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Vagrancies

by Andrew Anderson

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    Packaged inside a full-color, 6-panel digipak featuring spot gloss printing and Andrew Anderson's beautiful photography.

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Austin's Andrew Anderson has released a number of solo cassettes (as well as an album with Thor Harris - see their duo, THAA's excellent 2020 album, "Against Permanence" - thaa.bandcamp.com ). "Vagrancies," Anderson's debut for Elevator Bath, however, is arguably his most ambitious and accomplished work to date. Each of Anderson's primary concerns is represented fully in this new collection. Mangled tapes, unidentifiable instruments, electronic wizardry, and wide-ranging found sounds / field recordings join forces here to create a kind of audio journal of paranormal phenomena.

The various components utilized for "Vagrancies" (explicated in the album's liner notes) may seem somewhat familiar to the phonographically inclined, but of course the devil is in the details and the ghost is in the machine. Andrew Anderson's deft attention to the finer points of the audio spectrum ensure that his voice is uniquely potent. His precisely articulated renderings of nature give way to abstracted, blown-out howls of roaming phantoms, their distant calls lingering well beyond the strictly audial. Grounded, recognizable sounds blend, clash, and blend again with unearthly fragments, suggesting the liminal spaces between movements, the work of shifting from one terrain to another. Anderson's work serves to navigate these transitional realms. This album offers a sonic depiction of those barely perceptible footprints left by unseen specters. They may shuffle about amid restless leaves and windchimes before moving on to the next haunting, but the places where those feet tread retain the memories of their presence, forever marked by their vicissitudes and vagrancies.

Though these recordings do not provide any specific guidance, astute listeners may at least have some idea of what to expect when they inevitably become vagrants themselves.

"Vagrancies" is released as a compact disc in an edition of 150 copies. Andrew Anderson's evocative photography graces the six-panel digipak with a matte finish and spot gloss printing.

credits

released April 15, 2022

Celebration, piano, noise, Hill Country night, vacant apartment balcony, bowed twelve string, contact mic on cat fur, frozen American flag during ice storm, cars over bridge, birds under bridge, static, piano string harp*, spirit box, compressed air, mother's backyard+, tape destruction, voice mail, protest, all recorded at various homes and fields, + 2011, 2020-2021.

All tracks, field recordings, and instruments by Andrew Anderson, except * by Thor Harris in the track, "Vagrancies."

Mastered at Negative Space by Lawrence English

Photography by Andrew Anderson

Layout by Colin Sheffield

Special thanks to Colin Sheffield, Thor Harris, Sukitoa o Namau, Matthew Howe, Lawrence English, Michelle Woodbury, Jackie Powell, Stephanya Tyler, Michael Myshack, Jared Chadwick, all the musicians that have inspired me with amazing music over the years, the listeners that have followed and supported me this far, all the animals that have graced me with their company throughout my life, and countless more.

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Andrew James Anderson Portland, Oregon

Andrew Anderson, based in Portland OR, creates sound pieces out of carefully curated field recordings, hidden samples, destroyed tape, and various instruments, both electronic and analog, with a focus on quiet repetition, drone, and patient change.

In 2022 he joined the label Elevator Bath for his latest solo release, "Vagrancies:" a ghostly meditation on the chaos of the last several years.
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