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SPARK I

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    The first of a 2 x 3" cd set of pieces recorded before a live audience at short-lived La Salle, Illinois music venue The Spark in November, 2007. The selections utilized for the two Spark 3" cds are pulled from more than two hours of improvised material, and finessed into detailed, lush, and strange electronic / industrial / noise / ambient constructions by Amalgamated producers D. Petri and Gus Kumo. Delicately sculpted, amorphously placid, floatingly colorful, texturally titiallating. Listen / download below.

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    Ultra high quality printed disc and artwork by D. Petri and Phillip Klampe.

    Vinyl cutting/plotting and Illustrator work for Amalgamated symbol sleeve decal by Clayton Outain.

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1.
Invocation of Absence 06:42
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Rot Makor 05:30
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A Wedge of Raging Cygnets 07:13
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4.
Sandiest Lope 03:52
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In essence, the result of regular get-togethers by members of obscure Illinois bands and bedroom projects including Rebekah's Tape, Homogenized Terrestrials, Gushing Cloud, Dog Hallucination and Headless Ballerinas Underwater (the latter duo recently teaming up as Bob Hallucination for the wonderful, shapeshifting mini-CD Bob Hallucination). Surprising for such smooth pieces, kind of ambient jams, is that there are a lot of instruments crowding the stage, ranging from sampler and turntable to drums, sax and guitars. Amalgamated's method is telegraphed by its name: improvise, then "finess," edit all the elements into comprehensive textures. It's kind of a cosmic krautrock that has taken God's advice to "just tone it down a little." A collage of sampled voices merges into spacious groove sense on "Invocation of Absence." "Rot Makor" sounds more like devotional services until a steady rhythm begins bouncing up against it. The centre of focus in "A Wedge of Raging Cygnets" is a stuck-groove, country pedal steel guitar two-step against a distant backdrop strongly reminiscent of one of Brian Eno's musics for films. And with a soft beat, "Sandiest Lope" percolates gently until the machinery breaks down. Spark II is slated for release soon and a "full-length multimedia album/book" is due later in the year."

-Stephen Fruitman, Igloo Magazine

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released July 19, 2012

Released as a 3" cdr in clear sleeve with vinyl logo applique.

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Headless Ballerinas Underwater, Rebekah’s Tape, Gushing Cloud, Dog Hallucination, and Homogenized Terrestrials. Collaborating.

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