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: Zachary Corsa was not the first person I sent an awkward demo email to, but he was the first such person to become a close friend. The first person I saw play an improv noise set. The host of the first house show. The first person I recorded drums for. Lots more I could potentially bore you with, too. Music in North Carolina hasn't been the same since he left, that's for sure. But, for me, this release, largely recorded in NC, isn't really about that lingering sadness. It's about celebrating all the people he touched and the damn fine music he made there. Cheers to that.
credits
released April 20, 2018
Marginalia to Veiled in Rust:
All music written, performed, and engineered by Zachary Corsa
Recorded @ Sleepaway Camp, Burlington, NC & Stonewall Street, Memphis, TN
Pines is the solo excursions of Zachary Corsa (Nonconnah).
Pines remains experimental and ambient in nature but falls on the more organic, folk-based side of the spectrum of Corsa’s projects, bearing a haunted and twilit air.
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