Ex-Easter Island Head - Two Comissions For Cassette Tape Album

Tracklist

1	A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison 1: Antrim	5:59
2	A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison 3: Cairn	6:55
3	A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison 2: A Curfew Tower	4:31
4	Mercy Comission	15:58

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
none	Ex-Easter Island Head	Two Comissions For Cassette Tape ‎(4xFile, FLAC, Album)	Tombed Visions	none	2014

Credits

• Design – Lewis Mclean
• Mastered By – Martin Kuchta
• Mixed By – James Rand

Notes

‘A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison’ was commissioned by Static Gallery, Liverpool and was written and recorded across five days in The Curfew Tower, Cushendall; an 18th century tower functioning as an artists' residency in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Using a pair of microphones, two prepared guitars, cassette four track, percussion and the resonant properties of the stone walls, wooden floors and narrow passageways within the four-story structure’s architecture, the piece sees the duo of Benjamin D. Duvall and Patrick Morrison reflecting on the life of playwright, director, actor and mentor Bill Morrison (1940-2011). Part celebration, mourning and wake, the piece sees Bill's typewriter returned to Antrim the county of his birth and resting place of his ashes – and incorporated into a deeply personal ritual of sound and remembrance.

‘Mercy Commission’ was an evening length installation piece for three cassette tape loops and multiple speakers, commissioned by Mercy Arts/Literature agency as part of the Spectres of Spectacle event held at Static Gallery, Liverpool, 29 September 2011. The brief was to create “Half-erased, deliberately fogged works across lo-fi, spoken word, and the analogue/digital crossover”. The three loops each represent a fragment of a personal history: a lost mangled loop of voice and synthesiser unearthed, a prepared bass guitar inherited from a friend no longer with us, a hundred year-old harmonium threads of narrative cycling permanently in slow phase, combining and separating to produce a meaning just out of reach. The piece ran continuously for six hours with no processing, save for volume adjustments performed from a simple timeline based score and the changing timbral and dynamic effects caused by the movement of people through the gallery. Presented on this release in a significantly condensed form foregrounding the melodic, tonal qualities of the piece over its durational ones, Mercy Commission is Ex-Easter Island Head's first 'performerless' piece, with the mechanical certainty of the endlessly repeating loops taking the group's use of repetitive processes to their logical extreme.

Companies

• Mastered At – Roughgrain

Album

Two Commission for Cassette Tape is Ex-Easter Island Head's first release for the Manchester-based Tombed Visions label and their first release ever on the format. Two Commissions sees the arc of Ex Easter Island Head curve yet ever wider both an assertive blend of personal musical catharsis and a document of practiced artistic process. Over a growing number of releases, they have chosen to deliberately avoid comfortable ruts and regularly injected new elements to broaden their range. Ex-Easter Island Head are a Liverpool, UK based ensemble, composing and performing music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Their music uses repetition, percussive processes, resonance and amplification with multiple electric guitars to create a sound that draws on minimalism, drone music, ambient sound and process music. As equally austere as it is sonically dense, the music of Ex-Easter Island Head is immersive and organic. 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