Shortwave Nights

Shortwave Nights

by Hiss Tracts
Shortwave Nights

Shortwave Nights

by Hiss Tracts

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Overview

With their collective experience with groups like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Growing, David Bryant and Kevin Doria are no strangers to creating carefully crafted sonic landscapes. On Shortwave Nights, the full-length debut of their recording project Hiss Tracts, the pair weave together field recordings and an array of acoustic and electronic instruments into a stunning collection of drifting, ambient soundscapes. While these kinds of experimental records can often come across as distant and detached, there's something warm and inviting about Shortwave Nights. Candid recordings like "Drake Motel/9 Gold Cadillacs," where we hear an old man lament "my daddy spent millions of dollars in 1977 trying to buy a friend and he died without one," create pathos, connecting the listener to the work by appealing to their humanity rather than their intellect. On "Ahhh-weee Dictaphone," a tape recording is manipulated again and again, shifting from a harsh crackle to a kind of sing-songy hum before giving way to the soothing drone of "Test Recording at Trembling City." In a way, moments like this feel like a peek behind the curtain, and while it's ostensibly just 40 seconds of someone fussing with a tape recorder, it shows that, in an age of overly processed music, the sounds you're hearing have been assembled with care by two people. While Shortwave Nights might not be for everyone, Hiss Tracts have made an album of experimental music that feels like it was made to engage rather than alienate, casting aside inscrutability to create something surprisingly fragile and soulful. ~ Gregory Heaney

Product Details

Release Date: 05/13/2014
Label: CONSTELLATION
UPC: 0666561010423

Tracks

  1. ...Shortwave Nights
  2. Half-Speed Addict Starts with Broken Wollensak
  3. Slowed Rugs
  4. Drake Motel/"9 Gold Cadillacs"
  5. Windpipe Gtrs.
  6. Halo Getters
  7. For the Transient Projectionist
  8. Ahhh-Weee Dictaphone
  9. Test Recording at Trembling City
  10. Beijing-Bullhorn/Dopplered Light...

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Hiss Tracts   Primary Artist
Jonathan Parant   Computers
Brooke Crouser   Guitar,Dictaphone
David Bryant   Bowls,Piano,Guitar,Mellotron,Portasound
Kevin Doria   Guitar,Sampling,Oscillator,Synthesizer
Kristina Koropecki   Cello
Will Eizlini   Triangle

Technical Credits

Harris Newman   Mastering
Jonathan Parant   Digital Assembly
David Bryant   Group Member,Tape Machine,Field Recording
Kevin Doria   Group Member
Karl Lemieux   Photography,Film Research,Photo Manipulation
Hiss Tracts   Mixing,Engineer,Photography
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