Dan Gilmore

*40 copies limited edition* »Know I've Been Here Before« by Dan Gilmore is a suite of eleven songs, based on reassembled and overdubbed audio files recorded between 2007 and 2010. What I hear in these recordings are not only various sound sources such as the guitar, the (self-built) synthesizer, or microphones, not only movements, rhythms, textures, or even harmonies, but also ideas, aspirations, circumstances, a mode of production. It is music that, through association and disassociation, makes (me) both thoughtful and thoughtless. This sounds familiar, but how did I get here in the first place?

»Know I've Been Here Before« is the third publication by Les Archives de la Médiocrité. The album follows appearances by Gilmore on labels such as Regional Bears, Hologram, Edition Erich Schmid, and Gateway Gardenia. The artist, who is based in New York, runs the label Spoor LLC and is the former head of the Careful Catalog imprint.