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2.	replicate II 04:30	buy track
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about

this began as a two-track collaboration between myself and the every-lovely bryan lewis saunders and it eventually became a four-track entry into bryan's "stream of unconscious" series.

bryan's description of the project:

"For the last 7 years or so I've been recording my dreams and sleep talking on audio cassette. I call the transcriptions of this dialog, the "stream of unconsciousness (narrative mode)" method of writing as I don't remember having said any of it once I awake. It is all from my unconscious. Some of my friends from around the world have made music with my dreams. These dreams have been combined to form an epic poem. Aptly titled, "The Confessor". "

a capsule review:
No less unsettling are the Streams Of Unconscious tapes sent to us by the American writer and performance artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. Three volumes I know of so far; the first is Replicate, a collaboration with Hopi Torvald, and Kommissar Hjuler and his wife with Red Bugs. Saunders has been documenting his sleep-talking and dream states for many years, even recording his own sleep-talking on tape. For this series of projects, he sends out the tapes to musicians and sound-artists to refashion them as they will. Torvald creates a suitably ambiguous tapestry of nightmarish ambient music, whose very disjunctiveness does its level best to follow the twists of Saunders’ mind. For this side of the tape, Saunders’ continual mumbling becomes one more element in the mix, and the overall effect will gradually unhinge your mind. Full transcriptions of the sleep-raps are included inside little printed booklets with the releases.

for more info: bryanlewissaunders.org/weblog/2013/jun/25/Sleep-Works/

you can see the finished box set here (though it is sold out):
bryanlewissaunders.org/weblog/2013/jun/30/confessor/

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released March 2, 2014

bryan lewis saunders: stream of unconscious narrations
nathan brown: synths, drums, violin, found sound manipulations

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