Charles Rice Goff III recorded these four pieces alone in his Kansas City studio, each one a single take with no overdubs or effects added after. He uses a Korg R3 vocoder, a Hello Kitty Stratocaster, cassette loops fed through a Walkman, and a collection of objects that includes a Balinese flute, a deer call, a beaver jaw, and what the credits list as vibrators run through guitar pickups. The result sits somewhere between Frippertronics-style tape delay experiments and the more abrasive end of cassette culture improv.
The vocoder processes his voice into robotic choral textures that justify the Hugh Everett reference in the title. Guitar appears prepared or heavily distorted, often looped until it becomes unrecognisable. Tracks like "Ritual Of The Antichron" lean into metallic noise, while "Cultivating Equanimity" uses phaser and wah to stretch sounds into slower, more meditative shapes. The gear list is long but the palette stays rough and immediate, closer to basement noise than polished electroacoustic work.
This was released as part of Taped Rugs Productions' Uncooked series, originally on cassette. It will appeal to anyone interested in DIY electronics, loop-based improvisation, or the weirder fringes of American underground tape music.
