Camaraderie

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 07 Oct, 2010.

First up this is insanely packaged in an oversized folder with a book inside which is stitched to the textured sleeve and inside there's a sweet nipple for you to house your CD on. Mmmm... It looks amazing and the 1st time I saw it (the packaging) I thought we want some of this baby. It brings together poetry and sound and design. The music is by recording artist My Fun, it's designed by Kimberly Ellen Hall, and the poetry is by John Ira Ebersole. Hence the whole Camaraderie thing. The music is pretty minimal sound art, with textured drones and odd little noises here and there to keep you busy while you're enjoying the whole thing. Remember this just isn't about the music. It's about the whole package and that package is gorgeous. Am very impressed!

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CAMARADERIE is the first experimental collaborative project for The Land Of. Bringing together poetry and sound and design, song sewn to poem and both re-imagined and etched into the Object, recording artist My Fun, designer Kimberly Ellen Hall, and poet John Ira Ebersole explore the possibilities of expressive fellowship in their project Camaraderie. At once completely independent and at the same time interdependent, their work, fused together in this single utterance, reveals the tense joy that always hovers between the collective and the individual.

John’s writing can also be found in Western Humanities Review, Bateau, Octopus, and Pennsylvania Naturalist. My Fun has realeases on The Land Of, Test Tube, and Ristretto. And Kimberly has also designed for The Village Voice, The Denver Art Museum, Hussein Chalayan, and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Her identity work for The Land Of will be featured in an Index Book this October.

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