Archive release

Location Stories

Janek Schaefer · 2006 · Vinyl-7-Inch-2 · NL · M07.08/9

Limited edition of 250 copies. Presented in an oversized cover envelope. Side A features a collage of messages found left on the display model of a mini digital dictaphone bought at a branch of Office Max in Minneapolis. Side B is an un-edited recording of a huge field of silent goats in a the village of Villanueva de la Concepcion, south spain. They were all wearing different sized goat bells and they didn't bleat once. The result is a random cacophony of bells. A very pure "field recording" composition. Side C and D feature a recording made in the heart of the Amazon Rain Forest where a Brazilian guide, two English tourists and a German tourist are laying in hammocks at dusk , in a camp made from palm leaves, playing a word association game. The language differences make an entertaining and intimate play of language in the middle of the ambient sounds of the virgin rainforest.