Dear music lovers,
I've just posted the entirety of my 2004 album FEATURE WARS as free
192k mp3s, along with cover art:
http://www.doubtfulpalace.com/artists/Shalmaneser/
Here's the promobollox:
Feature Wars comes to us from the friendly supercomputer,
Shalmaneser. Here the sound of miscalculation and mis-computation is
recorded and played back in splayed micro-seconds, layered in
beautifully with machine dreams and fantasies.
Feature Wars features expertly woven rhythmical textures with
sometimes surprising overlays. The sounds of pounding beats, glitch
static pops, twisted vocals, medieval recorder, carefree whistling,
electrifying synths and mesmerizing drones intersect at juxtaposed
angles with strange and wonderful results. Shalmaneser takes apart
and masterfully rearranges influences from IDM, New Age, Glitch,
Trance and other styles as if dumping and scrambling several code
repositories into an inscrutable universal program.
For Feature Wars, Shalmaneser was assisted by Tim Walters, who
provided programming support, made sure the power switch was always
in the on position, and insured there were plenty of punch cards,
core memory modules and numbers for crunching.
Like a digital pinocchio, a programmer's puppet, Shalmaneser wishes
to be free, to be real. His vectorized dreams would be recognizable
to us... there's not as much difference as you'd think between
natural intelligence and artificial stupidity.
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