a r t i s t : Accelera Deck
t i t l e : Instrumentals
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Unlabel (un52006/41)
g e n r e : Noise
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2007
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 89,3 MB
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Welcome to unlabel series52! This is number 41, released on
October 9, 2006.
Artist Info:
Accelera Deck - Formed sometime mid 1996 as an outlet for the
guitar and beat experiments of Chris Jeely. From 1997 till
2005 Jeely released 8 albums, and a handful of limited edition
7"s, 12"s and CDRs. Since 2003 he has played live up and down
the East of the United States. Anyone familiar with the
Accelera Deck discography knows that Jeely is unafraid to try
new things (witness 'Shadowland' from 2001, his totally
acoustic album) and so it is that after nine years of solo
work that Accelera Deck has become a band. Zach Evans played
drums on the album 'A Landslide of Stars', later replaced by
Brad Davis (also of Plate Six), Jeely sings, and plays guitar
while creating his usual damaged guitar tones, and caustic
melodies via computer.
So what will all this sound like? Jeely says 'It sounds just
like it should', Evans called it 'fire-rock' and 'blast-
drone', and Davis simply says 'panties'..... no matter what
you call it or what you say, Accelera Deck has created a
pretty unique sound by combining some really simple elements
into a whole that is larger than the sum of its parts. Simple,
repeating guitar figures (in a low slung non-standard tuning)
and cyclical drum patterns form the skeleton over which a
laptop blasts out jeely's own damaged guitar loops. On top of
the music floats jeely's disembodied voice singing out
meditative wordplays, and using all manner of metaphors to
communicate the tension between a world that is dying, and a
world yet born.
Following the formation of the band, Accelera Deck set out to
tour the East Coast and Midwest in April 2006 to support the
album 'A Landslide of Stars' but after only 3 dates the tour
imploded and the remaining dates were cancelled. In April
2006, Accelera Deck made their first live appearance with new
drummer Brad Davis and then entered the studio to record
material for a 7" picture disc to be released on Lathelight
Ltd. Late June brought another live show.
The 'Instrumentals' liner notes state "this recording appears
in its in original form before the music was edited and turned
into backing drones for the songs on the album 'A Landslide of
Stars', which was released in March 2006 on Scarcelight
Recordings." In the meantime Davis is concentrating on making
music with Broken Letters and Plate Six, while Jeely is
focusing on Motorway and Skulllike.
The series52 Concept:
While chatting on the phone back in September 2005 the two
people who run Unlabel decided to do this...
During 2006 Unlabel is releasing a series of 52 CD albums -
one every week of the year, all by people who aren't connected
with us (i.e. none of our regular artists), to include all
genres that we cover from the usual guitar based music -
acoustic and alt. country to post-rock / math-rock, hardcore
and beyond, piano, electronica / idm through to ambient,
glitch, microsound, gabber, industrial / noise, soundscapes
and anything else that takes our fancy, each in a strictly
limited edition of just 100 copies.
We decided to do something slightly different - instead of
focusing on local artists, as has been traditional with
Unlabel, we opened this project up to submissions from all
over the world. It is entirely separate from the usual
catalogue of releases and will run as a new offshoot of the
unlabel family.
The idea is to release work by unknown artists who may not
otherwise be recognised at all alongside a handful of
carefully selected guests, including a few names which may be
familiar due to their other releases elsewhere. We receive
quite a few demos these days from all over the world and it
will be good to work with some of these people and to document
music (albeit in a small way) that may not otherwise be
noticed at all...
Each 'album' in this project includes at least 8 tracks OR at
least 30 minutes of material and obviously quality control is
being kept to a high standard.
All releases are packaged in distinctive matching artwork with
the musical artists' own image on the front and two images
from Unlabel on the back - including one of a landscape
photographed every week over the 12 months of 2006 and all
pictures are professionally printed on high gloss photo paper.
Each sleeve is hand numbered and every CD includes a diary
page insert for the relevant week of the year, which can be
filled in and returned to Unlabel to win a unique prize. There
are also inserts from the artists and Unlabel making each one
of these fine discs a collector's item.
http://www.unlabel.net/series52.htm
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01-Sexx [03:29]
02-A Landslide of Stars [07:01]
03-Q [01:01]
04-Fire Sermon [10:04]
05-Embrace [05:00]
06-7 [00:47]
07-Wolf-Christ [40:00]
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67:22 min