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“A storm passed between me and where I had been, where I thought I had come from, where I believed I remembered being. And wandering in the mid-point, I could no longer be sure of which point I was amidst. All places and faces were alike familiar and strange, fond and indifferent, reaching me as through a distance, which was the gap between the source and the translation, between myself and the memories I have of my memories.”
Deep Fade is a new project from long-time collaborators Amanda Votta (The Floating World, The Spectral Light, and others), Grey Malkin (The Hare and The Moon, Uath, and more) and Neddal Ayad (the goslings, The Spectral Light and others). Deep Fade creates ritual noise that fills the spaces left by the fragmentation of memory over time, the flow of what an event, experience, or place was into what it has become, and the possibility of its further transformation. They draw on aspects of industrial, experimental, noise, minimalism, and electronics to create a destabilizing and uneasy atmosphere. Here, in this space outside of place and time, improbabilities flow, reconfiguring sense and perception. The sound of Deep Fade reflects paramnesia, the changing of a sense of place within our memories, until that memory has become radically altered from its original form and is now more dream than reality. Similarly, their work represents the degradation, splitting and amplification of radio waves as they encounter physical obstacles or barriers, forever morphing and shapeshifting. Everything changes. There is no solid ground beneath your feet.
In the tradition of tape trading, making mixtapes, recording off the radio or recording your own songs to tape, we want to encourage you to use the blank parts of this tape—or record over these songs—to create something of your own. Tape over the tabs or stuff little twists of paper in the open spaces and hit record. Home taping is killing the music industry. Help it along the way.
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released February 23, 2024
For Amanda Votta (The Floating World, The Spectral Light, and others), the ideas this collection of songs represents arose from the time she spent back in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan, after living away for nearly 20 years. Over that time, the homes she and her family and friends lived in had been transformed into ruin or were gone completely, demolished by the city as part of their “blight removal” scheme. Detroit, over the past several decades, has been deliberately and steadily abandoned by industry and government alike. Racist neoliberal capitalist government policies encouraged the closure of manufacturing centers in the city, and their move to suburban and rural areas, away from the influence of Black-led leftist labor organizations like the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement. Once that goal had been achieved, and the city’s residents left with a dearth of services and opportunities, the downtown center was “revitalized” for a well-to-do demographic. The city’s residents, whose labor had made Detroit synonymous in popular imagination with opportunity, were displaced from affordable housing to bring in offices for Microsoft, a Gucci boutique, and rows of new restaurants.
During her time back home, Amanda made recordings at some of the still-working manufacturers, and at construction and demolition sites around the city’s north and east sides, where she grew up. These have been incorporated into the six tracks on Line of Flight, left as the cacophony that is the sound of laborers in a machine shop, morphed into bursts of sudden interference, or heard in the gentle lapping of the Detroit River against the shore of Belle Isle, a critical site in the city’s history and transformation.
Deep Fade is a new project from long-time collaborators Amada Votta, Grey Malkin (The Hare and The Moon, Uath, and more) and Neddal Ayad (the goslings, The Spectral Light and others).
Bandcamp:
deepfade.bandcamp.com
Instagram:
instagram.com/deep__fade
Facebook:
facebook.com/Deep.Fade1