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| | | spectrum spools (austria) #sp 005 lp bee mask “elegy for beach friday” double long playing record set - deducted from your share in paradise (4:20)
- fallen tree thursday and the half-crushed arc of the sky taking tea in the pastoral index (3:14)
- causes and cures (2:08)
- ...so that we each wander through a true elysium (3:43)
- askion kataskion lix tetrax damnameneus aision (5:33)
- elegy for beach friday (2:29)
- the book of stars vibrating (3:01)
- in the karst interior (4:03)
- stop the night (10:11)
- how to live in a smashed state (2:27)
- scarlet thread, golden cord (7:35)
| june 2011 release ; epic, sprawling, gatefold double-lp collection covering chris “bee mask” madak’s finest “tape-scene” moments from over the past 8-odd years, finally done the fidelity / spec-justice(s) earned via this immaculately formed record-object ...
as much of this music has remained elusive , even to the trained scavenger / hardcore fan (such as myself) this set is a real revelation ; giving context to these originally context-free (i.e. “untitled”, for the large part) pieces & framing them as a coherent whole, this set goes further than any other towards the eventual unlock of chris’ master-concept(s) ...
given the delicate dynamic-builds & deep sonic ruminations contained within these signals, the upgrade to world / d&m-class “boutique” vinyl has revealed many, many extra value-added layer(ing)s & sly production tricks lost in their initial issue(s) ... the packaging is lovely as well, with the sparse / mildly gross cover hiding some very classy spot-varnish(es) & in fact most of the credits in the gatefold are rendered in spot as well (you’ll need direct sunlight & perhaps a little patience to decode them all) ...
one of my favorite records of the year thusfar & inarguably the best place to start in yourpersonal journey towards “the singularity” ; highly recommended !!!
ps. to show chris’ range & frequent distancing from straight “synth music” tropes, i’ve decided to put up the entirety of the fourth side, heading from sparse temple bell klang into some rather gnarly cracked electronics into a deep pwm rumble, into some garbled telephony, return, fade, then out with a short, quiet, melodic cluster ... |
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sp 005 / bee mask
elegy for beach friday
2lp
synthesizers, percussion, piano, guitar, tape, electronics, and max/msp recorded 2003-2010 in northampton, ma, new york, ny, cleveland, oh, and philadelphia, pa.
edited and mixed at tranquility base, february 2011.
cut at dubplates & mastering, may 2011
for the last few years, chris madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realization of his bee mask alterego. now, for the first time there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel - a chance for old plans to come to fruition and for new ideas to blossom into the unknown. "elegy for beach friday" is a personal selection of highlights from a slew of limited cassette and cdr editions recorded between 2003 and 2010, re-imagined, reedited, and remastered, offering both a cross-section for the uninitiated and a fresh enigma for the already-enchanted.
the original documents will age on the shelves of those fortunate enough to have been in the know, and for the rest of the world, we now have this double lp retrospective of chris' favorite time-stopping microcosmic suites, woven together over four instantly classic sides of wax. here, the full range of bee mask's sonic palette has been carefully compressed into a dazzling and infinitely dense time capsule of mind-altering martian sound fields and psychedelic dimension bending, bridging the worlds of nikola tesla and lamonte young and giving us the ideal soundtrack for our collective walk down a dirt road into the gaseous cloud of our final days.
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