Primordial Nostalgia

Frozen Taco proudly presents their seventh album, Primordial Nostalgia Copyright 1990 – 2005, Frozen Taco, All rights reserved Recorded at the Bedside, Columbus, GA, December 1990 Frozen Taco is: Theron Welch and Matthew Reiss

This album is dedicated to winter

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Here’s a true Frozen Taco breakthrough album. This is the first album that Matt and I collaborated on completely. Everything worked really well for us and as such this album remains one of my top favorites. I still can clearly remember walking with Matt around the neighborhood late one night trying to decide the ordering of songs on the album. I had a sense then that this album would be a memorable one and it still remains that for me today. It’s a nice variety of fun songs, to serious ones, to a joke one, to a fun bonus instrumental. “Ingenuous Predator” is such an amazing song from a music standpoint, but much more so lyrically – they remain some of my favorites. “Sacrificed” is one of our more unique and compelling instrumentals. I really enjoy the style of songs like “Isle of Avalon” which holds true to Frozen Taco songs of old, where the music ideas are all that is known beforehand, the song was improvised as it was recorded.

Theron Welch
Seattle, January 2003

Primordial Nostalgia is in many ways, Frozen Taco’s breakout album, and it remains high on my list of favorites. I typically find myself putting on Primordial Nostalgia to hear one song, and end up listening to the entire album. It forces you to keep listening.

Storm’s Apology, Druid’s Dance (which we remade for “TBC’n With Rahashee”), Isle of Avalon – all are very memorable FT compositions; I love the instrumental, Sacrificed, and I think That Darned Horse is the funniest of our humorous songs (it’s a parody of the theme to the TV series “Branded”); but the best song, the song that defines the album, is Ingenuous Predator. I was so proud of that song that I played it for anyone who would listen (and even some who wouldn’t).

Incidentally, names like Ingenuous Predator, Dutchman’s Breeches, Immaculate Constable, etc. were derived by picking random words out of Theron’s giant dictionary. We gave up the practice some time around “Myth & Man,” but who knows, maybe we’ll re-institute the random name generator for some future FT song. Admittedly, I have a hard time remembering some of our non sequitur titles (“Xihmtao”?).

Matthew Reiss,
Kansas City, October 2004