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01. Black To Comm - Jonathan
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ARTIST
BLACK TO COMM
TITLE
Alphabet 1968
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CELLULE 75
CATALOG #
CELL 005LP
CELL 005LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/11/2023
Vinyl reissue of
Black to Comm
's 2009 album originally on Type Recordings.
Marc Richter
aka Black To Comm released his debut record 20 years ago. In 2023 he is still busy releasing music under various disguises and is currently signed to the Thrill Jockey label. To celebrate this anniversary his own Cellule 75 label is re-releasing some classic out-of-print vinyl albums that originally came out on the defunct Type and De Stijl labels. In 2009, the Type Recordings label run by
John Twells
had just released seminal records by
Grouper
,
Jóhann Jóhannsson
, and
Yellow Swans
when they signed Richter and put out his breakthrough
Alphabet 1968
album. The LP was greeted with universal praise in the underground publications as well as established magazines such as The New Yorker and Pitchfork. The music itself played with the notion of nostalgia without being nostalgic itself. It's the sound of half-remembered dreams, a surreal distorted vision of the past, an aural polaroid of long forgotten musics, a ghostly voice from a non-existent era. Includes printed inner full-color printed inner sleeve.
From the original Type one-sheet: "The mission statement for
Alphabet 1968
was to write an album of 'songs' for want of a better word. Short tracks which represented genre points, the milestones which stuck in Richter's mind when he thought back to his favorite records. What we arrive at is a breathtaking ten-track album which, over the course of 45 minutes, explores world music, techno, noise, avant-garde, ambient music and even exotica. Each track is linked with a loose thread of radio static or environmental sound, dragging you through the album, as if tuning in to a stray broadcast or a particularly adventurous mix. Richter has pieced the album together from hours of recordings made at his studio with homemade gamelan, small instruments and loops gathered from a collection of ancient vinyl and 78 records. The scope of the album is admirable, but ignoring this, it is simply a shockingly arresting collection of experimental oddities, with references ranging from
Moondog
to
Basic Channel
by way of
Bernard Herrmann
. It's not hard to fall in love with
Alphabet 1968
, far harder would be to place exactly where the record should fit into your collection."
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