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Untitled

by HS & The Cherry Point

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Side A 13:51
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Side B 15:07

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My first collaboration with Phil Blankenship (aka The Cherry Point) was "Gross", an unrelenting blast of harsh tape tumble published as a CDR by Carbon Records out of Rochester NY . For our second project together, I wanted to take things in a different direction. The source sounds are all by Phil, processed and recomposed by me. I carefully atomized his high-density 100-mph fury and reassembled the bits into these two untitled pieces. Plenty of empty space full of tension, a nuclear device draped in lovely gauze.

As for the title... well, we couldn't agree on one. "Untitled" is what we were left with. The cover non-image was made by Corydon Ronnau (of Sissy Spacek) by crumpling up a piece of paper. Seems appropriate.

Phil was producing a series of very small-run LPs on his Troniks label at the time, so he published this one in a tiny edition of just 161 copies. Naturally, those slabs vanished into the mitts of noise-nerd collectors pretty quickly. I've always liked the album, though, and wanted more folks to be able to hear it. And now, thanks to the miracle of the internet, here it is, rescued from obscurity and thrust into the glaring spotlight of marginally-less obscurity. Lucky you.

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released December 28, 2012

Sounds by Phil Blankenship. Composed by Howard Stelzer at Intransitive (Cambridge, MA) Winter/Spring 2006. Cover art by Corydon Ronnau.

Originally published by Troniks as an LP in a limited edition of 161 copies.

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Howard Stelzer Massachusetts

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
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