Mix and Words by Rachel Evans
This mix starts in 2009. I started recording as Motion Sickness of Time Travel “officially” in December 2008, but didn’t release anything under that name until 2009. I was in my final year of college, double majoring in art and music. Tracks 1 and 2 are from my first ‘experiments’ as MSOTT, and are actually composed of remixes of my older more singer-songwriter type music. I did a lot of chopping up the original track files, rearranging them in geometric patterns within the audio-editing screen. After that I tried to combine those new techniques with traditional composing/songwriting and even ‘traditional’ instruments.
The releases on this mix that were put out in 2010 were mostly recorded in between graduating from college and starting grad school to study librarianship. All of these earlier recordings were released on Hooker Vision (the label my husband Grant & I run, which he founded in 2008). My first non-Hooker Vision release was on Digitalis Ltd. (starting at track 10 on this mix) after submitting a demo tape to them, thanks to Grant encouraging me to. That tape became Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious and was re-released at the beginning of 2010 on vinyl on the same label. A couple of the releases on this mix are from tapes that were put out on Digitalis-related labels like Dial Square Tapes and Teosinte. I also did a split around that time with Eden’s solo project Mass Ornament (she’s half of Digitalis/Altar Eagle), which we released on Hooker Vision in early 2011.
Almost all of the releases I’ve put out so far as MSOTT, and even the ones Grant and I released as our duo Quiet Evenings, were released on the labels of friends that we’ve made in the past few years…either by making similar music, releasing their music on our label, or releasing music on the same labels. That’s the case with Hobo Cult Records (run by Frank Oulette, who actually did the artwork for the L&S LP/CD, White Candle CS, and of course the Dreamcatcher CS), Kim Dawn (run by Frank Baugh, who records as Sparkling Wide Pressure), and Tranquility Tapes (run by Franklin Teagle of the NYC synth duo Afterlife, with tape designs/art by Caroline Teagle of Imperial Topaz).
After a short tour of the southeast coast with our friend Jeff of Xiphiidae (Housecraft Recordings/Digital Natives/etc.), we had made several friends in the Asheville area, including Bathetic Records. In late 2011, I released my final MSOTT release of the year on that label, a split cassette with the UK’s Listening Mirror. It’s probably my favorite solo release from 2011. There are also several Quiet Evenings tracks on this mix, mostly recorded in 2011. We recorded a lot of material together that year, and played more live shows that year than ever before. An excerpt from our upcoming LP Impressions is featured on this mix at the end, and is forthcoming on Belgium’s Aguirre Records, the same label that released a split LP between Grant’s and my solo projects (Grant was recording as Nova Scotian Arms at the time) in late 2011. The final track on this mix is unreleased material which I recorded just last week…
Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Needle Exchange 105:
1. I’m 11 or 12 again (0:00 – 1:21)
Middle Winter EP, Hooker Vision, CDr , 2009
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2. They Came Up from the Hills and Down from the Sound (1:18 – 2:07)
Middle WInter EP, Hooker Vision, CDr , 2009
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3. The Magick That Is You (2:06 – 2:58)
A Forest Aching Cold, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2009
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4. The Devil’s Voice (2:56 – 4:22)
Feathers and Furs, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2009
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5. Mid-Afternoon (4:20 – 7:05)
Communicating From Within a Wooden Box, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2009
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6. Dark Room (5:36 – 7:52)
Aditive Abature split, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2009
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7. Enchantment Versus Mind Control (7:52 – 8:51)
Aditive Abature split, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2009
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8. Earthly Vapors and Witches (8:50 – 10:38)
The Soma Mandala, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2009
Quiet Evenings
9. Absolute Pigment (10:38 – 11:42)
The Sound of Reality Dissolving EP, mini CDr, 2010
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10. Clairvoyance (11:42 – 12:32)
Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious, Digitalis, cassette, 2010
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11. Little Green Bottle (12:20 – 13:35)
Red Tide EP, Hooker Vision, mini CDr, 2010
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12. Awakening (13:18 – 15:00)
Awakening, Dial Square Tapes, cassette, 2010
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13. Firework of Echoes (14:41 – 16:59)
Slow Architecture split, Sweat Lodge Guru, cassette, 2011
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14. Moon-blued (16:50 – 19:26)
Slow Architecture split, Sweat Lodge Guru, cassette, 2011
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15. Moons Through a Telescope (19:10 – 21:00)
A Disembodied Voice in the Darkness, Teosinte, cassette, 2011
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16. A Drug-Induced Phenomenon (20:13 – 22:57)
A Disembodied Voice in the Darkness, Teosinte, cassette, 2011
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17. Fade Away (22:17 – 25:44)
split with Mass Ornament, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2011
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18. Transcending Spheres (25:21 – 28:27)
Transcending Spheres, Preservation, CD, 2011
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19. Finality (27:13 – 29:42)
Transcending Spheres, Preservation, CD, 2011
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20. Spirit Smoke (29:01 – 31:00)
Spirit Smoke, Kim Dawn, mini CDr, 2011
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21. Eight Nineteen (30:44 – 32:59)
Luminaries & Synastry, Digitalis, LP & CD, 2011
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22. Binah (32:23 – 34:59)
Sistrum, Self-released, mini CDr, 2011
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23. The Dawn (34:40 – 36:24)
Dreamcatcher, Hobo Cult, cassette, 2011
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24. Textiles (36:05 – 37:41)
Dreamcatcher, Hobo Cult, cassette, 2011
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25. Inner Circle (37:21 – 39:02)
Inscriptions Volume 1 compilation, Sacred Phrases, cassette, 2011
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26. Pillar of Insects (38:40 – 41:31)
Pillars at Night, Tranquility Tapes, cassette, 2011
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27. Existential Sphinx (41:03 – 43:16)
Existential Sphinx, Kim Dawn, mini CDr, 2011
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28. Slow (42:49 – 46:01)
Variations on Sleep split, Bathetic, cassette, 2011
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29. Kohti Iltaa (45:36 – 48:23)
Octavaiset Otsakkaha, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2012
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30. A Thought (48:14 – 51:27)
Chinaberry, Hooker Vision, cassette, 2012
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31. Censer (50:50 – 52:34)
Crystal Anniversary split, Aguirre, LP, 2011
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32. Blue Dream (52:15 – 56:44)
Impressions, Aguirre, LP, 2012
Quiet Evenings
33. Untitled 1 (55:57 – 59:59)
Unreleased, TBA, 2012
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