tektonik -- music for earthquakes, by stephen parsick

tektonik -- music for earthquakes

by stephen parsick

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1.	tektonik 12:00	buy track
2.	geothermik 07:30	buy track
3.	subduktion 10:15	buy track
4.	basalt 05:15	buy track
5.	seismik 14:30	buy track
6.	rhyolith 07:35	buy track

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the first recordings for "tektonik" came into being in early september 2004, shortly after i had moved from herne to werther. i found myself toying around with some new tools in my new basement "studio", and suddenly, the track "subduktion" happened. i ended up listening to it over and over again and i immediately had some idea of continental shelves grinding against each other, one slipping underneath the other. i tried to go down as low as i possibly could and create some of the deepest drones and rumbles i had ever done.

shortly after that, during the same week, i recorded the tracks "tektonik" and "seismik" but i felt the album was still a little incomplete so i put it aside. in december 2004 a disastrous tsunami struck south-east asia, and i felt somewhat terrified by my own music which was obviously dealing with those geological phenomenons of continental drift.

in january 2006, i happened to be working on a series of ambient recordings which utilised new electronic equipment i had acquired in order to replace some of the analogue synthesisers i had been working with for the past eighteen years. i soon realized that some parts of these recordings would nicely knit the three earlier tracks of "tektonik" together. i slightly remixed and edited the earlier recordings to make them fit with the rest and i soon had the finished album which you are now holding in your hands (well, symbolically speaking). the remaining tracks formed the basis of "gronland", the sibling of "tektonik".

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released April 14, 2006

stephen parsick: electronics, atmospherics, loop devices, feedback systems, sampling, processing, treatments, chimes, giant oil tanks, processed piano.

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