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#3 (WMD013)

by Attorneys General

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The first release in WMD's Digital-Only Series.

Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of DC-based band The Caribbean. A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of soundman Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, "The Horrible Truth About Burma," in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways. Byars has adapted this approach to having three people (different players every time, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.

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released November 22, 2018
Recorded at The Dew Drop Inn, Washington, DC, 8/2/17.
Players for this performance were Dave Jones, Michael Kentoff, and Andras Fekete.

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West Main Development Baltimore, Maryland

West Main Development is the B-sides label, specializing in singles and EP’s, mostly. Most of what we release wouldn’t see the light of day otherwise - throwaways, one-off collaborations, covers, live recordings - and we specialize in catching artists we love during these, their most unguarded moments. ... more

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