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AUGHRA  A Sleeping Bag And A Shitload Of Acid: First Show  DVD   (UnderRadar)   7.98
A Sleeping Bag And A Shitload Of Acid: First Show IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

A strange DVD, this. It captures a live performance from Aughra, which is the solo ambient project of Magic Bullet Records label boss Brent Eyestone, who

has also played in Corn On Macabre, Forensics, and Waifle. The show takes place in a joint called KC's Music Alley in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the

promoter provided attendees with free beer and Brent set up his gear inside of an 8� x 10� tent, which he played inside of throughout the entire performance

while blasting the audience with a fog machine. Our entire view of him during this performance consists of a static shot of the tent that he's in lit from

the back, so we only see his shadow projected against the wall of the tent. The music is pretty cool, moving from blissed lout guitar ambience not entirely

unlike something you'd hear from Stars Of The Lid, to heavy trip-hop beats layered with drones and somber piano melodies, and swirling post-rock mantras that

remind me of Sigur Ros. However, while the musical performance is going on, it seems that a bunch of the kids in attendance ingested a respectable amount of

hallucinogens at the show. What at first looked like it was going to be a simple document of a live Aughra performance instead turns into a freaked out

montage of Jackass style idiocy, with scenes of drunken goons dogpiling onto each other, public vomiting and urination, nudity, rambling nonsense,

shirtless Bluto dudes hurling furniture across the club, and other mindless debauchery, all set to Aughra's drifting, dreamy post-rock soundtrack. Strange.