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Extreme Lo​-​Fi String Quartets & The Dissonant Romantic Piano Concerto

by Peter Stopschinski

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1.
Irresistable Pulls I 00:33
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2.
Holgurtz 01:33
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3.
Irresistable Pulls II 04:45
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4.
Thunder In The Distance 02:46
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5.
Unpaid Interns 03:11
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Irresistable Pulls III 00:48
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7.
Consistency and Distance 01:55
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8.
Self Contained Automatic Operation 00:59
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Irresistable Pulls IV 02:54
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10.
Pelicans 01:35
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11.
The Dissonant Romantic Piano Concerto 17:12
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EXTREME LO-FI STRING QUARTETS

Recorded in the worst sounding rooms, small crowded rooms with loud air conditioning, in stressful circumstances, with bad gear, just shitty shitty gear. Mixed poorly to antiquated media, sloppily edited, improperly stored, and neglected for years. Mastered hastily by unpaid interns to a tape player found in a dumpster (tape included). Every signal too hot. Multiband expander making crazy *bomp* sound at the beginning of tracks. Aggressive, aggressive mastering eq. And then, seemingly suddenly, the listener is transported. It is the irresistible and unavoidable pull of distant planets. Now there is no expectation and we swim happily in the ocean of sounds. We glimpse a dolphin, giggle, then another. The third and fourth are much closer and we all realize how big dolphins really are and we begin to feel clumsy and vulnerable in the waters. There are pelicans as big as human children. There is thunder in the distance. The Imbroglio Quartet is there. The Red Armada Quartet in on the shore. Xenakis designed the beach cabin where we are all staying. There is water in your ear. It will be there for 3 days as micro-organisms from the sea sing their songs softly, micrometers from your eardrum.

THE DISSONANT ROMANTIC PIANO CONCERTO

This was a deep obsession for weeks. I went deep into this music which was created using samplers and Lana's spinet. Something seems seductive and dissonant and sexy in the mood created here. I also makes a nice surprise pairing with EXTREME LO-FI. Both have a glassy, glossy. Natural in an alien sort of way. Inevitable. Consistent. If you are familiar with the 50 Backlog Album page then you will surely enjoy a smirk of recognition as this music shares material with albums #4 and #30. Despite this unfortunate re-use of material, there is deep freewheeling' magic that still shines through in this charming concerto. It is a composer's dream ensemble with the composer playing every instrument. Rehearsals went relatively smoothly with only one disagreement that threatened to ruin lunch.

Both of these pieces are well paired with experimental sex in a loft bed of a stranger's un-air-conditioned apartment or painting a small, windowless room on a warm day or bronzing in the desert under the blazing west Texas sun.

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released May 5, 2005

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Peter Stopschinski Austin, Texas

Peter Stopschinski has composed music for everything from symphony orchestra to string quartet to solo cello, has created string arrangements for country artists, latin funk, singer songwriters, plays Farfisa in Money Chicha and lernt music from Brown Whörnet. ... more

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