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The Art of Prepared Guitar Vol. 3

by Jeff Gburek

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1.
Care of Kaseki 03:21
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2.
Rhapsody in Grey 08:37
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3.
Admiralbrücke Hangout 03:49
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Rocherstrasse Viaduct 07:26
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Karl_Marxstrasse 28 05:27
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Humboldthain 05:48
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Hive Mind Hybrid 06:27
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This album was first released on MuteAnt Sounds Netlabel where it drew this comment from Walter Campbell: :A brilliant, (mostly) tranquil yet unsettling collection filled with well-used field recordings. This album often feels related to Marina Rosenfeld’s masterwork, The Joy of Fear. Music to listen to in the dark or daylight, when walking without purpose or sheltered in…either way, it’ll take you away. To me, Jeff Gburek’s Volume 3 is one of MuteAnt’s best—if not the best—and most interesting releases. And that’s coming from someone who’s not big on guitar! Don’t miss out on this one. Favorite track: Rhapsody in Grey."

The sounds heard on this album are partly the result of a trip I took to Berlin in April of 2023, primarily to meet Keith Rowe, a mentor, an iconoclast who put the guitar down and brought it back to life as pure sound and surroundings. I knew beforehand that he would not be performing at the festival held in his honor but I also went to meet and listen to Berlin equipped with my recording gear. The field recordings were edited for maximum fidelity & quality and strung together to create the shifting soundscape over which I improvised with the guitars, radios & cassette decks one week after my return to my home base in Poznan. Some of the shortwave radio sound was recorded in Berlin as well as I wandered the streets, trains, trams, alleys, canal-sides, markets and platzes against the still rather brutal winds of an almost Spring in the era of Climate Crisis. I also ventured into buildings where I attended various concerts and you will hear Keith Rowe's voice among others. We begin with the rice cooker (track 01) of Yuko Kaseki, the long time friend, a Japanese butoh dancer who hosted me for the week at her home near Volkspark Humboldthain. The album reflects the continual oscillation between public and the private spheres, the inside turning into the outside, the outside location opening up within the recording, the recording within the recording and the appearance and disappearance of this thing we call music and what it leaves behind. Happy Schizophonia!

#preparedguitar #fieldrecordings #acousmaticmusic #electroacousticmusic

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released April 20, 2024

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AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

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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