CRUEL DIAGONALS(record release!)•FYRHTU
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¡IT'S A RECORD RELEASE PARTAY! Megan Mitchell composes unsettling, ethereal music under the alias, Cruel Diagonals. A jazz and classically trained vocalist, Mitchell performs and creates in numerous capacities. Some of her current endeavors include acting as proprietor of the left-of-field music index for non-male composers, Many Many Women, and researching, visiting and documenting places of abandoned industry around the Pacific Northwest and California with her field recorder and camera in tow. Mitchell’s field recording endeavors were featured in The Stranger’s Person of Interest column. She is additionally an accredited archivist with a Master in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Washington, specializing in audio archiving. She is currently processing the audio archives of music producer, Randall Dunn. Cruel Diagonals is an outlet for destructive sample processing, vocal exploration, and a palette for inter-media contemplations and applications. Selected performance credits to date include sets at Corridor Festival and Debacle Festival, as well as a live set opener for Pharmakon and Pod Blotz, and DJ sets for Holly Herndon, Shifted, and Elysia Crampton. Influenced by early experimental filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren, Cruel Diagonals has been described in cinematic terms, evoking moods and montages of an eerie, surrealist timbre. Warped field recordings and layered vocals incite a beckoning to a phantasmagorical, metallic-tinged state of existence.
For its thirty-first entry, Drawing Room is ecstatic to present Disambiguation, the first album from Megan Mitchell and Cruel Diagonals. Disambiguation is dark pleasure of an album that blends electronics and drones, ingenious vocals, and early earth rhythms. Its heaviness is completely hypnotic and forward moving. Lovers of Klara Lewis, Coil, and Broadcast take note. Mastered by Amy Dragon for Telegraph Mastering and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the deluxe LP comes in a full-colored sleeve accompanied by insert and a 22x22” foldout poster! ¡AND! a limited cassette run of the EP, "Pulse of Indignation" also via Drawing Room Records will be available!
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Opening we are super happy to have Fyrhtu! This is the new project of the duo of Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore, Hammers of Misfortune, Saros) and Nathan A. Verrill (Cardinal Wyrm)! What wiffs of majik music making could these two be up to now? Come and find out yourselves! First SF show of Fyrhtu EVER!
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Cruel Diagonals - https://www.crueldiagonals.com/
Fyrhtu - https://www.facebook.com/fyrhtuband/
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