released March 4, 2020

Being a work inspired by the imaginarium of the wonderfully flipped-out natural philosopher Philip K Dick and his penchant for warping, degrading and/or multiplicating realities, using a blend of palimpsests, field recordings, samples, tape manipulations, narrations and the ever-reliable arrangement of tones in a particular order for a pleasing harmonic drift.

Ilona Schneider: narration
Owen Kilfeather: tenor, electric guitar, sampling, synthesizers, organ, electroacoustic treatments
Aonghus Morrissey, Paddy Shine, Rat Bastard: vocal interventions

Composed, executed and recorded by Owen Kilfeather at RF Mataplumas, Sligo, Ireland, between late December 2018 and mid-February 2019. Add'l recording at Bookmart, Sligo, and c/ de Ventalló, Barcelona.

Mixed by Cian Hamilton. Mastered by Richard Dowling at Wav Mastering, Limerick, Ireland.

Flow My Tears (Stopping by a Gas Station on a Snowy Evening) is adapted from the John Dowland piece of almost the same name. Lochstreifensfantasie and Yoyodyne Unternehmenshymne contain samples derived from the Symphony For a Broken Orchestra sound library, that glorious collaboration with Found Sound Nation by which Philadelphian musicians were invited to improvise upon a range of damaged but not mortally wounded instruments. Forgeries of Me contains a sample of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the Six-Foot Rat Theme Park courtesy of InspectorJ at freesound dot org. Lochstreifensfantasie tape manipulations courtesy of Ross Birdwise's sample archive, ibid.

Design: Owen Kilfeather
Image: Region NGC 6357 (a cluster of clusters located 5,500 light years from Earth). X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L. Townsley et al; Optical: UKIRT; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech.


Thanks to Marcoesteves de Mouracampos and Andreas Dunst for spiffing up my rickety German, David Fahey, Eugene Martynec, and Mat Ward of No Mates Ensemble for slinging the sound library on down the road.