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E# and company redefine Americana in this wide-ranging and hard-hitting program of songs and rants inspired by Jonathan Swift's pungent and timeless "Gulliver's Travels." Speakers and singers include performer and actor Eric Bogosian, hip-hop poet-queen Tracie Morris, character actor Steve Buscemi reading from William Burroughs, monster vocalist Eric Mingus, poet raver Maggie Estep, Nuyorican dadaist Edwin Torres, Hungarian goddess Eszter Balint, apocalyptic bard Jack Womack, singer Lisa Lowell (veteran of Bruce Springsteen & David Johansen), and original Lounge Lizard Steve Piccolo. Underpinning all of the words are music tracks ranging from the brutal electro beats of Tracie Morris' "Got It? Get It!", the grinding funk of Eric Bogosian's "No Crime", the stark soundscape of Steve Buscemi's "In The Film", the rootsy steel-guitar driven rock of Lisa Lowell's "In The Country", and the Hungarian Delta blues of Eszter Balint's "Estimated Time Of Wait." Instrumental highlights include the psychedelic surf number "Escalation" and the Miles-ian "Ask Me." The music is completely crafted by composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp with his unmatched sonic vision and performed by him on instruments ranging from guitars, basses, saxophones, zither and banjo to computer processers, analog synthesizers, drum machines, and hacked speak-n-spell's. Guests on selected tracks include DJ Gak Sato and drummer Sim Cain. Radio Hyper-Yahoo is the third in a series that began with In The Land Of The Yahoos in 1986 on SST and continued with 1992's Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Yahoos on Silent. Long out-of-print, these eclectic discs featured Persian singer Sussan Deihim, Christoph Anders of Cassiber, avant-diva Shelley Hirsch, Victor Poison-Tete of RatAtRatR, pioneering turntablist Christian Marclay, Animal Slave Elizabeth Fischer, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, and poet Barbara Barg among a cast of many others.