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michael mucci “the secret is knowing when to close your eyes” c26 cassette

  • the calm of knowing what is going to happen next
  • the three cities
  • certain things about this place
  • selmun bay
  • such hard work on the salt flats

  • the secret is knowing when to close your eyes
  • careful near the opuntia
  • having to leave is the hardest part
  • returning is always best
may 2011 release ; “nine pieces on electric guitar” from this guelph, on picker, working a light, spry sound that’s simultaneously reminiscent of loren mazzacane connors while deviating largely from the more commonly explored avenues of contemporary “bedroom” solo guitar bliss-out (i.e. there’s no looping, no ebow, no delay or reverb haze ... just a pair of overdubbed electric guitars intertwining in a fine unison) ...
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m mucci - the secret is knowing when to close your eyes (c26)

two new sides of unhurried electric guitar miniatures from canadian guitarist, michael mucci. here, he presents a more overtly melodic take on the loren connors cannon, nicely recorded with an attentive ear towards clarity and incidental grit. a lovely follow-up to his excellent time lost lp of last year.

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the north sea “last great november” c40 cassette

  • city view
  • pearl

  • renaissance
  • keystone process revealed
  • greenwood remains
may 2011 release ; “five pieces on synthesizer and harmonium” from (foxy) digitalis (industries) mastermind brad rose, heard here working a series of beat-free pile-ups of rising electronic sound that harken back to his earliest work ...
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the north sea - last great november (c40)

a new tape of measured synth divinations by the man from digitalis industries. divorced somewhat from the blackened eruptions of the north sea's prior releases, the pieces herein offer more than the occasional warm wash of light amidst bleak, grinding oscillations, and with harmonium on the assist, even. a well-paced and balanced mix of auto-oscillations and hand-played keyboardwerk that points the way to an exciting new direction for this project.

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electro-acoustic-composition
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minimalism-drones
site-specific
field-recordings

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caroline park “grain” c59 cassette

  • improv. 1

  • minor pigeon
  • monochrome
  • 5
may 2011 release ; “four electronic pieces” from “providence-based artist caroline park”, who “specializes in electronics, creating electroacoustic music, audio / visual installations and real-time interactive systems” ...

considering that this is her debut, there’s a remarkable set of ideas on display here, from the opening side’s extended “improv” (to my ears largely a heavily lpf’ed field recording of air-movement) to the b-side’s more “numbered” offerings (check the ryoji-ikeda-esque spectral pulse near the end of the sound-sample) ...
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caroline park - grain (c59)

(note: tracklisting printed incorrectly on inside flap, see above for correct sequence).

excellent debut release from rhode island composer, caroline park. the slow-burning a-side churns field recordings and processed speech into a muted cavernous roar with an admirably subtle sense of development. on the flip, the b-side gives way to a set of shorter pieces that bring into relief a more discernibly electronic sound that sits well with the contemporary concerns of labels like raster-noton and sedimental. clocking in at just under an hour, these four brooding pieces of minimal electro-acoustic music usher in a kind of disquiet perfectly suited to gently disrupt a long evening.

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machine-music
electro-acoustic-composition
playback-music

 best of 2011 !!! 
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xela “my memories of gallifrey” c45 cassette

  • cloister bell blues
  • jammed chameleon circuit
  • procedure is sacrosanct
  • rassilon and on and on
  • the eye of dissonance

  • would you care for a jelly baby?
  • anti-matter polarity reversal
  • as easy as ?
may 2011 release ; “eight pieces on synthesizer” from black country --> boston (by way of brooklyn) transplant john “xela” twells, recorded at the private chronology compound in allston, ma explicitly utilizing reuben son’s korg ms-20 for just about everything ...

... this is a major depature from john’s largely angelic-yet-metal-leaning ‘choons over the last half-decade ; the focus on stripped-down machine-speak skronk suits him well & the contagious vapors of functionality / discovery emanate from the proceedings like warm dew off an errant dandelion off the side of the henry hudson parkway ...
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xela - my memories of gallifrey (c45)

after a years-long trilogy on digitalis ltd., the man from type strips away his tape-decayed gradualism and angelic choir-ing, leaving bare a mangled electric corpse. recorded here at private chronology on a jerry-rigged ms-20 / moogerfooger hybrid, and pruned and salted to taste at the seventh door. don't let the 'era-classic' fidelity fool you, this stuff's as meticulously assembled and honed-in as anything he's done. purportedly a tribute to the bbc's seminal "dr. who"; as nightmarish as nostalgia really is.

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lo-fi
playback-music
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition
experimental-instruments
musique-concrète

 best of 2009 !!! 
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reuben son “glowing departure” c52 cassette

  • 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, 6-string electric guitar, and cassette tape (26:00)

  • 6-string electric guitar, singing bowl, e-bow, and cassette tape (16:52)
  • 6-string acoustic guitar (9:08)
november 2009 release ; debut release from local guitarist / composer reuben son, self-issued on his private chronology imprint ...

despite the reference(s) to fahey in his own blurb below, this is about as far-removed from a straight takoma-school outing as you can possibly imagine ; the lengthy a-side piece moves along at an almost feldman-ian pace, with spare interjections of chiming 12-string notes dotting a landscape of grinding, cassette-blurred static that measuredly gains in volume, only to erupt in a fury of mechanical hum (which could very well be an ultra-compressed recording of the very same cassette walkman used in the piece’s construction) ...

on the flip, a ground-hum heavy tone-field is interpreted by the motor of said walkman’s dying voltage-source in a fashion reminiscent of maurizio bianchi’s early 80s tape experiments ... surprisingly, this gives way to a studied modal finger-style piece, showcasing reuben’s formidable “chops” w/o dipping too far into cloying guitarisms or technique-for-technique’s-sake showboating ...

... it’s great to hear this approach coming from someone who’s obviously a “player” ; the process-music & minimalism-inspired flourishes, coupled with the embrace of contemporary tape-label sensibilities make this one of the better blind-sidings of recent times. highly recommended !!!
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private chronology 01 - reuben son - glowing departure c52

this debut release features three pieces on guitar from erstwhile fahey devotee reuben son. two of the pieces herein focus heavily on usage of cassette tape as a physical medium, wrought to interact with the guitar in both the audio and the physical domain. utilizing fingerpicking and tabletop guitar methodologies alongside variations on riley’s time lag accumulator, reich’s phase-shifting, and stephen cornford’s for violin, viola and tape, son creates guitar-based music saturated with drone and decay.

hand-assembled edition by the artist, with labels scrawled onto painted cassette shells by fingerpick.


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