Zener_04 by Ximes

"Recorded and mixed in my garage across the span of one afternoon this past summer, and occurring almost by chance, these spontaneously capsized set of free improvisations feature whatever sound-making devices came to hand in the moment: dictaphone, hose-pipe, electric motor, whistle, kalimba, piano, typewriter, acoustic guitar, harmonica, voice and a bunch of effect pedals.

They are the sort of happy accident that occurs when, working on one thing, the ear catches something unexpected and interesting going on, like an odd scraping sound, and you decide to forget what you were working on and follow this new element through to it's logical conclusion. The sort of thing that may only happen once as you can't quite remember how you did it the first time.

My genre-dysmorphic album 'Tasks of Mourning', released by CADMUS Tape earlier in 2019, featured such improvised/concrete elements as incongruous interludes between the longer psych-folk jams. Here they stand alone, without qualification or justification, a kind of bastardised gamelan for the No Audience Underground.

When first listening back to these I knew they wouldn't work with any other project I had going on, and that they would only make sense if kept together and released as a standalone project. I'm glad they found a good home." XIMES, November, 2019

See also: https://cadmustape.bandcamp.com/album/tasks-of-mourning

Tracklist

1.	and the wind rattled	6:47

2.	through the sage's hollow ribs	3:08

3.	like some gamelan of the dead	8:57

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released December 14, 2019

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