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Dementia and Hope Trails comes to my humble label from a place I once called home….Maryland and what a treat it is to have him here. The purveyor of Rainbow Bridge Recordings who has released recordings from fellow pandafuzz-er Julia LaDense (and a wealth of other well known artists such as Andrew Coltrane and Red Electric Rainbow), and the driving force behind a veritable tidal wave of activity ranging from tapes to live performances…Dementia and Hope Trails provides us with an homage to his recently acquired feline Masuka.

It is a spacious journey that is a pleasure for both the left and right channels…not an experience to be had at soft volumes on low quality speakers but rather an aural journey of high order that avoids exploitation of panning and instead fills a new space. It’s foray into the digital world can feel foreign to me at times and in the beginning I almost walked around this influence so it would not influence me personally. Once through the entire work it shows it’s place and justifies itself as an appropriate method.

In a recent flood of demo material, coupled with a severe disconnect from the online world due to my rural setting, I was happy to receive this in the mail and am proud to present it for your listening. As we go through 2010 cautiously on new soil I am more inundated than ever with material to release and want to stand behind each one as if it were my own and Song of Masuka is no exception to that rule….See you back here in 14:48.

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Art by Mike Homer

About HMS
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It is a humid and roasted evening in 2003…Mid summer in York,PA somewhere on Linden avenue…A now vacated place where creativity and home brew flowed with equal importance and strength for many years with the vastly creative Peter Richards at the helm….It was here that I first met Erich Steiger…a friendship that would have an ebb and flow not much different than the small brook that ran behind my house growing up….At times clear and fresh….teeming with life….Other times but a trickle…A gouge in the earth to let you know it is still alive and waiting to be replenished…Over the years we would come together on projects such as mastering or just a social event and for months at a time be in and out of communication…

By 2009 a project called Loud & Sad with Joe Houpert had become an all encompassing life project…We needed someone to give us proper recordings of piano and Erich was the logical choice…Some months later we were at Baltimore at Erich’s antilog compound working on those piano mixes and adding some tape layers when HMS was born through a late Friday night improvisation…. HMS has allowed Joe and I to completely step out form our sometimes preconceived placements in Loud & Sad to explore completely new places…higher grounds and hidden passages that lined the cliffs we were climbing as Loud & Sad but had not yet taken the time to explore…With Erich as our guide and new participant we proudly present to you these new places….

The artwork for this release was provided by Mike Homer, current director of the david kordansky gallery, who has been a friend of loud & sad related projects for a long time. Mike shared this work with me as he was creating it and after seeing it in person on his bedroom wall I knew it was the right fit. Please download the ZIP for a full size version!

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