Fossil Aerosol Mining Project
The Unlistening Place
Afterdays Media / The Helen Scarsdale Agency
ADM020
release date: August 31, 2017
https://soundcloud.com/helen-scarsdale/fossil-aerosol-mining-project-silent-time
http://www.helenscarsdale.com/published/famp-unlistening.htm
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project are an enigmatic lot, comprised of sonic archeologists residing the American Midwest. Their work spans several decades and is almost always in flux through the variable states of contextual re-investigation and technological degradation. Aesthetically, FAMP align with the post-industrial research of :zoviet*france:, Cranioclast and Robert Turman. Bacteria damaged tape loops, ghostly time-lag accumulation and the excavation of mediated sound from suburbia's failures are key components to the Fossil Aerosol's working process.
The core tracks of The Unlistening Place were recorded in 2015, and at the time were intended to be part of what was to be the final Fossil Aerosol album, scheduled for a distant release. But history circled back on itself, and the result was a reworking of future tracks, alongside more new material. Historiography eating its own tail.
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