Daily Archives: October 25, 2009

Slidemare (2009)

I’ve posted the entirety of the new Kamelmauz dream, Slidemare. Each track can be auditioned, and, for the ambitious who know their way around iTunes, the recording may be downloaded as Apple-lossless files, burned onto a CD and listened to on one of those antique stereo systems–highly recommended. Not recommended: ear buds.

Slidemare isn’t intended to please any audience; in fact, it’s intended to please just me. All outside sympathy or antipathy, attraction or repulsion, are frosting. The genre is: experimental strange ambient, so my latest soundplay cannot be a common cup o’ tea.

Half a dozen tracks didn’t make the cut, and half of those simply need to be completed; in due time. Here’s one that didn’t make the cut:

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KAMELMAUZ-Under the Forest

I didn’t document my workflow, so about all that can be said is that Slidemare was lashed together from three years of on and off experimenting. I don’t do much post-processing. The delays and the what-not are almost always part of the live recording chain. The assembly of individual tracks is a matter of review, pulling each apart, flinging them like darts onto the track mixer, moving clips around, and, ending the process far short of obsession or perfectionism. As always from beginning to the end the process is: naive, intuitive, painterly, and a heck of a lot of fun.

listen | download: Kamelmauz-Slidemare