Spasm, by JR Samuels

Spasm

by JR Samuels

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FTGwynn Adding this to my collection of tapes to take to my family's cabin. Planning on doing some work on it for several months (old family cabin that just needs some TLC) and this will be many fantastic evenings by the fire.

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Cassette + Digital Album
Edition of 75 pro-dubbed black tapes. Packaged with full-color j-cards, numbered and assembled by hand at LTD Headquarters.

Includes unlimited streaming of Spasm via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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One copy each of Michael Cormier-O'Leary's "Heard from the Next Room" and JR Samuels's "SPASM." Both tapes include download codes.

Includes unlimited streaming of Spasm via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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	1.	Leader Clears the Lunar 01:22
	2.	Wearing a Groove 01:18
	3.	Raw Feed 01:48
	4.	Sent to Spasm 02:39
	5.	Swiss Cheese Protocol 01:17
	6.	Awful Ballroom 02:44
	7.	Symbol Rush 05:19
	8.	Chaosmosis 03:19
	9.	New Aldabra Rail 06:04
	10.	Antipodes 02:29
	11.	Slippery Token 04:43
	12.	Prodilection 07:55

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Following previous releases on Dear Life Records, JR Samuels (Friendship, 2nd Grade) delivers SPASM, a work of solo improvisation in keeping with the theme of our autumn 2022 batch. An attempt to render unfiltered thought into an uncanny sound palate both alien and welcoming, SPASM captures output from the wandering mind as articulated through non-idiomatic acoustic guitar playing and tethered MIDI expression, yielding a dense interior portrait, defiant in its strangeness, but disarming in its immediacy. Unrehearsed performance reframed as an ongoing quest for salvation from - and exorcism of - pain both physical and communal, as an act of sensemaking against an endless stream of nonsense input and violent compulsion. What better to counter a dulled and overwhelmed set of senses than something wholly other? And where better to find it than within? Venture with us further into the unlit corners of the self, in search of new sound.

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released November 18, 2022

visit thebeatlesabbeyroad.bandcamp.com for digital copies and additional releases

music by JR Samuels
engineering and mixing by Lucas Knapp
artwork by Aaron Goldstein

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