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{"id":7481711558906,"title":"Henry Birdsey \/\/ Half-Dragged TAPE","handle":"henry-birdsey-half-dragged-tape","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・コネチカットのペダススチール奏者Henry Birdseyと、Crazy Dobermanにも参加するコントラバス奏者Zach RowdenによるデュオTongue Depressor関連作を2人から直接入荷しました。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e本作は、Henry Birdseyが2021年1月にOther Mindsから100本限定でリリースしたカセットです。ラップスチールを用いたドローン4曲を収録。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=786336620\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 100. 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Touring extensively in the United States and abroad as a solo act and as half of Tongue Depressor with Zach Rowden, Birdsey has developed a musical language that utilizes sensuous usages of just intonation tunings, musical drones, and inventive recording and amplification techniques.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn his debut OM release, \"Half-Dragged,\" Birdsey uses a bowed lap steel guitar tuned to a system of his own design, prepared with various metal objects, to create a work that is environmental in scope. Birdsey's recording process involves placing amplifiers and microphones throughout a space, in different rooms with unique acoustic properties, to create a complex field of phasing, standing waves, and oscillating sound layers. 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Touring extensively in the United States and abroad as a solo act and as half of Tongue Depressor with Zach Rowden, Birdsey has developed a musical language that utilizes sensuous usages of just intonation tunings, musical drones, and inventive recording and amplification techniques.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn his debut OM release, \"Half-Dragged,\" Birdsey uses a bowed lap steel guitar tuned to a system of his own design, prepared with various metal objects, to create a work that is environmental in scope. Birdsey's recording process involves placing amplifiers and microphones throughout a space, in different rooms with unique acoustic properties, to create a complex field of phasing, standing waves, and oscillating sound layers. The material on the album was developed while on tour on the West Coast in early 2020 and recorded in his isolated home town of Ripton, Vermont.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Half-Dragged\" opens with a hollow metal drone of\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e murky origin, accented by strong buzzing down bows across the steel wound strings. Over the course of the first two movements, Birdsey flirts with the tonal possibilities of the lap steel, expanding and contracting the interval sizes by bowing only choice strings and open harmonics. By the third movement, the work becomes much less restrained allowing the listener to appreciate the dark complexity of the tuning and amplification of the work. Half-Dragged ends approximately where it started, but this time with a much more zealous recapitulation of the opening drone.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Henry Birdsey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Other Minds Records\u003c\/p\u003e"}
