ARCHAIC FUTURE RECORDINGS
ARCHAIC FUTURE RECORDINGS is a label for releasing music and sound.
Physical releases will exploit the advantages of physicality, incorporating found materials and artisanal craft into the packaging and presentation of the media.
Digital downloads also available!
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MASTER BOX (ARCH 001)
CD, in hand-made jacket constructed of player-piano rolls, printed by the Lampyridae Press with typewritten essay, ‘The Mystery and Player Pianos.’
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Master Box EP is the latest installment of archeo-futuristic music and sound from Robert Stillman. Like past work by the composer/multi-instrumentalist, Master Box combines pre-jazz American folk-form, surreal sound-collage, and evocative, unfolding melodies.
Recorded during a one-year stint as an apprentice in a player-piano workshop, Master Box is about the Piano as Contraption- it portrays the instrument, traditionally (classically) associated with the ‘Sublime,’ as the sum of all those wood and metal parts Stillman saw lying around the workshop floor (the ‘Collages’ on Master Box are sonic studies of these piano innards). The EP is not only a salute to the ‘physical’ attributes of piano, but to the maverick musical styles that exploited them (ragtime, boogie, etc.).
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Here are two sample tracks:
‘BBQ DAVE’
‘THE TALKING CLOCK 2008′
BUY: in USA (Prices include shipping)
MASTERBOX CD/ESSAY $10.00 