Geological Plots And Subway Rifts, by Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff

Geological Plots And Subway Rifts

by Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff

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1.	Outer Rings Of Colonies And Vandalized Settings 05:25	buy track
2.	Seismic And Passive Margins Of Subculture Intelligence 05:30	buy track
3.	Dimensional Windows Where Waste Water Is Fictional 04:58	buy track
4.	Ideological Manifestos In Urban Fabric 04:47	buy track
5.	Construction Of Miscellaneous Underground Structures 05:30	buy track
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7.	Fathoming Ambiguous Gauges For Boundary Wars 05:20	buy track
8.	Respective Partitions On Timeless Pods 04:31	buy track

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Eight-song album + 40-page PDF (included with download)

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Paolo and I discussed this collaboration when Paolo was last in Chicago, in November 2019. He proposed creating a set of songs to go with a text that he was thinking about and that I might add images to. During this period of "shelter in place" during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been communicating on a daily basis and we certainly had the time to get to work on the music and the companion book. It turns out that Paolo wrote a short science fiction story and I was quickly able to visualize the type of images that I would source and manipulate to go with his text. For the music, Paolo sent me eight synth tracks that he wanted me to react to. His tracks seemed like "lead" tracks to me, so I created eight tracks that I thought would function more as "foundations" for each song. Paolo executed the first mix and I then did some additional processing and editing. This process was very different for us, compared to when we sent cassette tapes back and forth through the mail in 1996 to create our four-cassette box set, "Excellent Manipulation Of Distorted Tape Death," but the spirit of working together felt the same. Just faster! And maybe it seemed a bit "heavier," especially as Milan and the rest of Northern Italy was suffering such great loss during the time we were working on this together. At some point in the future, we may revisit this material to see if we want to create a physical release, but for now, we're happy to share the music and the companion PDF. Enjoy...
-Mark Solotroff, April 12, 2020

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released April 13, 2020

Music: Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff
Text: Paolo L. Bandera
Image Manipulation + Design: Mark Solotroff

Conceptualized, Recorded + Assembled in Milano + Chicago, 2019 – 2020

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Mark Solotroff Chicago, Illinois

Mark Solotroff formed the band Intrinsic Action in 1984 and he's a founding member of Anatomy Of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. His other bands include The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, and Nightmares. He recorded 100 cassettes of analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop and he releases synth-based and feedback system music under his own name. ... more

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