STRATEGIC PLANNING 1-3 NOW STREAMING

 

STRATEGIC PLANNING 1-3 NOW STREAMING Thanks to everyone who supported my three recent "Strategic Planning" 2CD sets! I'm happy to announce that all three volumes of my anthology series are also heading to all major digital platforms. In 2017, I began recording and releasing a series of analog synth pieces as limited edition cassettes, some in editions of 25 copies, and some in editions of 50 or 100 copies. Some had simple packaging and some had more elaborate packaging. This work was an evolution of my overloaded wall-of-synth-noise Super Eight Loop recordings, which I began while I was living in New York, in the 1990s, and which were initially intended as soundtracks for walking through a pre-sterilization Times Square. These newer recordings were intended to be far more nuanced and dynamic. Notably, they are meant to be listened to at a more moderate volume – allowing city sounds to blend into the music – and so as not to drown out voices, traffic, construction, and other day-to-day urban sounds that one might encounter. With these releases, I went back to my familiar method of recording the synth tracks on four-track cassette, and several of these pieces are mixed with field recordings and other external sound sources, to add further personal elements to the music. Late last year, I thought about the interconnected nature of all of these releases and I decided to try to configure them in some new way and in a new format. This might appeal to those who haven't heard these recordings yet, to those who don't listen to cassettes or don't listen to streaming music, or to those who missed some of them when they were originally released. This certainly might fit in with my long history of series, formatting, and standardized packaging. There's also a dual meaning to and an inside joke connected to the title, which some people might get. It's not really that funny, but it makes me chuckle. During this past April and May, I worked on the follow-up to my 2020 album, "You May Be Holding Back," and mastering was completed by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room at the end of last month. The CDs, which are now being pressed, will be packaged in digipaks that feature my photography. The title of the album is "Not Everybody Makes It." More details soon... --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Strategic Planning Vol. 3" (2CD/Digital) Bandcamp: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/strategic-planning-vol-3 iTunes: https://apple.co/3wDav0h Apple Music: https://apple.co/3vuFE4B Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097FC3CS2/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3iYeCjo YouTube Music: link coming soon CD1: 1. Anthropological Place (14:40) 2. Place Of Loyalty (14:30) 3. Sensing Place (14:42) 4. Places Of Memory (14:36) 5. Actionable Insights (15:00) CD2: 1. Strategic Planning Part 1 (25:00) 2. Strategic Planning Part 2 (25:00) 3. Strategic Planning Part 3 (25:00) CD1: 1+2: Originally released on Vantage Points (2017, C-30, edition of 25) 3+4: Originally released on Connected City (2017, C-30, edition of 50) 5: Previously Unreleased CD2: 1-3: Previously Unreleased --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Strategic Planning Vol. 2" (2CD/Digital) Bandcamp: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/strategic-planning-vol-2 iTunes: https://apple.co/2TAf3WF Apple Music: https://apple.co/3gzupUp Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097F8Y719/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/35APkQx YouTube Music: link coming soon CD1: 1. Ego Machine (30:00) 2. Achievement Society (30:00) 3. Era Of Crisis (14:30)  CD2: 1. Administrative Framework (30:00) 2. Institutional Transparency (30:00) 3. Era Of Standardization (14:25)  CD1: 1+2: Originally released on Symmetrical Spaces Of Communication (2018, C-60, edition of 50) 3: Originally released on Psychological Mobility (2017, C-30, edition of 25)   CD2: 1+2: Originally released on The Myth Of Community (2019, C-60, edition of 50) 3: Originally released on Psychological Mobility (2017, C-30, edition of 25) --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Strategic Planning Vol. 1" (2CD/Digital) Bandcamp: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/strategic-planning-vol-1 iTunes: https://apple.co/2TLx2cA Apple Music: https://apple.co/3wF7yME Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097F8HBPK/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3wFfHkr YouTube Music: link coming soon CD1: 1. Utopian Plans (29:50) 2. Attraction Structures (30:00) 3. Spatial Questions (14:47)  CD2: 1. Emotive Issues (30:00) 2. Population Advisor (30:00) 3. Spatial Extensions (14:45)  CD1: 1+2: Originally released on Radial Communication (2017, C-60, edition of 100) 3: Originally released on Spatial Settlement Patterns (2017, C-30, edition of 25)   CD2: 1+2: Originally released on Social Objectives (2018, C-60, edition of 50) 3: Originally released on Spatial Settlement Patterns (2017, C-30, edition of 25) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ALSO AVAILABLE: Ensemble Sacrés Garçons "Demonization: These Worldly Powers" (LP/Digital) https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/album/demonization-these-worldly-powers Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff "Geological Plots And Subway Rifts" (Digital+PDF) https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/geological-plots-and-subway-rifts "You May Be Holding Back" (CD/Digital) https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/you-may-be-holding-back