Soundtracks for Invisibility Vol. I: Youth Burnt While Traveling

by Smokey Emery

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Asher I just really like this. Favorite track: Invisibility Vignettes (Pt. 1).

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1.	Light from the Screen 03:19	buy track
2.	This is the Wrong Place / In the Diminishing Way 07:04	buy track
3.	Morning Glorious 01:40	buy track
4.	Sad Machine in Soap Opera 04:10	buy track
5.	Invisibility Vignettes (Pt. 1) 10:26	buy track
6.	Invisibility Vignettes (Pt. 2) 05:42	buy track
7.	Tender Mercies 03:41	buy track

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Re-release of the ultra limited CD-R on Kiamisha Drive (KIA011, 2003), the imprint of one Daniel Hipolíto, also known as Smokey Emery. Only a handful were released initially, including one exclusive repress for Aquarius Records in San Francisco, who was awfully fond of the album. Now, Holodeck is proud to release the first installment of Smokey Emery’s Soundtracks for Invisibility series on the format that’s most proper: tape.

Soundtracks for Invisibility Vol 1: Youth Burnt While Traveling (HD001) is an arresting listen: symphonic drones and tape-loops are captured and constructed, and subsequently manipulated, on a series of reel-to-reel recorders, passed through effects & multiple generations of pitch-shifts, then allowed to loop over each other and explore the natural decay and idiosyncrasies of their respective formats. The machines feel as if they are given their own voices, like overhearing the hushed conversations between the components of a drenched city in the dead of night. Hipolíto acts as a medium between these voices, invisibly orchestrating an experimental narrative that facilitates the pulses of mechanical drones with plucks of timeless music boxes and other field recordings into a coherent and emotive whole.

The end result is incredibly intimate, and undeniably personal; even if Smokey Emery remains decidedly unseen, his fingerprints are on every single facet of this album, and we are all better for it.

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released April 30, 2012

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Smokey Emery Los Angeles, California

Tape music/Sound art by Daniel Hipólito. (ConApt, Somatic Records, Obsolete Future, Holodeck Records, Chondritic Sound, Kendra Steiner Editions, Heterodox Records, Aural Canyon, Kman23 Tapes, Self Sabotage Records, Black Porno Cassette)

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