releases February 11, 2022

threeop.bandcamp.com/music

Written and produced by Alex Retsis and William Fields
Mastering by Nil Hartman
Artwork by Den

Ps : as we keep on getting the same strange bug with the comments no matter what, here's the full tracklist :

01 Thira Clock
02 Difora Pulse
03 Thumiquin Vax
04 Kajoku Pound
05 Omukin Zone
06 Ishii Pump
07 Zoh Faber
08 Xale Ladder

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Qebo & William Fields -  αlive (3OP006)

Bečva is a river located in the Eastern part of Czech Republic. In September 2020, several chemical leaks into the river caused the poisoning and subsequent death of 40 tons of wildlife in the waterway – an unprecedented catastrophe. Growing up in Přerov, Bečva was an ever-present part of Tomáš Niesner’s youth and this environmental disaster affected him deeply. In an effort to understand the river better and inspired by Werner Herzog’s ‘Of Walking in Ice’, Niesner set out on a journey from the spring of Bečva to its confluence with river Morava, a journey of over 100km. It was a romantic quest in wholly unromantic circumstances, an attempt to expiate the irreversible.

Bečvou, the album, is a travelogue of sorts, an aural chronicle of this journey. Arranged and composed around field recordings from the river banks, it also features Tomáš Niesner on guitar, zither and modular synthesizer, unlike many of his previous releases where he’d zero in on one instrument. Combining elements of fingerstyle guitar, musique concrete and drone, it’s an elemental tapestry of enveloping textures, shimmering guitar motifs and soaring synth sounds. At one moment reminiscent of the meandering improvisations of East of the Valley Blues, at others calling to mind the ecstatic minimalistic compositions of Caterina Barbieri and oscillating between moods like dread and hope thoughout, Bečvou is Tomáš Niesner’s most complete statement to date, fascinating in both concept and execution.

Pre-order (CS + digital): https://tomniesner.bandcamp.com/album/be-vou

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Excerpts from the B-side of the 'Prisms in Dalliance' cassette, forthcoming in October 2022 on Monorail Trespassing.

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