Casey Rocheteau
doesn’t believe in transistors, but maybe everything is transient. She’s put out an album on the WFR. Some have called it the label’s most ambitious project. Others have described it as a subversive puppet show. She has self published three books (Roguish Young Things 2006, Keelhaul 2007, and List of American Rituals 2008). Her most recent book is 11:11, which features 11 connected poems of 11 lines each. She also has a limited edition tape release called Chiarascuro, which is some combination of radio waves, reverb, words and Shangri La leaking under sidewalks. She’s a historian from the future and a New New American Hauntologist. She’s done a number of shows as a member of Peace, Loving.
Releases
WFR077: WFRFRvol2 : Are You In Paradise? (LP)
I can no longer prolong the greatest moment of my life. I cannot afford to be afraid of the long silence. Of the after after. The people that populate my bedroom have become too real. My option is every door, every sun and mountain of night. Our options are in people. Honest voices are doors. I have stopped trying to control the narrative. To prescribe the reality of self. Not sleep until ending. Not sleep until climax. I am awake now. I am awake now. I will stop trying to wake up and I will walk out the door and I will see in a way that listens. This moment will be a kingdom of yes simply in the naming. It was always a choice. It was always a way of seeing. I am in Paradise.
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WFR054/WFRV 001: Whitehaus Family record family record
A double vinyl LP compilation of tracks from 26 artists associated with the Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain.
that summer you moved quickly. there was no time after work to go home before the show so you pack those boots in your bag in the morning when you left the new apartment, made a call during a cigarette break and scribbled an address, a part of town you don’t know but go alone anyway, all the streets look the same but you find it, from the outside it looks like no one’s home and at the bottom of the dark stairs you panic. you almost turn and run but you don’t and the door opens for your knock and there’s a smiling face on the other side…
WFR047: Casey Rocheteau: Chiaroscuro (Tape / CD)
Chiaroscuro is a dreamscape Casey built out of words, beats, and the Shangri-las. She assembled it in the late night, in the dark, surrounded by bird’s nests and watching all the things in her mind spinning and moving. 10 copies dubbed in June 2009. Super Rare.
WFR027: Casey Rocheteau: Pump Your Concrete (Oh Word the Album)
An adventure through time, spa c e, and sound. Poetry, tape collage, jams from a saloon in the 1800s, knowledge, facts, mystique. All straight to your mind from the mouth of the newest new American poet. Oh word.
WFR022: BLASTFEST!
The first Whitehaus Family Showcase happened on March 21, 2008 at the Cambridge YMCA Theater. Sound engineered and recorded by Shane Myrbeck.