ARTIST: Excepter
CATALOG: PAW 32 / ER 17
TITLE: Presidence
UPC
#: 677517103229
FORMAT:
Double Compact Disc; Digital Download
LABEL: Paw Tracks
RELEASE DATE: 02-16-10
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EXCEPTER – PRESIDENCE …
“LONG DISTANCE MUSIC”
PRESIDENCE is the eighth album
in as many years by EXCEPTER. A double compact disc, PRESIDENCE explores the
long-format side of EXCEPTER, focusing on continuous live performance and
extended compositions. Over the course of more than two hours, PRESIDENCE spans
the full spectrum of the EXCEPTER sound, from street-level electro to cosmic
synth infinity and beyond. This is the sound of the band leaving Earth behind.
EXCEPTER
– PRESIDENCE … RECORDING NOTES:
TELEPORTATION
A six-song suite improvised in
one continuous, live recording performed at Nathan Corbin and Clare Amory’s
home studio on October 18th, 2008. Behind the final door … is
another door.
LENG
A multi-track instrumental recorded by Mitch Rackin at the Sea Side Lounge studios over the winter of 2007 during the DEBT DEPT sessions. Titled in tribute to a Lovecraft tale location.
OG
A
live-to-stereo recording
from the band’s six-hour “Return to Black Hole” dog days performance at
the Williamsburg experimental cinema-restaurant Monkey Town on July 17th,
2007.
PRESIDENCE
A solo synthesizer performance
by John Fell Ryan recorded Presidents Day, 2003. (Pre-War)
THE ANTI-NOAH
Another recording from July 17th,
2007. Not in reference to our pal Panda, but rather to question the NOAA public
closing of The Sound Garden since 9/11. Why would terrorists target
meteorologists or an obscure sound sculpture park? Excepter wonder.
THE OPEN WELL
A selection from the band’s
17-hour “protest” performance at
COME WHEN YOU CALL
A dubbed-up monster mash of
ALL live recordings of this Nathan Corbin program, from
PRESIDENCE is not designed for
playback on laptop speakers. Listeners should plug into a stereo.
PRESIDENCE: If you fall asleep
while listening to this record, please to dream of only EXCEPTER.
EXCEPTER is a six-member
improvisational electronic and vocal group based in NYC. Founded in 2002 with
the stated intent to use the tools of dance music towards esoteric ends,
Excepter was behind many of the classic recordings associated with the 00’s
‘Brooklyn Noise’ phenomenon. Excepter’s 2008 Paw Tracks LP “Debt Dept”
seemed to predict the global economic collapse that followed its release. The
Excepter live experience remains an unpredictable, mystifying affair – always
singular, never the same show twice.
TRACKS:
Disk I
1)
Teleportation:
BRE (00:42)
2)
Teleportation:
KAL (05:27)
3)
Teleportation:
LIL (07:50)
4)
Teleportation:
GOL (07:02)
5)
Teleportation:
KOP (06:42)
6) Teleportation: ASK (03:33)
A)
SUBTOTAL (33:44)
7)
Leng
(07:35)
8) OP (27:59)
B)
SUBTOTAL (66:58)
Disk
II
1)
Presidence
(33:33)
2)
The
Anti-Noah (10:31)
3) The Open Well (21:19)
4) When You Call (05:21)
C)
SUBTOTAL (71:25)
GRAND TOTAL (02:18:23)
PERFORMERS:
John
Fell Ryan
Vocals,
Synthesizers, Sequencers, Drum Machines, Percussion, Harmonica, Radio
Jon
Nicholson
Vocals,
Synthesizers, Sequencers, Drum Machines, Percussion
Lala
Harrison Ryan
Vocals,
Synthesizers, Flute, Percussion
Dan
Hougland
Synthesizers,
Samplers, Bass Guitar
Nathan
Corbin
Synthesizers,
Sequencers, Samplers, Drum Machines, Guitar
Clare
Amory
Vocals,
Electronic Drum Kit, Percussion
John
Fell Ryan; Nathan Corbin; Mitch Rackin
EDITED
and DESIGNED:
John
Fell Ryan
WRITTEN,
PRODUCED and MASTERED:
Excepter
2003-2009
Dekalb
Studio; 382 Jeff Street; Sea Side Lounge; Monkey Town; Astral Plane; NYC – LA