Biplane by Biplane

Biplane features over 30+ artists from across the country working on Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) to create a single full-length LP. The album Biplane is a free-form conceptual art project tracing the fine glimmer of beauty amid profound grief— sketching the fragmentary landscape of death, dying, and love. In his 1933 speech on duende, Frederico Garcia Lorca stated, “The toreador who is bitten by the duende . . . makes us forget that he is constantly throwing his heart at the horns.” The poetry, musical composition, and arrangement in Biplane are intentionally sparse, quiet, and at times angular, with a blend of broody pop melodies overlaid the detritus of old Ohio landscapes of dust, coal, and rust: echoes of forgotten landscapes of coal and timber extraction of rural Appalachia and the tenuous beauty of post-industrial decay of Southwestern, Ohio. This album is not about loss but the tender art of losing and finding while contending with the long tendrils of death.

It is a heart throwing itself against the horns.

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Art by Josh Conrad

This is ABL-022, our 22nd release since 2004.

Special thanks to Michael Broderick, Mike Elliott, and everyone else involved with this project who trusted Aquabear Legion as the home for this beautiful album.

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