OLD SAW - Dissection Maps LP Basecap

OLD SAW - Dissection Maps LP BasecapOld Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long playing record, Dissection Maps. The band captures the American stretch, the spaces in between and the hollowness that haunts us along those routesfades the radio to static to let the nothingness linger among the soul. (Raven Sings the Blues) evokes an ambience of prayer like solemnity that celebrates something decidedly terrestrial,

and the influences that shaped them

The sculpture at the center of the action—a plexiglas orb housing a 7-microphone array originally installed as part of an exhibition the artist mounted at Portikus

which are sometimes sung through a mirliton (a medieval type of kazoo)

seems real

Luckily these Hands are up to the challenge

A casual search turns up little aside from a few cryptic articles

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HEAVY COLOMBIAN CUMBIA FRONTED BY SIX YEAR OLD AURITA CASTILLO We are proud to release this LP compilation of the great Aurita Castillo

The album is being announced via a mini- doc of Powers creating the mural with Kurt's commentary

but luckily nobody can remember

bass and drum sequences

nightmare-ish hallucinations from a world on its way down