Isto - Ceci N'est Pas L'Isto (2007)
Ceci N'est Pas L'Isto

Isto's 8th Album: A collection of 38 tracks that comprise a wide gamut of Musical Absurdity. All songs are performed solo on a cheap, steel-string acoustic guitar, and all sounds are made by that guitar and Chris White's voice. Tracks range in length from 3 seconds to over 6 minutes. Significant influences include Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy album, Robert Anton Wilson, Alvin Lucier, Ezra Pound, Arlo Guthrie, John Cage, Captain Beefheart, Raffi, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Anthony Braxton, Tin Pan Alley, Jean-Luc Godard, Sesame Street, and Bob Dylan. Isto's most surreal effort yet.

Click on underlined selections to see video performances of the songs

  1. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
  2. I Entered My Stomach for a Walk
  3. Music Box
  4. A Sigh (7/27/07)
  5. The Sasquatch Ate My Family
  6. Breathe with Me
  7. Teddy Bear
  8. Prelude to the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
  9. High Plains Drifter
  10. I Wanted to Give You the World
  11. The Garbage Man
  12. I Think I'm Going to Arrange a Surprise Party for Myself
  13. The Undwindling Tenacity of the Eternal Asshole
  14. The Giant Moa and the Inaccessible Island Rail
  15. Leaky Faucet
  16. One Big Bad Wolf and a Suitcase Full of Dead Mice
  17. He's a Gremlin
  18. Time Sculpture for Prepared Guitar
  19. The Worm
  20. Has Anybody Seen My Shoes?
  21. Just
  22. Some Words on the Remarkable Simplicity of Existence
  23. A Polar Bear in Heat
  24. We Swim to the Heart of the Sunset
  25. All My Plans Get Rained on, It Seems
  26. Be the Architect of Your Own Cathedral
  27. Thyme is Seasonal
  28. Lost
  29. The Worms and the Birds
  30. How I Spent My Weekend
  31. It Shall Be So
  32. The Ghost
  33. Normal People
  34. Composition 526 (Excerpt)
  35. Don't Come to Me
  36. The Ghost of Your Kiss
  37. Ceci N'est Pas L'Isto
  38. The Adventure Song


All Words and Music by Christopher White (ASCAP)

Also, check out Isto's new album of Frank Sinatra Covers Here


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