Out Now: Mark Solotroff "Return To Oneself" 2CD

Happy New Year! This isn't my new album. As I'm still working (slowly) on that, I decided to put together a 2CD set that compiles my three digital-only singles from last winter, along with a previously unreleased 47+ minute song that I built from recordings from the same sessions as those singles and my last album. I would characterize this music as continuing and evolving the type of rough-edged minimalist drone that I composed for my two prior albums: "You May Be Holding Back" (2020) and "Not Everybody Makes It" (2021). The core components of these songs include analog synth (recorded to four-track cassette), magnetic tape sound, controlled feedback, and the occasional long distance, phantom melody. I think this music works well for attentive, close listening (over speakers or with headphones), to focus on different characteristics in the sound -- and also when it's more in the background, for activities like reading, writing, drawing, or even going to sleep. I've listened to this music quite a bit, under these different circumstances, and I really enjoy how it performs, so I hope you will too. The CDs are housed in a digipak that features black and white architectural photographs that I shot around downtown Chicago. Versions of three of the images were used for the original digital singles. I also enjoy that it sits nicely alongside my three "Strategic Planning" 2CD sets.

CD1
1. "A Form Of Consolation" (15:00)
2. "Pressing Upon Us" (15:00)
3. "Rush Headlong Into It" (15:00)

CD2
1. "Towards The Other" ( 47:15)

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BLOODYMINDED : PHASES 2CD

BLOODYMINDED : PHASES 2CD now shipping 'PHASES' UNITES OUR FOUR INTERCONNECTED POST-'MAGNETISM' RELEASES ON A 2CD DIGIPAK SET WITH NEWLY REMASTERED AUDIO AND A RUNNING TIME APPROACHING TWO AND A HALF HOURS. THESE RECORDINGS INCLUDE MUSIC THAT BREAKS THE MOLD OF OUR MOST WELL-KNOWN SONGS, INCORPORATING DENSE CONSTRUCTIONS OF MAGNETIC TAPE MANIPULATION THAT LOOK BACK TO THE OUTLIER SONG 'OVERDRIVE' FROM OUR DEBUT ALBUM, 'TROPHY,' AS WELL AS THE SCTL (SOURCE CONTROL) TRACKS FOUND ON NUMEROUS INTRINSIC ACTION RELEASES.        Bandcamp: https://bloodyminded.bandcamp.com/album/phases Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6tbg5gxy7ejaFIK65P9yPh iTunes/Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gw/album/phases/1587203046 YouTube: https://youtu.be/UkxgiMqiC-A Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B09GXHMRFN Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/album/198593996 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/bloodyminded/phases-explicit/AL7rdmzz2tnZk72 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/261055312 Additional ordering options for CDs: BloodShop!: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/bloodyminded-phases-2cd-set eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/154628480842 Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/BLOODYMINDED-PHASES/release/20387353 ------ PHASES : ONE 1: PHASES : ONE - PART ONE (28:59) 2: PHASES : ONE - PART TWO (29:09) ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON CASSETTE IN 2006, ON BLOODLUST! (B!063). EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES, PACKAGED IN CLEAR CASES WITH BLACK AND WHITE JCARDS. AVAILABLE DURING OUR AUGUST 2006 TOUR. RECORDED IN JULY 2006 AT CONSERVATORY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. “MAGNETISM” MATERIAL PROCESSED BY MARK SOLOTROFF, UTILIZING THE INTRINSIC ACTION SCTL (SOURCE CONTROL) METHODOLOGY. PHASES : TWO 1: PHASES : TWO - PART ONE (30:05) 2: PHASES : TWO - PART TWO (29:57) ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON CD-R IN 2007, ON BLOODLUST! (B!074). EDITION OF 200 NUMBERED COPIES, PACKAGED IN BLACK AND WHITE FOLD-OVER SLEEVES. THESE RECORDINGS WERE MADE IN NOVEMBER 2006, BY MARK SOLOTROFF (FOR BLOODYMINDED), AT CONSERVATORY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SOLELY UTILIZING LIVE VERSIONS OF SONGS FROM THE "MAGNETISM" CD THAT WERE RECORDED LIVE DURING OUR AUGUST 2006 TOUR - AS SOURCE MATERIAL. LIVE RECORDINGS WERE MADE AT: SKYLAB GALLERY, COLUMBUS, OH, AUGUST 3; REVERSIBLE EYE GALLERY, CHICAGO, IL, AUGUST 4; THE CHURCH, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, AUGUST 5; HALL MALL, IOWA CITY, IA, AUGUST 6; VALHALLA GALLERY, KANSAS CITY, MO, AUGUST 7; SPOOKY ACTION PLACE, ST. LOUIS, MO, AUGUST 8; THE FROWNY BEAR, LEXINGTON, KY, AUGUST 9; RED ROOM, KALAMAZOO, MI, AUGUST 10; BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, DETROIT, MI, AUGUST 11. BLOODYMINDED: NICOLE CHAMBERS, XAVIER LARADJI, PIETER SCHOOLWERTH, MARK SOLOTROFF; WITH ED KNIGGE (CHICAGO), CHRIS MACK (CHICAGO), AND ISIDRO REYES (ST. LOUIS). MASTERED BY JASON SOLIDAY, AT ENEMY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER, 2006.   PHASES : THREE 1: PHASES : THREE (PART ONE) (3:02) 2: GIRLFRIEND ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN SCHIZOPHRENIC EPISODE BY REVEALING CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE (1:27) 3: SHOTGUN HELD TO FACE BY SEVERELY CROSSEYED ADDICT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PHYSICALLY REMOVE GIRLFRIEND FROM KNOWN DRUG HOUSE (1:23) 4: VISITING AN EX-GIRLFRIEND IN THE HOSPITAL - PSYCHIATRIC WARD - 24-HOUR OBSERVATION - SUICIDE WATCH (1:11) 5: VISITING AN EX-GIRLFRIEND IN THE HOSPITAL - AIDS WARD (1:42) 6: PHASES : THREE (PART TWO) (2:59) ORIGINALLY RELEASED AS A 3 X 7-INCH BOX SET IN 2009, ON ROCOCO RECORDS (RCC-0030). EDITION OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES. PRESSED ON WHITE VINYL AND INSERTED IN INDIVIDUALLY SILK-SCREENED FOLD-OVER COVERS. CONTENTS HOUSED IN CUSTOM MADE BOXES WITH TWO INSERTS. BLOODYMINDED: NICOLE CHAMBERS, XAVIER LARADJI, ISIDRO REYES, PIETER SCHOOLWERTH, MARK SOLOTROFF. RECORDED LIVE AT SPOOKY ACTION PALACE IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AUGUST 8, 2006. PHASES : THREE (PART ONE AND PART TWO) PROCESSED BY MARK SOLOTROFF AT CONSERVATORY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER, 2007. MASTERED BY SALVATORE DELLARIA AT EIGHTYSEVENWEST RECORDING COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER, 2007. PHASES : FOUR 1: PHASES : FOUR (11:14) ORIGINALLY RELEASED AS A DIGITAL SINGLE IN 2012, ON BLOODLUST! (B!123). THE FINAL PHASE. ORIGINALLY RECORDED FOR RELEASE IN 2009 AS A SINGLE-SIDED 12-INCH ON LAND O'SMILES RECORDS, AS PART OF THEIR NOW-DEFUNCT THE BLACK LODGE SERIES. STUDIO ELEMENTS RECORDED AT CONSERVATORY, CHICAGO, IL, 2008-2009. LIVE ELEMENTS RECORDED AT THE EMPTY BOTTLE, CHICAGO, IL, JUNE 6, 2008 AND JULY 25, 2008. ASSEMBLED AND MIXED AT LIQUIDE SOUNDSTUDIOS, CHICAGO, IL, FEBRUARY, 2009. ENGINEERED BY JONATHAN DEVRIES. PRODUCED BY MARK SOLOTROFF. BLOODYMINDED: XAVIER LARADJI, JAMES MOY, ISIDRO REYES, PIETER SCHOOLWERTH, MARK SOLOTROFF. MASTERED FOR CD BY MARK SOLOTROFF, AUGUST, 2021. https://bloodyminded.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bloodymindedchi/ https://www.facebook.com/BLOODYMINDED/