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Tops Crops Snaps Hots

by The Glass Bees

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1.
Sand Dunes 04:00
2.
Whooping Crane 05:43
3.
Preface Introduction 03:29
4.
GBKA 10:55
5.
The Next Spring 08:30
6.
Roland's Song 03:30
7.
Thunder on the Prairie 06:28
8.
The Martial Plan 05:06
9.
The Weavers of Schalkenmehren 07:33
10.
I Shot the Serif 04:14
11.
Merges Aquasitions 03:51

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Active from 2005-2013 in New York City, the Glass Bees posted more than 80 recordings as an ongoing free podcast on their website, glassbees.com. Their approach emerged from a spirit of play and a personal vocabulary for improvisation that exploited the creative potential of musical instruments, field recordings, nonmusical objects, voices, and situations. The Glass Bees recorded their improvisations using a simple stereo digital recorder, edited them in ways that seemed interesting, and shared their discoveries through the website, largely dispensing with traditional models of music distribution.

The Glass Bees self-released "Tops Crops Snaps Hots" as a limited edition CD in 2008, compiling highlights from the group's earliest studio recordings. This Bandcamp album reproduces the original release, which sequenced 11 tracks into a continuous mix.

Please note that when listening to the album on the Bandcamp website, or as MP3 files, you may hear it insert silence between tracks. By downloading the album as FLAC or Apple Lossless files, the tracks should play back without gaps.

credits

released August 8, 2008

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CREDITS

On this release, The Glass Bees were Chris Williams and Jason Das. Flute on "Whooping Crane" by Eve LoCastro. Although we have edited these tracks, all sounds were performed live in realtime with no overdubs.

Editing, mixing, and mastering support by Jim Bentley at The Fort, Brooklyn.

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"And every now and then one came upon the most fantastic creatures: a Goliath, a Tom Thumb, or an angel of the Annunciation through whose transparent body and wings the surrounding objects could be seen." — Ernst Jünger, "The Glass Bees"

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Active from 2005-2013, The Glass Bees began as a project for musical improvisation and collaboration, and evolved into a malleable platform for work in sound and other media. The project was also an experiment in spontaneous music distribution, posting recordings as a podcast through its website, glassbees.com. ... more

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