The Spider Room, by Joseph Blane

The Spider Room

by Joseph Blane

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taschuklevi Working within the limitations of the instruments at hand and the environment of the school music room, it reminds me that limitation is best embraced rather than dismissed. There's nothing as un-limiting as limitation itself. Favorite track: Part II / Above The Dust.

Andrulian A brilliant concept for an album, it's very engaging, you can picture the room as you listen. It's very difficult to describe, it's abstract, sort of ambient, sort of jazzy, sort of neo-classical. It has a strange beauty, a haunted sound at times and a great edge.

Full review: www.andrulian.com/review-of-the-spider-room-ep-by-joseph-blane-on-submarine-broadcasting-company/ Favorite track: Part II / Above The Dust.

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	1.	Part I / Beneath The Dust 15:39
	2.	Part II / Above The Dust 14:55

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The Spider Room is a beautiful and haunting piece of improvised music by Scottish artist Joseph Blane.

"In the summer of 2022 I *entered* an old derelict school building late at night with nothing but my electric guitar and a cheap Sony sound recorder. I was fascinated by the acoustics and the reverb of the empty music room, and the smelly rotten old musical instruments within it - covered in spiders and dust, and mostly broken or completely out-of-tune.

My only intention was to record some improvised solo guitar pieces in this cold dark abandoned building, which I did... but I also ended up messing around on the various other instruments that were lying around the room - namely an old school piano, an out-of-tune violin, an filthy Irish flute, a smelly harmonica, a cracked glockenspiel and a percussive egg. I decided that these instruments/sounds had to be recorded too... so I eventually overdubbed the existing guitar tracks with layers of improvised performances on these old neglected school instruments, and ended up with two strange pieces of music that I felt worthy of release.

The result is...interesting. I would loosely describe it as some kind of free-form avant-garde noise jazz... but I'm not a trained jazz musician so that's probably not entirely accurate or true. The two 15-minute abstract pieces that comprise this debut album are entirely improvised, recorded in one take, and left almost completely raw and unedited - for better or for worse..."

Joseph Blane 2022

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released November 18, 2022

All music performed and recorded by Joseph Blane.

Cover image 'The Crying Spider' by Odilon Redon

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