Label: Songs From Under The Floorboards - FLOOR03

Intransitiveが極小のアーティストエディションを手掛ける為、新たに2009年に始動したレーベルSongs From Under The Floorboards。主にチェロの即興で知られるVic RawlingsとオーナーHoward Stelzerが結成したテープデッキ&チェロによるデュオの録音作。恐らく手動で？操られるカセットデッキが演奏を断続的にカットアップする実験的コラージュ。通常のジュエルケースにてどれも極小の限定100。

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This oddly punctuated album of studio compositions for modified cello, open-circuit electronics, cassette tapes, and other detritus was retrieved from Intransitive's climate-controlled vaults after carefully aging for more than six years. 'By My Side' came about at a time when Vic Rawlings and I were performing lots of duo concerts, and felt that we were pushing ourselves into some strange, exciting territory. We decided to capture what we were doing in a 'real' studio, rather than simply record concerts in situ as best as we could... which at the time, would probably have meant putting one stereo mic in the room and hoping for the best. Two days of improvisations in Jesse Kudler's attic studio were sculpted and massaged over several intense days until this album emerged. And then... nothing happened. We're not sure why. The subject of publishing this album would come up every now and then. Every time I listened back to the music, I'd think, 'Hm, this is pretty weird stuff. I should put it out.' Years later, the rapid fluctuations between narrative tease, passages of high-velocity throttle, and grotesque emptiness seem just as fresh and bafflingly exciting to us as they did when we recorded them. Rawlings and Stelzer are two members of the large ensemble The BSC, along with their compatriots nmperign, Mike Bullock, Chris Cooper (Fat Worm of Error, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase), James Coleman, and Liz Tonne. When he isn't teaching rock guitar to kids in the suburbs, Rawlings builds electronic instruments, makes a mess of a perfectly nice cello, and performs in the groups N.R.A. (with Ricardo Aria and Tatsuya Nakatani) and Mawja (with Mazen Kerbaj and Mike Bullock). Stelzer is tired of writing about himself in the third person, so today he won't do it. First edition of 100 pro-duplicated CDRs in jewel case with full-color artwork. Design by Justin Myers (Tone Filth).' label info