distants EP, by Bitter Fictions

distants EP

by Bitter Fictions

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1.	the sun is setting (now what) 00:55	buy track
2.	empty distance 05:26	buy track
3.	only cliché 04:50	buy track
4.	troubled 07:31	buy track

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thoughts that won't give rest
sure as the sun sets
+ every bit as cold
poking for straining embers
warmth in ashes coating
the glow of distant times
what comes after
now what

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released March 20, 2020

electric gtr tapes paints etc - devin friesen
recorded oct 2019 in montreal, qc
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download includes original cover painting uncropped/pre-photoshop (watercolour no. 18, d.f. 2020)
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my plan this year is to release something digitally every month or so, so as to both thin out my archives and publish new works more promptly without going broke making physical editions of everything. for much of the past decade I have been playing and recording compulsively for my own needs and amusement, a constant workbook. my hope is that releasing material in this way will help me move on from old recordings that I want available but never released for some reason or another, as well as be more current in sharing this bitter fictions thing I do.

given the current circumstance, this one is pay what you want. as always paid downloads are v much appreciated and fed back into my practice (funding future releases, buying blank tapes etc), acknowledging that I work a remote day job so I am better equipped to get thru this pandemic stretch than many. I'll be purchasing music from others this friday as per bandcamp's initiative and I hope you'll join me.

my sincerest gratitude for supporting independent art/artists in these generally odious times. as you may know a single $5 bandcamp download supports an artist more than thousands of streams elsewhere, and actions supporting the people making things rather than corporate ghouls profiting off the decimation of arts ecosystems and further consolidation/passivization of music/tastes are necessary + worth celebrating.

--d.f.

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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

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