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GOD-O: Music for a Gallery Opening (later reissued as GOD O: Music for a Gallery Opening) is the first solo album by Charles Bobuck, long-time keyboardist and composer for The Residents, featuring a forty minute suite recorded in 2011 for the opening night of an exhibition of artwork by Homer Flynn at Johansson Projects in Oakland, California.

It was released via The Residents' online music platform Robot Selling Device on March 14th 2012, and later as an expanded CD release by The Cryptic Corporation.

On May 20th 2025, GOD O was reissued by Klanggalerie in a deluxe two CD package featuring a previously unheard thirty minute version of "God Damn Chickens", as well as reworked versions of the songs, which had previously been released on the 2012 digital EP Gosh Darn Chickens.

Track listing

Robot Selling Device version

  1. GOD-O: Music For A Gallery Opening (41:09)

CD edition

  1. God Damn Chickens (3:24)
  2. Nada Dago's Eye (3:32)
  3. Spring Song (4:23)
  4. GOD O (41:05)

Klanggalerie deluxe reissue

Disc One

  1. God Damn Chickens (3:26)
  2. Nada Dago's Eye (3:35)
  3. Spring Song (4:25)
  4. GOD O (41:05)

Disc Two

  1. GDC (28:18)
  2. Goshdern Checkens (3:26)
  3. Nada Dago (3:35)
  4. Spring Song (4:26)

Liner notes

"The Residents present

A Bobuck Contraption 

In 2011, Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corp. curated a gallery showing of work that he and other artists had done for Ralph Records and The Residents over their 40-year history. 

Composer for The Residents, Charles Bobuck, wrote special music, GOD O, for the gallery opening event.

"Invisible, with liberty and justice for all"

Artist Homer Flynn had very much liked the music, Choas Is Not Just a theory, that Charles 'Chuck' Bobcuk, composer for The Residents had written for his art show in New York a few years back. So when his new exhibition in Oakland was announced he immediately thought of asking his friend to add some abstract sonic experimentation to the gallery opening.

Charles was excited to have an excuse to make more noise but time was short.

He did what his mother always did when she needed to clean out the refrigerator.

She would make Gado Gado, an Indonesian dish made with noodles and peanut sauce and all the leftover in the fridge. Charles mixed up a batch of God-O for Homer's opening. He figured his job was to set a mood, and that no one would actually listen to the music since art openings are all about wine and chitchat.

Here to prove him wrong is the CD release of GOD O, music for a gallery opening."

Credits

See also


Hardy Fox Solo Album Discography


Charles Bobuck
 "GOD-O" (2012) · "Codgers on the Moon" (2012) · "Lying Horse Rock" (2012) · "CB Suite" (2013) · "The Highway" (2014) · "Roman de la Rose" (2014)

"As A Child I Sold The News, Now I Sell The Olds" (2015) · "What Was Left of Grandpa" (2015) · "The Swords of Slidell" (2016) · "Bobuck Plays The Residents" (2016)

"Nineteen-Sixty-Seven" (2017)


Hardy Fox
 "Hardy Fox" (2018) · "Rilla Contemplates Love" (2018)


Archival Releases
 "Maxine" (2002 / 2012) · "Life Is My Only Sunshine" (2012 / 2013) · "Missing Soldiers" (2001 / 2015)

"Killing Time" (2018 / 2020) · "Oddities" (2015 / 2021) · "Ibbur" (2018 / 2022)

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