Tales From The Tabula Rasa (Early Works 1988-1991)

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Release Date: 2014-12-09

Label: Old Europa Cafe

This is a compilation of the tracks, originally written from 1988 to 1991 - and newly re-worked and partially re-recorded in 2014.

Released in six-panel Digipak.

All music composed 1988-1991. All tracks reworked 2014. K-14 level mastering.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-6 first appeared on 'Music for Garrotted Mary Jane', cassette 1991, October 19.
Tracks 1-8 to 1-21 & 2-1 to 2-11 first appeared on 'The Tales of Unsanctuary', cassette 1991, July 05.
Tracks 1-22 & 1-23 first appeared on 'Conspectus', cassette 1994 (edits of tracks from 1991).
Tracks 2-12 to 2-16 first appeared on 'Suffering Death's Agony in Affliction', cassette 1991, April 14.
Tracks 1-7, 2-17 & 2-18 are previously unreleased.
Track 2-18 processed 2014. Composed of experimental fragments recorded 1988-1990 by the pre-raison d'être project ᗡ:Combe (or only Combe in its earliest form).

Tracks 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-13, 1-18, 1-19, 1-22, 1-23 & 2-5 released on 'Conspectus' cassette (reworked 1994).
Tracks 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 1-9, 1-13, 1-18, 1-19, 1-22, 1-23, 2-1, 2-5, 2-7, 2-9 released on 'Reflections From The Time Of Opening - MCMXCI' CD (reworked 1997).
Tracks 1-1, 1-4, 1-7, 1-8, 1-10 to 1-12, 1-14 to 1-17, 1-20, 1-21, 2-2 to 2-4, 2-6, 2-8 & 2-10 to 2-18 are previously unreleased on CD.

Peter Andersson:
"All material has been reworked in 2014. To the large extent the tracks are still the same, only some very annoying sounds or parts have been removed, and some orchestral sound samples have been replaced with better and more expressive versions. Five tracks from the original cassettes were excluded on the CD-set since they were too irritating. The exclusion made place for the D:Combe material which has been undergoing a more cosmetic treatment through a harmonized reverb becoming more hypnotic and dronelike. The fragments presented here are from the most experimental recordings, and the normal D:Combe sound was far from this, but still very primitive. Also changed is a pair of known track titles, they have returned to their original idea of spelling."

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