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Pfound Pfootage

by Myndflower

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Pfound Pfootage 07:18
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2.
Floating Bridges 06:57
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3.
Broken Circle 07:40
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4.
Huellas de la Invasión (1963) 06:32
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Tangled Webs We Weave 05:22
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6.
Not That, Almost This 05:24
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7.
Pstill Psearching 03:53
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The concept of and fascination elicited by found footage, found texts, and found artifacts is probably as ancient as human curiosity and something that's been explored and exploited in many forms from (before) the Quijote to Borges to Indiana Jones, among many, many others--in which these mysterious things all figure prominently.

Of more recent vintage is a fascinating short film that was created to go with an exhibit in Buenos Aires about the iconic Eternauta comic that purports to be found footage from another dimension in which the alien invasion actually took place. In a clear homage to Borges, the curator who views the footage is named Funes after a character who cannot forget anything (and goes mad in the process), and objects and figures from the other time dimension begin to appear in another homage to Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." The exhibit, which took place back in 2014, was titled "Huellas de una Invasión", from which I've taken the title for the fourth track here.

This collection is partly inspired by this film in connection to my own personal fascination with El Eternauta and the late Héctor Germán Oesterheld, its creator: a towering figure in the field of comics from around the world who also fell victim to the dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s--he and his four daughters being disappeared for their politics that opposed the "Proceso." There have been a number of homages to El Eternauta on other Myndflowers as well as its depth and intensity have left an indelible mark in me.

The rest of the inspiration came from simply going through my own archives of "footage" that I've accumulated in the many years of recording and recently having begun doing field recordings in earnest.

These pieces are collages of found sounds, field recordings, vibraphone recordings I did in 2015, as well as intentional guitar pieces recorded at various locales through the years and some help from my dear friend and wonderful musician Brian Forés, who contributes some incredible spacey synthesizer to "Floating Bridges."

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released June 19, 2023

Javier González: all sounds made and found
Brian Forés: synthesizer on "Floating Bridges"

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Hear the kromodelic sounds of Myndflower.
Myndflower blooms becoming the many colors of psychedelia past and present. As Myndflower, the sounds of multi-instrumentalist composer Javier González have reverberated from various home studios since 2009 seeking to find a place outside of the continuum of time, at once familiar and exotic, at once strange and known. ... more

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