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Frail Joints

by HS & Edward Sol

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1.
Frail Joints 10:07
2.
Great Body 07:14
3.
Damp Squib 02:11
4.
Very Special Day 08:27
5.
Meteoric (to Fame and Death) 09:38

about

We’re getting old. Or, heck: we’re already there. What can y’do about that? Not much, I’m afraid… but it’s okay. Really it is. Last time Edward Sol and I got together, we went to the beach and warmed our old bones. Those were good times, weren’t they? Sure were. We took a nice vacation (I think the audio spa was in Florida, though I’m not certain) and set aside the grinding daily everything for awhile. Took in the sights, inhaled the ocean air… remember how invigorating that was? Yeah.

Of course, vacations can’t last forever. And they shouldn’t, or else they wouldn’t be vacations. They’d just be unemployment. The limited break from the everyday lets you (temporarily) let go of stress & create happy memories to hang onto to help you survive the more usual grind.

Well, Ed and I have once again found ourselves with some free time, but this is no vacation. Nope. Definitely not. This is just the two of staying at home, waiting patiently indoors for the outside world to become inhabitable again. Luckily, those memories of seaside warmth live on in our bones, which continue hold up our tired bodies (though perhaps not as well s they used to). Back in Lowell and Kyiv, the two of us were able to take the same exchanged sonic material (and plenty of tape that remained unspooled & unused on our studio floors) and graft it onto new skeletal remains. These joints might be more frail than they used to be, but I’m honestly fine with that. Still got muscles (last I checked) and brains that continue to crave form and structure. Some old cells get shed, new ones are created. Why does my back ache all the time? Has it always ached like this? When did that begin? Why am I not sure?

- HS. Lowell, MA 2020

credits

released April 13, 2020

composed in 2018-2020 by Edward Sol & Howard Stelzer
using tape loops, cassette noises, field recordings, dictaphones, sampler, electronics.

artwork by Edward Sol

sister album to "Warm Bones" howardstelzer.bandcamp.com/album/warm-bones

also available from edwardsol.bandcamp.com

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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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