Phil's Fills

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Release Date: 2023-07-07

Label: fony

Bandcamp release notes: "In 1991 Phil Strong rang the bell of the mLAB. At first glance, seeing him through the cracked-glass front door i thought ‘who is this young guy looking like an eager beaver?’ He introduced himself as the intern assigned to be my audio technician for an hour-long soundtrack I was scheduled to put together a few months hence at the recording studios of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, high in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Phil, still on my doorstep, said he was just heading out there, and asked if there was anything he could do to prepare for this. I, off the cuff, on a whim and a dare, replied that he could try to record the sound of snow falling. It was still the season for this, and it would likely no longer be so by the time I got to Banff; which was convenient because i had no idea of how one would record a snowfall audibly.

The cover image of Phil is not a collage. He is reflected in a two-metre mylar mirror mounted in the trees near Banff, one of several sites we used for a dawn to dust series of performances in motion entitled Inverted Mountains, Fluid Sky. Phil also has a smaller circular mirror pinned over his heart. The largest of these mirrors was ten metres in diameter, resting at the foot of a mountain, and visible from its top, reflecting the rising sun.

Phil Strong 1963 - 2022"

Individual track pages also have additional discourse from John Oswald about his time with Phil.