The Hoborchestra
The Onion Family

Release Date: 30 August, 2008

Label: B3nson Records

Format: CD LP (B3009)

RIYL: The Music Tapes, Olivia Tremor Control

The latest release from Tim Koch (Sgt Dunbar, We are Jeneric) under the moniker of The Hoborchestra is the most experimental to date. The path the record takes the listener on leads through a game of Tetris with catastrophe narrowly averted, a conversation with a disgruntled veteran, the prophetic child next door, a gentle spring rain, an autumn thunderstorm and a moment of silence.

Tim also orchestrates mostly instrumental cover versions of songs from some of his favorite fellow B3nson Collective members: We are Jeneric, Littlefoot and Sgt Dunbar. It’s a balanced mix of music and noise, as life is. The lax 3-take limit for most of the recordings lend an air of spontanaeity and humanity to the record that was self-recorded and produced in the basement of the Hobo House.

Track Listing:
1. Franklin’s Drunken Shanty
2. The Hoborchestra Plays We are Jeneric’s “Oolong Tea”
3. Whole New Possibilities
4. You Know What Happened? The Tide Came In
5. Cause & Response
6. A Spring Rain In Tin Cans
7. The Hoborchestra Plays Littlefoot’s “Swingsets and Mountaintops”
8. If I’m Not Pushing Up Daisies
9. Joanna & the Snapping Turtle
10. Editable Text
11. The Hoborchestra Plays We are Jeneric’s “You’re the One”
12. How & When It Went Bad
13. The Glorification, Pts I & II
14. Winter Walk & Waterfall
15. Darkness
16. The Hoborchestra Plays Sgt Dunbar’s “I Am the Past”
17. The Tired Spots of Our Lives