Sontag Shogun is the trio of pianist Ian Temple and sound artists Jesse Perlstein and Jeremy Young, setting the piano against intricately designed sonic textures and cut-ups of choral voice and acoustic guitar, as well as processed field recordings, here in a 10" 4 track EP.
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Ian Temple-piano
Jesse Perlstein-voice, laptop, field recordings, Korean radio
Jeremy Young-tapes, oscillators, carpetwaves, piezo'd objects
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UPC: B00I9G5EVC
Label: Palaver Press
Catalog ID: Pm005
Squidco Product Code: 19181
Format: 10" Record
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: USA
Packaging: 10" Vinyl in a Cardstock Sleeve
Recorded in various locations during 2012 and 2013 by Sontag Shogun.
"This EP centers around the A-side's "Let The Flies In", which is Sontag Shogun's single culled from their forthcoming LP, Tale. LTFI is supported by a reworked studio version of the previously released "Paper Canes" (off Absent Warrior, Abandoned Battlefield, 2012), featuring intricately designed sonic textures and cut-ups of choral voice and acoustic guitar as well as the usual SS fare of processed field recordings. "Hungarian Wheat", by now a SS repertoire mainstay, is presented in an alternatively ambient version, drenched in reverb and what seems like a flooded corridor of static and breath samples. Finally, the album culminates with "Gekheid Op Een Stokje" (Dutch, meaning "all jokes aside.." or literally "madness on a stick"), a fragmented collage-piece that symbolically wraps up the last year of SS's life from Jesse's point of view.
Sontag Shogun spent the year in three separate countries, going through piano recordings and emailing each other tracks to flesh out the rest of the compositions on Tale bit by bit. The samples used here were recorded by Jesse and Lauren Walker (his partner in Absent Warrior) while on tour in April with Foxout!, and just as the title suggests, this track represents a sort of half-joking homage to both this displaced method of working, and the globetrotting that Sontag's members have recently individually pursued. All in all, the LFTI EP certainly serves as an appetizer for the full-length record to come, but can equally stand on its own as a self-contained musical statement delivered by this emerging new-music trio."-Palaver Press
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• Show Bio for Jeremy Young Jeremy Young, aka Szilárd, is an electronic artist known for the groups [The] Slowest Runner [In All The World], Sontag Shogun, and his work with Jean D. L. ^ Hide Bio for Jeremy Young
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Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. Let The Flies In
2. Hungarian Wheat (ambient version)
SIDE B
1. Paper Canes
2. Gekheid Op Een Stokje
Vinyl Recordings
Electro-Acoustic
Piano & Keyboards
Field Recordings
Organized Sound and Sample Based Music
Electronica
Objects and Home-made Instruments
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