My Two Minds Become Air | TRS093
For our latest release we are excited to be bringing you this unusual electro-acoustic beauty from London, Ontario based duo Wormwood, which is the duo of Christina Willatt and Andrew Wenaus. As they say about their album…
“Much of the work for My Two Minds Become Air was written and recorded to accompany dance, and are in the form of vignettes. There is a special emphasis on movement, kinetics, orientation, and spatiality. Alongside movement through space, we wanted to conjure the massive expansiveness of the world outside ourselves at the same time as the seemingly infinite space of inward imagination. How might sound be a way of experiencing the ways that the imagination, the material, and the virtual each move through, intersect with, tangle and knot each other in delightful ways? In a way, we wanted to make music that acknowledges the ubiquitous supermodern abstraction of everyday life in the twenty first century.”
TRS093 comes in two distinct physical versions.
The Deluxe Limited Edition is a 12” lathe cut record version in an edition of just 66 copies. Each of these super high quality clear lathe cuts comes in a painstakingly modified, heavy weight recycled kraft-board jacket. On the front of each of these beauties is attached a hand made and absolutely unique two color inked Rorschach print on antique ledger paper sheets. After mounting, each print has been accented with hand distressed vintage Letraset rub on type. The band name is hand stamped, and the album title is typed out by hand on tiny strips of old, clear vellum paper…in two colors! Inspired by the name of the band, on the back of each jacket is a corner mounted, double sided large sheet of fascinating hand written druggist prescriptions from a 125 year old Apothecary’s ledger book…with additional parts of sheets mounted alongside it. The textual info on the back is also printed on equally ancient faded old papers. Each of the first 50 lathe cut records, hand cut with care as usual by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies in Wales, UK, comes in its own vintage Deutsche Grammophon, polylined inner sleeve, and the remaining copies in other various vintage sleeves! The whole package is firmly encased in a heavy weight outer poly sleeve.
There is also lovely CD digipak version in an edition of just 125 copies, also designed with, and featuring the Rorschach motifs.
This release will start shipping the week of 16th of November 2020.
>>>>>>>> Wormwood <<<<<<<<
Wormwood is an electro-acoustic duo based in London, Ontario. Members Christina Willatt and Andrew Wenaus self-released their debut album Sunfloating in 2013 and the record was recognized by the imprint Silent Shout as one of the top 30 albums of that year. The group has since released two other albums: Microdot (2014) with Punctum Records based in Austin/Brooklyn (an imprint of Punctum Books) and ‘O’ (2016) with A Person Disguised as People (APDAP) based in London. The group has contributed to the Touched compilations in the UK alongside Autechre, Nils Frahm, and others. They have also created music for short and experimental film, as well as contributed music for Glass (2017), a feature-length film by director Jason Gray. Wormwood has frequently collaborated on live performances with contemporary classical ensemble Koine Project and the dance group Public Displays of Art (PDA). Most recently, Wormwood has composed and performed live soundtracks to James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein (2018) and F.W. Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu (2019).
>>>>>>> Credits <<<<<<<<
Composed, performed, arranged, and produced by Christina Willatt and Andrew Wenaus
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k
Artwork/design by Colin Herrick and Maria Chenut
Time Released Sound 2020
© 2020 Christina Willatt (SOCAN)
Lathe tracklisting:
Side A:
Harptree
My Two Minds Become Air Pt I
Granulies
Dust Bathing
My Two Minds Become Air Pt II
Side B:
Triangles
Caverns
Sleepwalk
Abstraction
Recollection
CD tracklisting:
Harptree
My Two Minds Become Air Pt I
Granulies
Dust Bathing
My Two Minds Become Air Pt II
Triangles
Caverns
Sleepwalk
Abstraction
Recollection
Happy Birthday
Dance Dance II
