Matmos – Return To Archive (Vinyl)
Return to Archive is the fascinating, captivating fourteenth album from fearless sonic explorers Matmos. Constructed in part as a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Folkways Records, the duo were given free rein to wade through the legendary Smithsonian Folkways archives to access source material which they would sample, process and repurpose.
The results are a mind-boggling new sound world that's absurd, fun, playful, surreal and even scary as they mangle up the sounds of frogs, speech after the removal of the larynx, insects, medicine, junk yard noises and who knows what else. Total mind fryer!
In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists probing the margins of the human soundscape.
Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways. On just the album’s first track, dolphins, beetles, telephones, humans stretching the limits of their vocal cords, a shortwave radio, and metal balers co-mingle in a fantasia of sound both everyday and extraordinary.
Each track on Return to Archive morphs its source material into something completely unexpected, honoring and expanding on Folkways’ legacy of sonic exploration. Featuring Evicshen and Aaron Dilloway.
Tracklist:
1 Good Morning Electronics 1:05
2 Injection Basic Sound 2:56
3 Mud-Dauber Wasp 3:36
4 Music Or Noise? 4:12
5 Why? 4:03
6 Lend Me Your Ears 3:46
7 Return To Archive 13:28
8 The Way Japanese Beetles Sound To A Rose 1:28
9 Going To Sleep 6:45
Return to Archive is the fascinating, captivating fourteenth album from fearless sonic explorers Matmos. Constructed in part as a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Folkways Records, the duo were given free rein to wade through the legendary Smithsonian Folkways archives to access source material which they would sample, process and repurpose.
The results are a mind-boggling new sound world that's absurd, fun, playful, surreal and even scary as they mangle up the sounds of frogs, speech after the removal of the larynx, insects, medicine, junk yard noises and who knows what else. Total mind fryer!
In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists probing the margins of the human soundscape.
Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways. On just the album’s first track, dolphins, beetles, telephones, humans stretching the limits of their vocal cords, a shortwave radio, and metal balers co-mingle in a fantasia of sound both everyday and extraordinary.
Each track on Return to Archive morphs its source material into something completely unexpected, honoring and expanding on Folkways’ legacy of sonic exploration. Featuring Evicshen and Aaron Dilloway.
Tracklist:
1 Good Morning Electronics 1:05
2 Injection Basic Sound 2:56
3 Mud-Dauber Wasp 3:36
4 Music Or Noise? 4:12
5 Why? 4:03
6 Lend Me Your Ears 3:46
7 Return To Archive 13:28
8 The Way Japanese Beetles Sound To A Rose 1:28
9 Going To Sleep 6:45
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