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WALKER HARRIS ENGLISH | RELEASE: 14 APRIL 2017 | OF012
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WALKER HARRIS ENGLISH [OF013]


This trio of sorts, a dissociative and shared message between Thor Harris of Swans, Room 40's Lawrence English and London-based artist Conor Walker, traces and maps the porousness and impermanence of home, the dislocations of place and the prosperous contours of friendship. Before relocating to London, Walker lived with Harris in his hand-built home in Austin, TX. With vaulted wooden ceilings (the lumber planed by Harris) and an array of instruments, Walker began experimenting with the acoustics of the front room. Channeling field recordings in headphones to Harris as he played to the space served as an impetus for the ensuing improvisations. Lawrence English visited the home in April  2016 to record vignettes for his Cruel Optimism LP. While the trio worked on English's album, the fissured recordings of Walker's field recordings and Harris's abstractions took on a process of rejoining. This un-severing, via English’s treatment, started in Austin before moving to Brisbane, Australia.
 
The project title consists of each player's surname and follows the flow of the recordings: Walker's field recordings issue into Harris's improvisations to arrive at the delta of English's processing. Harris's playing forms a plateau; it's the bread and butter so to speak. Walker and English merely serve as bookends, accentuating and burying as space allows.

Each cassette side features one of Harris's naked improvisations: the A-side's "The House Part I" on acoustic dulcimer and vibraphones and the B-side's "The House Part II,” touched only by electric dulcimer. The field recordings, though streaming through Harris, are masked and silenced until Walker and English come out of dormancy in the record’s centre — the A-side closer "Beyond House" and the B-side opener "Beyond Home" merge Harris’s clarinet drones, bowed cymbals and gongs with Walker’s dislocated geospatial recordings and English's cavernous concert bass drumming.

The artwork, an aerial photo taken while flying over Labrador in late winter 2016, was designed by Conor Walker. Mastered by Lawrence English at his home in Brisbane, Australia. Limited to 100.  

Track List:
a1. The House Part I
a2. Beyond House
b1. Beyond Home
b2. The House Part II

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