Half Life Full Cycle [J7N030]

Bit by bit I'm posting links to my numerous albums on my own and other netlabels, from the time period where most of my output was being released. There's a lot of my stuff on Archive.org and I'm slowly bringing those recordings to light again. The one I'm highlighting to day is a very experimental album I made as a commission of sorts from a French netlabel called Digital Biotope, which sadly is no longer in existence. The version I'm showing here is the reissued version on my my own (also defunct) Jon7.net Microlabel, but I'm going to provide a link to the archive.org archived Digital Biotope version.

 

The link to the American version: http://archive.org/details/J7N030

And here's a link the original French version. It's not any different, they're the exact same files in each package, but they've been given different nomenclature, and you'll get full jewel case art work with the American version. While I was pleased to be invited to do a release for the label, I wasn't pleased with the way they handled the artwork; I sent them files but they didn't do anything with them except dump them in the .zip file the album came in. I had thought they were going to use them in a proper layout.

The link to the French version: http://archive.org/details/db012_Jon7_HalfLifeFullCycle

The notes I provided for the album:

(trk1) cellular life grows in a petri dish, and is gradually consumed by bacteria.

(trk2) in a bustling other earth city, birds extinct for centuries still fly around
at midnight.

(trk3) robots don't go to church, but if they did this might be part of the mass.

(trk4) we're guests on their planet, and though it seems strange, this is how they
say grace, so we'd best respect it.

music was created using random sound timing programs, live mics on the street,
wineglasses, screwdrivers, metal chalice, bowls, random household items, power
drill, oscillator, tape recorder

recorded in eugene, OR 2006