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R​/​W volume 6 : Golden Ratio

by M. Dwinell

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1.
CLEAR 01:23
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2.
M Dwinell - ASCEND 07:27
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3.
HOLD 02:26
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4.
MOVE 05:26
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5.
REST 01:27
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6.
DRIVE 02:45
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7.
RELEASE 11:12
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8.
END 00:45
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Golden Ratio offers the only documentation of M Dwinell’s just intonation organ work, recorded between 2007-2008. [These pieces provide a pivotal shift away from Dwinell’s early Kraut-inspired rock-based improvisation with Boston’s BRIGHT in the direction of his recent electronic-based compositional work with Brooklyn’s FORMA. Unlike either of these projects, however,] Golden Ratio focuses exclusively on a natural tuning system generated from the harmonic series. By precise control of his instrument's tuning, Dwinell sets into motion a dynamic musical system of pressure, intensity and calm. Golden Ratio incorporates both static pulsing drones and heavily arpeggiated passages, culminating in melodic lines that epitomize Dwinell’s unique musical vocabulary as developed over the last twenty years.

Required Wreckers
With equal nods to Throbbing Gristle’s retrograde conceptualism and Recommended Records unwavering musicality, Amish is pleased to announce the Required Wreckers. Over ten catalogue releases, R/W will explore the work of artists operating at the intersections of sound art, improvisation, drone, outsider experimentation and modern composition. In the spirit of its name, R/W aims to disrupt the boundaries typically used to delimit genre and the sensibilities that help to inform taste. In so doing, R/W slips out from under the simple, reductive classifications so often used to discuss, and even critically engage, contemporary music. Situating R/W in the gap between Throbbing Gristle’s celebrated a-musicality and the unrelenting craftsmanship of Henry Cow, these releases acknowledge their debt to historical precedent. Each release is a one-time vinyl pressing (each will also be available in the vastly inferior digital format). These LPs will also include artwork and assorted ephemera that invoke our deepest respect for the medium and the handcrafted (and assembled) components we regret have disappeared with the rise of digital media. R/W will terminate in ten installments.

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released January 13, 2015

Side A

CLEAR
ASCEND
HOLD
MOVE
REST

Side B

DRIVE
RELEASE
END

All Compositions by M. Dwinell

Instruments:
* Farfisa Compact organ tuned to various 12 tone Just Intonation scales
* Ensoniq TS-10 on "CLEAR" tuned to Harry Partch's 43 tone to the octave scale
* Clarinet on "MOVE"

Recorded at the Schoolhouse 2007-2008

Mastered by Paul Gold

Artwork by Ricci Albenda

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With equal nods to Throbbing Gristle's retrograde conceptualism and Recommended Records unwavering musicality, Amish Records' Required Wreckers Series explores the work of artists operating at the intersections of sound art, improvisation, drone, outsider experimentation and modern composition.

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