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Helm

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1.
Helm 03:02
2.
Salsa Caliente 03:29
3.
The Go Round 04:29
4.
Cascade 03:55
5.
Buckle 09:04
6.
Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin 04:17
lyrics
At least I won't be shot for singing I'm a free agent, I can protest This must be freedom I must be happy. So let Mandela rot in prison Someone should tell him how lucky he is Read him George Orwell Explain about Naipaul Because he must realize how he needs us What with our culture and our charm and our brains But how could he understand? Heathen have no soul.
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Amundsen - Evidently Chickentown 25:25

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HELM
In an epoch where image is king, we are gaining unprecedented control and awareness of the avatars we project onto the world while at the same time our rights to privacy and self-determination erode into nothingness. Hammered on all sides by visual stimuli, we inhabit a universe permeated and driven by advertising and data mining. Our value as consumers is proportional to our role as data sources, and both these factors are cultivated at every occasion to maintain the revenue stream which allows us to think our email is free.

Meanwhile researchers, governments and the data companies which provide our online services are reverse engineering our minds, individually and collectively as we race towards the technological singularity whose consequences cannot be predicted nor imagined. Perhaps the wisest course would be to prepare ourselves to best serve the new master or masters. Or is resistance still possible?

Helm is a word of ambigous meaning, to be understood as an armored covering for head and face which conceals and protects its wearer, but also as the decisive place from which our collective ship is to be steered. Who is at the helm? Who chooses the course, and who follows? Who is guiding this process? Will we recognize the moment when we are no longer in control? And how can we defend or protect ourselves?

This record is a collection of sonic images, broken cyclic patterns, political fight songs, united by its diversity. Thus it is both a product of the forces which surround and move us and an attempt to resist or deviate from the course which has been chosen for us, to confound analysis, throw a wrench in the gears. But it is perhaps foremost a message of hope, a book of hymns to commemorate the end of an era and herald the coming of a new, technological deity, in the hope that its desires will align with our own.

credits

released January 26, 2018

Dan Kinzelman - tenor saxophone, clarinets, electronics, voice
Joe Rehmer - basses, electronics, voice
Stefano Tamborrino - drums, electronics, voice

Recorded at Marchisielli, Foligno (PG) - Italy on Apr 24-28, 2017 by Dan Kinzelman

Mixed at Casaverde, Foligno (PG) - Italy in July 2017 by Dan Kinzelman

Mastered at Jambona Lab, Cascina (PI) - Italy on October 18, 2017 by Antonio Castiello

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Rous Records is an independent record label dedicated to gathering and producing sound material without any limitation on genre, origin and ideology but with an exclusive attention towards what possesses a real creative force and a potential in terms of emotion and communication.
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