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SELF PROMOTION / new Marcus Fischer album on Tench
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Marcus Fischer | Collected Dust | TCH05 | digipak | January 31, 2012
Release page (streaming of two songs and pre-order available): http://www.tenchrec.com/TCH05.html
Review at Fluid Radio: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/01/marcus-fischer-collected-dust
Release description: From January 2009 through January 2010, Marcus kept a blog called Dust Breeding to document the results of his goal to complete one creative project a day for 365 days. These projects included photographs, field recordings, design, illustration, sewing, videos, DIY electronics experiments and music. He reached his goal of one full year of daily entries and has continued to add entries over the last few years, though less frequently.
Each piece on Collected Dust first appeared in its original form on Dust Breeding. After being selected for this collection by M. Ostermeier, each piece was updated and refined further by Marcus. The patient, reflective, and peaceful style found on Collected Dust's seven tracks inhabits a space somewhere near that of his debut CD for 12k, Monocoastal, which landed on many best-of-2010 lists, and his recent In a Place of Such Graceful Shapes collaboration with Taylor Deupree, who mastered this recording.
1. constant (4.51)

2. nearly there (6.12)
3. cold days (4.52)
4. halfway to six (13.36)

5. span (4.56)

6. wires on carpet (5.31)
7. sixteen shapes (6.43)
Release page (streaming of two songs and pre-order available): http://www.tenchrec.com/TCH05.html
Review at Fluid Radio: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/01/marcus-fischer-collected-dust
Release description: From January 2009 through January 2010, Marcus kept a blog called Dust Breeding to document the results of his goal to complete one creative project a day for 365 days. These projects included photographs, field recordings, design, illustration, sewing, videos, DIY electronics experiments and music. He reached his goal of one full year of daily entries and has continued to add entries over the last few years, though less frequently.
Each piece on Collected Dust first appeared in its original form on Dust Breeding. After being selected for this collection by M. Ostermeier, each piece was updated and refined further by Marcus. The patient, reflective, and peaceful style found on Collected Dust's seven tracks inhabits a space somewhere near that of his debut CD for 12k, Monocoastal, which landed on many best-of-2010 lists, and his recent In a Place of Such Graceful Shapes collaboration with Taylor Deupree, who mastered this recording.
1. constant (4.51)

2. nearly there (6.12)
3. cold days (4.52)
4. halfway to six (13.36)

5. span (4.56)

6. wires on carpet (5.31)
7. sixteen shapes (6.43)
Percolate (Parvo Art, 2010) featured his acoustic and Rhodes piano mixed with Labradford-esque guitars over minimal electronic beats. On Lakefront (Hibernate, 2010) the beats had evaporated and the infusion of electronic textures and field recordings yielded something more organic, more haunting. Throughout, the fragmented piano established a melancholic and reflective mood but more through style than through melody. These releases garnered strong reviews in The Wire, Textura, and The Silent Ballet for juxtaposing melancholic stillness with restrained post-rock urgency.