Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency

80年代から続いている謎多きテープ集団プロジェクトFossil Aerosol Mining Project。本作は彼らのAfterdays MediaとHelen Scarsdale Agencyの共同リリース。30年前のマテリアルを最近のスタジオ素材とミックス、相変わらずの素晴らしい退廃感に包まれる白昼夢サウンドスケープを提示。80年代の古いテキストを使った一点一点異なるアートワーク、パッケージの内側にはテープの切れ端、Bandcampより落とせるボーナスのダウンロードコードが入っています。



The first Fossil Aerosol Mining Project audio recordings were made 30 years ago this year. In the observation of three decades of obscure, faked resurrection, we are pleased to announce the release of the new CD Revisionist History. The recordings on this album are hybrids, created by the grafting of old artifacts onto new material using recently devised studio processes. New sounds of the past, articulated through the devices of an unimagined future. In addition to the 69-minute CD, each package also includes an exclusive download code for an additional hour of full-resolution tracks via Bandcamp. This bonus material consists of special remixes and reconsiderations of nine of our old favorites. In total, Revisionist History includes over two hours of enhanced decay and mnemonic devices. This artist-edition is limited to 300 specially prepared packages that include a manipulated page of pseudohistorical text (circa 1972), and a souvenir fragment of open-reel dictaphone tape collected as source material in Chicago in 1988.

The anniversary edition of Revisionist History is brought to you through a collaboration between Afterdays Media and The Helen Scarsdale Agency.

The Fossil Aerosol Mining Project began in the mid-1980s as a loose-knit group of artists and collectors interested in exploring the damaged remains of late 20th century popular culture. Of particular appeal were inadvertent examples of the post-industrial, post-apocalyptic landscapes so commonly imagined in Cold War-era media. Places and debris that fostered views of mummified modern pop, and contemporary provisions made artifact. The Project began making audio recordings in 1986. The first studio experimentation employed literal “found sounds” such as fragments of open reel 1/4” tape and 35mm film recovered from burnt out warehouses and abandoned drive-in theaters. The earliest work involved physical tape loops and analog signal processes, which were gradually replaced by digital delay treatments and multi-track manipulation. Fossil Aerosol still works primarily with found materials - audio artifacts and field recordings. Signal processing equipment remains the principal form of instrumentation. Songs of enhanced decay and faked resurrection.

Tracklist:
CD
1. Respooling the Relic
2. Filtered by Limestone
3. Principles of Shallow Water
4. Naptholl Impermanence
5. Vetigal Sideband
6. iBlue
7. Mistranslated Practices
8. iSky and Little Eyes
9. Squatters at the Launch Facility
10. Deleting the Relic