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The Dream​-​Quest Of Unknown Kadath

by SPP

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about

SPP recorded this album (as as Ordinary Dystopia Quartet Your Vibrant Disease) in 02008. It sounded nothing like anything we had recorded before or have since.
We spent a frustrated year and a half mixing it, but It never came together for us. It was always The MVM's favorite SPP recording, but making the tracks function as a whole, and within a coherent aural context was seemingly impossible.
We didn't want to overdub or play around too much. Part of the strength of the record is how stunning the contrasts and conflicts in the music are when you realize these are live recordings in a one room studio, where every instrument is apparent in every other instrument's mic, preventing much in the way of alteration.
The sections where three of us are reaching out into space towards pure ecstatic chaos, while the fourth is burrowing deep into introspection are among the best things SPP ever recorded. The contrast is stunningly beautiful, and is part of what you drive for in playing with other musicians, those transcendent moments when conflicting sounds blend to become a whole greater than their parts.

In 02009, the album suddenly flew together when we realized that it was a series of soundscapes, specifically the soundscapes of the Dreamlands, as described by H. P. Lovecraft in his novella The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath. Knowing what the improvisations were, where they had been channeled from, the mix took no time whatsoever.

Twelve years later, we bring this album out of dream and into the world so many mistake for real.

credits

released May 23, 2009

Nobu Stowe - Piano
MVM - Sound (featuring field recordings by Taha Belal)
Ross Bonadonna - Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Guitar, Nord, Percussion
Jason Bivins - Electric Guitar
Recorded by Ross Bonadonna at Wombat Studios

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The Museum of Viral Memory Eugene, Oregon

A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind
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