Booklet artwork from Michael Tanner’s Nine Of Swords album.
“Nine of Swords was created by using nine tarot cards allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments which were played in the order of their drawing from the deck… Its method of creation recalls the random cut-up literary techniques of William Burroughs or automatic writing and the resulting work is a 68 minute journey which is a balm to contemporary intensity of input… No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of Nine of Swords; the music in the album was guided purely using the (non)choices of the turns of the cards.” (Quoted from A Year In The Country.)
“Through this primordial essence of the drone, Tanner gives voice to a chorus of ghosts in which, in the narrative-conceptual part of the work, the subjects and themes evoked by the symbolic meaning of the playing card that gives the title to the album take part.” (Quoted from a digital translation of a review by Music Won’t Save You.)
Links:
- Visit Michael Tanner’s work here.
Elsewhere at A Year In The Country
- Day #120/365: Plinth’s Wintersongs; a sometime walking companion for other landscape travellers
- From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Wintersongs, Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails – Lullabies for the Land and Gently Darkened Undercurrents: Chapter 49 Book Images
- Audiological Transmission #27/52 - Nine of Swords (Excerpt #1) – Michael Tanner
- Day #350/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #3; A balm to contemporary intensity of input…
- Day #338/365: Artifact #48/52; Michael Tanner Nine of Swords limited edition CD released – Dusk / Dawn Editions
