ILLUSION OF SAFETY - CANCER 2025 (LP)

"This one was mostly a group effort focused on a dark ambient atmospheric environment and experimental minimalism that crawls under your skin. Mark & Thymme's heavy synth is omnipresent, Mitch & Chris scraping every piece of scrap metal they could find, Jim's extended piano & tabletop guitar is apparent, the abstract sampling techniques of founding member Daniel Burke appear throughout, & the beautiful solo minimalist piano composition of Thymme's closes the LP. Soundtrack like in its scope the album is another in the ongoing concept of music without a film providing a dark soundtrack to the nightmares or realities we wish we could forget. The 2025 edit & remaster removes the excess and hones the meat down to 7 essential tracks that show the projects oeuvre at that point in their lengthy history sounding clear & fresh with the newly mastered version by Andrew Weathers. Originally recorded November 1990-Februrary 1991 as digital direct recordings and as 8 Track analog recordings engineered by Phil Bonnet at Solid Sound. This edited re-release was mastered by Andrew Weathers. Edit, graphic design & photography: Daniel Burke. Landsat images courtesy of NASA. Originally released as CD by Tesco Organization 1992. For IOS: Chris Block, Daniel Burke, Mitch Enderle, Mark Klein, Jim O'Rourke, Mitch Enderle, Thymme Jones. " (label info) with download