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Allegory & Violence

by The Jack Bohlen Book Club

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"Sweet relief comes in the form of Allegory & Violence, the first hardcopy release by The Jack Bohlen Book Club. Being somewhat of an elusive figure, we won't focus too much on the man behind the JBBC, but what that leaves us with is an intriguing collection of field recordings, found sounds and numbers-stations, all either obscuring or collectively building tonalities, drones, little dissonances and hidden melodies that could be accidentally recorded from some distant brittle radio signal just as easily as they could be composed and performed. A true cross-pollination of academic sound-collage and careful compositional placement happens here, and we're pleased to be the ones to bring it to you." - Install

"This baby is more used to hanging around fields with a tape recorder getting it on with blades of grass & nature man. Then jack goes into town to buy a book on different types of grass & forgets he's left his tape player on so ends up recording the muffled sounds of the streets he's gently pacing. He hears this on playback and so delighted with his found sound recordings he laces the concoction with a slightly wavering one note keyboard line. Further on you get morphing, alien dissonance, arabic chanting & various fascinating ambient tones, all forming their own little segments of pure sound to create a very satisfying journey. If this doesn't sound very interesting then you'd be mistaken for this is the best form of sound collage, very organic, lightly intoxicating and satisfyingly minimal. Nice!" - Norman Records

Limited edition of 50 copies.

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released January 1, 2009

Kevin Murphy

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