GhostEP / Dead Man (split), by bleed Air & Hualun 花伦

GhostEP / Dead Man (split)

by bleed Air & Hualun 花伦

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of All The T-Shirts I Wore In Lockdown [Cassingle #35], GhostEP / Dead Man (split), Fleeced of their Wares, …something known as music, Hotline / Weltempfanger (Cassingle #34), Wholely Moley (Cassingle #32), O.H.E. [action] b/w R.I.FF. [minox] (Cassingle #33), Soundtrack and Marine (Cassingle #31), and 41 more. , and , .

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1.	bleed Air - GhostEP 06:11	buy track
2.	bleed Air - Travelogue 04:16	buy track
3.	bleed Air - I Do Like to Be Inside the Countryside 08:10	buy track
4.	bleed Air - The Bends 05:07	buy track
5.	bleed Air - Ajar 04:32	buy track
6.	bleed Air - Gap Map 06:36	buy track
7.	Hualun - Snow Bath 06:51	buy track
8.	Hualun - Strand Man 07:29	buy track
9.	Hualun - Folks 06:09	buy track
10.	Hualun - Timefall 05:13	buy track
11.	Hualun - Tomorrow is in Your Hands 04:31	buy track
12.	Hualun - Before the Storm 04:06	buy track

about

If a tape loops infinitely, where does it start and end?

A new split cassette from anonymous electronic artist and bassist bleed Air and Shenzhen legends Hualun ruminates quietly on that enquiry. The beginnings and conclusions are not clear. There is an A-side and a B-side, one by bleed Air and one by Hualun, but the labels glued to each side of the cassette shell might as well be interchangeable.

But there is a starting point to the story of this collaboration. Because it is a true collaboration. It is not simply two artists each throwing together music to fill a side of a tape, with little that obviously connects either side of the ferric oxide frontier. This began with an idea and a response: Hualun would make some new music, and bleed Air would respond to it. Idea and response. Two distinct creations. One unique source.

And yet it was agreed that bleed Air’s response would occupy the A-side, meaning that you hear the response before the idea. The net effect is one of reversal: even though you know it not to be the case, the relative positioning makes you feel like Hualun are in fact responding to bleed Air. If a tape loops infinitely, where does it start and end?

These two sides are, then, inextricably and umbilically linked. They both occupy a contemporary vantage point overlooking some of 1970s German electronic music’s finest moments, completely in tune with the sonic adventuring that the likes of Conrad Schnitzler and a select pioneering few bravely undertook.
(...) -- Mat Smith
furtherdot.com/2023/08/11/bleed-air-hualun-ghostep-dead-man/

“The music is both atmospheric and aggressive, although the bleeping strikes me as more ambient than kosmische. Either way, a cool tape.”
Byron Coley in The Wire 475, September 2023

credits

released September 1, 2023

bleed Air - GhostEP
S612, OB-6, Monologue, MS-10, Electric Bass & Bass VI, Melodica, Tape Effects.

Special guest Robin Barnick
Farfisa, Una Corda, Omnichord, Weltempfanger.

Recorded 2022/2023 at DU-8SQM, Porz.
Mastering by Cem Oral/Jammin Masters, Berlin.
CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 superpolar Taïps
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
superpolar.org - superpolar.bandcamp.com

Hualun - Dead Man

Synthesizer: Dingmao
Synthesizer & Guitar: MKZhu
Synthesizer & Keyboard: Rubey
Editing: Konny

Recorded in Shenzhen 2019-2022
Produced & Remastered: Rubey

Copyright New Song One
hualun.bandcamp.com

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