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Aural Trauma and Anti​-​Sound

by To Be Gentle

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In between, us vapors shall teem And rub our fingers against foggy windowpanes Where we will draw love letters In each other’s breath
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You are the sound of lips caressing And arms holding warm bodies And every time I hear that sound My spirit blossoms I miss you And I know you’re never coming back
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Vampyr 06:00
Spiders crawl on you On your shoes, and on me They spin their webs upon piano keys And so irresistibly I teem For you I could write one thousand symphonies
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Sometimes 03:18
Sometimes I don't want to be here anymore
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Leaving songs Playing on a worn-out stereo “How bright you shine, I hope you never forget How bright you shine, A resounding, ardent light That will reach the daydreams and moments Of finer years to come” The buzzing of faulty electronics, Like a swarm of barn flies Playing that message trapped in static over one thousand times, “How bright you shine, I hope you never forget how bright you shine” And the speakers are about to bust their guts open Singing those frequencies Those love songs for the terminally haunted

about

Written between May and July of 2023.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at home in Snohomish, Washington in July 2023.

To Be Gentle is made of amplifiers, microphones, mental illness, analog and digital synthesizers, electric guitar and bass, tape loops, piano, glockenspiel, drums, noise, and various reverb and delay units.

Equipment used in the making of this album:
Guitar and Bass - Peavey T-60, Peavey T-40
Amplifiers - Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+, Sovtek Mig 50, Sovtek Mig 100, Sunn 300T, Ampeg SVT Classic, Ampeg SVT4PRO
Cabinets - Mesa Boogie Rectifier Standard Slant 4x12, Peavey 5150 4x12, Ampeg SVT810E
Drums and Percussion - Mapex Saturn V 22x16 Kick Drum, Mapex Saturn V 12x8 Rack Tom / 16x16 Floor Tom, Gretsch Bell Brass 14x6.5 Snare, Meinl Artist Concept Prototype 14" Hi-Hat, Meinl Byzance Medium Brilliant 18" / Meinl Artist Concept Prototype 19" Crash Cymbals, Meinl Artist Concept Prototype 21" Ride Cymbal, Glockenspiel
Synthesizers and Noise Machines - Alchemy, Marantz PMD 201, Moog Grandmother
Effects Units - EarthQuaker Devices Plumes, Palisades, Swiss Things, Sea Machine, Rainbow Machine, Disaster Transport SR, Avalanche Run, Dispatch Master, Transmisser, Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai, Caroline Guitar Company Meteore, Demedash Effects T-120, TC Electronic Polytune 2, Dunlop DVP4, Darkglass B7K Ultra

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released August 29, 2023

Cover and photo by William Mortensen. "Mary, Mother of Jesus" 1926, portrait of Dorothy Cumming. Processed by To Be Gentle.

For Nikko, who passed away on February 2, 2016 due to complications involving diabetes.

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