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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
  Matt Carlson - American Standard (2008)

Well, I finally got around to uploading my new solo CD for download. American Standard is an album I worked on (and off) for about 8 months, recording whenever I wasn't working or doing Parenthetical Girls stuff. The music was an attempt to bring together disparate musical interests of mine into a cohesive whole. "Vortex" is basically drone meets EAI with a pop melody on top. "Let's Move (into the store)" is Krautrock-pop using additive processes. The only real unifying aesthetic I guess is minimalist techniques put into song form, making use of an extended time scale. Really it's an EP with songs that are so long that it becomes a full-length.

Mastered by Luke Wyland of Au.

Download the whole album as a Zip here.

Or the individual songs:

Vortex at the Center of the World
Slab of Concrete
If I Only Knew Who You Were
Morgan Freeman's Voice
Let's Move (into the store)
Distancing Yourself
American Standard
 
Saturday, September 06, 2008
  Parenthetical Girls at TBA - "Entanglements"


Well, the new Parenthetical Girls record is finally out and you can mail-order it here in the US or here for international orders.

To celebrate, we will be performing the entire album live with a 20-piece chamber orchestra as part of PICA's Time-Based Art festival. The show is Sunday, September 7th at 10:30pm at leftbank in Portland, OR.

Then, we're gonna be touring a lot.
 
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