OIB021: ROBERT STILLMAN - MACHINE'S SONG - NEW ALBUM - WEBSTORE EXCLUSIVE OUT TODAY!!!

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OIB021: Robert Stillman - Machine's Song

Combining pre-jazz American folk-form, surreal sound-collage, and evocative, unfolding melodies, Machine's Song is a wordless cinematic exploration into a landscape somewhere between the fairground, rural parlour, and the stars...

"Machine's Song is a creaky, uncanny music that creates an impressionistic picture of old America" - UNCUT



Machine’s Song is the new album from the composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Stillman. A repertoire of music for the one man band, realised in solo performance and recording, the music of ‘Machine’s Song’ focuses on the notion of Uncanny in musical automata, one-man-band performance, and multi-track tape composition. Like Robert Stillman’s past compositional work, Machine’s Song combines pre-jazz American folk-form, surreal sound-collage, and evocative, unfolding melodies.

Utilising a mix of archaic or ‘dead’ technology, consumer-line equipment, and modern studio tools, much of Stillman's compositional work is done in a mobile, field-recording style of instruments over long periods of time, resulting in final products that are a hypothetical time-space.

Machine's Song was recorded as an accompaniment to the previous ‘Master Box EP’, a composition surrounding the idea of ‘Piano as Contraption’, these recordings portray the instrument, traditionally (classically) associated with the ‘Sublime,’ as the sum of its physical parts, not only a salute to the ‘physical’ attributes of piano, but to the maverick musical styles that exploited them (ragtime, boogie, etc.).



"Bells ring on like old fire engines tearing into the night, while keyboards and horns conjure up the sound of trains rolling across vast expanses. If we often associate Americana with the stories of outlaw characters - hobos, drifters, whatever - who might be riding the trains, Machine's Song, as the title suggests, gives a voice to the trains themselves. 'All music and sound composed, performed and recorded by Robert Stillman for Archaic Future', read the sleevenotes; perhaps we could call it, 'Avant-Garde Nostalgia', too?" - UNCUT

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Broadwar
Broadwar Retreat



Robert Stillman – Machine’s Song

OIB021 | 8 Tracks
Intro / Broadwar / Broadwar Retreat / Impossible Tree / Tree Collage / Segue / Trail Music / Castle Music
CD | Download
£8.99 - PURCHASE NOW IN THE OIB WEBSTORE

OIB Webstore Exclusive released TODAY
Worldwide store and digital release - 11th July 2011

***OIB Records webstore exclusive: Limited to just 35 hand numbered copies we have a VERY small handful of one-off editions each housing a 10”X15” hand made poster of the experimental, printing block, collage-style imagery of Alan Brignull alongside the Dada-inspired text design of Anna Fewster, together creating a archaeo-futuristic analog to Stillman’s music. Each is individually created with metal foundry type and old printing blocks, letterpress printed on heavy cotton paper with an Adana ‘8-5’ platen press. These are the hand made originals that that were used to make the retail digital print edition***

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