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Etudes Vol. 1

by Petridisch

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Transparent red C-20 cassette with black inlay and black custom printed stickers. Black case with double-sided pro-printed 250g/m² J-card with matte finish. Hand dubbed in real time on high quality TEAC and Sony tape decks.

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    Petridisch's minimal, contemporary classical Etudes Vol. 1 & five Bubble criteria's experimental instrumental guitar/spoken word album 'VI' at a reduced price (save on postage as well).

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about

"Etudes 1 + 2 are interesting folks. I was approached by bleed Air, the artist who runs superpolar Taïps, with the idea of making a cassette single, 2 minutes 30 seconds per side. I started writing and recording what is now "Etude No. 1" as I would usually do. When thinking of what to call it, I thought "this is an ... "etude", right?". Upon remembering what that actually meant (a study for a single instrument), and that I added strings already -- I got kind of upset and decided to just orchestrate further, add a bass part that isn't in the score, and said "ha-ha! it's an etude nonetheless!" superpolar Taïps aka bleed Air called this "anti-etude" and for the 2nd composition I ran with that concept. There is a written piano piece, but my recording has the dulcet tones of forbidden birdsong, as well as an unscored string part.

I put out an open call one day for people to "read" the two scores, in hopes that I could include actual acoustic recordings of them on this release. Through that, I met the amazing guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan and heeded on the call of an amazing songwriter and pianist themselves, Matt DeMello. Both of them turned in amazing performances on their respective instruments, and they are included here for your listening pleasure.

Strangely enough, these "anti-etudes" evolved into an *actual* piano etude project, of which this is Volume 1. There are eight in total in the first book and will be released digitally in the near future.

Please do enjoy these large-encompassing takes on two compositions!!!

--Petridisch

credits

released September 2, 2022

A1+A2
Composed, performed, produced and mixed by Petridisch at home.
petridisch.bandcamp.com

A3+B1
Composed by Petridisch.
Arranged, performed and recorded by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
alcguitar.com

B2+B3
Composed by Petridisch.
Arranged, performed and recorded by Matt DeMello.
mattdemello.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Z. Emerson.

Photograph by Thor Maillet. Design by bleed Air.

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A small label focusing on experimental pop music released on limited edition cassette albums, EPs and singles.

superpolar Taïps is artist-run & non-commercial.

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