Aaron Martin - Worried About The Fire

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4...according to our Brett on Wed 21 Jul, 2010.

here's the CD review!! Our very own Business Lady was just commenting that she's glad she's not into the stuff that always seems to come in these oversized packs 'cos it'd fuck up the carefully-arranged Habitat filing systems in her inner-city penthouse. Brian solves problems like these by losing difficult to store items before he's even got them home. Aaron Martin's new one comes packaged in this way ("professionally produced, offset printed, custom engineered, 18pt, 5 x 7, 6 panel packaging in crystal clear 1.6mil resealable poly bag" if you're really asking) and it's got pictures of trees on it. Look! Trees! On the disc you'll find a collection of brief pieces featuring sounds ranging from piano to cello to organ to the reasonably unidentifiable, all processed into sound-arty type shapes which beautifully evoke a variety of moods, generally of the slightly unsettling variety. Good shit.

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Written & Produced by: Aaron Martin
Mastered by: Taylor Deupree
Photography & Design by: Jeremy Bible

Professionally produced, offest printed, custom engineered, 18pt, 5 x 7, 6 panel packaging in crystal clear 1.6mil resealable poly bag.

Water Tongue is to be featured on The Wire Tapper 23 CD included with all issues of The Wire (April Issue #314).

Albee (2:46)
Ice Melts Onto Fingers (2:58)
Open Knife (3:32)
New Brighton (3:22)
Water Tongue (3:48)
Wires of Glass (3:35)
Reed Tunnel (3:13)
Marked in Dust (2:48)
Blue Light (3:18)
Beaver Falls (3:12)
Making Rope out of Eyelashes (3:10)
Sixth (4:37)

Experimedia presents the fourth full length solo album by Kansas-based Aaron Martin. A former collaborator of artists as diverse as Machinefabriek and Dawn Smithson (Sunn O))), Martin originally devised 'Worried about the Fire' as the soundtrack to a short film and the record sees him deconstructing preexisting snippets, sketches and samples from various collaborations and solo performances. All prior restrictions were set aside as Martin forwent his regular live-approach, untypically using electronic processing and effects and editing the parts without limiting himself in any way. Still built around his set-up of cello, banjo, harmonica and organ, there is an unsettling installation-character to the work, with distant echoes of acoustic instruments shining through the ghostly fabric of these twelve short pieces. Mastered by 12k label-head Taylor Deupree, 'Worried about the Fire' has however not only turned out a dark and demure work, but also one of brittle beauty - ranging from the meditative cymbal-space of 'Ice melts' and the broken-Piano semblance of 'Blue Light' to the consoling Ambient-Folk of 'Making Rope'.