M Griffin - Fabrications
Artist: M. Griffin
Title: Fabrications
Label: Hypnos Recordings
2007.
Originally announced in 1997 as the follow-up by Hypnos founder M. Griffin to his debut Sudden Dark, Fabrications has been reworked, abandoned,
restarted from scratched, back-burnered, reimagined, and left frozen in carbonite. Among those who have followed Hypnos from the beginning,
Fabrications achieved a certain notoriety as the album always promised for release in the coming year, which never quite arrived. 2007 is finally the
year in which Fabrications will be revealed, perhaps appropriate on the 10-year anniversary of its initial plan.
For this release, Griffin built up collages of numerous location recording elements, including cars driving on freeways, people walking in long echoing
hallways, the ocean waves in Kona at night, a metalworking factory with heavy machinery crunching away, distant trains, and clothes driers. These
elements were manipulated, combined, worked-on and re-worked, and overlaid with looped spoken elements later created by Griffin in the studio.
The end result comes out something like the Zoviet France soundtrack to a David Lynch film, that is, a dark and dream-like collage of loops, spoken
fragments, disembodied whispers, and the echo of far-off machinery.
Track listing with MP3 samples coming soon:
water is silver
gravity
a voice behind
air sense space
divise
the sky is glass lit
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