Sings Reign Rebuilder
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Sings Reign Rebuilder was the debut album of the Canadian
band Set Fire to Flames
. It was released by Alien8 Recordings
, FatCat Records in 2001. An underlying concept in the work is the lyingdyingwonderbody, which consist of spoken word passages dealing with theoretical and political concepts that concern global climate and love.
The album was recorded in a century old house (either named or later dubbed 15 Ontario) apparently bound for destruction. From the liner notes: "your bulldozers and wrecking ball can make match-sticks out of the rickety staircase and crookt/creaking floorboards---but they can't erase the recording that was made here." As such, several sounds usually edited out of the recording process, including creaking floors, paper shuffling and outside noises, were left intact on the final album. The most notable occurrence is that of a police car driving by with its siren blaring at the end of "Love Song for 15 Ontario"; the vehicle was later credited as a guest performer on the song.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
band Set Fire to Flames
Set Fire to Flames
Set Fire to Flames is a post-rock band of thirteen musicians from Montreal, Canada, who have released two albums on Alien8 Recordings, FatCat Records....
. It was released by Alien8 Recordings
Alien8 Recordings
Alien8 Recordings is an independent record label founded in 1996 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The music label was founded by Sean O'Hara and Gary Worsley...
, FatCat Records in 2001. An underlying concept in the work is the lyingdyingwonderbody, which consist of spoken word passages dealing with theoretical and political concepts that concern global climate and love.
The album was recorded in a century old house (either named or later dubbed 15 Ontario) apparently bound for destruction. From the liner notes: "your bulldozers and wrecking ball can make match-sticks out of the rickety staircase and crookt/creaking floorboards---but they can't erase the recording that was made here." As such, several sounds usually edited out of the recording process, including creaking floors, paper shuffling and outside noises, were left intact on the final album. The most notable occurrence is that of a police car driving by with its siren blaring at the end of "Love Song for 15 Ontario"; the vehicle was later credited as a guest performer on the song.
Track listing
- "'I Will Be True...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #1)/Reign Rebuilder [Head]" – 2:39
- "Vienna Arcweld/Fucked Gamelan/Rigid Tracking" – 13:45
- "Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear" – 6:12
- "Wild Dogs of the Thunderbolt/'They Cannot Lock Me Up... I Am Eternally Free...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #2)" – 4:54
- "Omaha" – 6:16
- "There Is No Dance in Frequency and Balance" – 4:16
- "Côte d'Abrahams Roomtone/'What's Going On?...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #3)" – 4:35
- "Love Song for 15 Ontario (w/ Singing Police Car)" – 3:19
- "Injur: Gutted Two-Track" – 2:49
- "When I First Get to Phoenix" – 3:12
- "Shit-Heap-Gloria of the New Town Planning..." – 10:50
- "Jesus/Pop" – 1:42
- "Esquimalt Harbour" – 2:16
- "Two Tears in a Bucket" – 3:43
- "Fading Lights Are Fading.../Reign Rebuilder [Tail Out]" – 2:51
Personnel
- Aidan GirtAidan GirtAidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust. He is also a solo electronic artist under the moniker 1-Speed Bike and occasionally Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike....
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- Bruce Cawdron: drums/percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
- Christof MigoneChristof MigoneChristof Migone is an experimental sound artist and writer, formerly based in Montreal, now living in Toronto.He is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and is a lecturer at the Centre for Visual and Media Culture at The University of Toronto's Mississauga campus.Migone's solo recordings...
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- Mike MoyaMike MoyaMike Moya is a Canadian rock musician. He is one of the founding members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. He left the band in 1998 to concentrate on his other bands Molasses, Set Fire to Flames and HṚṢṬA....
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- Thea Pratt: French horn