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Excommunication & Withdrawal

by A Private Realm

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    Released in an edition of 198 with unique hand silk screened sleeves and stamps and color print insert.

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Raining Stones 02:48
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2.
Newtown Families 08:04
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Newtown Families grieve in the soft, warm glow of television.
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Ulster Shadows 04:00
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What Smart Is 08:40
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Dreamhealer 03:33
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Through A Glass Darkly (PTSD Struggles) 05:56
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Kill Hitler 07:45
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Cowan (Cryptocracy Mix) 05:00
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"The Age of Reason and its industrial, post-modern antecedents are facades obscuring the seething dream world of primeval urges that surfaces only in sleep."

Excommunication & Withdrawal evokes the deadening American landscapes of school shootings, military suicides & general societal dissolution. Thematically the album draws from a variety of inspirations: the media's exploitation of the traumatized, the roots of extreme Islam, the skullduggery of the Cryptocracy, and Elem Klimov's Come And See, the classic film on the unthinkable horrors of the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia- all of which are filtered through the fried brains of two one-time LSD dealers.

Made with a variety of old synths, new modulars, noise boxes, voices and drum machines, musically the work moves from softer ethereal pieces inspired by the likes of This Mortal Coil through to blasts of electronics inspired by the likes of early SPK & the recently departed noise visionary Zbiegniew Karkowski. As lifelong warehouse rats the inevitable thrust of the LP is techno, inspired by the militant sounds of the obvious masters.

Written and recorded under duress in a shitty apartment in North Hollywood while surrounded by poverty, drug abuse and suicide.

"Do not be lulled into believing that just because the deadening American city of dreadful night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of baseball-hot dogs-apple-pie-and-Chevrolet, that it exists outside the psycho-sexual domain. The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these modern conditions precisely because sorcery is not what '20th Century man' can accept as real."

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released January 14, 2015

Released in an edition of 198 with unique hand silk screened sleeves and stamps, color print insert and download code (with one additional song that wouldn't fit on the vinyl). Mastered by Kris Lapke.

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