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Frontal

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    Bonus track included with download: 5 minute Excerpt of IOS 2nd performance on 2/5/84 @ Cubby Bear Chicago. w/ first formation of the project: DB, + (Dot Dot Dot) :Thymme Jones, Ross Feller, Jef Bek, & Chris Block.
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1.
coming to ground 10:18 video
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deprivation 12:23
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freedom from what 06:26
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indoctrination 05:11
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counting backwards 08:20
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rainforest dive 05:28
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live @willyfest 1989 09:42
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Tape Side A: coming to ground, deprivation, freedom from what 29:08
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Tape side B: indoctrination, counting backwards. rainforest dive, live @willyfest 28:44
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about

Previously unreleased material spanning the years 1983-2023
All Sound by Daniel Burke. Piano, synthesizer, sampler, guitar, field recordings, baseball bat. except: track 7 live recording at Willyfest, Madison, WI on 9-17-89 w/Mitch Enderle, Thymme Jones, & Jim O’Rourke.
©2023 finitematerialcontext

tracks 8 & 9 are the tape sides in entirety as to avoid the discontinuity of individual track play on this portal. The individual tracks include short fades to eliminate annoying pops. any other annoying pops are purely intentional.

Bonus track included with download only: 5 minute Excerpt of IOS 2nd performance on 2/5/84 @ Cubby Bear Chicago. w/ first formation of the project: DB, + (Dot Dot Dot) :Thymme Jones, Ross Feller, Jef Bek, & Chris Block. More of this later...

Cover Photography: Frontal by ©TJ Norris
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Thanks to Thaniel Lee for issuing this cassette edition on
HUMANHOOD RECORDINGS
humanhoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/frontal
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credits

released June 2, 2023

Originally I was calling our output Music Without A Film and I am returning to that organizing principle more and more, bringing back at least the SOUND of what the project name has always signified for me: long form immersion into dark internal psychological soundtracks, encompassing and PLAYING with events in large spaces, loops, shortwaves, ominous synthesizer waves, controlled feedback, traditional instruments used in unconventional ways, and undefinable cryptic voices. The emphasis on play I like to stress because its always been present despite my serious nature, these sounds, words, & ideas are fun to play with.
Frontal is a continuation of the push to earlier methods and actually includes many old recordings, all previously unreleased, some from 1983, and the ensemble piece from a live performance in 1989. As well as very recent recording completed in March 2023.
Mitch Enderle (Dead Tech) and I started working together in 1981 post TG influence. He was a core member of IOS for the first decade and we had performed on the experimental stage at Willyfest in Madison WI in 1988. For the next year I enlisted Thymme Jones (CHEER-ACCIDENT) & Jim O’Rourke (Sonic Youth, Gastr del sol, Brise-Glace) to join Mitch and I at Willyfest. We did not know that they had relocated the experimental stage to the center of the street just in front of a biker bar, and the guys didn’t know I had taken mushrooms. Those bikers where not digging the odd noises coming from the experimental stage that day, but they did however perk up and smile when I cathartically started bashing on the plastic refrigerator parts we had collected in the alley with a baseball bat. The group of kids jeering at us against the stage took off running. Good times.
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Illusion of Safety Elgin, Illinois

Since 1983, Burke and his many conspirators under the IOS banner have over the course of 40+ releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. ... more

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