ORGAN CHOIR DRONE, by Illusion of Safety

ORGAN CHOIR DRONE

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1.	A1- RIPPED CONTINUUM 05:26 video	buy track
2.	A2- CHILDREN OF THE FEAR OF LIGHT 06:30	buy track
3.	A3- ORGANIC PISTONS 05:35	buy track
4.	A4- WASTE OF CIVILIZATION 12:44	buy track
5.	B1- BLACK HELICOPTERS 11:37	buy track
6.	B2- GROUNDSWELL HORNS 18:54	buy track
7.	B3- BLACKOUT 02:13	buy track

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For 2023, and for the 40th year of Illusion of Safety's existence, the project's progenitor Daniel Burke invited Arvo Zylo to work with him in putting together this release of previously unheard material. This entailed going through many hours of audio and deciding whether or not it could be useful, either as source material or finished product, but also included certain "treatments" and editing decisions from Zylo, in the process of deciding what was finished and what was simply source material.

Burke says: "I worked diligently with Arvo compiling and mixing the best material available, distilling the modes and methods I've been using for some years: field recordings, electronics, electro-acoustic, and synthesis. Some of the raw materials are my first recordings with the Eurorack modular synthesizer dating back to 2010, and were used in the collaboration with Shen Wei Dance Arts for our performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC in 2011."

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released March 1, 2023

SOUND: DANIEL BURKE
SEQUENCE/TREATMENTS: ARVO ZYLO
ART BY: GRIEF COUNCIL/BRADLEY KOKAY
MASTERED BY: THOMAS DIMUZIO

Organ Choir Drone might be noteworthy for how much it promises and teases an organ drone, but opts to keep it out of the frame. The first two cuts, over 12 minutes, dart between screetchy-leechy eurorack stigmata, or low-flying ambient terror; with a low-end rumble akin to black helicopters over the compound. The brevity of these pieces make for tender snapshots; both Burke and Zylo were feeding off of each other, and what Zylo was opting to curate carefully around exploring all aspects of this blackened noise, especially considering 3 of the later cuts run over 10 minutes. By track 3, Organic Pistons, when we even are finally come ear to ear with a droning organ it lulls like hunchback bells. Rumbling with a furious low end that channels a lot of intensity under an incredible sullen, discomfortingly reverent organ drone. Waste of Civilization mends all 3 of the previous side A pieces together into straight up stalker-plasma. Flashes of light come through, amongst radio static silence and the haunting non-organ drone. Yet it’s truly haunted by a piercing sound, one parallel to ferric tape wailing–if you’ve got old Columbia or EG tapes you know the sound. Quixotic in the best of ways as a listener; an extra layer of immersion to the experience.
Side B comes back bigger and deffer. It opens with a literal piece called Black Helicopters! And it sure does sound like sky monsters scraping the sky, surmounting a steelworker’s drone even Norman W. Long would shed a tear towards. That it happens to features a processed guitar chord loop gives it dimension and a space to expand to and let take over, curling over the chord into a new liquid drone. Groundswell Horns seamless enters into focus, an all encompassing blackened ambient dub cut for it’s first dozen or so minutes. It wisely jettisons any real sense of motion; just crackles, subterranean bass rumbles, and a small growl of horns. It lashes in a thrilling, visceral manner as piece swells into alien noise generator tones in its final third. It won’t swallow you whole, but it’ll really unhinge your swagger. Enough for the detente of Blackout to land as both a blessed field recording sanctuary and a heartbeat-skipping claustrophobic closing to the C50. A baptism in Eurorack never felt so spine-tickling.

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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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Pastoral

Dec 2023
IOS40

Nov 2023
Live @No Fun 2008

Aug 2023
Hz

Jun 2023

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