Whether On The Ones

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Release Date: 2023

Label: Chocolate Monk

Frantic yet focussed sound collage work by two of The Stinking Republic's finest noise manglers. Many layers, peel to reveal.

CB - In the winter of 2021 i started squatting at my friend's art studio in Longview, Washington. It had been a thrift store previously. I suggested he let me turn it back into a thrift store and he agreed. I put ads up on craigslist and other platforms saying that we were accepting donations and before we knew it we were flooded with objects. Along the way i started an audio diary of the experiences i had in and around the thrift store. Quickly i became well acquainted with all the local miscreants and these characters also became part of the mix. I shared these audio pieces with Carl and he collected a folder to soon be mulched.

CK - the collected source recordings for this project themselves ended up resembling a thrift shop: seemingly haphazard but treasure filled for the patient digger. Collaging them resulted in 40 minutes of junk drawer memory shard channel surfing. I used to shop at the dept store sized thrift shop in southern Minneapolis up the road from Paisley Park that had many dozens of copies of Prince (RIP) cassette singles.

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