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Quasimodo the Street Sweeper

by Universal Cell Unlock

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    Pre-order of Quasimodo the Street Sweeper. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases April 4, 2024

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  • Limited Edition 12" Vinyl & fold-out insert by CF
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition 12" Vinyl w/ full color cover pressed on black vinyl and housed in poly lined black inner sleeve. Includes a hand stamped, double sided black & white fold-out 11x17" insert direct from the NYC studio of CF.

    Includes digital pre-order of Quasimodo the Street Sweeper. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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1.
Ecstasy Of The Streetsweeper
2.
Deaf Deformed Bell Ringer
3.
True Heart
4.
Hidden In The Cathedral (excerpt) 03:46
5.
Tower Thoughts (excerpt) 01:43
6.
A Reviled Scapegoat Freak (excerpt) 02:00
7.
Doing The Job No Other Could Do

about

PREORDER 12" vinyl through the Psychics Sounds shop in the weblink.

"Not recommended listening when alone and in the dark for fear of opening a portal to the unknown, Quasimodo The Streetsweeper is an unblinking Charon across dark waters. Trust him only because you have to." - Rob Gannon, [sic] Magazine

What remarks can recall the pampered page when the subject shines through so many shaken seams? The remarks are for the producer of QUASIMODO THE STREETSWEEPER, the mysterious, though constantly revealing, CF, presenting himself here as UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK. Christopher Forgues of Brown Recluse Alpha, Mark Lord, Kites, and author of blazetastic comic books –ever checkout Power Masters? What remarks could remain after all that? However, one still finds this fresh pile of inviting and mature music, coated in the haunting haze of digital reverb.

What premeditated remark could recharge reminisces of New York more than the city’s newly appointed director of rodent mitigation? The lost legend of Tony Conrad running up the steps of a Manhattan church to meet the mysterious mad one playing the bells in the spire, Charlemagne Palestine. The bristles from the machines of swirling repetition that push parking brush to the side are repurposed here as pluckphonic metal keys, mined for their rich harmonic content. There are strategies taken from the decidedly unfocused on New York musical tradition of American and global capital-N Noise music. An invitation to a closed eye head bob is quickly revoked with a shock call to attentiveness. There’s an attentiveness here. Across forty minutes of percussion music, with some stark electronic accouterments along the way, the focus on the form and compositional aspects is forgotten only to let the sounds build and interact without pesky human interruption. That’s the remark to recall: remarkable music with new surprises pushed through. - Ben Kudler

credits

releases April 4, 2024

"This music was made by building circuits from scratch that control solenoids, motors and other actuators. These play pen springs, lamp parts and other metal junk by whipping with rubber and chains, punching and shaking with solenoids, and other means. Most of the metal being played is street sweeper bristles which I collected from the street, cleaned, and sometimes cut to tune.

Many people would avoid being saddled with the responsibility of ringing church bells, they don't want to become a clock. Many people would avoid cleaning the streets, they want to do things, not undo them. So the ecstasy of ringing the bells and cleaning the streets remains a mystery.

On the front cover is a NYC sanitation truck on 172nd St. from 1973 by Gary Miller for the EPA.

On the back cover is one of the first CD4029A counter ICs manufactured by RCA. The logic chips I used to control the percussive actuations on this record are in this family of chips." - CF

Sound realized by Christopher Forgues, Recorded Winter 2018, finalized Fall 2023

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Sterophonic Mastering

PSR27

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