presented in a mini (8cm) plastic envelope.
artwork is directly printed on the disc and an informative sticker is affixed on the back.
Includes unlimited streaming of sleepless nights | lysergic mornings [alm 131]
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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the three december '19 mini-digipak 3"cd-r releases (vance orchestra // quest // andrea marutti)
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3"cd-r limited mini-digipak edition
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
presented in a 2-panel pro-printed mini-digipak.
artwork is directly printed on the disc. the digipak comes with a glossy photo sticker affixed on the cover and an informative sticker affixed inside.
Includes unlimited streaming of sleepless nights | lysergic mornings [alm 131]
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
we welcome back the italian artist ANDREA MARUTTI (also known under the Amon or Never Known aliases, head of the sadly defunct Afe Records label too). andrea was the very first artist to have a 3" on taâlem, and that was exactly 18 years ago!
andrea proposes here a rather psychedelic yet dark and ambient journey in 2 parts...
notes by andrea marutti:
“Sleepless Nights | Lysergic Mornings” is particularly important both for taâlem and me, because it comes exactly 18 years after my “Traces 94-95“, which on December 3, 2001, inaugurated the now incredibly long series of the label’s publications, and also because it represents my first proper release since I re-built my studio and started working on new music during the recent years.
“A Cypher For Glitchbusters” and “Peter’s Psychedelic Breakfast”, the two tracks featured on the EP in a seamless sequence, were created on purpose of a release on taâlem and were especially designed to fit the 3″ MiniCDr format.
In January 2019, as a sort of ‘personal experiment’ on myself, I worked on this music exclusively by night. For about one week I decided to sleep no more than a few hours each day during the late afternoon, and stayed awake all night to work with my synthesizers, sampler, effects and so on.
The resulting lack of rest put me in a particular state of mind, where I was less focused on the search of an ‘audiophile’ quality to the music, suggesting me to experiment with, and concentrate on, what would be usually considered ‘errors’. I intentionally included some glitches, tape hiss and various defects, and also used field recordings and other sounds which I originally recorded on cheap cassettes during the early ’90s, when I had an habit to slow down sounds with two tape decks and I usually re-recorded the same cassettes hundreds of times.
Both titles are inspired by this ‘experience’, and the tracks have a sort of ‘psychedelic quality’, or at least that is the impression they still give me months after their creation.
“A Cypher For Glitchbusters” is an attempt to describe with just a few words the practice I mentioned a few lines above, while “Peter’s Psychedelic Breakfast” is both an hommage to a quite more famous sonic breakfast – which I guess needs no further explanation – and a personal dedication to my closest friend who has been supporting and helping me ever since my memory can remember.
credits
released December 3, 2019
performed and recorded by andrea marutti in january 2019.
mastered in may 2019.
(2001-2021) exploring the different sides of ambient through 3"cdr discs.
(2023-onwards) still exploring the
different sides of ambient but through cd's now!
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