The Blow - c/d?

Woah. Gonna have to check this out tomorrow.

NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Do you wonder about what is happening when we say that we are “recording” and then months later we have not put any recorded music into the air for anyone to hear? We sort of care and we sort of don’t care, about time. The truth is that when I have said we are “recording” what I have meant is that we are making sounds, and these either are etched in a permanent form onto a tape or a hard drive or they are not. Over recent months the sounds have been etched mostly into our minds and into the kinesthetic memory of our limbs, and we return to our instruments daily or weekly and reproduce the sounds again for ourselves in the privacy of our own attentions. We performed these sounds and songs on three dates throughout October here in Brooklyn at Union Pool and it felt like a process of tracing the sounds into space; we could feel the quality of attention exposed by the three different audiences who came to the three nights of our shows and these qualities were distinct. I guess it really did feel like a form of recording, letting the sounds out into listeners’ sphere of hearing and allowing them to be picked up by these listeners’ memories. We are curious what was recorded. It felt as though we could sense the various qualities of receptivity in the different evenings, the degree of fidelity resulting from shifting factors. One night the sound system had been blown out by a hard core show the night before and one might have noticed an phantom in the ambient space. In about a month we will perform with our material again, after having played with it in private some more. It changes and expands when we play with it, in private or in public. During the last show at Union Pool we could both feel the pliability of our materials as we were touching them, we both felt the sounds starting to stretch and expand as we were handling them together and passing them back and forth. Melissa said that while we were performing she heard a guy behind her say, “They’re jamming…I heard The Blow jamming.” Yes we are jamming.

new album v. minimal, I like it

Heads up that they're putting everything up on Bandcamp Friday per this mailout:

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For this month's Bandcamp Friday, The Blow is launching a new artist-run Bandcamp account, featuring rare old items as well as some new goods with the band's entire catalog available to download. Look for the updated store on Friday: https://theblow.bandcamp.com/

A message from The Blow:
"Nobody can tour and nobody can hang out but sounds from the past can cross the distance and bring us all a little closer. Dug up from the crypt: a small amount of rare mini vinyl, cassettes from before they were cool again, hand-printed record covers from the old small town slow time days when there was endless space for making screen prints and laying them out to dry. The Blow have lived in New York City for a decade-- silkscreening has not taken place. The remaining LPs of the band’s most recent album, Brand New Abyss, have been shipped over from Europe and are available again in the States, as well a European edition of the CD with extra songs and a fancier jacket. Also available are new and old versions of clothing items produced by the band; one T-shirt says “The Blow” in a nearly illegible constellation of metallic dots, and a sweatshirt advertises an imaginary modular synthesis club (Females Of Modular Synthesis), open to membership by all and requiring no attendance-- an imaginary fellowship distinctly suited to the present moment.
IN THE STORE:
The Concussive Caress (super rare LP with hand-silkscreened covers, CD)
Bonus Album (super rare 10” LP, CD)
Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight Into The Blow (cassettes with hand-printed lino-cut covers, first-edition handprinted CD, CD)
Brand New Abyss (LP, Euro-edition CD, CD)
Poor Aim: Love Songs (LP, CD)
Paper Television (CD)
Khaela Maricich - Look For It In The Sky It Will Always Be There (CD)
Don’t Do The Bomb Before My Mustache Comes (hand-made empty CD covers- no CD!)

clothing:
New Females Of Modular Synthesis sweatshirts - black sweatshirt with yellow print
Old Females Of Modular Synthesis sweatshirts - heather grey sweatshirt with red print
New The Blow Constellation shirts - black shirt with shiny gold print
Old The Blow Constellation shirts - black or turquoise shirt with shiny silver print