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hope no one minds me forwarding this on from the helen scarsdale
agency. happy holidays!<br>
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patrick<br>
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<div>Hello!</div>
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<div>Welcome to the last Public Service Announcement from the Helen
Scarsdale Agency for 2007.</div>
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<div>It has been a tumultuous autumn, leading up to a hectic holiday
season; yet we have managed to complete the arduous task of hand
water-colouring all of the artwork for Murmer's impeccable new
album<i> We Share a Shadow.</i> Needless to say this CD is a limited
affair, and dare we say it would make an exceptional stocking stuffer?
As for the details about this fine production:</div>
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<div>MURMER</div>
<div><i>We Share a Shadow</i></div>
<div>HMS011 CD</div>
<div>$15.00</div>
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<div>Murmer is the pseudonym for Patrick McGinley, a man with several
passports which have taken him to many a foreign land in search of
found sounds of the unsettled, the forgotten, the mysterious, and the
beautiful. His field recordings of activated environments (e.g.
resonant industrial spaces, windswept telephone lines, bowed branches,
gasping ventilator systems, etc.) originate from all of the locations
where he has traveled; yet, the documentation of these sounds is the
not the terminus of McGinley's work. He is far more interested in
extracting a particular emotional, transcendent, or metaphysical
kernel from those sounds, and then recontextualizing that germinated
sound into sympathetic compositions of magnificent dronemusik.</div>
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<div><i>We Share A Shadow</i> continues where Murmer left off with the
exceptional Husk album (in collaboration with Jonathan Coleclough), in
spiraling his manipulated field recordings as a slow revelation of the
environmental sonorities that undeservedly go unnoticed each and every
day. Singing frequencies of a bowed piece of metal undulate against a
grey tapestry of rain and rasping insects. Golden overtones from
shimmering drones quell what agitated textures reside in McGinley's
active field recordings, rendering the aggregate sound a nocturnal
opiate with considerable potency.<br>
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As Murmer, Patrick McGinley has produced a handful of releases on ICR,
Ground Fault, Drone Records, and Absurd; and he has performed in
venues both large and small across North America and Europe. He is
also the host the Framework radio show on Resonance FM, dedicated to
the consecration of field recordings and their use in composition.<br>
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<div><i>We Share A Shadow</i> is strictly limited to 300 copies,
featuring hand water-coloured artwork and letterpress printing.</div>
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<div>We thank you very much for your time and attention; and as always
if you wish to be removed from the mailing list from the Helen
Scarsdale Agency, please respond to this message with "Remove,
please" within the subject header.</div>
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<div>Merry Christmas!</div>
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The Helen Scarsdale Agency</div>
<div><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.helenscarsdale.com">http://www.helenscarsdale.com</a></div>
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