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Front cover photograph: Olga Karlovac
Back cover image generated by: April Larson
Disc photograph: Ben Rabenold.
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Husks of War: Full color satin jacket/sleeve printing using green friendly ink, featuring striking images by Olga Karlovac and April Larson. 16 pt FSC® certified partially recycled board stock. Packaged in clear re-sealable eco-bags.
The Winter LP: Deluxe, limited edition CD package featuring photography by Harrisburg artist Caleb Byron Smith, sturdy 15pt card stock digipak, custom slipcase by @vsleeves and a custom, hand stamped, black bottom CD with 2x NYR stickers.
Winter Remixes: Limited edition, 6-panal digipak featuring gorgeous winter photography by Harrisburg artist Caleb Byron Smith.
Autumn Fragments: Limited edition 3 inch mini "pocket" CD of the album, housed in a slimline case. Each disc hand-stamped, cataloged and signed by the artist. Beautiful cover photography by Joanna Canara, Inner sleeve photos by the album artist, Ben Rabenold, Layout by Consumer
WARNING: Not for use in slot-loading CD/DVD/Blu-ray players such as car stereos and video game consoles. Designed for use in tray-loading CD, DVD and Blu-ray players as well as optical drives in computers. Loading this disc into a slot-loading player may result in in damage to the drive and disc. This CD will drop into the inner ring of the tray for a custom fit of the disc for playback.
Off-Axis: Presented as a black top / black bottom compact disc in an ejector case, individually numbered.
There is also one (1) copy of 'False Season' left, served in a hollowed out 5.25" floppy diskette case w/a custom card stock dust sleeve constructed and printed by @vsleeves. The first preorder gets it on me.
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This is an album dedicated to those who have faced the struggle and strife, life-altering conditions of armed conflict...an album with no boundaries or time constraints.
Instead of my describing the album in detail, I leave the narrative to your discretion, stating only that it draws on many recorded conflicts, past and present.
To promote this album, I wanted to make sure to not cross any ethical, moral or legal boundaries by showing real people in peril. Enter multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, veteran and all-around thinker, Michael Robinson, who does a better job of explaining the point of this album by way of his work in collaboration with me for promotional material, but on the subject of war in general:
Michael Robinson Artist Statement on the Husks of War Project
As an artist and a veteran, I've always held a belief that if people were more fearful of war, we would not exist in the same present we face today. My first animated film was called TV Guided, and it explored the topic of video guided bombs from the angle of a political cartoon, lampooning the reasons we get into war. Looking back on the film now, it was created with a sarcastic edge and dark dystopian humor.
The sensibility for the Husks of War project with Ben is decidedly more grim and more serious in tone. Using Stable Diffusion, AI art software, I programmed the images to reveal three results.
The first result represents aftermath, bombed buildings, that when viewed hit you hard because you can imagine someone may have lived there.
The second set of images are war occurring in a city environment, plumes of smoke and explosions polluting the landscape - often with soldiers in view. These almost have an archival quality but are not meant to be nostalgic representations. Allow me to make this statement and let it resonate within the core of your very being: there is no nostalgia for war. We are inundated with violence in reality and in media, and while it may serve a fictional narrative or a game - it is not something to be lived in or experienced. Let me repeat: there is no nostalgia for war. Nostalgia serves the purpose of fueling and carrying forward past ideas to feed the present, and this work is a line in the sand, a demarcation.
The third set of images are bloodshed, the during and the aftermath. In the news and media, the human cost of war is spruced up, covered up, and often omitted entirely because of overly sensitive viewers. It wasn't always this way. It shouldn't be—and if there wasn't censorship in our media we simply would not be living in the present we have today.
The investment into weapons and military hardware that currently exists is one where I'm clearly saddened. We could have a very different world, turning each nation's military to humanitarian pursuits only and in some limited cases this is already done as an aside. Imagine the kind of world we'd have if the capital we spent on bombs were instead fixed on actual problems like housing the homeless or the advancement of science, medicine, food and agriculture. Our sense of discovery would be unending, new releases of innovation would happen on such a regular basis our cultural collective psyche would be one of constant amazement and hope instead of fear and dread for the next worst thing to happen in the news. You don't get innovation by playing to existing rule structures - you only get innovation when we are brave enough to venture beyond our current boundaries.
Track 7 collaborators: Byrn Alleman & Jackie-Raye Barr - vocals
Loop Based Zero - prepared and bowed guitar
Gaze Into The Void - additional guitar drones
Front cover photograph: Olga Karlovac
Back cover image generated by: April Larson
Disc photograph: Ben Rabenold
Thank you William Creason, Patrick Blinkhorn, Euan Dalgarno Mary Firestone and Nicholette Hope for guidance and inspiration; Michael Robinson @ Moviate for image generation and promo direction; Mike Peaslee & Craig Peters @ SoundIron for excellent instruments and giving me a chance; Histibe @ Mask Movement in Ukraine; any and all veterans and civilian victims of armed conflict.
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