Muennich / Esposito / Jupitter-Larsen - The Wraiths of Flying A CD

Firework Edition Records (FER1102) November 2012, Edition of 300 copies 

A collaboration album by Michael Muennich, Michael Esposito and GX Jupitter-Larsen has just been released on Sweden's Firework Edition Records and is now (resp. very soon) available from FER (Swe), Fragment Factory (Ger), Rumpsti Pumsti (Ger), Tedium House (US), Metamkine (F), Die Stadt (Ger) and Infinite Limits (UK)

Original field recordings/EVPs captured by Michael Esposito at American Film Studios, Santa Barbara, CA (PAW case file: PAW109), additional sounds recorded by Michael Muennich at Fragment Factory, Hamburg during 2011/2012, edited and processed by Michael Esposito, Michael Muennich and GX Jupitter-Larsen, Chicago / Hamburg / Los Angeles.

Mastered by Phil Julian, London in September 2012.
Artwork by Philip Marshall, Berlin in May 2012.

Sound samples can be heard at:  
http://soundcloud.com/michael-muennich

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Michael Muennich
Michael Esposito
GX Jupitter-Larsen

Francisco Meirino & Michael Esposito - The Ghosts of Case File 142 CD

Firework Edition Records (FER1098) 2012, Edition of 500 copies

After a slight delay due to a major fuckup of the CD manufacturing company, the ghosts of 142 have finally been brought into the light of day in all of their intended complexity. Francisco was kind enough to provide a copy to fake dimensions, thanks a lot for that! While the visual design of recent Esposito releases on Firework Edition Records (which has obviously become a pleasant home to the works of Mr. E) was done by Philip Marshall, the artwork for this CD was accomplished by Francisco Meirino. I don't know how, but in some way the art manages to perfectly reflect this overall arcane atmosphere, that encompasses this and most of the other works by Michael Esposito (and so does Philip's artwork as seen on "Ghosts of Ogilvie Station" for instance). Case File 142 is based on recordings Francisco made on site in Lausanne at a former school for anatomy and EVP researches by Michael. It's a one-piece, totalling nearly 41 minutes, a rather quiet album on the whole, compared to some of the earlier releases by both artists. There's a lot of buzzing and hissing on here, paired with very well-placed sequences of nearly complete silence, undoubtedly bearing the hallmarks of Meirino. Most of the time the EVPs are rather looming in the background, ocassionally whispering from somewhere faraway, drawing the attention to something or someone being out there, someplace here or there, far-off or even very close by. Case File 142 is a piece that needs to be listened to very closely, to ensure you don't miss the many small details that pop up repeatedly in the course of this journey. If you listen closely enough it's almost like getting a story told, and although (or precisely because) its ending is vague, you will inevitably stick to it all along the way.

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Phantom Plastics: Michael Esposito & Per Svensson – The Ghosts of Ogilvie Station 7" Flexi

Firework Edition Records (FER1096) November 2011, Edition of 250 copies

Ending the year and introducing FD with a release which I've been looking forward to since Michael Esposito told me about this project several months ago. After the Inner Voices 7" (released earlier this year on FER, aditionally w/ Leif Elggren on board) this is already Esposito's second team-up with Svensson, whose first Firework release dates back just about a quarter-century. Ogilvie is a train station in downtown Chicago, where Michael - as those of you who are familiar with his works may have already guessed - conducted research and managed to capture EVP to provide the basic sounds for this release. Among the very extensive liner notes on EVP, that come along with this gorgeously presented record, one can find a detailed description of Svensson's processing of the material gathered at Ogilivie: "I have both recorded and played the original sound recording from the Ogilvie Station with my Yamaha MT8X portable cassette recorder, and at the same time run the sound through my Oscillograph Nordmende from 1958 and returned the modulated sound back again to my MT8X and recorded the frequency modulation of the material on a different channel. In this way, the frequency modulation is directly linked to the basic sound material of Ogilvie Station" (so far a short excerpt). The result is a beautiful one from every point of view. The audible part appears like a shimmering journey into the far-off and unknown, maybe a bygone era, maybe something or somewhere far beyond the here and now. Accompanied by continuous swirling sounds, one can divine reverberating voices, even distant melodies if listening very closely. I assume that the format of a single-sided 7" flexi record wasn't chosen randomly, since it works almost perfectly with the music on here. Although quite a brief journey on the whole, I'm sure "The Ghosts of Ogilvie Station" would be taken with this collaboration. Great artwork by Philip Marshall too!

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