Bromp Treb: Bald Eagle Over Food City LP

Bald Eagle Over Food City is a blurry zoomed-in photograph of a national bird soaring over a grocery store parking lot. It is an album of thirteen failed portraits attempting to distill the impossible essence of a place that is repeatedly deformed by displacement and extraction, quietly made invisible by milltown charm.

Bromp Treb is the solo project of noisemaker and filmmaker Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young, who has been performing and producing small-run releases under this moniker for some 20 years. For almost as long he’s been the percussionist for weirdo noise collective Fat Worm of Error, and collaborating in other units such as Carbus, Gloyd and Playbackers.

Young co-directed Milford Graves Full Mantis with Jake Meginsky, as well as making many other obscure personal experimental films. He has lived in the village described in Bald Eagle Over Food City for the past 16 years and between the Connecticut and Hudson River Valleys his whole life.

Bald Eagle Over Food City was composed, performed and produced by Bromp Treb aka Neil ‘cloaca’ Young, recorded with several tape machines in 2019-21 at the chromazone home studio in western massachusetts, along the Connecticut River at a small village currently called Turners Falls, aka Pocumtuck and Wabanaki lands.