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Limited edition (only 200 printed) 12" Vinyl of Small Songs. Pressed on black vinyl, with cover art by Michael Reardon and song titles by Claudia La Rocco.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Small Songs
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In his first major project since Screamers, an experimental feature film (which premiered at Abrons Arts Center in 2018, and was screened nationally throughout 2019), Brian Rogers continues his habit of interdisciplinary makeovers with Small Songs, a long form recording of textural synthesizer music.
In late 2019, while at an artist residency, Brian Rogers assembled more than 100 hours of audio material, recorded solo, generally late at night, via modular synthesizer. Throughout 2020 and 2021, these recordings were meticulously (and exhaustively) condensed and sequenced into twenty nine very short compositions (or “small songs”), which unfold as a kind of abstract, auditory, autofictional narrative of shifting interior states, informed by a month-long cross country road trip Rogers undertook, solo, in 2021.
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released December 11, 2023
Composed, recorded and mixed by Brian Rogers. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu / Schwebung. Song titles by Claudia La Rocco. Cover art by Michael Reardon.
What a walk. I'm a continent away and I was immediately transported to the cemetary. I could almost smell the air.
I come out of this experience with a peaceful mind and more knowledge about some incredible (and not so) people.
Thank you for the prompt to listen to the world around us and the music that each sound makes- even if it's someone typing on the computer instead of the rustle of the leaves in the cemetary.
Hopefully one day I can listen to this in the cemetary itself. neo__pessimist (irene)
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