Wow! Atoundingly well crafted sounds, i am blown away!

Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Mirror Guide
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: May 14, 2021

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey

Giant Claw - Mirror Guide

Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Mirror Guide
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: May 7 or 14, 2021

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey

Artist Statement:

I have been recording Mirror Guide off and on since my previous album Soft Channel came out in 2017, working on pieces in my spare time while co-running Orange Milk Records and trying to make a living as a freelance visual artist. 

I wanted Mirror Guide to feel less frenzied than some of my previous music, and decided to use a hyperreal string sound as a lead instrument the rest of the sounds could orbit around. I improvised long stretches with the digital instrument and picked moments that elicited some emotional response in me as the foundation for each piece. It helped to imagine a small synthetic ensemble playing every additional part, considering the choices an individual might make if they were focused primarily on their instruments’ role within the group. 

In my improvised sessions I also gravitated towards what I called a ‘bouncing ball’ rhythm - later described to me as an exponential rhythmic sequence. After thinking about how genres often center around a core rhythmic pattern I adopted the sequence as another consistent feature for the album. 

In the past I’ve cut up pop acapellas as vocal elements, but on Mirror Guide decided to work with several artists I had come to know from three very different music scenes. I traveled to Pittsburgh for a few days and recorded with vocalist Tamar Kamin (from the band the Van Allen Belt) generating hours of improvised and lightly prepared melodic material that I later edited into several songs. I also incorporated more poetic almost spoken word vocals from Japanese musician and photographer NTsKi and a small segment of screeching moans from fellow Ohioan Diana Gruber. 

More generally I found inspiration from artists like Paul Lansky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the range of emotion in the music of Geinoh Yamashirogumi Orchestra, best known for scoring the Akira soundtrack which is a longtime favorite. I was also encouraged to complete Mirror Guide through conversations with the late composer, tape collage pioneer, and friend Noah Creshevsky, who gave me several boosts of confidence after hearing early versions of the music.

Giant Claw - Mirror Guide Pt. II {you And Me} (vocals: NTsKi)

Giant Claw - Until Mirror (vocals: Tamar Kamin)

Giant Claw - Disworld (vocals: NTsKi)

Giant Claw - Mir-Cam Online

Giant Claw - Mir-Cam Startup

Giant Claw - Earther

Written, Produced, Mixed And Mastered by Minnomou
Pygmy Jerboa by City Of Ifa sampled with permission of Paul Hundeby\
Artwork by minnomou, 2020

swagby (Early 2020)

didnt manage to record the first track, a collaboration with sv1, it was played during the last Curiosity Shop set

https://soundcloud.com/gloounreleased/butterfly-stones

Iglooghost Insta livestream 18th June 2021

https://soundcloud.com/creditcardcaptorsakura/glockinmywhip

whip edit

blunteado

B Blues

(Chant: whispered, spiraled — illusion vs truth)

Existing in fantasy / creates illusions—
Never exist. Never exist.

Creating it in thought / robs the living of vision—
Never be. Never see.

Illusion births awareness of future / alters the past—
Be not deceived. Be not relieved.

To see past your experience / is to rewrite reality—
One mind. Another mind.
One eye. Another eye.

✨ Refrain (chanted):
Illusion is a mirror / mirror is a mask—
Behold the eye that beholds itself.

Litany of illusion (A clearer View)

NC500

A track from my third project with Shane Beck (The Last American Poet) released by "Petroglyph Music"
available as a pay as much as you like form the to buy link :-)

The Mysteries Now Unfolding

Track 02 of DE/COLONIAL WRITING$

Buy it on bandcamp
https://marcioz.bandcamp.com/album/de-colonial-writing

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ETycekvDjSbFQFyDJErJC

Everywhere:
https://smarturl.it/DECOLONIALWRITINGS

'DE/COLONIAL WRITING$' takes influences from samba, flamenco, trap and industrial music to develop a new possibility for the brazilian music pallete. Growing up in Curitiba, Marcioz was immersed in samba carnival bands since a kid, playing repinique, surdo and other typical instruments present in afrobrazilian music. That same origin makes key difference to define DE/COLONIAL WRITING$ as a sound wishing to imagine electronic music from the colonial period in Brazil. The project doesn't try to solve any of the worlds issues, simply accepting its uncapabilities, it rather wants to cause thought, imagination and creativity from the listener.

'HINO DO CABELO RUIM' tries to gather all the self-hate and trauma imposed over Marcio's hair into one track essay. 'SHOWYOUTHI$* (Cityismine)' wants to take an aggressive angle view over Curitiba's streets and blocks. 'Shut the Fuck Up Please' is a short one instrument ambient piece willing to musically imagine the sound of overlong discourse.

This EP is dedicated to Marcia Regina, who passed away a couple of months ago. Mother of Marcio and Henry

coverart from Osório Belém - Mãe Maria (1945)

instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/itsmarcioz/

twitter:
https://twitter.com/marciozmusic

DE/COLONIAL WRITING$

SHOWYOUTHI$* (Cityismine)

william crooks - billymays (max reist remix)

Giant Claw - Mirror Guide Pt. II {you And Me} (vocals: NTsKi)

Orange Milk Records

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