Friday, March 5th, 2010
Workday/Schoolnight New Album
from experimentallmusic.blogspot.com
A year and a half ago Workday/Schoolnight stopped being just a recording project when I took it to various venues, houses and apartments around NC. This meant writing songs and organizing sounds based on the equipment I would have with me. All my other Workday/Schoolnight albums were very much a product of the recording process. This new album, “Plastic Ocean”, is a combination of songs written for performance as well as experiments utilizing home recording technology. However, the overall idea here was to record an album that would preserve the themes and songs of the live shows of the past year.
Using roughly 6 different consumer keyboards from the 1980s (casios, yamahas, kawais), a hammond rhythm machine, a bank of drum samples, and dozens of cassette tapes bought from thrift stores (as well as some other stuff), “Plastic Ocean” flows between experimental found sounds and synth-punk songs. Clocking in at over 70 minutes, “Plastic Ocean” keeps the listener tuned in by often times speaking directly to him or her. So, this may not be the best album to listen to while multitasking. The themes of alienation, working, pessimism about the state of the world, and general good ole antiestablishmentarianism found in the sung lyrics are put in an unsettling light when juxtaposed with self-help tapes, self-hypnotic tapes, daily affirmations, and vocabulary lessons.
I’m sure there is more to say about the album, but I’d rather have someone else’s point of view. So, feel free to leave comments about your listening experience.
Download for free (free for now)
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Secret Message Machine Teaser
some new sounds from the forthcoming album
Listen Here
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Casual Curious New Video
She Song - Casual Curious (live session) from DurtyDurham on Vimeo.
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Kaleidoscope Death Discography For Download
Chuck’s new blog will soon contain all the great Kaleidoscope Death releases.
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