12″ Edition of 25. Numbered. Riso Looseleaf cover / back art printed at Looky Here. (note. variant cover art, some cover art will differ from others…)

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Broadcasting from his home in Vienna on the evening of Friday June 19, 2020, guitarist Eric Arn put on a wonderful display of various ways to create sonic beauty. Playing acoustic guitar, and adding vocals at times, Eric’s material and highly melodic approach were an expansion of the form-moves he explored on his first Feeding Tube album, Orphic Resonance (FTR 281), rather than the more prickly textures displayed on its follow-up, Paranza Corta (FTR 384).

Two of the tunes are covers — Peter Laughner’s classic mid ’70s ballad, “Baudelaire” and Jackson C Frank’s “Madonna of Swans” (which Frank recorded as a demo in ’72). Another three are solo acoustic takes on tunes originally recorded by Eric’s ongoing psych unit, Primordial Undermind. The other four tracks are new to me, and display a mix of intimacy and technique that would seem daunting if it weren’t presented in such an inviting way.

A truly great and varied set by a wonderful artist, with whom we’ll hopefully have another project ready before year’s end.

-Byron Coley, 2021

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