Michael Vallera - Shallow Water Blackout

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 29 Apr, 2010.

A new CD now, hosted by Reverb Worship, courtesy of the sound artist Michael Vallera. It's composed of modulated guitar drift & anologue synth drone and sounds pretty tasty. Four tracks ranging from somnulent, eerie fluctuating soundscapery to layered tonal bliss and monging astral hum. All nicely composed chunks of cerebral calm to Zen-out to, housed in a gatefold package that looks like it could become best mates with the minimally designed Machinefabriek CDs in your collection I.E. looks like a child has drawn a coffee cup stain in grey felt tip, way cool.

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This is "Shallow Water Blackout" by MichaelVallera.Sometime ago I was contacted by Michael who is a Chicago, Illinois based experimental noise musician.After listening to his work which I liked very much we agreed to do a release together.The cd features four excellent tracks recorded at the Art Institute Of Chicago, Joyride Studio in Chicago, Workbook Studios in Columbus ,Ohio and at home.The music has been carefully built from analog synthesizer patches and modulated guitar, relying heavily on a E-mu modular systems synthesizer.Recording individual layers as been varied using everything from a broken four track cassette to hi-fi 2 inch reel to reel recorders.The cd comes in a hand screen printed white card digipack style cover (printed by Michael himself) in a hand numbered edition of 50 copies.The edition is split between Michael and myself .I only have 25 copies for sale of this cd.

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