15 February 2009

A Picture of a Picture (collab with Aidan Baker) - Pre-order NOW

Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy - A Picture of a Picture CD
Official release date: March 31, 2009
Label: Killer Pimp Music

Their first studio collaboration was the Orange EP which came out as a limited edition of 200 orange CDRs on thisquietarmy's own imprint. The tracks were recorded separately from their home, sent back and forth via postmail for months, and finally mixed and edited by Eric Quach. The release was quickly sold out, much to the dismay of the largely reputed Aquarius Records store who kept asking for more after having sold a large part of the run in a very short matter of time.

For their first full-length album, Baker & Quach have decided to do things differently by setting a simple rule beforehand: the record was to be played and recorded live together, adding a very minimal amount of overdubs if not any. The recording session took place in the fall of 2007, in Quach's own home studio TQA-HQ in Montreal. Because of their very busy schedule, it took about a year before the two artists decided to get together to work on these tracks again. This time, Baker finalized the mixes in his home studio, resulting again in four long movements, clocking at around an hour's length. Instead of the overall terror-ambient feel of their first collaboration, the first two tracks actually find both guitarists exploring the brighter side of their spectrum, evoking the hope and the beauty represented in Christy Romanick's photographs that were again used for the artwork, in conjunction with Quach's sketches.

FREE MP3: Imagistic Continuty

Available for pre-order for only $9.99, free shipping worldwide:
http://brainwashed.com/commerce.html

Also check out the 4 other releases by Killer Pimp and get the 5th one free with the "Economic Stimulus" special! Kudos to Jon Whitney of Killer Pimp/Brainwashed.com for those killer upcoming releases.

Killer Pimp Music is also the home of one of my favorite current band "A Place To Bury Strangers", and I could not be more happier to be label mates with them.

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