@hachome: Cheers emmett, It's not available anywhere atm - but send me an email and i'll hook you up a download.

Chris Decato remembers 1988 in Portsmouth by the private hours he spent over a Tascam 234 stacking layers of guitar and pulsing synth on tape. The recordings from these sessions, Transmissions, are now available to the public via Astro Nautico on cassette and digital formats for the first time.

Mazing through clouds of arpeggiated guitar (“Spectral Interference”) and foggy Roland D-50 pads, Transmissions soothes and coaxes with youthful romanticism (“A Promise”) and somber mystery (“The Call”). Decato wrote the music as a 17-year-old living with his brother in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Decato says his tape experiments sounded like “fairy princess music” in comparison with the hard rock popular in the region at the time, so he mostly kept it to himself.

“This was stuff that I never ever thought anyone would want to listen to,” Decato said. “It was this hidden side of myself that no one knew about.”

For years, the only people who had heard Transmissions were a handful of family members, friends, and a small group of commercial video producers to whom Decato had sent his demos. When Astro Nautico’s Sam O.B. heard the recordings on a visit to Lake Mascoma in New Hampshire (as seen in the artwork of Transmissions)...  more
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released April 9, 2021

Written & recorded by Chris Decato in Portsmouth, NH 1988 to 1/8" cassette tape using the Tascam 234 4-track recorder

Chris Decato:

83 Gibson Les Paul
Digitech PDS 1002
Roland D-50 Synthesizer
Yamaha DX9 Synthesizer

Artwork by Paul Jones + Sam Obey

Transmissions

ARBOU-Sleepless Notes [DARK NATURE CONCEPT]

Warmth

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Ifan Dafydd - Treehouse

Original Music composed by Daniel Casimir

5. Close And Slow

Golden Hour Jazz Club

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(LR141) John Carroll Kirby - Meditations in Music
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*1hr of Autumnal Ambient
*all-instrumental DX7 & Mini Moog Model D
*ltd 150 cassettes
*custom gold foil embossed OCard

CUSTOM CASSETTE

John Carroll Kirby - Meditations in Music - II

Artist - John Jeffrey
Title - Leaving Franklin
Album Title - Passage
Release Date - October 30, 2020
Label - Jean Sandwich Records
Cover Photograph - Ian Wallace
Cover Design - D.Norsen

Leaving Franklin

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