I recently stumbled upon a couple of Christmas songs in my back catalog. They’re quite slow and reminiscent of "The Red House Painters," of the most incredible slowcore bands ever.
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Archive Volume Three album cover, by Grande Valley Auction Incident
Where did this terrible music come from?
I have a rule. Whenever I'm taking things too seriously, I need to poke fun at myself. And here's the way I'm gonna do that: The latest Grande Valley Auction Incident record, Archive Volume Three. This is a compilation of songs from my last year of graduate school, in 2003.
During that final semester. I felt all sorts of confused. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was done with classical guitar as a potential creative path. Whatever interest I had in academia as a career evaporated. I wanted to get out of town, but I hadn’t graduated yet. I was lonely, misdirected, and totally weirded out by the world. It's little wonder these songs came out of me.
I recently found these songs hiding on a cassette tape in my closet. The discovery shocked me. It wasn't like Christmas morning. Unearthing them sent a shiver up and down my spine. I knew I was in for it, but I had no idea by how much.
I’ll tell you directly: Archive Volume Three contains laughably bad songs. The singing is terribly off. The recording quality is total shit. I captured them by pressing record on a vintage tape recorder and throwing a Hail Mary. The songs make me cringe, hard. Imagine if someone found and published your junior high diary. That level of cringe.
No matter what, we could all use a good laugh…
And yet, I’ve noticed more than a few burdensome external forces invading my thoughts. I sense a weight in the air. The world has weirded me out yet again. I feel completely in danger of taking life way too seriously. I can’t have that. Gotta lighten things up a little bit.
So, I offer these slow-core, lo-fi, piece of shit songs for your amusement. After I got over my initial shock of listening to them, I felt better. I hope you get a huge belly laugh out of them and feel better, too.
Fractal Magic is the fourth track off of Ambient 2022, Vol. 2.
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Teleporter is the first track off of Ambient 2022, Vol. 2.
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Ambient 2022 Vol.2: One hour listening experience for work, mental engagement, and concentration. Perfect for study, cooking dinner, drawing, light vice expression, and interesting love-making.
Special thanks: Kirt Bozeman, David Hobizal.
Stereotactic is the third track off of Ambient 2022, Vol. 1.
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Memories of Rain is the first track off of Ambient 2022, Vol. 1.
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The Place She Dwells is a full-length feature film from Motivate Pictures, starring Sarah Niarkos and directed by Maurice Moore.
In the film, Rachel (Sarah Niarkos) suffers deep trauma after a horrific event tears her life apart. Refusing to go outside, she depends upon the efforts of Detective Pierce (Maurice Moore) to solve the crime that served as the catalyst of her distress and assure her future well-being. The lines between illusion and reality begin to blur as Rachael battles with her demons, home alone, while all those who occasionally visit don't have a clue how to help.
The Place She Dwells is a cunningly well-executed indie-thriller that demonstrates the dark depths we sometimes go to, even if we don't have a clue as to how to climb out of it. While this film looks squarely and soberly at the personal effects of trauma, it ultimately showcases the resiliance of the human spirit in times of immense duress and adversity.
Maurice Moore and Dave Wirth worked closely together on the music for The Place She Dwells. Equal parts layered Eurorack synthsizer sound design and felt piano with strings, the soundtrack plays to Sarah Niarkos' gutsy, deep performance as a woman who routinely tries to escape the immense grief and terror that threatens to swallow her.
Directed by Jorge Martinez:
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“Listening to Evil Gima’s Alluvion is a singular experience. Its implacable currents of sound pull from two worlds. The first is a place mythic and terribly old, an ancient corridor where monsters lurk with the unknowable thing inside you. The other is an echo of our own voices, captured from some unimaginable future; deranged and waiting. It’s the only music I have ever heard that conjures the cosmic terror/wonder of the world unknown.
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In 2021, I purchased my first Eurorack synthesizer. The obsession with the quality of analog sound took hold very quickly. This album of sketches and tests came directly from experimenting with the synthesizers on the Eurorack. I doubt I'll ever buy another digital synth plugin again...
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Album cover is a public domain photograph of the flutist John Finn, ca 1923. The original is located here: www.loc.gov/resource/musdcmphot.a0169.0
Originally written and recorded in 2005. Dedicated to (and written for) all the servers and bartenders at the now defunct Hickory Street Bar and Grill, Austin, TX. You know who you are.
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Fetch is the story of a woman who walks into the woods to find her disappeared friend only to meet the Fae, the creatures who guard the wilderness. Fetch was written and directed by Heather Halstead in cooperation with Motivate Pictures., and stars Dana Wing Lau.
The original score for Fetch takes the perspective of a mythical adversary: The fae. It features live-recorded piano, voice, kalimba, big drums, and most notable, a cigar box guitar. Heather Halstead, the director of this film, also came into the studio to record the final melody.
Fetch is a chilling story of mythological creatures taking their anger out on a unsuspecting young woman. The result? Absolute fright and mayhem.