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Bitter Fictions

by Bitter Fictions

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1.
Raise 06:03
2.
Standstill 04:02
3.
Circulate 01:53
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5.
Desert Rider 06:46
6.
The Ice Line 04:35
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Rue Pavée 04:56
8.
Under 03:55

about

"[...] a stunning eight-track, 42-minute guitar opus, complete with ethereal ambience, warm washes of droning fuzz and the occasional stab of piercing feedback. For his first complete effort, he’s succeeded in presenting a rich, fully formed tableau."
-Josiah Hughes, FFWD Weekly

"[...] roams from Thurston-y guitar stunt-work to Birchville Cat Motel sunburnt drone to Oren Ambarchi’s electro-acoustic pitter-patter to the slow, haunting expanse of late-period Earth. Even some finger-picking in there, too. Bitter Fictions kinda goes to every place a modern solo “experimental” guitar record can go, but it hops around without seeming jittery or uncomfortable. More like one guy (in this case, Devin Friesen) just working out a series of interesting compositions and letting the chips fall where they may. To quote Borat: ‘very nice!’”
-M.K., Yellow Green Red

"[...] eight patient and slow-burning pieces for chiming guitars, stochastic piles, negative space, extended technique, needles and pins, dense haze, ringing tones and expansive drones. Unpredictable, but not frenetic: one man’s love affair with feedback, documented with the discerning expertise of when to dog-pile sounds and when to let them breathe."
- David Ferris, Weird Canada

credits

released March 20, 2013

solo guitar played & recorded by d.f. in the library basement march-august 2012
mastered by prairie cat

(this is) shaking box music 005

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Bitter Fictions Calgary, Alberta

aka d.m. friesen
negative feedback serenity distortion electric gtr, tapes, etc

"chordal reverberation, howling feedback, scorched earth scuzz [...] alchemized into a gorgeous harmonic spiritualized sonic journey, a post no wave (?) aria for guitar"--psi lab

an introduction: bndcmpr.co/893503ab
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