Matmos. Recorded in Baltimore, San Francisco and Kathmandu. Booklet with program notes, discography, and technical information on song creation (42 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Contents:
Going to sleep (6:44) Injection basic sound (2:56) -- Mud-dauber wasp (3:36) -- Music or noise? (4:12) -- Why? (4:03) -- Lend me your ears (3:46) -- Return to archive (13:28) -- The way Japanese beetles sound to a rose (1:28) -- Going to sleep (6:44)
Summary:
"In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists probing the margins of the human soundscape. Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways"--Provided by publisher.
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