Sweet Wreath
goodness lawd it came upon me like a ressurected species. yes it did!
Favorite track: I. John Fahey Plays with the Red Krayola II. When It Dies out in the Mind III. Ho vomitato.
About this batch: Each tape featured (SNE-006, 007, and 008) comes from someone who I came to call a friend during my time in North Carolina. Aside from the geographic, what unifies these artists is their studied and innovative approach to advancing distinct musical traditions – works of reference, rehabilitation, and redefinition. You can literally hear it on tape.
All of them are, naturally, still making, creating, redefining, and will for many years to come. This batch, then, serves as an archive of a particular sound, a particular moment of North Carolina music at its very most unrehearsed, uncoerced, unadulterated.
About this tape: This release pairs original compositions from two friends that I played music with and alongside of while in undergrad (it was only a year ago, wow!). I am now, as I was then, honored to be learning from and party to their deeply refreshing creativity. In entreating them to record their respective pieces for this split, I imagined the end result would capture the feeling of seeing these two share a bill at a house somewhere in the sweltering eastern North Carolina summer heat, just before midnight. It just about does, minus most of the humidity (and nobody will miss the humidity).
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released April 20, 2018
Marginalia to Falter Father's side:
Credits:
Daniel Brooks - Sax, tape, Percusion, doo dads, dada
Christian Cail: guitar, percussion, ambiance, sense of self worth
Recorded at Daniel's new house. The piece consists of two long meditative pieces that were cut up and collaged. The first was more primitive: a simple morning reflection. The second was primarily electronic featuring biting guitar and growling sax. These things are forced together into a binary dialectic. We wanted to combine John Cage with Hannah Höch.
Daniel and Christian also play in the band Hungry Mother with Dylan Ward, also a sax player. We are influenced by contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, extreme metal, plunderphonics, and folk.
Marginalia to Evan Morgan's side:
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Recorded January 2018 at home, in Houston (I) and Durham (II & III). Thanks to Nate for setting this up, Anna for constant inspiration, and Will for everything.
Evan Morgan is a guitarist from Houston, TX currently living in Durham, NC. His playing draws equally from improvisers like Tashi Dorji and Tom Carter, contemporary “American Primitive” pickers like Daniel Bachman and Sarah Louise, and anything currently coming out of the Houston underground. It is also heavily informed by his growing interest in the overlap between music and avant-garde film, particularly with regard to approaches to composition and editing. Morgan studies literature, Spanish, Italian, and filmmaking at Duke.
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