Cats Laughing
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Cats Laughing reunion performance, April 2015
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Genres | Folk rock |
| Years active | 1988–1996, 2015 |
| Labels | Spin Art |
| Members |
Steven Brust Emma Bull Lojo Russo Adam Stemple Scott Keever |
| Past members | Bill Colsher |
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| Studio album by Cats Laughing | |
| Released | 1988 |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 45:46 |
| Label | Spin Art |
| Another Way to Travel | |
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| Studio album by Cats Laughing | |
| Released | 1990 |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 56:10 |
| Label | Spin Art |
| Cats Laughing: Another Way to Travel | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
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| A Long Time Gone | |
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| Live album by Cats Laughing | |
| Released | March 27, 2016 |
| Recorded | 2015 |
| Venue | Minicon 50, Bloomington, MN |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Label | Beyond Conventions |
Cats Laughing is a folk rock band, founded in the late 1980s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and revived in 2015. Several of its members, including Emma Bull and best-selling author Steven Brust, are better known as writers of fantasy and science fiction.
The group released two studio albums and remained active through the early 1990s. After a hiatus of two decades, a reunion concert took place in April 2015, later released as the live double CD A Long Time Gone (2016), with a concert DVD released under the same title.
The original members of the group were Steven Brust on drums, Emma Bull on lead vocals, Bill Colsher on guitar and synthesizer, Lojo Russo on bass and vocals, and Adam Stemple on guitar and vocals. For the group's 2015 reunion, Colsher was replaced by Scott Keever, performing on guitar, mandolin, and keyboards.
Both Brust and Bull are best known as professional authors of fantasy and science fiction novels. Stemple, a professional musician, is also the author of several fantasy novels, including two series of books for young readers co-authored with his mother, the fantasy writer and editor Jane Yolen.
In 1988, Cats Laughing released their debut album, self-titled but also known as Bootleg Issue, initially on cassette and CD. The first album was later reissued and distributed under the titles The Basement Tape and Reissue. It was re-released digitally in 2013 under the title The First Album.
Under the title 2016 Re-Reissue, a digitally remastered version was released on CD in March 2016. Its cover art was designed to give the appearance of a cassette insert from Reissue, with the handwritten addition of "2016 Re-" before the previous title.
The album was recorded on a four-track recorder, with effects created using guitar stomp boxes and a home stereo equalizer. The track "Signal to Noise" was initially listed as three tracks, with its introductory section broken out under the title "FMera", and the ending section broken out under the title "FMera (reprise)." The noise that starts "FMera" (or "Signal to Noise") was Adam Stemple striking a match close to the microphone.
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