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Volume Seven: evolvensume

by CHANGES TO blind

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1.
Shit Show Invocation 08:43
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2.
Puede Ser Temporal 02:58
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3.
Monkey Pulse 09:03
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4.
Eden 13 02:05
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5.
Wind Up 07:11
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6.
Scratching Ainchicken 02:07
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7.
Reversectx 01:58
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8.
Friday the 13th 07:09
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9.
Chair Road 04:23
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10.
Religion Is a Fading Siren 02:26
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about

A worm is at work in the wood. The wood is your eye. It gnaws, until only opaque light peeks through the black; sound survives. It blinds you.

Since 1984 phil zampino has gnawed away at an inexplicable world of sound, organizing it and projecting his dark-hearted sonic stage on an unsuspecting world. Undeterred, he released a series of small-run albums, developing performance strategies that have taken stages through New York and NYC to Wilmington, NC. He has shared the stage with or collaborated with artists including Bugs Black Blood, Blue Sausage Infant, Circular Surgery, Zoviet France, Tatsuya Nakatani, ADD Orchestra, Ecstasy Mule, Baby Daddy, Carl Kruger, Authorless, Reverse Animals, The Wilmington Sound Orchestra, &c.

This album culminates work since 2010, in recordings that adapt live improvisations, organized sound composition, sound prose, and self-plundered monstrosities. These 10 tracks are the tip of the audio iceberg, a series of recordings carrying personal meaning, demonstrating the various approaches CHANGES TO blind embraces. It is hardly exhaustive. though perhaps exhausting, and most likely will not psycho-acoustically disrupt the physiology of its listeners. CTb's pursuits have modulated over many years to the CD now before you, a reasonable reflection of the current state of CHANGES TO blind.

The opening track on <i>evolvensume</i> is one of the most recent, propelled by topical issues and partisan pugnaciousness. The second track is one of the oldest, plundering and reorganizing captured airwaves. "Monkey Pulse" and "Wind Up" are prose works, the former the result of automatic writing, the latter from a somnolent vision. "Eden 13" is a non-transpirational soundtrack; "Scratching Ainchicken" plunders some of the earliest song work of CTb, when the virtual CHANGES TO blind "trio" included brothers Heraldo de Squid and Mortimer de Squid; similarly "Reversectx" plunders an early electronics instrumental work. "Friday the 13th" was written for Kurt Gottschalk's excellent WFMU radio show. "Chair Road" is an electronic composition founded on field recording quite literally from the field. The album ends with "Religion is a Fading Siren", a mix of new recordings and mutilations of an odd song from some of the earliest CTb.

phil zampino, born in 1961, is the son of clarinetist Gerald Zampino, and was raised with shards of music stimulating his ears from his initial memories. A mixture of music, mathematics, computers, and a love of collecting unusual recordings led to the ineludible formation of CHANGES TO blind. Those same foundations led him to forming Squidco, the online music store and distributorship focused on improvisation and experimental sound. Having no longer a concept of right or wrong in "music", he follows his eccentric ear to wherever sounds leads him.

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released December 19, 2017

phil zampino - Korg MS2000, VSS30, Sunvox, Field Recordings, CTb Sample App, Voice, Spoken Word, Hand Bells, Flute, Harmonium, Recorder, Pipes, Cymbal, Musical Box, Ratchet, Ocarina, Whistle, Shekere, Binzasara, Egg Shaker, Flexatone, Harmonica, Singing Bowl, Rainstick, Sleigh Bells, Tambourine, construction and composition

Recorded 2010-2017 @ Squidco, Mucal Studio. © 2017

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CHANGES TO blind Wilmington, North Carolina

CTb was borne in Syracuse, NY in the mid 80s. Originally the trio of phil zampino, Mortimer deSquid & Heraldo deSquid, only zampino survives. Wires and boxes were dragged about and throttled, moving to Manhattan in 1992 as improvisation krept into the mix. Now in Wilmington, NC the kurrent state of affairs involves exposition, as CTb airs its dirty underdrawers for the listener's disdain. ... more

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