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Antidocument/groundwork
A pebble codex. Vitrine is honored to present antidocument/groundwork, the first album of new work by Massimo Toniutti since 1991’s Il Museo Selvatico. Toniutti has been crafting a theatre of geometry and meiosis since the early ’80s with his self-released cassettes bridging concrete sound, Industrial shadow play and stately dispersal. A rustle, something falls. Out of bounds electronics complicate sound cabinets of ringing bells and creaking joints. The furniture is cleared from the room. Echo …
Lacing the Air
Lacing the Air finds the Baltimore-based Gene Pick in fine form, combining insistent rhythmic decay with modular screed and crackle. Lobotomized the Air spreads Gene Pick’s discreet, homespun electronics over three percussion collapses into deep gutters of glacial interference. Lacing varied tracks which retain a caustic internal consistency. The limber dynamics of Entre Vifs are a touchstone, as are the cracked, everyday electronics of prime-cut Voice Crack. Patience and deterioration across an…
Region VI
Vitrine is thrilled to announce its first release of 2014, the debut cassette from Texas duo Safe House. Region VI utilizes ghost electronics, distant voice and material repetition over a small banquet of ten tracks. The sub-basement claustrophobia found on ADN’s Out to Standard compilations and the Mask of the Imperial Family’s rhythmic torpor are soft reference points for an impressive volley of electronic sound. Tactics learned from the verdant mail-art culture of the 80s and 90s, refracted i…