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1-2 Weeks
01. BEE MASK - Deducted From Your Share In Paradise
02. BEE MASK - Fallen Tree Thursday And The Half-Crushed Arc Of The Sky Taking Tea In The Pastoral Index
03. BEE MASK - Causes And Cures
04. BEE MASK - ...So That We Each Wander Through A True Elysium
05. BEE MASK - Askion Kataskion Lix Tetrax Damnameneus Aision
06. BEE MASK - Elegy For Beach Friday
07. BEE MASK - The Book Of Stars Vibrating
01. BEE MASK - In The Karst Interior
02. BEE MASK - Stop The Night
03. BEE MASK - How To Live In A Smashed State
04. BEE MASK - Scarlet Thread, Golden Cord
ARTIST
TITLE
Elegy For Beach Friday
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SP 005LP SP 005LP
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RELEASE DATE
7/5/2011

Chris Madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realization of his Bee Mask alter ego. Now, for the first time, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel -- a chance for old plans to come to fruition and for new ideas to blossom into the unknown. Elegy For Beach Friday is a personal selection of highlights from a slew of limited cassette and CD-R editions recorded between 2003 and 2010, re-imagined, re-edited, and remastered, offering both a cross-section for the uninitiated and a fresh enigma for the already-enchanted. The original documents will age on the shelves of those fortunate enough to have been in the know, and for the rest of the world, we now have this double LP retrospective of Chris' favorite time-stopping microcosmic suites, woven together over four instantly classic sides of wax. Here, the full range of Bee Mask's sonic palette has been carefully compressed into a dazzling and infinitely dense time capsule of mind-altering Martian sound fields and psychedelic dimension-bending, bridging the worlds of Nikola Tesla and La Monte Young and giving us the ideal soundtrack for our collective walk down a dirt road into the gaseous cloud of our final days. Synthesizers, percussion, piano, guitar, tape, electronics, and max/MSP recorded 2003-2010 in Northampton, MA, New York, NY, Cleveland, OH, and Philadelphia, PA. Edited and mixed at Tranquility Base, February 2011. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, May 2011. Housed in a deluxe, full-color gatefold sleeve with spot-varnished lettering.