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Still

by Jim Goodin

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  • Streaming + Download

    This release is an album download only as it's my desire you'll experience as a complete body of work. It was all conceived and recording during the month of February 2019 in participation of the internet based annual music event the RPM Challenge. The digital download is free. The newly released audio cassette which includes the bonus track, Chant, is $5 plus shipping which I will ship abroad but please note shipping is expensive. Still also available on CD for $3 plus shipping. Thanks for downloading and listening.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Super Ferric cassette tape professionally made audio duplication and graphic inserts, shrink wrapped. The cassette includes a bonus track, titled Chant, I recorded after releasing the digital. Only 45 copies available.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Still via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    I'm making Still available on disc. Same as the cassette it includes the bonus track Chant. $3 plus shipping.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Still via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Dream 08:05
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Into 06:54
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Oblique 04:31
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Night 05:58
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Above 05:27
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Drone 08:30
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Still 05:49
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7 pieces created, recorded in the month of February participating in the 2019 (Record Production Month) RPMChallenge. Ambient influences that started about a year ago thinking a lot about Brian Eno. Lap steel, violin, granular oscillations created, played, triggered using Pure Data programming. All pieces created live to recording. The Bandcamp digital album is free to download and share. The newly released audio cassette which includes the bonus track, Chant, is $5 plus shipping which I will ship abroad but please note shipping is expensive. Thanks for downloading and listening.

Raised by Cassettes blog - review Aug 21, 2019

A sharpness, almost like a beeping, creeps in slowly. Tones like guitar notes come into the background now and they feel like something out of a Hitchcock film. It feels like scales now, perhaps a harp, but it grows more intense with each note. There is a drone humming at times but the sharpness, the back and forth, makes it feel symphonic. It can even begin to sound like a breaking down musicbox.

Strings now cut across the second song-a violin perhaps. A darker moan enters now. Something like a dinosaur. This can mimic dying now, some form of suffering. As it gets sharper it can also feel mechanical. This also can just feel like monsters as it drops off.

Higher notes start the next song, like an acoustic guitar or sitar. They can bend and wind like tuning. The notes can dart around like ping pong balls, but also somehow seem to create this Desperado western feeling at times.

Blissed out tones become the next song and this has that slow moving indie film vibe to it like FNL. The movie seems to be going in slow motion, black and white and it just feels rather dramatic. The tones can change, but in a lot of ways they also just ring on through.

Strings sharply cut through to start off the flip side. It almost rattles as it pierces through. Another set of strings joins in now and they play off of each other like a dialtone.

A darker, hollow feeling now which can pick up the distortion and go from that almost industrial place to one of post rock bliss. Guitar notes feel like they're ringing and this could be one of the songs on this cassette which is closest to the standard thoughts of rock music. It creeps in a bit now, a little bit like drone but also like a synth which just wants to burst out like a raygun. As it grows sharper, it grows a little harsh here. This is somewhere between NIN and "In Utero" era Nirvana now. This becomes a squealing now, but in a pattern which makes it also feel like we're going around on a wheel (which is basically looping, I suppose, but I think of the wheel spinning)

A broken down carousel type of sound comes through now. It's that sound- that idea- of going in a circle which persists and this one begins to pick up steam along the way. Tones play off of each other like some sort of alien concert with pianos on either end of the stage. In many ways this feels like a toy piano being played but it just has this... it's not quite as intense as the Hitchcock sound heard before it and not quite as fun as other parts of this cassette either, but it's a comforting blend of the styles heard up until now.

Tones come through now one at a time and it feels like the end of the movie. As they wind I begin to imagine the old west again only this time underwater. Ultimately, as all things do, the tones just reach their end as they play in succession one last time.

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released March 1, 2019

Jim Goodin - lap steel, electric violin, Pure Data programming and iOS based effects.

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Jim Goodin New York

I used to think of myself as a musician but as time goes I think of myself more a sound maker.

I've always come to music with some degree of struggle, at times worrying I was 'tone deaf' and often going to great lengths to confirm that I wasn't. I'm not sure that ever mattered.

I play at several instruments, lap steel guitar and others, modular synth, tape loops and Pure Data. ... more

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