Vol. 1 [HNR32], by CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA

Vol. 1 [HNR32]

by CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA

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John Cratchley Not sure I buy the 'chance discovery' story attached to this music (miner's crafting their own instruments from disused mining tools!? - on second thoughts it's just wierd enough to hold water)but I do think the results (no matter how created)are outstanding and stand up to repeated listenings on their own merit.

jamroom Unusual album. Kind of world vs americana vs dub vs whoknowswhat, though this quote sums it up.

"Sounds like Tom Waits and Augustus Pablo smoking opium on the bayou." - Kutmah

Really pleased Damon discovered the tapes and worked his magic on them.. Favorite track: Tobacco Flower.

Apocalyptic Octopus A 19th century coal miner wakes up hundreds of meters below an LA nightclub after a century long coma. Favorite track: Lazzyman.

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CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA SECOND PRESSING VINYL:

The debut full-length vinyl album by CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA "Vol. 1" [HNR32] (originally released in 2013) remastered and reissued on 12" gold-colored vinyl.

Containing 17-tracks, each vinyl is tucked in a plastic-lined black paper sleeve and housed in a shrink-wrapped offset printed jacket.

CFO cover monogram created by Los Angeles artist CRYPTIK.

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1.	Iron Pyrite 01:13	buy track
2.	In The Cave 03:07	buy track
3.	Tobacco Flower 01:21	buy track
4.	Shaman 01:31	buy track
5.	Into The Mine 04:00	buy track
6.	Man Down 01:31	buy track
7.	On The Autumn Sea 03:22	buy track
8.	Cart Before The Horse 03:16	buy track
9.	Wishing Well 03:12	buy track
10.	Lazzyman 03:55	buy track
11.	Bailar Phone 02:29	buy track
12.	Pick And Axe 03:09	buy track
13.	One Trigger 03:28	buy track
14.	Caja 01:30	buy track
15.	Perigee Campfire 02:57	buy track
16.	Hand Cranked 02:38	buy track
17.	Woodbury Gamelan 02:12	buy track

about

"Sounds like Tom Waits and Augustus Pablo smoking opium on the bayou." - Kutmah

"In 2008 I came across a box of 7” tapes at an estate sale in Altadena. The woman there said that they had belonged to her father and were “field recordings” of a turn-of-the century orchestra. It took me maybe another year to actually load them up and transfer them to the computer. When I did, what I found was an incredible documentation of indigenous folkloric music that was meticulously recorded and then later transfered to 2-track tape sometime in the 1960’s. The tapes were labeled “Contact Field Orchestra”-- a collection of field recordings that seem to date from sometime around the turn of the 20th century (possibly a little earlier).

After transferring the tapes and cleaning them up as best I could, I discovered that due to the frequency range, they must have been recorded largely with hand-made piezo transducers of some sort. Some of the tapes were partially destroyed, so I found that I had to re-play or play over the songs as best I could to fill-in and augment the original ideas. I tried to stay as true to the original recordings as much as possible. I’ll admit I took some liberties with the EQ (perhaps too much...) and where applicable added a small amount of delay and reverb to accent the track. (Okay, and maybe a few electric guitars...sue me.)

The result, I think, is an amazing collection of esoteric folk recordings of a mysterious band of San Gabriel miners turned musicians. Apparently having given-up after the gold boom, these folks stayed in what would later become Upper Mallard Canyon in Altadena -- living in the old Dawn’s Mine shaft, and crafting their own instruments from discarded mining equipment and whatever small guitars and banjos they had brought with them.

The sound this orchestra created is like something out of a Jim Jarmusch film, and reminds me of an old Library of Congress or Folkways recording. The music itself is full of opposites -- hypnotizing and odd; meditative and jarring. It’s strangely familiar, but also distantly unrecognizable. Some songs are more minimalist in their approach, building up a rhythm with mbiras and percussion, while others seem to have much more harmony and tonal structure and almost Blues/Country feel. Either way, they had me hooked from the first bar, and I find myself returning to it again and again, irregardless of my heavy-handed noodling...

  I’m really happy to have discovered this, and I hope you are too.

  All the best,  
Damon Aaron

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credits

released August 24, 2018

Written and Produced by Damon Aaron  
Published by Fleischman Audio (BMI)  
All songs Performed by Contact Field Orchestra  
Additional Horns, Percussion & Melodica: Michael McDaniel  
Mastered by Erick Labson  

Monogram by Cryptik  
Art Direction by Brandy Flower

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Originally released November 11, 2013

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