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Biota

Half A True Day

LabelReR Megacorp

FormatCD

GenreFolk

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Six years in the making, the visual/sonic art group Biota have finally completed their Sixth CD for ReR. Unique in their history and method, Biota painstakingly construct complex, organic structures that mix extensive studio processing and musique concréte techniques with a highly eclectic orchestra of acoustic and electronic resources – from kit drums, through mediaeval winds, strings and barrel organs to early experimental electronic instruments. Their works are always performance driven and interleaved with successive stages of lamination, imbrication, and radical pre- and post-processing, Quietly ploughing their own furrow for decades, Biota resemble no one, follow no one and, if the sonic arts were like the visual arts, would by now be a national treasure

Details
Cat. number: RÉR BCD6
Year: 2007

Release notes

Packaged in a clear-tray jewel case with an illustrated 12-page booklet that includes artwork, credits, release information, and tracklist. Recorded and mixed between Fall 2002 & Summer 2007 In Memoriam Rolf Goranson 1957-2004 Andrew Kredt 1961-2006 Recorded & mixed: Dys Studio (Bellvue, Colorado) Edited & mastered: Eye In The Sky (Fort Collins, Colorado) Additional guitar recording: Blue Mango (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii) For generous technical support, we thank Mark Derbyshire - Pendragon For…

Tracklist
1Figure Question1:46
2Pack-and-Penny Day1:36
3Hidden Compartment1:33
4Angle Of Doubt2:55
5Proven Within Half - Half A True Day8:19
6Accidental Photograph2:44
7Winding Nth10:30
8Moth Across2:56
9Silent Grove2:42
10Just Now Maybe2:22
11Another Name3:53
12Turn The Moon3:11
13Globemallow, Left Untold3:03
14Cloud Chamber2:38
15Where No One Knows2:29
16Antimagnet2:26
17Passerine14:37
Credits
Gordon Whitlow
Accordion, Performer [Pennycorn], Horn [Kaen], Autoharp, Keyboards [Rhodes]
Larry Wilson
Artwork [Booklet & Tray Backgrounds, Design], Artwork [Graphics Concept], Artwork [Page Background Source Materials], Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts], Drums [Kit], Congas, Tabla, Kalimba [Mbira], Performer [Renad], Percussion, Mixed By
William Sharp
Artwork [Graphics Concept], Artwork [Page Background Source Materials], Engineer [Dys], Mixed By, Electronics [Electronic Processing], Edited By, Tape [Tapework]
James Dixon
Artwork [Page Background Source Materials], Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Stephen Wilson
Artwork [Page Background Source Materials]
Steve Emmons
Artwork [Page Background Source Materials], Electronics [Small Battery-Powered Devices]
Tom Katsimpalis
Artwork [Page Background Source Materials], Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts], Guitar, Bass [Crown], Keyboards [Clavioline], Ektare [Gopichand], Musical Box [Prepared Music Boxes], Tape [Tapework], Mixed By
Ann Stretton
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Bill Ellsworth
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Dana Sharp
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Dirk Vallons
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Heidi Eversley
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
James Gardner
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts], Flugelhorn
Ken DeVries
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Randy Yeates
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts], Keyboards [Biomellodrone], Synthesizer [Micromoog]
Simon Abbate
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Stan Starbuck
Artwork [Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts]
Mnemonists
Artwork [Visuals]
Rolf Goranson
Electronics [Small Battery-Powered Devices], Voice, Tape [Tapework]
Jerry Schneyer
Engineer [Blue Mango]
Randy Miotke
Engineer [Eye In The Sky], Keyboards [Fender Rhodes], Edited By, Mastered By
Andy Kredt
Guitar
Mark Piersel
Guitar
Biota
Music By (1, 3 to 17), Producer [Production], Arranged By, Mixed By [Mixdown]
Charles O'Meara
Piano
Steve Scholbe
Strings [Rubab], Guitar, Bass
David Zekman
Violin [Electric], Mandolin
Kristianne Gale
Voice, Guitar

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