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Purgatorio

by The Strindbergs

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This project began when Jake Berry sent me a voice track. I built the record, both movements around this voice. Using keyboards, effects and natural sounds the record rose in layers until it became something else altogether. Originally meant to be in several movements, the piece suggested itself to flow in long stretches, building up to its eventual conclusion. 

This record differs from the first Strindberg album in that the voice aspect is not in the usual sense you would expect. On this record it exists as an instrument. It's part of the ritual. It makes its own ghostly presence known in the very first sound. As Jake Berry described the sound, he said it was a, "Whole different world." 

John Cage said, “If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.” The Strindberg's are always reaching for that new experience. That new sound. If space can be explored, why not sound?

Chris Mansel, 12-11-2011

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released December 15, 2011

Chris Mansel - all sounds and sound manipulation except for original vocal track by Jake Berry

Recorded, mixed and mastered in December 2011 by Chris Mansel at Rabid Bear Studios, Florence, AL

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