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Fronds 20191208

by Hallucinogenic Bulb & Lambeth

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1.
Floopy Disk Drive 04:38
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2.
Travel Donut Man 01:04
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3.
Precious Copy Machine Experience 01:51
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4.
Pulse Walk 06:14
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5.
Sure We've Got Home Computer Cartridges! 06:49
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Ewald Witt, Wall Walker 01:21
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Emald Mitt, Mall Malker 01:36
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Topologically, a Dog is a Sphere 06:46
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Thetherball 00:47
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You're Winner! 06:49
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about

We met at an open mic at Drexel University in 2017, us being the two of the night making weird noises through our laptops and some unlikely external controllers, with now separated and missed math jazz band Shy as the headliners. Many shows together and a few years on we decided an album together was long overdue, so picked a Sunday in December to improvise together, recording the entire time except a break for tacos. This album is that day, distilled over the next month, after which we met to finalise the track order, levels, and pick titles mostly out of dated and poorly OCR’d newspapers.

We both deal in digital mess - hand-built software running at capacity until it cracks and fails, source sounds redefined and sliced beyond recognition, cheap pedals where the byproduct noise is the feature. The cover reflects this: a failure by Paul and a finicky scanner to digitize a nineteenth century book about beekeeping resulted in a pleasing distortion that Dave amplified and brightened. Recognising the chaos inherent in both our styles, we took care to record consonant, slowly evolving pieces, breaking this trend most notably in a last few minutes of pedal and button smashing that became the pair Ewald Witt, Wall Walker/Emald Mitt, Mall Malker. Because of this special attention to consonance we produced something more melodic and upbeat than either of us had at that stage, which came as a surprise.

Fronds is a series of albums from Lambeth (formerly Voiceless Nasal) improvised and recorded in one day. The first two are at hearlambeth.bandcamp.com. This is the first one to be a collaboration, and everything about this album was a collaboration.

-Paul Sutherland

hearlambeth.bandcamp.com
hallucinogenicbulb.bandcamp.com

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released May 27, 2020

Hallucinogenic Bulb is Dave Petersen (laptop, pedals, synth, 8-bit noise) and Lambeth is Paul Sutherland (homemade sequencer, guitar, pedals, function generator). Music, production, and artwork by Dave & Paul. Layout by Dave.

Cassette dubbing and distribution by Dan Getty (KiloHURTZ Records)

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