hits is my own little 'fuck you' to the fine folks who claim that cannabis is the 'ambition killer' so these are the ambition killer mantras-the first volume of works improvised,recorded on the spot,edited,mixed,produced all while I was 'feeling the effects of the high' to quote Cypress Hill if I may...I have never hid this fact and in fact,this is not the first disc of tunes that I put together this way-see' infusediasm' and 'baked goods' for more-oh yeah,'satan's salad' too-a phrase my wife dreampt up one day when she mixed three different strains in one hard hitting joint...lol-in any case,these were recorded and timed to be released to coincide with a solo show of my art called 'an orderly chaos',including paintings,assemblages,recycled art,video,lots of experimental music like this and a lot more....I've been busy the last nearly 40 years making the art of jim charette now...and I finally have an answer to that simple question.."what is the art of jim charette??' and you can see more of it at theartofjimcharette.com ,or,if it's still Oct 2018,come to Douglass Gallery @ Gallery X on WIlliams St.,NBMA....
'I do not claim to be a musician.I am simply an artist,experimenting with sound.everything that I record,is improvised and recorded on the spot.I will never play the same thing twice and there will never be a live show-I've been doing this for nearly 20 years now even though it was meant to last only a year....who knew...'