An Early Morning Letter, Displaced: Shudderflowers

Shudderflowers official release date is set for September 22nd, 2009. It may or may not be available to purchase from various retailers at that time, but here are a few you can try, after the date has passed: iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon, and eventually Verizon, Zune, Napster, and the rest…


An Early Morning Letter, Displaced: Shudderflowers

Shudderflowers

2009 Fractured Vision Media

Shudderflowers reflects upon themes of fervent self-destruction and the fragility of the female mind. Tortured soundscapes pierced with the bones of shattered dreams. A nightmare concert filled with the anguished cries of broken children, delivered with a sweeping stiletto… and a whisper.

  1. Shudderflowers
  2. I Am Consumed
  3. Fever-Drenched and Burning
  4. Fearless
  5. Waning Flower
  6. Searching, Lost
  7. Beneath White Stones
  8. A Cleansing of Bones
  9. Where Dead Girls Lie
  10. Alice (the bones)
  11. Drowning Past The Sky
  12. Threadbare
  13. Shudderflowers (reprise)

I want to note here a few interesting facts regarding this release:

  • This is the 4th formal album from An Early Morning Letter, Displaced.
  • This is the second full-length collection from that same body of work.
  • The synthesizer elements were all produced via software synths. My hardware synths were only used as MIDI controllers this time around.
  • As was the case for the previous release, samples were taken from violin and processed into the mix. No guitar, this time.
  • A reworked version of the unreleased track She’s Fallen (2001) almost made it onto the release. It ended up going in the wrong direction and was abandoned.
  • The track Threadbare is originally from the abandoned Stillborn release from 2003/2004.
  • Fever-Drenched and Burning was actually composed and recorded last Winter when I was suffering from intense fever!
  • The beginnings of many of the lyrics for this release were composed stream-of-consciousness on Twitter.
  • An alternate version of Fearless can be found as soundtrack to the short film “The Fearless Man” 2007
  • This is the first release which contains vocal material that is not solely produced by myself. Alice (the bones) and Beneath White Stones feature the additional vocals of two girls, respectively; one living, one dead†. The dead girl’s voice having been recovered from an old telephone answering machine.
  • Alice (the bones) also contains samples from various sources, including the Švankmajer film “Alice”.
  • The original (long) verison of Alice (the bones) was written as background noise to a Hallowe’en party.
  • The cover art is adapted from a painting I completed in 2004 titled “Neck Zipper” and inspired by a sweater my girlfriend (now, wife) was fond of wearing:
    Neck Zipper
  • This may be the last physical release I produce. Sales of A Prison of Oneself were okay, but (if the numbers are any indication $$$) people seem much more interested in digital distribution… and it is certainly less of a headache for me.
  • I may try something new after this. I have an additional project called Strangling Strangers that I might start working on again. Its a lot less ambient… more coarse and noise-based.
  • Samples from this, and all An Early Morning Letter, Displaced releases can be found at the Myspace Music page.

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