"I Can Only Say I Do Love You" by Epimeleia Heautou was written and recorded in August 2021. All sounds on each of the three songs were 100% created from one audio recording I made of the mechanical components of my VCR in states of fast forward and rewind. Production was completed using an eight-track sampler (Elektron Digitakt) with final mixes recorded to single stereo tracks at 48 kHz/24-bit.

I Can Only Say I Do Love You

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“Open Cell Polyurethane” by Epimeleia Heautou was written and recorded by Neil Ragsdale in October and November 2021. (Neil began playing early versions of this song live on guitar for family and friends beginning in 2008.) The final mix is a dynamic real-time single take via an eight-track sampler (Elektron Digitakt) recorded to a stereo track at 48 kHz/24-bit in Ableton and mastered with FabFilter’s Pro-L 2 limiter. The song features “punch-in” style vocals courtesy of Tascam Portastudio 414 mkII and Shure SM7B; percussion and bass synthesized with Moog DFAM and Mother 32; and Fender Stratocaster guitar played through the JHS Colour Box.

Open Cell Polyurethane

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Bézier returns to Dark Entries with Valencia, a six track rumination on memory, geography, and transmutation. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang’s Bézier project has appeared on Dark Entries many times over the last decade, most recently with the 2018 LP Parler Musique. Says Yang, “What started as a project to investigate the love of the sound and scenery while living in San Francisco quickly developed into a passionate search for interlocking melodies and driving rhythms.”
 On Valencia, Bézier invokes twinned places. The Valencia Street of San Francisco is channeled, which was the center of the city’s vibrant new wave scene in the 1980s. 
But also echoed is Valencia, Spain, and La Ruta del Bakalao aka La Ruta Destroy, the Spanish clubbing scene throughout the 80s and 90s famed for its aggressive and synthetic sounds. Valencia is a darker record for Yang, exploring themes of submission and catharsis with nods to SF’s gay leather bars of the 70s and 80s. The high BPM salvos of “Valencia” and “Scrupulous” capture the frantic energy of Bakalao and Valencian wave acts like Última Emoción. Elsewhere Yang mines the dreamy space disco and Hi-NRG sounds they’re known for, like on the brooding “Past the Marshes” or the anthemic “Reservoir”, which features their partner Len.Leo on vocals. Bézier deftly navigates past and present, light and dark, pain and pleasure, the stasis of memory and the flux of time. 
Valencia was mastered by Alex Michalski, with EQ for vinyl done by George Horn. Gwenael Rattke designed the sleeve, which features an 80’s punk zine-esque geometric grid pattern mirroring San Francisco street maps. Also included is a 5x7 postcard with notes.

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Epimeleia Heautou is the recording artist name of Indianapolis-based composer and sound designer Neil Ragsdale.

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