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CHATTER

by Central Spark

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1.
Harvest Tune 03:24
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2.
Assembly 02:07
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3.
Run Through 03:37
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4.
Smoke Break 04:28
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5.
Rolling Now 03:29
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6.
Garfunkel Libretto 05:23
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7.
Take No. Eternal 04:30
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8.
Strike Everything 03:31
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9.
Fanfare For The Freed Sound 02:12
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10.
Elegy... For The Ages 06:58
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about

Born from the nostalgic gifts of golden-era studio recording, CHATTER is an ode to the repertoire of actions and movements solidified in the 1960s-1970s studios across the U.S. and U.K. This music explores a question: Are the countless hours of outtakes, studio banter, flubbed takes and demos worthless? Perhaps they can be revisited, highlighted, and repurposed to create new soundscapes and narratives. Where is the line between homage and commentary, trash and compost, tribute and disavowment?

We see in the titles of the compositions a timeline of the archetypical recording session; tuning up, rehearsing, rolling tape, and resetting the equipment for later sessions. We hear throughout the record sounds of the engineer on the talkback microphone, the musicians chatting to each other, and the tuning of instruments. We feel both the anxiety tied to the recording process , like fiddling with a microphone’s placement, and the moments of calm; taking a cigarette break or aimlessly chatting on a live microphone between takes. We may even recognize a pitch-shifted but familiar voice heard from a recording released in 1972 or a snippet of a demo heard on a notable Folk Rock band's expanded greatest hits CD from 1998 (your dad’s favorite).

All of these repurposed moments and brushes with nostalgia in CHATTER aim to present the listener with a feeling. What is old can be made new, and perhaps what was forgotten on the cutting room floor was in fact something that just needed the right frame.

credits

released September 4, 2020

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Composed by Karsten Osterby in Los Angeles & Santa Fe
Mixed at Kensington Sound, Los Angeles
Mastered by Alex Michalski, Chicago

Cover by Michael Doyle Olson

Nick Levine - Pedal Steel on tracks 2, 3
Josh Sushman - Saxophone on tracks 4, 9
Pierce Gibson- Audio Forensics on track 6
Kurt Osterby - Guitar on track 3

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Special Thanks to Dylan Reid, Andrew Humphrey, Claire Morton, Ezra Ewen, Greg Fox, Sam Hasting, Art Garfunkel.


30% of proceeds go to the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

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