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mudd wrote:
big satan wrote:has anyone heard Transmission, his colaboration with adris hoyos?
yeah. it's very adris, lambkin himself is hard to spot.

conveniently, i have a link just sitting around: http://www.mediafire.com/?7mmt5yymh4n" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;

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awesome, thanks!

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:shock:

I mean... you hinted it wasn't any more aesthetically exciting than the Salmon Run design but... um... Seriously?

That's quite a cover.
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designed by the firm of Lambkin and Lescalleet.

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is it meant to look like a book

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it is meant to look like something else, and I'm not being coy when I say I don't know what that is specifically, as I have not been informed of that.

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For reasons unknown to me, I like that cover.

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I love the subtitle.

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Yeah, the subtitle kills me.
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jon abbey wrote:it is meant to look like something else, and I'm not being coy when I say I don't know what that is specifically, as I have not been informed of that.
A technical manual from the 70s, or an anthropology paper?

Jon can you tell me if the use of music concrete elements remains prevalent in this recording? (that is to say, does it sound anything liek Salmon Run?)

Can you give us a teaser description, or is that not allowed?

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they're definitely related, yeah. for now, I'll defer to bhob's quote on the first page of this thread:
rainey wrote:salmon run is a good intro to what i think is a more beautiful cd with jason.

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Well, I will definitely get it then.

I have listened to Salmon Run quite a bit over the last week. I makes a nice recording to accompany a walk around the tree farm.

A long while back I mentioned one of the things I like best about eai (not that I would categorize SR as eai, anyway . . ) is the way in which the genre's use of industrial sounds (fans, buzzes, hums, sines, static, etc) seemlessly invades and interacts with my modern sonic environment, whether I'm out in the community, or at home. At times, my perception and thus my imagination is so intensely piqued (the recording and reality become intermeshed) that it can effect my other senses as well.

Back to SR, as I was walking around the farm listening to it with earbuds (which allow some bleeding of outside sounds), the gurgling of water (from track 4 or 5 iirc) made me stop in my tracks. I was in a spot that I didnt visit very often, and when I looked down, the ground was very wet, swampy even. Was teh sound of the water completely from the recording? When I looked around some more, I realized that this was a nautral, but inconspicuous drainage point for the mountain. The water was still gurgling in my ears, but was there more water nearby? Sure enough, I looked among some bushes and there was a drainage pipe that emptied into a culvert that went under the road. I had never seen it before! I took out my ear buds and I could hear the gurgling of the water going into the culvert. It was a great sonic coincidence, almost like the recording drew me there.

I live for these moments where the fiction of a musical artwork and the reality of my sonic surroundings collide.

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RFKorp wrote:I mean... you hinted it wasn't any more aesthetically exciting than the Salmon Run design but... um... Seriously?.
I actually think its quite aesthetically exciting.....

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jon abbey wrote:I love the subtitle.
Yes me too, very much. It's quite compelling. I'm looking forward to this.

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Richard Pinnell wrote:
RFKorp wrote:I mean... you hinted it wasn't any more aesthetically exciting than the Salmon Run design but... um... Seriously?.
I actually think its quite aesthetically exciting.....
Because it makes us ask questions? :wink:
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oh man.. it's been awhile since I checked in on the board and.. I'm really glad you guys are talking about this record.. Salmon Run was easily one of my favorite records of 2007.. mainly for reasons already discussed, so I'll spare you on that end....



I'm very excited for The Breadwinner... can't wait really.. excited that you're releasing it Jon...


as for Graham's other work.. I've got almost everything he's played on.. I'm missing a few things, but I've been a HUGE Shadow Ring fan for ages and I've made a point of owning anything he's on...


My personal favorite Shadow Ring records are Lindus and I'm Some Songs, which are the last two albums released..

Lindus is the pinnacle of their more "Rock" oriented material.... and while, I find City Lights an appealing record, Lindus is far more solid, complex and listenable.. The instrumentation is varied.. lots of synths, guitars, percussion... RULES..

I'm Some Songs is much closer to L's GA by Salvatore Martirano than any sort of rock tradition.. it's a mass of mainipulated voices, synths and uncomfortable atmosphere.. it's totally claustrophobic and oppressive... I remember playing it back to back with Scott Walker's "the drift" and my girlfriend saying that she couldn't listen to music anymore.....

as for TART.. It is more along the lines of Fousts' work, but it does feature Graham's tape work.. Bring in the Admiral is far superior to Radio Orange..

Transmission... is more of a hoyos project and not particularly appealing to the lambkin part of the brain.. still.. it's interesting..

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i don't think i've ever spent as much time with 'i'm some songs' as i should. it definitely belongs in the 'spin again soon' pile.

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peteswans wrote:as for Graham's other work.. I've got almost everything he's played on.. I'm missing a few things, but I've been a HUGE Shadow Ring fan for ages and I've made a point of owning anything he's on.....
Hey, great stuff, thanks for that. I should try and hear a few more of those.

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RFKorp wrote:
Richard Pinnell wrote:
RFKorp wrote:I mean... you hinted it wasn't any more aesthetically exciting than the Salmon Run design but... um... Seriously?.
I actually think its quite aesthetically exciting.....
Because it makes us ask questions? :wink:
I think it looks very interesting. I'm really looking forward to this release. Check out the bleak cover on "I'm Some Songs". This cover is comparatively intriguing. I like the colors, I love the subtitle. I wonder why their names are slashed.

Jon says the cover is based on something. I've googled The Breadwinner and found no clues. Maybe the music will reveal some insight?

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Hello all --

I'm new at this forum thing, so bear with me if I do anything stupid.

A few words on the Lambkin-thread:

1)I find it funny that, although Ashley has been mentioned, no one has thought that The Breadwinner cover looks like Private Parts.

2)About the comment that Salmon Run sounding like a box of tapes found in a new apartment: Graham told me years ago when Lindus came out that his goal was to make something that sounded like a tape you'd find abandoned in a gutter somewhere. I think the "strange window into someone else's private life" is a big part of Lambkin's aesthetic. When we've recorded together it has mostly consisted of us just bumbling around the house, creaking boards, running water, etc. Some of that stuff actually made it on to Salmon Run. I remember the first time I heard it thinking "Oh my god! That' the squeak of my suitcase handle!" A strange moment to say the least.

3)The Motion Painting DVD is remarkable and should be snapped up by anyone even mildly interested. It's by turns beautiful, strangely erotic, and disgusting.

OK, glad to be aboard here!

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welcome, matt.
kreftingmoondawn wrote:1)I find it funny that, although Ashley has been mentioned, no one has thought that The Breadwinner cover looks like Private Parts.
I know this record is a big fave of graham's (he told me he's played it "hundreds of times"), but are there multiple covers? the CD I have looks like this:

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