The Amplifucker

by Killick

	/

00:00

Digital Album

Immediate and highly enjoyable download of 18-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Your support is greatly appreciated and directly supports my work.

Buy Now name your price
Share / Embed

1.	Destroy Erase Improv 03:20	download
2.	Beautifficult 03:06	download
3.	Immense True Ration 02:40	download
4.	Accept we have three fingers, and were green. 02:57	download
5.	Her dog was grr at me. 01:52	download
6.	Together We Make A Deference 02:40	download
7.	The Fighting's So Vicious 'Cause The Steaks Are So Delicious 02:37	download
8.	Heidy Banegas! 00:52	download
9.	Ungoing 01:22	download
10.	Symbol Grab 02:20	download
11.	We're Ready For the Real Farfisa 00:55	download
12.	Ten Gallon Hate 01:53	download
13.	Not A Could In The Sky 00:24	download
14.	Hellmonk 03:10	download
15.	Tableau To The Ego 02:25	download
16.	Mouthbereaver 04:08	download
17.	Stereo Diabolical Hems 02:57	download
18.	Mono Maniacal Haws 02:35	download

about

The Amplifucker is 18 further explorations in my Appalachian Trance Metal songbook. The goal for this project was to capture the interior and exterior life of my 18-stringed acoustic instrument called the H'arpeggione, a.k.a. Devil Cello. I went for maximum transparency across an extremely wide dynamic range, from whisper quiet to all get-out. It was all recorded live, first takes, with no edits or overdubs. The H'arpeggione is naturally soft-spoken, and after years of trial and error, engineer Tom Lewis and I arrived at our recording solution: four microphones, a contact mic, a pickup, two amplifiers, and then the whole lot was run through a p.a. speaker and that too was recorded. All the signals were then blended in the mix. Some moments are the most intense sounds of acoustic musical instrument origin I've ever heard, pushing the physical limits of (myself and) the H'arp. The title The Amplifucker refers to the ambiguity between "acoustic" and "electric," as we're typically dealing with both in most musical presentations, despite any marketing concepts to the contrary. It's also a musing on post-electricity creativity, and I hope fun and sexy, something sometimes painfully absent in "serious" music. Song titles include Beautifficult, Mouthbereaver, Symbol Grab, Not A Could In The Sky, and many other challenges to grammar and spell checkers everywhere...

credits

released 01 August 2008
recorded by Tom Lewis 3.09.08 at John Keane Studios, Athens GA

mixed by Tom Lewis and Killick 3.10.08 at Chase Park Transduction, Athens GA