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City Of Refuge by Castanets
The fourth album for the indie rock band features guest appearances by Jana Hunter, Sufjan Stevens, Dawn Smithson, Scot Tuma, and Ero Gray.
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Label: Cassavetes, castanets, music, the errorist
“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
2 comments:
Clarification of my involvement: this excellent record was made almost entirely by one dude alone in a motel in the desert on his laptop. He brought the files to me and I did a lot of careful and unobtrusive fiddling to get the good sounds up front-- but I didn't add anything to the album, play any instruments, or do any dramatic effects tricks. I think it's a truly great album (though a little bit of a downer, a serious nevada death trip), but I don't get much credit for that, I was just one of several careful midwives of a genius baby.
There is however a 'dub' version of the album, that I made for Asthmatic Kitty while working on the regular version of the album, and did all sorts of crazy things to, including changing the time signature on one song, adding strange drummy machine wackos to, re-recording bass (with Suzanne Hacker-X as my magic studio thumpy thump), using home recorded utensil-and-pot-and-pan sounds to create drumbeats, and some mega-drone spacescapes. Don't know when or that'll come out, but it partakes in a lot of the excellence of the original version, and hopefully stands alone somewhat too.
Sweet. Thanks for the low-down. I'm definitely looking forward to getting my hands on this one. And also the Dub record too.
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