Eli Jones - 'Selling Glen Arm By The Pound (part 5​)​'

from Various Artists - Towson​-​Glen Arm Freakouts: 1992​-​1999 by Nuns Like To Fence

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1995 or '96
(previously unreleased; produced by Eli Jones)

With this track, Eli Jones once again proves to be about 20 years ahead of his time, in this case, by using guitar looping effects to build a repetitious composition dominated by improvised real time leads. Though this is a common musical technique now used by everyone from Tuneyards to K.T. Tunstall to Lucky Dragons, Jones was the first pop/rock artist I knew of who did this. He might not have been the pioneer of this sort of loop driven composition, but he certainly was an early master of it, a fact that further solidifies Jones' place among Towson-Glen Arm's best and most accomplished artists.

Even though Eli Jones and Dave Willemain rarely hung out together, Eli imbues this track with a desolate arrangement and a strange atmosphere both of which remind me of the times when Dave would round up a crew of local kids for a late night bike ride through Towson. Burning rubber through suburbia at 2 a.m. was like cruising an eerie town abandoned right before the apocalypse or something; this was such a surreal thing to see since during the day Towson was almost as bustling as a much bigger city with hectic traffic and noise surrounding its County seat offices, court buildings, and garish mall clusters. When it was time to take a break from the bike action we'd roll up into the ten story parking garage we dubbed 'Becca'(a name made in tribute to both the Islamic holy site Mecca and massive TGA influence Beck). The late night view from the top of Becca provided probably the grandest perspective of the Dulaney Valley anywhere in the area. From here Baltimore County's street lights and trademark suburban sprawl looked like a weird little starscape hidden by cloud-like eruptions of monstrous foliage. Once in awhile a car filled with loud drunken college students would zoom by, but, other than that, Towson after "closing time" was usually just us, some tree frogs, and a vast nebula of slumbering domesticity. - Mike Apichella

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from Various Artists - Towson​-​Glen Arm Freakouts: 1992​-​1999, released February 28, 2013

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