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Tel Aviv based electronic music label, False Industries has just released a digital version of Imaginary Psychology. It comes with with remixes from Israeli guitarist, Yair Yona and Tim Martin of Maps & Diagrams.

Get it here.

The American vinyl version out soon on SF's Spiritual Pajamas. Below, a review from Textura.org.

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Fans of Manuel Gottsching (Ashra)—especially his 1984 album E2-E4—and Michael Rother (Neu! / Harmonia) will find much to like about Imaginary Psychology, a five-track opus (including remixes by Yair Yona and Maps and Diagrams) by San Francisco-based musician Matt Baldwin. Though an early release such as Paths of Ignition (American Dust) shows him playing in an acoustic style emblematic of the American Primitive folk tradition, his subsequent releases show him gravitating towards electronic music and krautrock. The False Industries release of Imaginary Psychology is, in fact, a reissue of the three-track release that Baldwin originally issued himself but that's now remastered and supplemented by remixes.

The opening long-form tracks are the recording's core. “Lindsay and Her Duplicates” opens the album with a mind-bending display of loop-based guitar psychedelia. Recorded in real-time and in one take, the track's a stunning, fourteen-minute ride that threads trippy synthesizer treatments into pulsating krautrock. Spidery guitar lines do rapid-fire cartwheels over one another and flurries of wah-wah effects appear, and the whole impresses as a kinetic exercise in forward momentum. “Imaginary Psychology” begins less frenetically, and though ladened with loops and overdubs, exudes somewhat of a folk character in its relaxed gait. Like the opener, it gradually assumes a psychedelic quality when its patterns cycle hypnotically and when cosmic synthesizer whooshes surface seven minutes in.

Baldwin's third original, “Borkian Dervish,” presents three minutes of pastoral folk-styled playing in a reverie that's obviously a stark contrast to the opening pair. Israeli musician and Farthest South member Yair Yona amplifies the dreamlike quality of Baldwin's original by adding e-bow-styled guitar for added texture while hewing to the same duration as the original. For his Maps and Diagrams makeover, Tim Martin stretches Baldwin's track into a ten-minute oasis of guitar and synthesizer shimmer, making for a satisfyingly peaceful close to an album of dramatically contrasting moods.

March 2013

Live

Year of The Dog Dub from Matt Baldwin on Vimeo.

Genesis Jams

Just finished day two of tracking for a new project at a studio in Carmel Valley with Nico Georis and Adam Zerbe. Ain't it funky now?

Great American

End Times

Get Up With It

Mutilations

Mixing Butterflies

Adam Snider's Public Image Unlimited

He enters - cork and bottle spout!

The comet wine comes gushing out,

A bloody crown roast's on the table,

And Strasbourg pie, that deathless fable;

While next to Limburg's lively mould

Sits ananás in splendid gold.

Thank God, I've just come to the end of an obligation that ate up most of my time for the last four months. The perfect time for my immune system to buckle and allow me to catch a cold. I duly crawled into bed to work on plans for the future. This is what I've got:

- Wild Boy, a new MB solo LP recorded by Sam Flax. Out soon.

- Spring 2013 tour dates in Europe with Cian Nugent.

- Southern California desert show with Tinariwen and others.

- New collabs with Aaron Sheppard and Nico Georis.

- Holy Shit's Bad Habitat CD on Psychic Arts.

- Adam Snider's Full-length debut, Decomposer also on Psychic Arts.

- Expanded vinyl edition of Imaginary Psychology and a flexi-single of Drowning Butterflies - both on Britt Govea's Spiritual Pajamas label.

More details as they are available. Merry Christmas, et cetera.

XO,

MB

This Weekend

In addition to the above show I also play this Monday at the Brick and Mortar Music Hall in SF with Luke Sweeney, et al. Show starts at 8pm and I play around 10:30. Free.

Schwarzer Freitag

MRY show with Nico (sorry it wasn't announced - I was a last minute add on)

Tianellos!

Biology

Cleaners Cover

Coming soon from Mssrs. Baldwin and Fishbeck. Hopefully in time for Christmas... A cassingle? Maxi? Flexi?

Stranded Show

MB

HS

Click

Panorama by Terri Loewenthal.

Saturday Show

Vacation

Psycher

Beach House And Hobo

AP

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Grosses Wasser

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Licht

The Skryer

Paramedic Fetus Of The East

KK

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