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Beyond the Ghost House

by Damaged Tape & Andrew Bland

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1.
The Worker's Paradise of Zhang-Zhu 04:06
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2.
Sailing on the Mekong 02:24
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3.
Moonlight on the Hippodrome 01:41
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4.
Lullabies of the Ionosphere 02:00
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5.
Beyond the Ghost House 02:18
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6.
Galaxies of Twilight 01:29
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7.
Mellow on the Riverbed 02:15
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8.
The Thought Examination 01:45
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9.
The Shaman's Block Party 03:34
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10.
Digital Mandala 01:02
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11.
Fountains of Blyss 05:48
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12.
Riptydes of Existence 03:29
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about

While we're on the topic of collaboration, here's a new set of recordings that I worked on with Andrew Bland. This is the first time we've shared space on a record since 'Paper Fences' in 2006. From what I understand, Andrew spent 2007-2010 working on his "Field Pictures of Echoes" album (which you'll find at his website andrewbland.net. I took a bunch of bits and pieces that didn't end up on the album and worked them into finished tracks. I sort of assumed that we'd be working with a rustic groove (as you'll hear on his 'Cosmic Relief' album), but I guess that he'd been infected with the synth bug at the time, so I ended up adding a lot of percussion and guitar to the soundscapes in order to get them nice and warm.

I enlisted Scott Atkinson to add a bit of spoken word, and he came up with most of the song titles while flipping through a biography of Chairman Mao. I didn't touch Andrew's track for 'Sailing on the Mekong,' while 'Riptydes of Existence' is actually an outtake from the Damaged Tape album 'Ambiguous Reality.' It didn't make the cut for that one as the completed album was a little too ambient for the tune.

I do hope that you dig spending a little time in our miniature sonic worlds.

credits

released January 19, 2012

Produced by Andrew Bland and Matt Comegys

Songs written by Andrew Bland and Matt Comegys except 'Sailing on the Mekong' and 'Digital Mandala' by Andrew Bland, 'Beyond the Ghost House' by Scott Atkinson, Andrew Bland, and Matt Comegys, and 'Riptydes of Existence' by Scott Atkinson and Matt Comegys

All song titles by Scott Atkinson

Recorded in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A. from 2007-2011 and Maebashi, Gunma, Japan from November 2010-December 2011

Photography by Matt Comegys

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