HausMoNauts Hear Ye! HausMo continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music, following volumes from Sunwatchers and Good Willsmith with a pair of Chi-town gigs from Kent, Ohio’s legendary carnival-core-free-jazz-noise duo Moth Cock — compiled together into HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer. The series channels the spirit of the informal bootlegging and tape trading of audience recordings as pioneered by the community surrounding the Grateful Dead, honing in on the raw live energy and in-the-moment emotions that make each show stand out in the stream of time. Selected as part of the label’s ongoing collaboration with the prolific Chicago taper and HausMo mega-friend Joel Berk, HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer documents two of Moth Cock’s sets at beloved DIY spaces in Chicago in 2023: one in May at Not Not, and another in December at Digital Art Demo Space (DADS) as part of the label’s HausMo Holiday Bash. Presented as a single release with two 40+ minute sets, HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer continues Moth Cock’s streak of continual evolution as an unpredictable live act whose loosely structured improvisations spiral off into confounding zones capable of inducing the deepest altered states of mind and body. The album represents a notable shift in Moth Cock’s recorded output from performances recorded for various remote livestreams during the pandemic back into the realm of live shows, a shift that corresponds with the ongoing reawakening and fresh openings of DIY spaces old and new that Chicago has seen over the last couple years of burgeoning underground activity.
