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Extremophiles: Merging Matter

by Extremophiles: Jeff Gburek & John Palumbo

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Acid Crackers 04:30
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Ping Tab Immortelle 02:14
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Broken Hearted Skunk FX 02:07
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Buzzby Flanger 02:23
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SHAAG 03:33
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Du-icide 03:21
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Ghost-ed 05:03
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Scrambulance 02:36
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Elven 02:30
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The Value of Everything (with Ilaria Boffa) 03:30
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Sound Escape Artist 04:14
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"Merging Matter" is the follow-up album based on the Extremophiles EP called "First Batch". We could have called it First Batch Plus but decided not to carry one track over, so the first EP stands as a unique publication. Plus: we are really "merging matters" here. We've extended our sonic pallette: more acoustic, electroacoustic percussion, found sounds & field recordings. We include a very special re-working of a piece initally begun as a collaboration between Jeff Gburek and Italian poet Ilaria Boffa, "The Value of Everything" (heard in Italian, in her own voice) with added kicks, embellishments and mix by John Palumbo. Find the poem below in the About this Album section. Enjoy, comment, support, spread the word.
Cover image by Jeff Gburek. Script by John Palumbo.

Quando il vento soffia
impetuoso sui campi di grano
colonie di gruccioni volteggiano
dentro e fuori le chiome.
In alto e in basso
riorganizzano lo spazio aereo.
Tecnica cut-up
di traiettorie intermittenti.
Il valore di guardarne
il cambio di passo
su ogni foglia curvata.
Scorgere i buchi dei nidi.
Il valore di vivere la vita
piegata a metà.
Due testi lineari affiancati
e incapaci di
ripristinare il significato.
Il valore di stare
fermi, in attesa.
Il valore di ogni cosa.

--Ilaria Boffa

When the wind blows
wild on wheat fields
colonies of bee-eaters twirl
in and out the canopies.
Up and down they
rearrange air space.
A cut up technique
of intermittent trajectories.
The value of watching
their change of pace
on each leaf bent.
Catching sight of nest holes.
The value of living life
folded in half.
Two linear texts juxtaposed
and unequipped for
restoring meaning.
The value of standing
still, on hold.
The value of everything.
-- Ilaria Boffa

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released March 28, 2023

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Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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