Album #14 of @
Air Cushion Finish called
[li] zwing [/li>]out now on Bandcamp.
https://aircushionfinish.bandcamp.com/album/li-zwing-li Enjoy"Playing in a church always seemed something alien to us.
After all the purpose of such rooms is pretty clear: They were built to distribute and amplify the "voice of god", whoever they or she or it or he or us might be.
While we, as musicians, hopefully have an understanding for things outside the scope of the factual, we also look at those rooms called "churches" with an ambivalency: These are places built with sweat and budgets and even deaths of people under the control of church organizations. They are most oftenly the result of a very uneven distribution of power and wealth.
So we've thought about playing this place for weeks & weeks, discussing options, means of music making, pondering thoughts of artist independence versus the obvious connotations of the location. We looked for ways to escape, oppose or work independently from these connotations.
The process was tedious.
Which means of free improvisation could even survive the pathetic pressure of the room at all and mostly stay unharmed by it's purpose of turning everything one does into something invariably much "bigger than life", added false pathos?
What you hear here is the dry recording from the mix desk, unedited, normalized.
A quick thought to add some "church-type" of reverb afterwards was abandoned - resisting the possible additional pleaser, which would use the #
audiotic service of added convenience/well-feeling to promote music - while we know how many would stop listening to most music, if one would just take the reverb out. Only a mere question of personal taste, maybe.
But so, this is also our pledge to get real with things and get used to appreciate them, just as they are.
EnjoyThis recording is dedicated to anyone, who gives and receives unconditionally."
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