Alms, by Re:

Alms

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farrowking37 Crushing, heavy, impactful. Every soundscape on offer is so well realized. From the concrete scraping and the shuddering of an awakening machine on Golem, to the endless march of jackboots in On Golden Pond, to the consuming finale of Home Security, each track gives more understanding. Play as loudly as possible, through headphones if you can. Favorite track: On Golden Pond.

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1.	Golem 04:57	buy track
2.	Orientalism As A Humanism 08:45	buy track
3.	On Golden Pond 04:20	buy track
4.	Radio Free Ramadi 06:42	buy track
5.	Lasers, Tracers, Radar Drones 04:50	buy track
6.	Pawk 03:25	buy track
7.	Home Security 07:28	buy track

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The second full-length from this genre-defying duo is a somber and richly-detailed work that constructs a dystopic environment where the ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ are inseparable from electricities, radioactivities and the detritus of military-industrial technologies and materials. Through micro-recordings of metallic objects and resonances, field recordings, and raw filter-bank improvisations, Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky (Sofa, Silver Mt. Zion) constructed a sonic landscape of polluted signal sources, weaving tentative, provisional signs of humanism into the mix by way of piano, organ and drums. Alms is an invocation and critique of the distortions and remainders generated by the violence of the war machine. It is also a confession, of computer indulgence and easy access to technology, of leisure and the freedom for creative play — a tiny sonic treatise on the poverty of our times and how we shield ourselves from it. This is not ambient music, or electronica. Please play as loud as possible.

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released October 25, 2004

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Aden Evens: various instruments
Ian Ilavsky: various instruments

Recorded in various locations and assembled in Aden's attic in Arlington MA by Re:, 2001-2004. Additional drum treatments and mastering by Harris Newman.

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Re: Montreal, Québec

Re: was the sound project of Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky, who first met in the Philosophy department at McGill University in 1990 and began working on music together in 1996. They gathered source material in a variety of ways: controlled site recordings, random field recordings, instrumental improvisations, live and programmed beats, and lots of filter bank knob-twiddling. ... more

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