13 Weeks Of Summer

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Album Info

Release Date: 2007

Label: Attacknine

Designed as an ongoing weekly release project celebrating summer. The first two tracks were released on Thursday, June 21, and then one to three were released every consecutive Thursday for the following 13 weeks. Track list below is the chronological order of release. Downloads available exclusively from Cruxy.

Total running time is 4 hours, 28 minutes, 41 seconds.

The following notes come from the online liner notes that were available for some tracks:
Track 3 - At The Point Where I Am The Mountain There It Is Isolated: Recorded in Mount Washington, California 2007, not using overdubbing.

Track 4 - Song of Pigeons: Recorded on adderall in a hoveled den of bay windows and instruments in a single pigeon-cooing Chicago summer night.

Track 5 - May 28 2007 #2: One afternoon. One take.

Track 6 - North Of The Medicine Wheel: It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. - Tatanka Iyotaka, Sitting Bull

Track 7 - Hungry Sun: The first number in a series of "decorative" pieces by John Webster Johns, from the summer of 2007.

Track 8 - L'Été Meurtrier (Late Night Summer Drive): "We thought this is what it would sound like if we got lost driving on an isolated road during one hot and sticky summer night, with "L'Été Meurtrier" on our minds as we had just seen it at the movies (we had travelled back in time to 1983 to witness it on a big screen, even though it's just as good on tv). Recorded by five people in Montreal, Quebec."

Track 11 - Midday Sunshower: From William Fowler Collins' 2007 release Western Violence & Brief Sensuality.

Track 14 - Northern Lights: Acoustic guitar & reverb recorded in Echo Park, 2007.

Track 17 - May 28 2007 #1: One afternoon. One take.

Track 18 - Live Drone Three: A live-jam outtake from the sessions for VCV's forthcoming third album, HD 98618.

Track 19 - Start At The Very Middle Of Space: Not using overdubbing. "In a certain duration of time while being forced inside every inch of it a series of floating notes, grids, magnetism as what is weightless. A seed to a vine to a grape either bursts or withers all the while leaves feed the soil beneath it."

Track 20 - Oshun: Produced and engineered at the Teahouse; additonal production in Mount Washington California.

Track 21 - Tortoiseshell (Live 09-24-2006): This is a live recording from one of many "garage sets" Brian did in 2006. Completely improvised on solo electric guitar and several wooden/metal windchimes.

Track 24 - April Bay: Recorded in three pieces on 2 inch tape, 'April Bay' is a hazy view of a perfect summer sunset.

Track 25 - Ming the Merciless: Created and recorded one night in the hills of Beverly.

Track 26 - Camellia: “I composed this piece in April/May earlier this year. I worked on it for nine days. The challenge was to find the right combination of sounds and to move different textures in and out of each other in a way that would make sense to this piece as a whole. It owes its depth to minimalist composers such as Steve Reich or Terry Riley, although it's a much more simple construction. I finished working on it in the beginning of May, when the surrounding nature reached its full early summer blossom, and I feel this piece more than any other piece I have done reflects nature in bloom. I wanted to have lots of different sounds working together in this composition to create a lush nature-scenery in sound. It's a reflection of the great unbounded joy, wonder and excitement of early summer days.”

Track 27 - Klamath: Recorded one summer evening.