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Cat#: DI30 Artist: Bee Mask Title: In the Balm Yard: the Nth Dream of the Thermo-Hygrometer Date of Release: 2/4/2010 Edition Size: 150 (hand numbered w/gold decocolor) Materials: C24 (BASF chrome stock in imprinted translucent green shell), white gloss enamel screen print on white acid-free cardstock, photocopy on gray 100# French paper, ph-neutral PVA adhesive, soft polybox. Availability: Sold out at source. |
Description:
In the Balm Yard is the first Bee Mask material to see the light of day since last year’s Shimmering Braid c20, and it’s both an indicator of things to come under the tight-screwed studio hermit regime of Tranquility Base and a shout back at some long-neglected corners of the olde discography. This one comprises two dense, slablike new pieces for treated percussion and synths, burying sonic and structural nods to side two of Hyperborean Trenchtown and even 2005′s Living’s Just Defying the Ocean under miles of tinted fiberglass, as though you’re watching helplessly while your speakers emit a lychee-and-paint-thinner-scented mist that hardens quickly as it cools, encasing your couch in an ersatz McCracken sculpture. Good luck getting that one out to the curb on trash day!
The nascent “electroacoustic music as molecular gastronomy of sound” agenda has Bee Mask poised on some post-Wylie Dufresne tip, transubstantiating a garbage bag full of Doritos into four small, jellylike mounds that’ll dilate your pupils from here to 2015. Essentially, I blame long, formative hours spent staring at a picture of a rabbit smoking a cig. If Cincinatti-style chili is your idea of “convergence technology,” I want off this bus right now!
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