Cat No:
SFT0401
Release Date: 08 June 2015
Label: Software Recording Co. / Kemado
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 0184923204018
Genres: Electronic
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Description
Ben Zimmerman's The Baltika Years is a collection of recordings created between 1992 and 2002 mostly using a Tandy DeskMate.
When Ben solicited the recordings to Software in 2013, we were taken aback by how personal the music felt considering the palette used. It was like reading an abstract diary. The clues into Ben's world are so stark and strange that they feel like monuments.
Reducing Zimmerman's prolific output down to four album sides was a challenge. Much like the myth of the process-oriented painter in his prime, you get the sense that Zimmerman is subconsciously actualizing an artistic scenario that he may or may not be privy to.
When The Baltika Years is absorbed as a canon of work, a super-effect emerges which bonds all of his output. This is somewhat represented in the way we assembled the anthology, focusing on certain stylistic epochs that Zimmerman moved through over a decade of solitary experimenting and obsessing.
In many ways, The Baltika Years embodies the spirit of Software. It articulates a belief that idiosyncrasy is inevitable, and that human affect and technology are linked. One helps the other express something mysterious about the world.
Via limiting himself to one very specific instrument, Ben realized his own style - a monochromatic computer music that glows with the intimacy found in life's barely audible sentiments, curios, and details.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Phyllis
- 2. For Mimi pt. 1
- 3. For Mimi pt. 2
- 4. For Mimi pt. 3
- 5. For Mimi pt. 4
- 6. For Mimi pt. 5
- 7. The Scream
- 8. Housed!
- 9. Tropical Den
- 10. 99th Street
- 11. The Space Jack Hummer
- 12. Grumble Grumble
- 13. Reverse Me
- 14. 75000multicolouredorgasmaticballoons
- 15. Crystal Lake
- 16. Redecorated Proto-Computations
- 17. Da Chopp
- 18. Yellow Daffodil (Burning) Against A Grey Sidewalk
- 19. Chants
- 20. Reso
- 21. Mazer
- 22. Life Without Liz
- 23. One-Liter Plastic Bottle
- 24. F-Trip
- 25. Now I Am Numb
- 26. Pausebreak pt. 1
- 27. Pausebreak pt. 2
- 28. Pausebreak pt. 3
- 29. Pausebreak pt. 4
- 30. Pausebreak pt. 5
- 31. Pausebreak pt. 6
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