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Solar Filters​/​Mother Evening 7"

by Latitude/Longitude

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Solar Filters 04:31
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Mother Evening 03:56
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Double a-side 7" record released by free103point9 as part of their audio dispatch series (AD031).

"Solar Filters" was originally conceived as part of a song cycle about the sun and the way it influences Earth's atmosphere. We abandoned the project when we realized the idea was more interesting than the music we wrote for it. "Solar Filters" survived, though, and the shortwave radio textures that open the track (essentially, the sounds of the atmosphere) point to its origins. During the time we were working on these recordings, cheap and toy radios were important to our performances -- often providing the only amplification for our instruments and voices. Replicating the sound of these radios greatly informed our approach when committing the track to tape.

"Mother Evening" began, like most of our work, as a live improvisation. When it came time to record and settle on lyrics, we turned to a type of spam email we were getting a lot of at that moment. The emails were nonsense -- really just a collection random phrases and sentence fragments -- but there was something poetic about them. So we took the lines that struck us as particularly sonorous and cobbled together a sort of collage poem. Like the in-between-stations static on "Solar Filters," we incorporated this digital detritus (literally, junk mail) into "Mother Evening."

The etchings on either side of the vinyl records refer, albeit obliquely, to both the lost song cycle and the subject line from one of the spam emails we used.

credits

released October 1, 2007

Michael Garofalo: radios, melodica, prepared electric guitar, synthesizer, toy piano, drum loops, vox

Patrick McCarthy: vox, tenor guitar, banjo, pedal steel guitar, drum loops

Songs: Garofalo/McCarthy

Recorded at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, NY by Patrick McCarthy. Mixed by Patrick McCarthy.

Cover art by Michael Shrouds. Imaging by Bryan Zimmerman.

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Latitude/Longitude Brooklyn, New York

Latitude/Longitude was Michael Garofalo, Patrick McCarthy, and Jason Labbe.

L/L worked with test oscillators, cassette tape + field recordings, radio transmissions, toy electronics (broken and functional), percussive junk, as well as pedal steel guitar, banjo, mbira, and drums.

See also:
michaelgarofalo.bandcamp.com
www.snakeoilsounds.com ... more

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