*300 copies limited edition* Tremble With Joy is a new collaboration between Cinder (Cindytalk), Michael Anderson (Drekka), Mark Trecka, and Michael Carlson (remst8). Their debut, >Born Trembling<, comprises two longform, complementary experimental compositions. >Born Trembling< is the first in a series of limited edition CD releases from False Walls: 300 copies each, including visual artwork by David Caines and letterpress packaging by Hellbox Letter Foundry (Kent, UK). This is the second release by Cindytalk on False Walls, following Subterminal (2022). 

Emerging intuitively and somewhat mysteriously, in fits and starts, throughout 2020 and 2021, the material that would become Tremble With Joy’s debut recording, >Born Trembling<, was handled a bit like an exquisite corpse. Mark Trecka’s stretched and stranged piano and cassette experiments were passed to Drekka’s Mkl Anderson to be manipulated and redrawn during a six hour live performance at Sint-Baafsabdij Abbey, Ghent, which was recorded and sent on to remst8’s Michael Carlson for further altering. “One night in 2020,” Anderson says, “I was listening to the track and had a vision of Cinder adding to it. I sent it to her and with that, this project was born.” Those initial experimentations were largely shaped by Cinder, becoming ‘Where We Are Is Here’ [the first track]. Anderson says, “’Our Birds Live Fraught With Danger’ [the second track] began similarly, using Trecka’s recordings of prepared piano cassette loops, which I manipulated and sent to Carlson, then to Cinder.” 
 
>Born Trembling< is a spectral sort of collaboration. “In the earliest, hypothetical stages of this project, I passed a recording of mangled harmonium cassette loops to Drekka,” Trecka says. “This is from a series of recordings called ‘Trembling work’ that I’ve since used extensively elsewhere. The truth is that I have no idea –– and can only guess –– whether this phrase somehow became the name of the project, as we never discussed it and I think never will.” Congruent with the exquisite corpse dream logic of the project as a whole, excerpts and vignettes from the total recording were shared while in progress as unannounced and often unnamed flashes throughout 2021 and 2022, e.g. as part of Radio Alhara’s Sonic Liberation Front, and in mixes on various radio broadcasts. 
 
Mkl Anderson says: “I first became a fan of Cindytalk in the mid-80s, when I heard In This World at the college radio station I was DJing at. I became friends with Cinder in the early 90s and have always felt a kinship of spirit and intent to manifest the present and future.” Following the process outlined above, “the final outcome was shared with False Walls, who had recently released Cindytalk’s Subterminal, and who were initiating a new limited edition letterpress series …”