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RCN Recordings
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RCN Recordings Batch One, 2012
RCN008: Andrew Weathers / Ancient Ocean — Split
RCN009: Mike Shiflet / Joe Panzner — Split
RCN010: Karl Vorndran — Thawing
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Andrew Weathers / Ancient Ocean
Split Cassette c44
Rubber City Noise / RCN Recordings
Split cassette from Chapel Hill to Oakland, California transplant Andrew Weathers and Brooklyn-based John Bohannon (Ancient Ocean). Best described as ambient americana—beautiful, haunting acoustic guitar and vocal ambiance that recalls an amorphous temporal/spatial American landscape. These songs focus on the human emotion inherent in comprehension that spans areas of unfathomable intimacy. Andrew Weathers and Ancient Ocean document the struggle to affirm an independent identity in an ambiguously founded country that, generations removed, moves past guilt and toward transcendental reconciliation. These are songs of a new American folk and a direct line to the rawest feelings of the 21st century. From finger-picked reminiscence to color-washed soundfields and amber waves of ambient—Andrew Weathers and Ancient Ocean create a singular tape that perfectly captures the contradictions and complications of modern American music.
Presented in an edition of 100 cassettes, pro-dubbed and imprinted with pro-printed and scored heavy stock j-cards. Digital download insert included. Design by Charlie Wagers (charliewagers.com).
Cassette available April 14, 2012.
Limited to 100 copies.
Professionally manufactured cassettes and artwork.
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RCN Recordings
— RCN008
©2012 Rubber City Noise
Mike Shiflet / Joe Panzner
Recollect / Reconstruct
Split Cassette c44
Rubber City Noise / RCN Recordings
Split cassette from Columbus-based drone explorers Mike Shiflet and Joe Panzner, who sometimes perform together as Scenic Railroads. Recollect / Reconstruct moves all over the Dali melting map, from lush engulfment to claustrophobic intensity, and plays out as a platting of new sonic territories. Shiflet's "Recollect" builds from euphonic ether to subtle discord as the clouds darken and pour granular rain. Panzner's "Reconstruct" moves in reverse, beginning with a brutal earthquake of crunching chaos and settling into slow waves and scattered lightning. Recollect / Reconstruct is a soundtrack of planet birth—from gaseous outer layers down to primordial ooze. Shiflet and Panzner are obviously familiar with form and transcendental occurrence is obvious in the tape's builds and releases. The new lands documented here are eclectic and lucid and the otherworldly conjuration is taken as wholly natural, an organic process built from simple elements but perfectly arranged in intricate complexities.
Presented in an edition of 100 cassettes, pro-dubbed and imprinted with pro-printed and scored heavy stock j-cards. Digital download insert included. Design by RCN's Ram Youssefi.
Cassette available April 14, 2012.
Limited to 100 copies.
Professionally manufactured cassettes and artwork.
Includes digital download coupon.
Order from rcnrecordings.com.
All inquiries, rubbercitynoise@gmail.com.
RCN Recordings
— RCN009
©2012 Rubber City Noise
Karl Vorndran
Thawing
Cassette, c51
Rubber City Noise / RCN Recordings
Thawing is the debut solo album by Cane Swords' modular maniac and RCN co-founder Karl Vorndran. Using modular synthesis, Vorndran places emphasis on the contrast between structure and chance. "3 Transients" opens the album with slow evolution and exposition of Vorndran's controlled aleatoric processes. Feedback loops and random generators develop timbre and pitch that feeds back into a network of elements and the result is a document of the complex nature of connection that easily morphs into metaphor through subtly discordant drone. Paradoxical chaotic meditation sets the tone for the rest of the album. Thawing explodes with cathartic juxtapositions, gestural improvisation, and chance-driven rhythms and melodies that clash with structural segments and motifs. Frantic bursts combine with repetition in songs like "Bound and Folded" to create eclectic soundscapes. Thawing ends with slowly evolving drone that dismantles into disjunct rhythm and grating blasts. Vorndran's processes afford a degree of restraint and the compositions refrain from pure chaos even in the harsh moments, retaining a dynamic, engaging interaction that documents the relation of structure and chance.
Presented in an edition of 100 cassettes, pro-dubbed and imprinted with pro-printed and scored heavy stock j-cards. Digital download and custom inserts included. Design by Karl Vorndran.
Cassette available April 14, 2012.
Limited to 100 copies.
Professionally manufactured cassettes and artwork.
Includes digital download coupon.
Order from rcnrecordings.com.
All inquiries, rubbercitynoise@gmail.com.
RCN Recordings
— RCN010
©2012 Rubber City Noise
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