On this, rarest of Alabama snow days, I give you my first album to listen to.. some of the tracks were crafted with such a day in mind. Contemplative, meditative, moody music to drift away to? I got you, fam.
On agency, independent alternative artist reach and voice and a new old classic.
We were excited to have quite the pent up hiatus breaking pile of remixes (some already out), sample and sound collections, EPs, ALBUMS and a covers project done, approaching done, or well in the build pipeline.
The timeline for indy artists wanting to avoid walled gardens, coupled with the bandcamp incidents, recent and still inflamed fedi admin wars might leave us wondering how or if we should even share.
We have been experimenting with a self-hosted #faircamp.
Complimentary to that we're hoping to retain some of our #bandcamp community friends and invite more to keep an ear to the ground of our sonic resurgence.
Please join our new, old school, self-hosted, zero nonsense mail list for occasional event, project and release news from control freak studio.
Will it hurt us for proven donating audience and some reach. Yes.
Right call for us to step back from #bandcamp that has sold twice, union busted and in the hands of DRM mad lawyers who want to partner with TikTok. Also Yes.
Will we project our choice on artists who are platform exhausted, overwhelmed, or desperate. NO!
Do your best to support indy artists where they can manage to be incl bandcamp.
C2 - QUADRANTS: the stories of four turns 10 years old this year. This was a massive! project of a 16 track album in four sections each dedicated to a siren representing the four classical human temperaments and a dissent into madness, and four EPS of 4 tracks each, themed to one those sirens and each made from sound material hacked solely from the corresponding album quadrant.
this time period my health really started to decline and this project working with some awesome old friends really saved my butt both ph and mh. 🖤
it's dark, really dark, but there can be beauty in the darkness. will definitely be having an anniversary live stream this year of some sort. if you have the time, I recommend headphones and a full listen.
as always, the whole catalogue is free or donation in #solidarity . if you have the means and want to toss a few bones to help a disabled garlic farmer get thru the winter or jumpstart being able to finish a number of partially complete music and sound projects, that is always received with sincere gratitude.