By My Side; I Am Your's, by HS & Vic Rawlings

By My Side; I Am Your's

by HS & Vic Rawlings

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	1.	... 14:12
	2.	The Free 06:18
	3.	Meeting at Cover 05:11
	4.	Breaking Cover 02:15
	5.	In Full Cry (I Am Your's) 15:08
	6.	The Death 07:50

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This oddly punctuated album of studio recordings for modified/amplified cello, open-circuit electronics, cassette tapes and other detritus was published in 2010 as a CDR by Songs From Under the Floorboards/Intransitive Recordings in a limited edition of 100 copies.

“With Rawlings, Stelzer stretches his cassette manipulations even further. He seems to match Rawlings’s desire to move past the “musical” side of his tools and get at their physical workings. So tape-speed manipulation and the grind of tape heads feature prominently, just as Rawlings taps into the primal electrical signals of his devices for some gnarly high-frequencies. The cello works as a sort of earthy counterpoint to the more fragmented electronics, but it too is all surface and texture, rough-hewn ones at that… the atmosphere here is one of research and discovery.” – Paris Transatlantic

“Both Stelzer and Rawlings take turns in letting their material breathe, take shape and gentle move away. Or pull out together, a stroke of noise, like painting flying around, smeared on the canvas. A wild affair.” – Vital Weekly

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released August 1, 2010

Howard Stelzer - cassette tapes and tape players
Vic Rawlings - modified cello and open-circuit electronics

Produced by Jesse Kudler at White Flag, Boston MA, Summer 2003. Cover photography by Vic Rawlings. Design by Justin Myers.

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Stelzer's music is assembled out of cassette tapes, tape machines, and a stubborn refusal to admit defeat. He & his family live on a small farm in rural MA. At night, he hunches over piles of plastic, wires & little boxes and makes this stuff. No one knows why.

"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares." - Saul Bass ... more

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