the unheard tapes, by unknown artist 22/11/66

the unheard tapes

by unknown artist 22/11/66

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1.	unheard silence 04:32		buy track
2.	fishes in green + 04:54	info	buy track
3.	stranger to myself + 04:02		buy track
4.	motionless roadside + 04:28		buy track
5.	silence comes + goes 03:55		buy track
6.	monument + 03:44	info	buy track
7.	tempest 03:25		buy track
8.	lattice of coincidence + 02:25	info	buy track
9.	the unlearning 02:13		buy track
10.	drowning log 01:22		buy track
11.	skin 04:27		buy track
12.	ice age + 04:23		buy track
13.	asleep at the wheel 03:47		buy track
14.	untitled 02:58		buy track
15.	silent movies + 05:35		buy track
16.	shadow to the wind 03:27		buy track
17.	storm / after math + 08:45		buy track
18.	young + untold 03:04		buy track
19.	silence in between 02:54		buy track
20.	the empty drawer 02:58		buy track
21.	L +N don't stop here + 03:07	info	buy track
22.	nostalgia 02:40		buy track
23.	forms of growth 02:14		buy track
24.	boojum tree 03:16		buy track
25.	painted in rain 02:51		buy track
26.	rear view mirror + 05:40		buy track

about

Originally recorded 1984—89 on a Tascam 4-track between the back of a camper in Santa Cruz + a chicken coop in the hills above Palo Alto, so some background noise (dogs, parrots, etc.) was incidental + welcomed. Often old/found recorded-over tapes were reused, so remnant bits might remain + since 4-tracks recorded at ½-speed using both sides of a standard cassette, residual noises might be backwards + at 2x the speed. A "1/e delay" was regularly used on the guitars (dividing the number of beats in the song by the natural logarithm, e ( = 2.718281…) to obtain the delay pedal setting). Songs were mixed on cassettes + given away to a few friends + family + traded w/ other home-recording enthusiasts, as was the culture in the '80s (that we’re re-issuing this on cassette is not a kitschy or ironic gesture—this was the original target format). Eventually 3 cassettes were self-released under the DIY "Tapestry Tapes” label—The Ethereal Aether (1988), Whorl (spring of '89) + Starfisheye (winter of '89). Then in the '90s everyone switched to CD + these tapes were forgotten about.

The tracks on this tape are arranged roughly in chronological order. Tracks #1, 2, 8, 10, 13 + 14 (recorded 1984-88) were previously unreleased (except for 1-off mix tapes), as well as other odd clips remixed into other tracks. Tracks # 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 + 9 appeared on The Ethereal Aether (1988). Tracks # 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 + 19 appeared on Whorl (1989). Tracks # 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 + 26 appeared on Starfisheye (1989).

... + no, we didn't screw up + remaster these too quietly, it's the rest of the world (post-90s) that's cranking the volume louder + louder just to be heard, at the expense of sound quality.

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released November 15, 2017

All tracks written, performed + recorded by unknown artist (w/ misc. animals, ppl + soundtracks in the background).

(Ↄ) copyleft. All rites reversed. May be freely copied, rerecorded, adapted, shared etc. as long as it is under these same copyleft conditions (not to be copyrighted or reproduced for profit).

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unknown artist 22/11/66 Santa Cruz, California

1-man band armed w/ a 4-track. “Unknown Artist” was the name assigned by modern software when these old home-grown tapes from the late '80s were recently digitized + it seemed apropos. 22/11/66 is his date of birth. After recording these tapes, he graduated from UC Santa Cruz (w/ a degree in math), sold all of his instruments + wandered the earth for 30 years returning as Sound Furies. ... more

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