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Impossible Lows

by Matt Clark

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Otto Closet 02:18
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Wastyn'd 03:20
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Three Twins 03:50
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Hirondelle 02:34
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Zola Mae 08:07
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From a Nape 02:58

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BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ON BANDCAMP: MAY 2019, by Marc Masters:

"To make his first full-length album, Chicago guitarist Matt Clark—a former member of Joan of Arc and Pinebender—spent 10 days recording first takes and sticking with them. The result, 'Impossible Lows,' doesn’t feel like a sketchbook, but rather a thought-out series of instrumental statements with firm moods and self-contained environments. It’s also sonically diverse; Clark is capable of delicate avant-folk, thickened drones, extended riffs, and more. Most compelling is the eight-minute odyssey “Zola Mae,” which opens with gentle, distant tones, and gradually builds into a thatch of noise guitar that sounds like it’s being broadcast through a faulty transistor radio. Such textural variety seems to come naturally to Clark, giving 'Impossible Lows' the kind of durability that rewards repeat plays."

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'Impossible Lows' is Matt Clark's debut full-length album. A 10-day exercise in Arthur Russell's "first thought, best thought" production philosophy, these eight instrumental songs reflect on the perfectly-imperfect via electric, acoustic, and 12-string melodic guitar. These first-take freakouts owe as much to American Primitive acoustic pioneers as they do Maggot Brain's electrified temporal bliss, positing shredding as an act of revivification. Mixed by Jeremy Lemos at Chicago's legendary Steam Room.

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Matt Clark is a Chicago-based guitar player, improvisor, and singer-songwriter. He spent his formative years in Joan of Arc, and was a founding member of Pinebender, White/Light, and Ambulette; he is also a longtime musical contributor to This American Life. He has collaborated with Kim Gordon, Joss Whedon, Leroy Bach, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Plastic Crimewave's Vision Celestial Guitarkestra, and Rhys Chatham's Crimson Grail, and performed at The Cartier Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Logan Center for the Arts, and Lollapalooza. This is his solo debut.

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released May 10, 2019

All songs and sounds by Matt Clark

Recorded by MC at The Golden Teapot, December 2018
Mixed by Jeremy Lemos at Steam Room, February 2019

Photo by MC

Executively produced by Jessica Hopper

Special thanks to Brian Case, Rabbit Fripp, & Bunny Eno

All Songs (C) By Lightning to the Womb, ASCAP

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Matt Clark Chicago, Illinois

Singer & songwriter. AKA OTHERPEACE. Guitar player for White/Light and Pinebender. Ex-Joan of Arc and Love of Everything. Musical contributor to This American Life.

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