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a perfect blind

by drøne

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    Cover by Maria von Hausswolff, font by Nico. Released by Anna von Hausswolff's label, Pomperipossa Records (Sweden) on Record Store Day, 22nd April 2017.

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NOW AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE FROM INDUSTRIAL COAST industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-perfect-blind

Disruption between then and now/memory and presence, dulcimer, psaltery, ‘cellos, violas and violin embroider radio, static, stray voices and electronics… ‘a perfect blind’ is the second album by drøne (Mark Van Hoen & Mike Harding) with an array of guest artists, including label supremo Anna von Hausswolff, dreamer and composer Paul Haslinger, field recordist and sound designer Charlie Campagna and Touch artists Bethan Kellough & Philip Jeck. Strings by Seattle-based Marie Takahashi and Oleg Belyaev are also layered into this complex and perhaps more musical offering. Moving in all directions, ‘a perfect blind’ continues where ‘reversing into the future’ [pomperipossa records, 2016] left off;

'a perfect blind' was conceived and designed in Los Angeles with organ recordings from London (at Union Chapel), short wave radio, treated voices and other archaic sound sources.

A stunning front cover image by Maria von Hausswolff and miss-taken typography by Nico embrace this sense of dislocation; as the mediaeval language which enfolds our collapsing 19th Century institutions fails to find relevance, our sense of entrapment in the old is accompanied by an assault on the senses. The destabilising effect of “post-truth” adds to our sense of unbelonging, of being elsewhere, observers not participants.

‘a perfect blind’ is the term used for the best possible observation point where the viewer is unseen by the object of interest. Is this the best place to be? Memories which slowly fade away, also reverse back from the past shoving us into the future...

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released April 22, 2017

Photography by Maria von Hausswolff
Cut by Jason @ Transition
Release date: 22nd April 2017 [RSD]

Pomperipossa Records # PRLP3 | Vinyl & Download

Tracklisting:

Side a back to the station
Side b cutting the screen

drøne: Mark Van Hoen & Mike Harding

oleg belyaev - baroque ‘cello
charlie campagna - ‘cello
paul haslinger - piano
phiip jeck - pulse
bethan kellough - violin, viola
marie takahashi - baroque viola
anna von hausswolff - voices

baritone guitar & cymbals
dulcimer & psaltery
field recordings
lorenz cipher machine
1877 henry willis organ (union chapel)
short wave

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drøne Los Angeles, California

Mike Harding, Mark Van Hoen and invited guests - …a hauntingly strange and mysterious immersion into a crackling entropy of phantom radio transmissions, squalls of static, choruses of insects, and creepily digitized voices.

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