Doctor Dancing Mask: Pianoisms, by Neil S. Kvern

Doctor Dancing Mask: Pianoisms

by Neil S. Kvern

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
— Limited edition of 555 LPs, hand assembled with love
— First ever vinyl pressing
— Second release of uncommon¢, a new series from FT$

Side A (33 RPM)
A1 Slow Mirrors / Big Circle
A2. Some Travelers Said to a Peasant Girl
A3. Hangup City
A4. The Conclusion

Side B (33 RPM)
B1. Woodhenge
B2. “I’m Losing It”
B3. The Longer of Two Nights

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1.	Slow Mirrors / Big Circle 09:13	buy track
2.	Woodhenge 04:44	buy track
3.	Out 03:27	buy track
4.	Mirror Road 05:12	buy track
5.	Hangup City 02:48	buy track
6.	The Conclusion 04:46	buy track
7.	Purple Scarf 10:41	buy track
8.	Some Travelers Said to a Peasant Girl 03:32	buy track
9.	"I'm Losing It" 03:14	buy track
10.	The Longer of Two Nights 14:16	buy track

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Neil S. Kvern’s Doctor Dancing Mask: Pianoisms is a near mythical marker on the map of late 20th century experimentalism transpiring in America’s Pacific Northwest. A sublime, spacious effort of left field DIY minimalism constructed from recurring piano pieces, hypnotic percussion, and a peppering of diverse instrumentation, vocals, and invisible effects, Doctor Dancing Mask illuminates a hidden but remarkable legacy of a young composer at the height of his creativity and consciousness.

Originally released in 1983 as a small cassette edition largely distributed to friends and via word of mouth, Neil S. Kvern’s Doctor Dancing Mask: Pianoisms arrives again January 27, 2023 on vinyl and digitally as part of uncommon¢ (“uncommon sense”), an open-ended, serialized endeavor from Freedom to Spend that provides new meaning for rarefied recordings from music’s outermost fringe.

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released January 27, 2023

Mastered by Carl Saff
Design by WWFG

NSK: piano, tambour, marimba, recorder, desk lamp, metal fish, voice, effects
Constance Maytum: second voice on “Some Travelers Said to a Peasant Girl”
Charlie Spear: guitar on “Mirror Road”
Glenn McNutt: drums on “I’m Losing It”
Craig Kvern: temple blocks on “I’m Losing It”

Words in “The Conclusion” are from a poem by William Bronk

Original dedication / Thanks:

Thanks to Carl Smool for help with poster design and layout; John Carl for typesetting and conversation; Ole Kvern for final mixdown, tape graphics, layout and other valuable assistance; and Constance Maytum for general advice and specific consultation.

This tape is dedicated to the Haida artist who made the head-dress puppet (collected in 1881) featured on the poster and cover silhouette. In Objects of Bright Pride (published by the Center for Inter-American Relations and the American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1978), it is described as a cannibal spirit, worn during dances.

Originally released September 30th, 1983, Seattle

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