Imperial Valley, I, by Imperial Valley

Imperial Valley, I

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kickingmachine These albums are visionary pieces of sound design. You can feel the wide open landscape, the heat haze, the aura of looming dread that sucks you up and spits you out.
Totally and utterly recommended. Favorite track: After the tent revival, 5pm, Mar 7, 1937.

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	1.	Fields around Calipatria, 9pm, Oct 8, 1934 03:02
	2.	After the tent revival, 5pm, Mar 7, 1937 06:53
	3.	Cloud over Brawley, 7:15pm, Jun 8, 1935 03:30
	4.	Near migratory labor camp, Brawley, 6am, Aug 14, 1939 05:26
	5.	Plains east of Holtville, 8:30pm, Mar 8, 1937 06:36
	6.	Mine works, Obregon, 11pm, Oct 12, 1939 04:20
	7.	Sand Hills outside Mesquite, heading south, 7am, Jan 21, 1934 09:34
	8.	‘Lonesome desert blues’ 08:26

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Imaginal field recordings of Depression-era Imperial Valley, CA, USA. Dust-bowl tonalities. Retrograde tape hiss. Projective ethnography. Auditory nitrates after the work of Dorothea Lange.

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released March 13, 2024

Originally released on Other Forms, November 18, 2020.
This reissue contains the additional, previously unreleased recording, 'Lonesome desert blues'.

Cover image: "A mother in California who with her husband and her two children will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. This family had lost a two-year-old baby during the winter as a result of exposure" by Dorothea Lange, 1937. LC-USF34- 016249-C.

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