Mark Solotroff "Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero" Announced

 

MARK SOLOTROFF: BLOODYMINDED/Anatomy Of Habit Founder To Release New Solo Album, Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero, November 3rd; Track Stream + Preorders Available Photo by Elena Solotroff Stream MARK SOLOTROFF's "The Weight Of Your Own" HERE. Electronic music veteran, artist, multi-instrumentalist/noise mastermind MARK SOLOTROFF will release his latest solo album, Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero, on November 3rd. Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero is the follow-up to SOLOTROFF’s 2021-released album, Not Everybody Makes It and features ten songs, each running exactly six-minutes in length. SOLOTROFF characterizes it as a continuation of his voyage through experimental ambient and drone, and it finds him refining concepts that he’s been developing for several years, down to more digestible portions of music. For this album, SOLOTROFF worked with a variety of vintage analog synths, recorded directly to a four-track cassette deck, which remains his preferred arrangement. At their foundation, each song was built from multiple layers of synth. SOLOTROFF then wove in loops that sometimes sit more prominently and more melodically and that sometimes appear in a more spectral fashion. SOLOTROFF’s own voice adds further dimension to some songs, but he processed it so it became a layer of sound closer in nature to synth patterns or distorted frequencies. SOLOTROFF created numerous mixes of the ten songs, striving to find a sweet spot where it could be enjoyed through a home stereo with speakers, through a car system, through headphones, and through now ubiquitous earbuds. After discussing approaches with mastering engineer Collin Jordan, SOLOTROFF was extremely pleased with how versatile the master turned out. That said, he admits that the low-end frequencies he embedded in each song remain best experienced through speakers or capable headphones. Of this, he’s unapologetic. It’s an album for people who appreciate the deep end. While SOLOTROFF found the internal or isolated time during the pandemic to be extremely productive, in a creative sense, once the world started to reopen, he quickly dove back into an external life of social interaction, live performance, travel, and a significantly restructured work/life balance that gave him a greater appreciation of his free creative time. Coming out of the pandemic, SOLOTROFF wanted to move forward from not only his attempts to put his own experiences of loss into sound, but to move past the collective grief that so deeply permeated the music world over the last few years. While Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero will likely never be accused of being a happy or optimistic sounding album, for SOLOTROFF, it demonstrates the evolution of his sound work and of his artistic path, and he sees it as representing a more positive impression of nostalgia and an internal drive that is open to possibility, for today, at least. In advance of the release of Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero, SOLOTROFF today unveils first single, "The Weight Of Your Own," noting of the track, "'The Weight Of Your Own' sits at the beginning of my new album because it introduces the exact balance of sounds that I've been working towards for the last few years. Its prominent, yet abstract loop sets the tone for the hour of music that follows. While I was working on the album, I had to consciously stop myself from simply following the pattern and making nine more versions of this song. Rather, I used it as an indicator of the mood of the album that unfolds before the listener. I also had to fight myself to not let the song spool out for thirty-minutes, or more, and allowing the loop to become a more enveloping, hypnotic device. That's where I was, before. Right now, I'm trying to create more concise compositions. Maybe I actually did create an epic version? If so, I'll keep it for private use."   Stream MARK SOLOTROFF's "The Weight Of Your Own" at THIS LOCATION.   Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero will be released on four-panel digipak CD and digitally on all major platforms. Find preorders at the official MARK SOLOTROFF Bandcamp page HERE.    Track Listing: 1. The Weight Of Your Own 2. Arguments Of Strain 3. Keeping Themselves To Themselves 4. Desire Without Wounds 5. The Study Of One 6. You May Slip Between 7. Almost All Promises 8. The Testimony Of Modern Art 9. Restoring Contact With Experience 10. The Hold On Life   MARK SOLOTROFF is a Chicago-based musician and a visual artist who has worked within the experimental, post-industrial, noise, and metal scenes, dating back to the mid-1980s. SOLOTROFF is best known as the vocalist of both the doom band Anatomy Of Habit and the heavy electronic band BLOODYMINDED, and as the founder of the early American post-industrial band Intrinsic Action. His work with analog synthesizers dates back to his earliest recordings and he continues to find new ways to work with these often-unpredictable instruments. SOLOTROFF pursues several related themes in his work, including how cities develop, both organically and through organized planning, how the human body navigates urban environments, and how people navigate and interact with each other, particularly in an age of alienation caused by severe digital fragmentation. His visual work frequently features urban landscapes, architecture, and infrastructure, and he has become increasingly active in his use of artificial intelligence in his art. He’s published three books of pictures that include his own photography, found images, and AI-generated images, all of which he processes in a manner related to how he processes sound.   For MARK SOLOTROFF coverage inquiries, contact liz@earsplitcompound.com.   Earsplit PR | Liz Ciavarella-Brenner | www.earsplitcompound.com   MARK SOLOTROFF Website Instagram Facebook Bandcamp Spotify Apple/iTunes Amazon (author page)

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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.

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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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Mark Solotroff "Rush Headlong Into It" new single now streaming

Rush Headlong Into It This song was created with recordings made during the sessions for my album "Not Everybody Makes It." It's the third of three singles released during winter 2021-22. It's available via Bandcamp, as well as all major streaming platforms. --- https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/track/rush-headlong-into-it --- Spotify iTunes/Apple Music --- http://marksolotroff.com http://www.facebook.com/solotroff http://www.instagram.com/marksolotroff http://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/

Mark Solotroff "Pressing Upon Us" new single now streaming

Pressing Upon Us This song was created with recordings made during the sessions for my album "Not Everybody Makes It." It's the second of three singles to be released during winter 2021-22. It's available via Bandcamp, as well as all major streaming platforms. --- https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/track/pressing-upon-us --- Spotify iTunes/Apple Music --- http://marksolotroff.com http://www.facebook.com/solotroff http://www.instagram.com/marksolotroff http://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/

Mark Solotroff "A Form Of Consolation" new single now streaming

 

A Form Of Consolation

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Mark Solotroff - Video Premiere

 

Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside)

Reposting from Earsplit PR

Bloodyminded and Anatomy Of Habit founder, electronic music veteran, artist, multi-instrumentalist, and all around noise mastermind MARK SOLOTROFF today unveils a video for “Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside).” Now playing at Captured Howls, the track appears on SOLOTROFF’s new solo album, Not Everybody Makes It, set for release July 30th.

Recorded and mixed by SOLOTROFF during April and May of 2021 and mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room in May in 2021, Not Everybody Makes It is SOLOTROFF’s most restrained and controlled synth recording to date. While he anticipated creating a hybrid of more primitive and aggressive sounds balanced by more subtle ambient textures, by the time he finished mixing the six new songs — each one exactly ten-minutes in length — he realized that he had made significant strides in evolving his recent style. Not Everybody Makes It functions as a sonic elegy to the countless losses that so many of us have suffered over the last year and in the recent past, and its shimmering and crumbling frequencies and textures enter into a tense balancing act with elusive melodies that slowly drown in and then emerge from the shifting and eroding dronescapes.

Notes SOLOTROFF of “Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside),” “This is the first video that I’ve ever made and I think it accurately matches the immensely lonely mood of the song. Building upon the mapping exercises and iconography that I’ve included in my work over the last few years, the path followed in this video depicts prominent streets and bridges near my building, which I’ve spent a great deal of time on, particularly during the past year, or so. Cars and people move at unnaturally slow speeds, mirroring the pace of the song and advancing the underlying sense of isolation introduced by the music.”

Writes Captured Howls in part, “The song feels like a meditation on solitude amid noise — or at least the sense of such a thing, since dissociative unease proves readily apparent in the sound. The ominous track comes with a video that Solotroff put together, and the imagery that he’s provided supports this idea. The video, in which images have been altered and presented in a grayscale color palette but remain recognizable, follows a journey through city streets, and there’s an impression of feeling alone, or perhaps weighed down, even as signs of activity continue on largely unabated — and largely uncaring for the people living within their wakes…”

Read more and view MARK SOLOTROFF’s “Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside)” video at THIS LOCATION.

Stream previously released “Suffering Sun (Barren Winter)” at THIS LOCATION.

Not Everybody Makes It will be available on CD, in a four-panel digipak featuring SOLOTROFF’s photography, and on all major digital platforms. Find preorders via Bandcamp HERE or iTunes/Apple Music HERE.

MARK SOLOTROFF‘s artwork and music focuses on several related key themes, including how cities develop, both organically and through organized planning, how the human body navigates urban environments, and how people navigate and interact with each other, particularly in an age of alienation caused by severe digital fragmentation.

In the music world, SOLOTROFF is best known as the vocalist of both the doom band Anatomy Of Habit and the heavy electronic band Bloodyminded, and as the founder of the early post-industrial band Intrinsic Action. He also has a more than thirty-five-year history playing analog synthesizer. His synth work has been at the core of Bloodyminded and Intrinsic Action, and he recorded and released one-hundred hours of lo-fi analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop, which he recently digitized and remastered. He is part of the dark-synth group Nightmares, which released a new album in early 2020, as well as the post-industrial trio, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, which released their first new album in over twenty-five years, in early 2021.

SOLOTROFF has also collaborated with and contributed synth and/or vocals to numerous bands, ranging from a four-year role in Wrekmeister Harmonies, to live appearances and/or studio recordings with diverse electronic, experimental, and metal bands, including The Atlas Moth, Brutal Truth, Consumer Electronics, Indian, Locrian, Plague Bringer, Sigillum S, and The Sodality. In late 2019, SOLOTROFF‘s synth was included on new releases by Azar Swan (“The Hissing Crane” on Primal Architecture) and The Body (“Remixed” on Thrill Jockey), and in 2020, he created remixes, augmented with his synth, for Statiqbloom (“Asphyxia Remixed” on Synthicide) and Snow Burial (“Painting The Streets With Our Blood”).

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MARK SOLOTROFF: Bloodyminded / Anatomy Of Habit Founder To Release New Solo Album, Not Everybody Makes It, July 30th; Track Streaming + Preorders Available

Stream MARK SOLOTROFF's “Suffering Sun (Barren Winter)" HERE.

Bloodyminded and Anatomy Of Habit founder, electronic music veteran, artist, multi-instrumentalist and all around noise mastermind MARK SOLOTROFF will release his new solo album, Not Everybody Makes It, July 30th.   MARK SOLOTROFF's artwork and music focuses on several related key themes, including how cities develop, both organically and through organized planning, how the human body navigates urban environments, and how people navigate and interact with each other, particularly in an age of alienation caused by severe digital fragmentation. The significance of these themes was enormously intensified when the global pandemic emerged in early 2020. For SOLOTROFF, a key to coping with the myriad challenges of the past year was to focus on creativity and to dive deep into a daily practice of working on diverse aspects of music production related to his bands and his solo work, including writing, recording, mixing, and mastering as well as album and T-shirt design. Recorded and mixed by SOLOTROFF during April and May of 2021 and mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room in May in 2021, Not Everybody Makes It is SOLOTROFF’s most restrained and controlled synth recording to date. While he anticipated creating a hybrid of more primitive and aggressive sounds balanced by more subtle ambient textures, by the time he finished mixing the six new songs -- each one exactly ten-minutes in length -- he realized that he had made significant strides in evolving his recent style. Not Everybody Makes It functions as a sonic elegy to the countless losses that so many of us have suffered, over the last year and in the recent past, and its shimmering and crumbling frequencies and textures enter into a tense balancing act with elusive melodies that slowly drown in and then emerge from the shifting and eroding dronescapes.   In advance of the release of Not Everybody Makes It, today SOLOTROFF unveils “Suffering Sun (Barren Winter)” for public consumption, offering of the track, “I’m excited to announce my new album and to share this song, which may seem unexpectedly tranquil, compared to the heavier or more aggressive music that some people would anticipate from me. I think it exemplifies the elegiac spirit of the album, which I recorded following a year in which so many people have faced isolation, loss, and profound challenges. It embodies the fundamental balance between melody and noise and structure and abstraction, which I focused on during the recording of this album.”   Stream “Suffering Sun (Barren Winter)” at THIS LOCATION.   Not Everybody Makes It will be available on CD, in a four-panel digipak featuring SOLOTROFF’s photography, and on all major digital platforms. Find preorders via Bandcamp HERE or iTunes/Apple Music HERE. Not Everybody Makes It Track Listing: 1. Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside) 2. Suffering Sun (Barren Winter) 3. The Chaos Of Objects (Tell Her To Follow Me) 4. Spatial Unrest (Irresistible Belief) 5. Attention To Self (Compel Your Flesh) 6. Return To Pleasure (Body Into Voice)   In the music world, SOLOTROFF is best known as the vocalist of both the doom band Anatomy Of Habit and the heavy electronic band Bloodyminded, and as the founder of the early post-industrial band Intrinsic Action. He also has a more than thirty-five-year history playing analog synthesizer. His synth work has been at the core of Bloodyminded and Intrinsic Action, and he recorded and released one-hundred hours of lo-fi analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop, which he recently digitized and remastered. He is part of the dark-synth group Nightmares, which released a new album in early 2020, as well as the post-industrial trio, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, which released their first new album in over twenty-five years, in early 2021. SOLOTROFF has also collaborated with and contributed synth and/or vocals to numerous bands, ranging from a four-year role in Wrekmeister Harmonies, to live appearances and/or studio recordings with diverse electronic, experimental, and metal bands, including The Atlas Moth, Brutal Truth, Consumer Electronics, Indian, Locrian, Plague Bringer, Sigillum S, and The Sodality. In late 2019, SOLOTROFF's synth was included on new releases by Azar Swan ("The Hissing Crane" on Primal Architecture) and The Body ("Remixed" on Thrill Jockey), and in 2020, he created remixes, augmented with his synth, for Statiqbloom (“Asphyxia Remixed” on Synthicide) and Snow Burial (“Painting The Streets With Our Blood”). As a solo artist, SOLOTROFF focuses on recording and performing tenebrous analog synth music. His bass-heavy soundscapes have been said to unsettle some listeners and calm others. He views these recordings and performances as possible soundtracks for movement through metropolitan terrains, whether by foot, car, or public transportation. Starting in 2017, SOLOTROFF released a series of recordings as limited-edition cassettes, which were also made available through the major digital platforms. An evolution from his overloaded wall-of-synth-noise Super Eight Loop recordings, which he began while living in New York and which were intended as soundtracks for walking through a pre-sterilization Times Square, his new recordings are 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. In 2021, he collected these small edition cassettes onto three double CD sets, under the title Strategic Planning. Creaig Dunton at Brainwashed characterized work from this period by saying that SOLOTROFF, “does an exceptional job at capturing bleakness, casting out cold sheets of sound like frigid rain falling in a vast, deserted space.” During the early stages of the pandemic, SOLOTROFF recorded and released a solo album, You May Be Holding Back, which consists of two long-form synth pieces, accompanied by unidentified found sounds. Chris Groves at Night Science called the work “redolent of isolation.” For MARK SOLOTROFF coverage contact liz@earsplitcompound.com.  http://marksolotroff.com http://www.facebook.com/solotroff http://www.instagram.com/marksolotroff http://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/

Mark Solotroff :Strategic Planning Vol. 3" 2CD Out Now

 

DOUBLE COMPACT DISC SET NOW SHIPPING My thanks to everyone who supported the first two "Strategic Planning" 2CD sets! I'm happy to announce that the third and final volume of my new anthology series is in-stock and ready to ship. It compiles all of the tracks from two limited edition cassettes that I released in 2017 ("Vantage Points" and "Connected City") along with 90-minutes of previously unreleased music, drawn from recordings that I made during the same period. Now that this series is complete, I've been working on the follow-up to my 2020 album, "You May Be Holding Back," and I expect to release my next album this summer. The tentative title is "Not Everybody Makes It." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategic Planning Vol. 3 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER THE 2CD VIA BANDCAMP: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/merch/strategic-planning-vol-3-2cd --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. I also made these releases available through all the major digital platforms. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ALSO AVAILABLE: "Strategic Planning Vol. 2" (2CD) https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/merch/strategic-planning-vol-2-2cd "Strategic Planning Vol. 1" (2CD) https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/merch/strategic-planning-vol-1-2cd 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

BLOODYMINDED "202" T-Shirt

 

NEW BLOODYMINDED "202" DESIGN What can I say about the connection between BLOODYMINDED and the Roland MC-202? It was the ideal choice of synth, when I was contemplating the end of Intrinsic Action and the beginning of BLOODYMINDED, in late 1994/early 1995. In the later era of Intrinsic Action, we were playing live with a Moog Rogue and a Roland SH-101, which meant that we were tied to keyboard stands or bar tables, or something similar. Using the attachable mod-grip and a guitar strap was never an option with the 101. Never. Back then, I pictured a point where we could be more mobile, onstage, even if we didn't start that way. But a small, battery powered synth, like the 202, opened up more possibilities for dynamic performance, and I'd say that we got there, relatively quickly. Also being being familiar with the 101 made using a 202, its "little brother," a no-brainer. I had already acquired two of the synths, prior to our first studio session, and from the start, we seemed very certain that 202s would be a big part of our band. On one of the spines of our "Trophy" CD, we included the phrase, "Twin 202 Power-Electronic Death-Noise," and we included a 202 on the inside artwork of our "West" 7-inch, with the name BLOODYMINDED replacing the Roland logo. The 202 photographed for this new design is one that was used extensively on tour by Pieter, and it suffered tremendously, in his hands. Over the years, we've learned that 202s are not just musical instruments, but they're shields and sometimes defensive weapons. After nearly every show, I'd discover that another fader cap or knob was missing, and I finally removed all of them from this synth to replace missing parts on other 202s that were also seeing hard use in live shows. Pieter ultimately bashed this one up so badly that not only did the body crack in several spots (thus the gaffer tape), but the circuit board actually cracked in two pieces. I also recall that one of the bare faders punctured his hand during one particularly rough show. This one's been out of commission for years, and several other of our 202s are also in pretty rough shape.  In 2010, when the majority of our 202 "fleet" had fallen into disrepair, I initiated a departure from our signature synth and I bought a few tiny Korg Monotron synths. It was worth a try, right? They'd typically break after just one show, because the mini output jacks are so delicate. A very kind Guitar Center salesperson, who'd seen me return several times with broken Monotrons, recommended that I buy a new one with a protection plan. While I would normally never waste money on that, she explained that for the low cost of the plan, I could keep bringing back broken synths after using them during shows. Huh!?! So, we went down that route, for a while, until the novelty of jumping around on stage with smartphone-sized synths simply got old for us. I kept a box full of broken Monotrons, but that seems like it would make for a boring shirt design. I used to care more about synths, although I still have a variety of small to medium-sized analog mono-synths to write and record with. Over time, however, I think I pretty much lost interest in music gear. I even relaxed our 202 rule again, so you might see Isidro and Will onstage with something else in their hands -- maybe Roland, maybe Korg. Sure, maybe some new micro-synth hitting the market will catch my eye in the future, but I'm not holding my breath. In the back of my mind, I always wondered if BLOODYMINDED would have the natural expiration date of when all of our 202s were destroyed. In the 1990s, they were easier to find and they only ran about $350-$400. By the early 2000s, they were at least double that price, and now they're frequently priced well over $1000, with really clean ones even reaching $1500. That seems a lot of money for something that'll probably get destroyed. Luckily, we've still got some back-ups, so we're not giving up, anytime soon...  https://BLOODYMINDED.threadless.com/designs/bloodyminded-202 https://bloodyminded.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bloodymindedchi/ https://www.facebook.com/BLOODYMINDED/

Mark Solotroff "Strategic Planning Vol. 2" 2CD Out Now

 

DOUBLE COMPACT DISC SET NOW SHIPPING Thanks to all of you who have supported the first 2CD set! I'm pleased to announce that the second volume of my new anthology series is in-stock and ready to ship. It compiles all of the tracks from three cassettes that I released from 2017-19. I'm wrapping up the pre-production of Vol. 3 and I anticipate releasing that 2CD set, which will also include previously unreleased music, in late April or early May. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategic Planning Vol. 2 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER THE 2CD VIA BANDCAMP: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/merch/strategic-planning-vol-2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. I also made these releases available through all the major digital platforms. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMING SOON: Strategic Planning Vol. 3 Tracks originally released on Vantage Points (2017, C-30, edition of 25) and Connected City (2017, C-30, edition of 50), plus previously unreleased recordings drawn from these 2017-19 sessions --------------------------------------------------------------------- ALSO AVAILABLE: "Strategic Planning Vol. 1" (2CD) https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/merch/strategic-planning-vol-1-2cd 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