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The Mouth is a Resonant Field

by Algae & Tentacles

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    Limited Edition black vinyl LP. "The Mouth is a Resonant Field" was mastered for vinyl by Geoff Saba and pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. The TMIARF chapbook was constructed by Amanda Beehuizen and Jeik Ficker at Tanline Printing in Tucson. A digital download code is included with your purchase. Edition of 500.

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    Limited Edition TMIARF black vinyl LP with "Wave the Ocean" cassette and TMIARF chapbook. "The Mouth is a Resonant Field" was mastered for vinyl by Geoff Saba and pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. "Wave the Ocean" cassette was mastered by Mark Gergis and made by A to Z Media. The TMIARF chapbook was constructed by Amanda Beehuizen and Jeik Ficker at Tanline Printing in Tucson. A digital download code is included with your purchase. Edition of 100.

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    Limited Edition TMIARF black vinyl LP and chapbook with Wave the Ocean cassette as well as "The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk" book. "The Mouth is a Resonant Field" was mastered for vinyl by Geoff Saba and pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. "Wave the Ocean" cassette was mastered by Mark Gergis and made by A to Z Media. The TMIARF chapbook was constructed by Amanda Beehuizen and Jeik Ficker at Tanline Printing in Tucson. A digital download code is included with your purchase. Edition of 10.

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A broken telephonic call to the future’s past, The Mouth is a Resonant Field combines solo voice, intuitive free improvisation, minimalist endurance, and noisy accident in order to reimagine the sonic palette of American folk song.

Through the filter of consumer grade pedal electronics, old songs become sites where new worlds can emerge. Always with an ear toward the vast, oceanic sonic confusion of these unknown spaces, Algae & Tentacles works in the undersound of traditional song.

Algae & Tentacles is the sound work of John Melillo. It is an umbrella for an eclectic set of sonic outputs that often hover around song, including verse-chorus-verse constructions, digital sound art, sound poetry, and electro-acoustic improvisation. A&T’s first—self-titled—album was released by Lightning Records in 2015. Melillo has released collaborative albums with Cecyl Ruehlen (Where Tremble Heart, Unsilent Desert Press, 2022) and Geoff Saba (Dry River, FREAKS, 2017). Based in Tucson, Arizona and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Melillo is a writer, teacher, and researcher, and his first book—The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk—was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2020.

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released April 7, 2023

Recorded at Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
February 2020

Engineered by Igloo Martian
Mixed by Geoff Saba and John Melillo
Mastered by Geoff Saba at Itinerant Home Recording

Photo of Artist by Paul McNeill
Cover Design by Ryan Wade Ruehlen

2022 Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company

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Algae & Tentacles Tucson, Arizona

Algae & Tentacles is music, experiments, works, sounds coordinated by John Melillo of Tucson. Rhythm, voice, noise. Often, Algae & Tentacles is a multiplicity of different collaborators, including Christian Ramirez, Eric Schlappi, Brittany Katter, Hannah Ensor, Andrew Mullane, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Nate Affield, Akil Wilson, Daniele Yandel, Lydia Fong, Steve Formel and more-- ... more

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