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a reflective look back at a change of mind  1984 

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Dancing on our graves

Round and round the roundabout,
up and down the stairs.
Clocking up the miles but not going anywhere.
Squeezed between red boxes and your personal defeat,
the ticking of the clock describes the time that you must keep.
Round and round the roundabout,
up and down the stairs,
there must be something better...

You can never deliver the shopping,
you can never push that boulder up the hill.
You can never push that boulder up the hill.
You can never push that boulder up the hill.
You can never deliver all the shopping
and you'll never know the place where it begins.
You've got to drag yourself in.
Drag yourself in.
Drag yourself in. 
Drag yourself in.

Four and twenty hours in the average day,
600 little chickens running 'round like little slaves.
The kings are in their counting houses, counting out their money.
They think your worthless offerings are very very funny.
Round and round the roundabout, up and down the stairs,
there must be something better...

You can never deliver the shopping,
you can never push that boulder up the hill.
You can never push that boulder up the hill.
You can never push that boulder up the hill.
You can never deliver all the shopping
and you'll never know the place where it begins.
You've got to drag yourself in.
Drag yourself in.
Drag yourself in. 
Drag yourself in.

You can never deliver all the shopping

At our times of breaking news at a breakneck speed, there needs to be a soundtrack to the gunfire sensations that dull our senses. We have arrived at a moment in time where the observer does not have any sentiments towards the actual cause for the news but a habitual facebook dismay post. The most cynical aspect is the appetite for sensations that have the most shock value, fed by a trigger-happy buzz media that can't get enough clicks. The announcement that there will  be something happening beyond the spectacular is nothing but banging the drum to attract attention. Despite of the nasty subject matter, "Breaking News" is a rather sweet and soothing pop tune that is influenced by the XX, London Grammar and Beach House. In contrast to the rather bouncy House groove and the repetitive guitar triad, the scenario is somewhat creepily set with the sounds of an electrocardiogram and the heartbeat failure.

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'It's All True' [SLP040] is an opera-in-suspension from New York ensemble Object Collection based on the complete live archives of iconic underground band Fugazi.

Grounded upon the DC post-hardcore outfit's 1987-2002 Live Archive series, composer Travis Just and writer/director Kara Feely's work uses only the incidental music, text and sounds, none of Fugazi's actual songs. An obsessive leap into 1500 hours of gig detritus - random feedback, aimless drum noodling, pre-show activist speeches, audience hecklers, police breaking up gigs - is the foundation of an ear-body-and-mind-flossing 100 minutes for 4 voices/performers, 4 electric guitars/basses and 2 drummers. It's All True is overloaded, maddening, mundane, properly funny, and a radical incitement to action.

Half of this delectably bruising megalith is collected here for the first time and on the accompanying 'Prisons For Profit' [SLP041] - Object Collection's debut outings on Slip.

'It’s All True' was commissioned by and premiered at 2016’s Borealis Festival, Bergen.

'It’s All True' [SLP040] is available on 12” vinyl or CD from October 2017. 'Prisons For Profit' [SLP041] is available on 7” red vinyl from September 2017. 
Both releases feature artwork photography from Henrik Beck, plus fold-out double-sided inserts including performance text and score extracts by Object Collection, and additional liner notes by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi). Mixed by Travis Just and Philip White. Mastered and cut by Josh Bonati.

'It's All True' [SLP040]
http://www.smarturl.it/itsalltrue

'Prisons For Profit' [SLP041]
http://www.smarturl.it/prisonsforprofit

Object Collection was founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer/musician Travis Just. Based in Brooklyn, the group operates within the intersecting practices of performance, experimental music and theater. They are concerned with simultaneity, complexity, and radicality, combining dense layers of text, notation, objects and processes. They work to give audiences unconventional viewing experiences through our merging of theatricality and pedestrian activity. Their works upset habitual notions of time, pace, progression and virtuosity. They value accumulation above cohesion.

Ensemble:
Voice/Performers: Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Avi Glickstein, Daniel Allen Nelson, Deborah Wallace
Electric Guitars/Basses: (Dither Guitar Quartet) Taylor Levine, Josh Lopes, James Moore, Brendon Randall-Myers
Drums: Shayna Dunkelman, Owen Weaver

Trailer + "What's The Problem" video: www.vimeo.com/226121593

Single "What's The Problem" DL/stream: www.smarturl.it/whatstheproblem

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What's The Problem - Object Collection

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'You Are Under Our Space Control' is firebrand US group Object Collection's inimitable Slip return: a utopian space-opera, a homing signal cast into an empty universe, a beacon for an aesthetically radical future.

Drawing on space travel, transhumanism, astronautics and the resurrection of the dead, Kara Feely's texts rehearse a progressive politics through a total re-envisioning of everyday life. Travis Just's limber speech-song vocal parts are eerily and spasmodically FX'd, and navigate surprisingly glistening instrumentals - a headlong tangle and squelch of flexing 808s and metal objects, roboticised guitar, and unreal synthesis.

YAUOSC's bubbling force belies its diverse, unruly underpinnings. The opera’s musical backbone is a drum-machine transcription of John Cage's 1951 piano solo 'Music Of Changes', a landmark of indeterminacy; its title grabbed from Cy Roth's sci-fi romp 'Fire Maidens From Outer Space' (1951); its texts inspired by Sun Ra and the Russian Cosmists’ poetics and philosophies, and interviews from real (and imagined) space travellers and astronomers.

Object Collection charge these impulses with a burning, engrossing physicality. This is, above all, an LP of heaving, life-giving music, deep in the mess of futuristic fervour.

'You Are Under Our Space Control' [SLP054] is available from June 2019 on LP and download. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Artwork by Frank Eickhoff. Distributed by Boomkat.

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