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Thirteen Exquisite Corpses (Arachnidiscs Recordings)

by THE BABEL ENSEMBLE

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    13 tracks on 2CDs plus 24 page book featuring the remains of 13 exquisite creatures.

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Thirteen Exquisite Corpses is the 200th and final release on Arachnidiscs Recordings, coming 20 years after the label's first release. A collaborative work of 13 "improvised compositions" split into two suites. It was recorded under the ensemble name BABEL by bandleader and Arachnidiscs head, Jakob Rehlinger. Thirteen Exquisite Corpses was recorded using a modified version of the "exquisite corpse" collaborative technique usually employed in visual art or writing where each collaborator is only aware of the tail end of the previous collaborator's contribution. In this case each of the 8 collaborators improvised to a series of minimal synthesizer drones provided by Rehlinger, unaware of each others' addition, which Rehlinger then edited into cohesive works. The album is presented as a 2CD edition in a 24 page hardback book.

"Seriously spooky songs mark the 200th release from Arachnidiscs—all of them improvised, all of them unsettling."
~ Bandcamp New & Notable

"The decomposition of the flesh serves as a parallel for the composition of the music. The record may sound fully formed and endowed with life. But the artistic monoliths we erect will eventually disappear – the body of the songbird fallen low. Individual matter returns to something larger, altering it minutely in the process"
~ A Closer Listen

credits

released October 31, 2019

The BABEL ENSEMBLE:
Jakob Rehlinger (Synth, percussion, electric guitar)
Matthew Fava (Violin)
Kayla Milmine (Soprano sax)
Brodie West (Tenor sax)
Eiyn Sof (Vocals, vocalizations)
Andrew MacGregor (Electric guitar)
Roan Bateman (Electric guitar)
M. Mucci (12 string acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
Dominic Marion (Electric guitar)

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• Kosmische Musikprodukte
• Arachnidiscs Recordings
• No Love Records

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(1999-2019 RIP), now a distro for Arachnidiscs stock and other associated labels and releases as well as acting as an Arachnidiscs Recordings digital archive.
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