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 2008

ARRIVALS & OFFERINGS [AR023] Cistern Air - $3.49 Cistern Air is now out on Aphonia Recordings. This album is the first official Paintings release & is available for digital download from Aphonia's site or in a hand-made limited edition of 50 CDR. These phsyical copies are stenciled & housed on a balsa wood body with image transparency & unique photo inlay. Please contact me for hardcopies. Each track was recorded in a single take with no overdubs at the Minor Tower, Seattle. Field recordings taken in Washington & samples feature Hillary Crawford, Tom Hanna, Ky Jensen-Sewart, Aslan Rife & Michaud Savage. .

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THINGS OF THE PAST

revolution in three acts [score]
  score to the anti-protest protest film

The original score recording for Valerie Veatch's short film Revolution in Three Acts.This soundtrack gathered an ensemble of Seattle area vocalists & percussionists featuring Liam Barnes, Spencer Grossman, Bob Hammond, Aslan Rife, Michaud Savage & Luke Sumpter.

headphone spiritual [anthology]
  the favorite paintings works of our favorite composer

This collection of songs produced from 2002 - 2007 was arranged by Michal Szostalo. It features tracks previously available on 10 different albums, including songs with Aslan Rife, Michal Szostalo & Derek Repsch.

the weed the shell & the stone
  offering of electronic vocal sun & moon glitch

Recorded in early 2007 with Patrick McMurchie, Aslan Rife, Jake Sweeney-Samuelson, Michal Szostalo. Singing with no end, this album exhibits the many voices of Paintings. An alternate version of "Waters Birds" was used in Sweeney-Samuelson's short film Alone Together.

land & capitol
  dronology from the east & west coast

From modular Moog & Buchla to the Casio CZ-1 synth to original PortaStudio tape decks to prepared/ring-modulated guitar - Patrick McMurchie, Derek Repsch, Aslan Rife, Michal Szostalo & the great expanse lend composition, conversation & convolution.

alchemist radioverb ep
  the end of broadcast & the beginning of transmission

2 books of 3 chapters with Aslan Rife from late 2005 & 2006. The Real Cellphone marks a return to the Cascadian fridgity of urban Seattle with resonant metals, while Earthen Broadcast eulogizes the transmutation of family with choir & ancient percussion.

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