SOUNDTRACK: DEATHPROD-“Disappearance / Reappearance” (2019).
Every once in a while I like to check in with Viking’s Choice on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Lars Gottrich specializes in all of the obscure music that you won;t hear on radio. For this month, he did a special focus on Patient Sounds. a small label based out of Illinois.
[UPDATE: At the end of 2019, Patient Sounds closed shop. I’m not sure if any of these songs are available outside of Bandcamp].
Lars had this to say about the label
Matthew Sage, who runs the label, knows that dynamic drone, jittery footwork, oddball drone-folk, hypnagogic guitar music and cosmic Americana can exist in the same space.
The first song is by Deathprod. Lars says:
Deathprod’s first album in 15 years, Occulting Disk, smothers dank, dark drones around the void of your soul, like a frozen hug from a cyborg teddy bear.
This song is 8 minutes long. It consists almost entirely of a single loud distorted note/chord played on a synth until it fades into distorted crackles. The note changes, but it is a pretty ominous soundtrack, like the slowest monster approaching you.
[READ: September 2, 2019] Blackbird
This book starts out with a very realistic concern but quickly become supernatural.
Nina was 13 years old and had a vision of an earthquake coming. Her sister just called her a crazy baby (something the whole family called her). But moments later, the Verdugo Earthquake happened. She and her family fled, and were almost crushed by a collapsing bridge.
But then a beautiful celestial monster came down and fixed the bridge and saved them. The creature cast a forgetting spell over everyone, but somehow Nina remembered it all.
Despite the magical creature’s help, Nina’s life went to hell from there. Her mother and father began fighting. He began drinking and she died in a car accident while trying to get away from him. Nina had been a great student but high school became unbearable. She became “the girl who talked about magic and wizards and paragons.”
Now as an adult, she has a dead end job at a bar, is living with her sister and is sneaking painkillers.
There’s a guy, Clint, who seems to be stalking her at the bar. I mean, he’s cute, but he’s always there. (more…)
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