Absolutely gone
[...]
I could breathe the heat
Tore them out
[...]
These dreams he keeps having
These dreams he keeps having
These dreams he keeps having
And he always dies in his dreams
[...]
I could breathe the heat
Tore them out
[...]
I don't know how it happened
I don't know how it happened
Absolutely gone
I could not move at all
I could not move at all
(No one recognized you)
It was a sad day and I started to cry
(No one recognized you)
I could not move at all
I could not move at all
It was a sad day and I started to cry
No one recognized you
All the days
All the days told me
The real awakening comes
"...eerie nocturnal atmosphere, evoking the nighttime side streets and alleys one might have to walk down to find the entrance to the dingy basement venues these bands played in." -- Corbin, HONEY ON THE KNIFE
"Such blissfully encapsulated psychedelic downtempo from the past inside the present, Thought-Vision-Doubt is a definitive highlight casting surreal and sweeping musical shadows." - Pietro Da Sacco, IGLOO MAG
From the one-sheet:
"Obelisk Ruins is a home-recording, sonic cut-and-paste mutant project led by Boston producer and zine writer Andrew Petzold-Eley. Along with collaborators Douglas Tesnow (Cross Record, An Heap, Radical Bicep) and Evan Hydzik (Pillars and Tongues,) Petzold-Eley wields a combination of live instruments and samples –– under sometimes bizarre, self-imposed limitations –– to explore themes of excavation, reconstruction, and celebration of friendships.
At a time in history when it sometimes feels like everything is already here, on our screens, documented, digitized, and scrolling past, Obelisk Ruins’ Though-Vision-Doubt presents like an authentic apparition of the underground.
Thought-Vision-Doubt excavates moments from groups like The Fingerbones, Lightpost, and Nerd Processor, groups whose work barely exists outside of Petzold-Eley’s personal archive of short-run
demos, self-released cassettes, and 4-track sketches –– all collected from his friends’ bands while he was living in Chicago in the mid- to late-90s. As they often do, many of these groups disappeared without any other trace. But for Obelisk Ruins, these artifacts become energetically charged source material. The result is on the one hand a snapshot of Chicago’s shoegaze / punk / folk underground, both hypespecific and uncannily, warmly familiar to anyone who has lived through and loved the weirder side of life. And on the other hand, it is a haunted, trip hop-inflected reconstruction of shadowed memories, recalling the somnambulance of Tricky’s Nearly God project or Alec Empire’s Low on Ice.
Samples of contemporaries Pillars and Tongues, Kam Kama, and Drekka act as stem tracks, assembled using only a Roland SP-303 and TR-770 drum machine, and recorded live to 4-track tape. Overdubs were completed remotely by Tesnow and Hyzdik, often performing over samples of their own work from 10 years earlier, forming a conversational call-and-response from the present to the past and back again. Thought-Vision-Doubt flickers with the grain of vinyl and the hiss of audio tapes, some over twenty-five years old. In fact, all of the album’s tracks were recorded on the original master tapes of long-disbanded Chicago avant-folk outfit Static Films.
Wanting to interweave with those recordings but not erase them, Petzold-Eley meticulously recorded all of T-V-D’s material in the blank, unused tracks, in the empty space between the takes. No stranger to such self-imposed limitations and analogue processes, Petzold-Eley continues to record using the same Tascam Mini-PortaStudio he purchased from a Chicago pawn shop in 1999 and still formats issues of his paper zine (That’s Like) Fighting Godzilla with a Squirtgun with x-acto knives, tape, and rubber cement."
Recorded 2020-2022 |
Songs by APE | construction
Mastered by Douglas Tesnow and Evan Hydzik
Mixed by APE
KC074 | Katuktu Collective
credits
released June 2, 2023
APE - samples, programming, drum machine
Douglas Tesnow - bass clarinets, electronics
Evan Hydzik - bass, live percussion, electronics
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