted and drunk at home sometime in 1994)

The Eleventh Hour (1997-98)
An almost-no-guitars side project during the Number One Cup years. Irony meets stone-cold sincerity. One single on Wurlitzer Jukebox and a short, unreleased l.p. Described as "the scariest music I've ever heard" by Tim Rutili. (Seth: synths, guitars, drum machine, vocals; Michael Lenzi: synths, drum machine, vocals; Pat O'Connell: guitars.)

The Emperor of Air (recorded at the Number One Cup rehearsal space, Howard Street, Chicago)

Parish/Nil (2002)
A collaboration with John Parish on Red Red Meat's "Rosewood, Wax, Voltz, and Glitter"- utilizing a drum loop from Resplendent - for an as-yet-unreleased Italian RRM tribute album. (Olias Nil: guitar, vocals; John Parish: guitar, keys, vocals; M. Resplendent: drum loop.)

Rosewood, Wax, Voltz, and Glitter (recorded at John Parish's house, Bristol UK)

The Nil Antithesis (2003)
Recordings made in Chicago with Michael Lenzi and other friends for an aborted e.p. entitled O My Friends, There Is No Friend. I'm still fond of some of the material, but after the Fire Show, the e.p. as a whole didn't seem quite up to snuff. (Seth: guitar, piano, vocals, programming, drum machine, percussion, etc. Michael Lenzi: drum machine, vocals, key bass; Eric Roth: dumb bells; Tim Rutili: guitar, piano; Don Yanek: drums; John "Pyx" Klos: piano.)

The Probe of Microphone (recorded at Plastic Skull Studios, under the direction of M. Resplendent)