Essence of the Gathered, by The Bone Stitchers

Essence of the Gathered

by The Bone Stitchers

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	1.	Intersections 07:14
	2.	Sombrero's and Gargoyles 02:18
	3.	As We Put Hope Back Together 07:48
	4.	Decumbent 04:17
	5.	Each Time Is Different 11:53
	6.	Try To Capture One Last Flake 06:07
	7.	I'm Asking 05:53
	8.	Warp and Woof 22:21
	9.	Untouchable 07:22
	10.	Clarinet of All Traits 03:23
	11.	Mesmerize 09:46
	12.	Fourteen Calls 02:39

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Alan Bishop, Richard Bishop, Damon Bostrom, Michael Pistrui, Alexis Srogoncik, Jesse Srogoncik, W. David Oliphant

Misc homemade, odd, indigenous wind, string and percussive instruments, mostly half broken.

Acoustic and electric guitar, steel guitar, bass, violin, cello, 3 synthesizers, voices, Theremin, sampler, live loops, 'tapes' and 'treatments'

All studio work and setup by wdo

All Songs Written by The Bone Stitchers

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released February 2, 2023

After a month long process of turning my home into a multi room recording studio I was joined by some new and old friends on March 8th and 9th 2022 producing 9+hours of improvised multi-track recordings.

Over the next few months I edited these recordings into the material presented here. In total there are seven full length albums. This release is albums #4 and #5 which completes this series.

Some tracks are just as played, some edited, a few combined. Everything was one single live take and that might be for 10 minutes or an hour or more. Nothing was repeated and we purposely jumped from one genre to the next. -wdo

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-wdo- -collaborations- Bisbee, Arizona

W. David Oliphant (-wdo-) is an Arizona based sound artist active since 1979. Inspired by the late 1970’s D.I.Y. Punk and Outsider movement he began experimenting with home-made ‘found’ instruments, electronics and tape manipulation techniques in search of the occult side of sound and the pure joy of creating sonic paintings ... more

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