Horn Music by Janis Lago

Having been traditionally multitracked for voice, tenor trombone, Konzertzither, chromatic harmonica, acoustic guitar, found percussion, hand claps, studio, and room response, "Horn Music" stands as Janis Lago's most fundamental and worldly Halbgesamtkunstwerk. Herein she bridges the most essential characteristics of irrevocably pre-digital acoustic music (fl. 1960-1979) in its uneditedness and reliance on the studio home to much tradition of yore as well as the live recording and general non-looping of performance "takes" in realms hitherto alien to vast swaths of modern musicians to bring voice to pure tone and articulation of the instrument in and of itself in preference to timbre, exotericizing for an audience no doubt intimate the inmost sanctum of a domain long asleep lest its continuities be forgotten - though by no means is Lago's work, in its pervasively harmonious continuity wherein all things are no matter their nature construed melodically and abstracted to and from progression, conservative - or its purpose obfuscated. She, but a guide for tone and tonality, seeks along these terms a facsimile necessarily imperfect in its temporal disparity yet still beholden in dialogue with all intervening times even when absent is the synthesizer, for nothing is sacred in the eyes of the whole, and irreverence is, on some level, a necessity for physical detachment, entering whatever lies after life in some capacity. Thus, through such deeds, Lago envisions a world unencumbered by the precedence of timbre, the treachery of sonic afterimages, the afterlife of continuous signals, the beginning and end of time.

Tracklist

1.	From First Principles	5:10

2.	Record-Store, Dusk-Dust, Mon-Amour, Minute-Second	8:49

3.	Strawberry Phonograph	6:27

4.	Along the Earth	6:35

5.	Ice for an Orchid	13:33

Credits

released November 18, 2025

Janis Lago: production, laptop (inessentially), vocals, microphones, instruments, arrangements, lyrics, writing, mixing

Octavia Sheffner: cover design, title of the record

Recorded from September 26, 2025, to November 4, 2025

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