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Imperial Valley, III

by Imperial Valley

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kickingmachine This came out of nowhere on my Bandcamp feed. It's extraordinary- in terms of ethnography of place, a little reminiscent perhaps of some of the works of the great Harold Budd, but with different instrumentation, and altogether more sombre and foreboding, like a crystal clear memory of a place you've never been. And there's shitloads more...
This is why I love Bandcamp- you get to listen to things you'd otherwise never hear in a million years.
Unconditionally recommended. Favorite track: Desert station, Southern Pacific Line, Feb 4, 1939.
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ES Tonal winds whirling menacingly over horizons bleached with hollow buildings. Evocative and unsettling. Soundscapes of abandonment as a world. Is eroded and buried beneath unquiet sands and the stilling of time. Listening to these compositions while practicing gnosis has permitted me, for the first time, to plunge deeper below the black waves of my subconscious, to Stygian caverns beneath. This is one of the greatest soundscapes I have ever listened to. Do not avoid the beat of its black wings. Favorite track: Folded time/north shore homily, ‘Even tomorrow the Lord will show who are his’, Sept 7, 1929/49.
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  • Collector's Edition (FT/001)

    COLLECTOR'S EDITION:

    - Lathe-cut black vinyl 10-inch record of “Ditch-bank blues” (from Imperial Valley, II) in a handmade card folder with unique photographic paste-on artwork and a hand-typed insert. (Record cut by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies)
    - An artist-made CD-R of an exclusive recording, “Remote etheric dowsing, Acolita Sand Hills, Aug 11, 2022”.
    - A blue archival dossier of printed material relating to Depression-era Imperial Valley.

    Each dossier contains:

    - Three “revisioned” photographs from the Dorothea Lange FSA archive.
    - A unique folded time photographic print in a manilla envelope.
    - A hand-typed list of FSA Labor Camps in California, 1941.
    - A selection of pages reprinted from various Labor Camp newsletters, posters and broadsides.
    - A “revisioned” page from “Migrant Detention Archives: Histories of Pain and Solidarity” by Jessica Ordaz.
    - A “revisioned” page from “From Roadside Camps to Garden Homes: Housing and Community Planning for California’s Migrant Work Force, 1935-1941” by Greg Hise.
    - A page excised from the book “California and the Dust Bowl Migration” by Walter J Stein.
    - A page excised from the book “The Great Depression and the New Deal: Legislative Acts in Their Entirety (1932-33)” by Frederick E. Hosen.
    - A hand-typed tracklist for Imperial Valley, III.
    - A hand-typed quote from Dorothea Lange.

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

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released August 27, 2022

Cover image: "Untitled, possibly relating to one of the migratory families in FSA labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA" by Dorothea Lange, 1939. LC-USF34-019231-C.

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