2xLP version of the new full length. Edition 500 copies on TROST Records. Album sleeve art and design by A. Turner. Vinyl cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin.
On “To Speak” the third release of solo guitar based material under his own name, Aaron Turner dives into subconscious playing and the deeper possibilities of electric guitar. The seven songs on the album vary in timbre, volatility, and volume while being collectively rooted in the core principle of expressionism. Entering the studio with Randall Dunn with no written material, Turner set out to capture improvised pieces devoid of any premeditation, and ideally little post-performance alteration or processing. In the final result we hear the dramatic topography of the interior mind as articulated by the electric guitar, working in concert with the performers body.
“I’m trying to see how much I can get out of the guitar through my physical relation to it,” Turner says “I am under the constant suspicion there is more than I have been able to reach, and keep trying to find that *more*. While I've felt constrained by language and verbal communication in many ways, communion with my instrument has provided me a means through which I'm able to transmit the things which are most deeply true for me - as well an opportuninty to examine and and exalt in the mystical aspects of life."
credits
released June 3, 2022
Aaron Turner: guitar, tapes, effects.
Recorded and mixed by Randall Dunn at Avast!, Seattle, WA, Feb 2019. Additional recording and mixing on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 by A. Turner at HoLC, Vashon, WA, Jan-Mar 2021.
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic, Portland, OR, July 2021. Vinyl mastering and cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin, Germany, September, 2021.
Note: Album long Jeu perfo partagé (lJ perfo part) de Old Man Gloom (US-NM,Santa Fe)(Ts01à09) & de Zozobra (US-MA,Boston)(Ts10à14) paru en 2020_09.
Caleb Scofield, à l'origine de l'existence de Zozobra, était aussi un membre important du groupe Old Man Gloom localisé à Santa Fe au Nouveau-Mexique. Cet album est un bel hommage à ce musicien parti trop jeune. Que son âme repose en paix.
Le Titre présent de Zozobra est mon préféré, le Titre 'Burden' étant plus incandescent joué studio.
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