Released through Submaring Broadcasting Co. Limited edition cassette tapes available here...
submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/the-spider-room
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In the summer of 2022 I *entered* an old derelict school building late at night with nothing but my electric guitar and a cheap Sony sound recorder. I was fascinated by the acoustics and the reverb of the empty music room, and the smelly rotten old musical instruments within it - covered in spiders and dust, and mostly broken or completely out-of-tune.
My only intention was to record some improvised solo guitar pieces in this cold dark abandoned building, which I did... but I also ended up messing around on the various other instruments that were lying around the room - namely an old school piano, an out-of-tune violin, an filthy Irish flute, a smelly harmonica, a cracked glockenspiel and a percussive egg. I decided that these instruments/sounds had to be recorded too... so I eventually overdubbed the existing guitar tracks with layers of improvised performances on these old neglected school instruments, and ended up with two strange pieces of music that I felt worthy of release.
The result is...interesting. I would loosely describe it as some kind of free-form avant-garde noise jazz... but I'm not a trained jazz musician so that's probably not entirely accurate or true. The two 15-minute abstract pieces that comprise this debut album are entirely improvised, recorded in one take, and left almost completely raw and unedited - for better or for worse...
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released January 29, 2023
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''A beautiful and haunting piece of improvised music'' - Submarine Broadcasting Co.
''Breathtaking avant-garde...a strange and wonderful improvised masterpiece that begs for repeated listens.'' - Fog Songs
''A perplexing and immersive listening experience, one that isn’t easily forgotten, lodging itself firmly in your subconscious for continued investigation.These songs are spooky, mysterious, even a bit soundtrack-y.'' - Beats Per Minute
''An abandoned school, late at night, a graveyard of instruments... spooky and thoughtful sounds.'' - a Jazz Noise
''...a conduit bringing energy in direct focus with this unearthly venue. Joseph Blane brings listeners to this reclusive place, but with heart felt intentions. A beautiful aural flummox as to where feelings rest. Are listeners pushed to prismatic nightmares of restless distress, or is this a futuristic lullaby for for the next generation of infant sleepers?'' - Lost in a Sea of Sound
''...very engaging, you can picture the room as you listen. It’s very difficult to describe – it’s abstract, sort of ambient, sort of jazzy, sort of neo-classical. It has a strange beauty, a haunted sound at times and a great edge.'' - Andrulian
''Fascinating harmony as much as disharmony...If you listen to this undistracted and focus intensely on the sounds, you will imbibe a wealth of meaning and joy.'' - Heresiarch Reviews
''...potent and engaging, turning what could be possibly intimidating ‘free-form avant-garde noise jazz‘ into a very listenable experience.'' - Eternity Tree
''Haunted yet quite soothing...a huge range of moments and emotions to explore.'' - The Electroscape
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All music performed and recorded by Joseph Blane.
Contact :
josephblane@yahoo.com
Cover image 'The Crying Spider' by Odilon Redon
