<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2395"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2640" style="" class="">Merry Christmas / Happy Winter Solstice and Very Best Wishes for 2015!</b><br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2639" style="" class="">I wish to express my tremendous gratitude to all of you who helped and/OAR </span><span style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
quietly </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2638" style="" class="">bounce
back this past year, whether it was through generously <br style="" class="">
donating to the
Akio Suzuki fundraising campaign or through purchasing <br style="" class="">
label releases
and other items in the Diffusion Shop.</span><br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2608" style="" class="">While there aren't very many new releases planned for 2015 (yet), I
do plan <br style="" class="">
to launch a second fundraising campaign to finally re-issue
some of the <br style="" class="">
early CDR releases on CD for longer-term posterity. And what
better way to <br style="" class="">
do that than start with the most requested re-issue of
the early CDR releases <br style="" class="">
<a class="" href="http://www.and-oar.org/pop_and_10.html" target="_blank" style="color: #336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Another Kind Of Language</a>
(AKOL). For the sake of the campaign, I plan to <br style="" class="">
offer an expanded
version with a new cover design and a third CD featuring <br style="" class="">
new tracks by
newly involved artists. There will also be at least one new <br style="" class="">
track by one
of the artists involved with the first version of AKOL. The full <br style="" class="">
roster
of artists will be announced when the campaign is launched (hopefully <br style="" class="">
sometime in January). Another fundraising campaign for a proposed 7 CD<br style="" class="">
boxed set for the field recording compilations for <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2637" style="" class="" href="http://phonography.org/">Phonography.org</a> will be<br style="" class="">
launched later in 2015.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
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or <a style="" class="" href="https://twitter.com/and_OAR">Twitter</a>.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
Thanks for your time and again for your continued support. It
has always <br style="" class="">
been my wish that and/OAR publications provide lasting value
for everyone <br style="" class="">
who is inspired enough to purchase them.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
Dale<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
and/OAR<br style="" class="">
<a style="" class="" href="http://www.and-oar.org/">www.and-oar.org</a><br style="" class="">
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<b style="" class="">Now Available:</b><b style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</b><br style="" class="">
Artist: Artificial Memory Trace<br style="" class="">
Title: Organfish - Electric Fish Songs From The Amazon<br style="" class="">
Catalog Number: and/43<br style="" class="">
Format: CD<br style="" class="">
Info & Samples: <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419810145220_2627" style="" class="" href="http://www.and-oar.org/pop_and_43.html">www.and-oar.org/pop_and_43.html</a><br style="" class="">
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As many who've long tread the waters of and/OAR already know, Artificial <br style="" class="">
Memory Trace is none other than Slavek Kwi, and what we have here is a <br style="" class="">
much deserved CD re-issue of his seminal release of underwater <br style="" class="">
environmental recordings first issued on CDR via his Tentacles Of <br style="" class="">
Perception imprint in 2010. Re-edited and remastered for the occasion. <br style="" class="">
Prominently featured are underwater recordings of unidentified <br style="" class="">
gymnotiformes (a type of electric fish), plus other kinds of subaquatic fish, <br style="" class="">
insects, crustaceans and moving vegetation. The recordings were made <br style="" class="">
in Mamori, Amazonas, Brazil in November, 2009.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
Gymnotiformes are mostly nocturnal fish that are capable of producing <br style="" class="">
electric fields for navigation and communication. The name "organfish" is <br style="" class="">
not a scientific term, but one invented by Slavek in reference to the sublime <br style="" class="">
and mysterious organ-like musicality of the sounds of electric fish, plus the <br style="" class="">
term is also in reference to the fish producing electrical fields from a <br style="" class="">
specialized internal organ called an "electric organ".<br style="" class="">
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<br style="" class="">
Artist: Michael Prime<br style="" class="">
Title: One Hour As A Plant<br style="" class="">
Catalog Number: and/42 / OHA 1<br style="" class="">
Format: CD<br style="" class="">
Info & Samples: <a style="" class="" href="https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/www.and-oar.org/pop_and_42.html">www.and-oar.org/pop_and_42.html</a><br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
All of the sounds used in this composition were produced by recording the <br style="" class="">
bioelectrical field of a specimen of the peyote cactus (Lophophora <br style="" class="">
williamsii). A fascinating work that takes the listener into normally unheard <br style="" class="">
realms.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
One Hour As A Plant was composed in 2003 for Ben Green's Resonance <br style="" class="">
FM program called "One Hour As...". In 2005, Michael released a slightly <br style="" class="">
shorter version (57:57 versus 61:02) himself on CDR under the title "One <br style="" class="">
Hour As Peyote". After closely listening to both "OHAPlant" and <br style="" class="">
"OHAPeyote", it was decided that the 61:02 "OHAPlant" version would be <br style="" class="">
released on CD.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
This release will also be the first of a new sub-series called "One Hour As...". <br style="" class="">
The plan is to mostly present new environmental sound work based on <br style="" class="">
Ben Green's concept, plus a small number of works previously broadcast <br style="" class="">
on the program (like this release and another one released by and/OAR in <br style="" class="">
2006 called Bordeaux TNT by Afflux).<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
So, <b style="" class="">sound artists and recordists take note</b>: and/OAR is looking for future <br style="" class="">
installments for the new "One Hour As..."
sub-series. Please make contact <br style="" class="">
if you have a compelling idea to
propose. OHA... will not be limited to just <br style="" class="">
environmental sound work for the main and/OAR series. Work that would <br style="" class="">
be
a good fit for the either/OAR series will also be considered.<br style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">
and/OAR<br style="" class="">
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