Borges on Black Snow, by The Brothers Zoto

Borges on Black Snow

by The Brothers Zoto

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1.	Introduction 01:17	buy track
2.	First Verse 05:48	buy track
3.	First Chorus 03:01	buy track
4.	Interlude 03:22	buy track
5.	Second Verse 05:50	buy track
6.	Bridge 05:33	buy track
7.	Second Chorus 03:21	buy track
8.	Third Verse Third Chorus 09:13	buy track

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The spirituality of the warped record hit me hard. For a while I had been conceptualizing a record that would investigate the juxtaposition of the writer, Jorge Louis Borges, and what my father calls, black snow. For most it is black ice, but for me and all of my father's warnings, it has always been Black Snow. I love Borges from his writing. He creates little pockets where my own imagination can hit full stride and sprint for days, or just lay down and take a break or cook some food again for the first time. Why do I want to put him on black snow? I'm not able to pull up the initial origin of that image, but there is something fantastical about him and there is something equally fantastical and absurd about black snow, a thing that is real, yet does not exist for the rest of humanity. I feel safe knowing that Borges and any large cat on the black snow would have it out with style, and all of the gospel and all of the bent time can come and rescue him riding on the backs of the choirs, down from their lofts.

*special note
As I worked on this record I found, what I am certain, to be a hidden message in the warp. I sampled it and used it to create the Bridge. That bridge is haunted, I am sure of it, but for traversing the bridge, one can cleanse it of its demons. Beware the bridge, but do not fear it, walk it.

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released July 4, 2013

Instrumentation:
turntables
Chamberlin
Chamberlin Rhythmate
hand clappin'
mouth kazoo
mixing bowls

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Shawn Edward Hansen Kansas City, Missouri

Composer Improviser, Phonographer, Piano Technician Charlotte Street Foundation Performing Arts Fellow. EMS-Synthi Ciat- Lonbarde organ piano saxophone. Performs w/ NEAL WILSON (LA), painter LAUREL SPARKS (NY), films with writer CYRUS CONSOLE. Artistic director KJEA radio, a transmitted conceptual space begun 1984. Studied with MARYANNE AMACHER, RICHARD TEITELBAUM, GEORGE LEWIS, PAULINE OLIVEROS. ... more

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