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SOL 165CD
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2012 edition, released as a double CD in a jewelbox with a 12 page full-color booklet featuring the work of East German artist Ira Tannheuser. Originally released in 2009. "Reformed Faction are Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. I Am The Source of Light, I Am Not a Mirror followed their 2007 Soleilmoon release The War Against, and is their third album. This is an homage of sorts, to the last 40 years of music making. Robin began as a guitarist, Mark as a drummer. Throughout their careers they have neither deliberately nor consciously eschewed the use of conventional instruments or traditional compositional techniques. They do not regard themselves as an 'experimental' band, preferring to leave the laboratory safe in the hands of physicists and technicians. A long time ago :zoviet-france: declared that they could, if they wished, create the perfect pop record or the archetypal country record. Both Mark and Robin were profoundly influenced by the music of rock bands in the seventies while boldly assimilating ideas from world music in the belief that all musical sources exist to be appropriated. In the same way, over the years, they have embraced technology. This is an homage of sorts, to the last 40 years of music making."
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SOL 179CD
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"The World Awake/11 Stueck is a new double album from Reformed Faction, the duo of Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. The World Awake! was originally intended for a vinyl release and recorded from improvisations made on one day in November of 2009. 11 Stueck was compiled from improvisations made on December 1st 2009, with drummer Christian Alderson and bass player Oscar Ruiz Fernandez. The Austin Texas based musician Tony D'Oporto, aka Gnome, also appears on one track. The work references the writing of Henry Miller, in his aptly entitled essay, With Edgar Varese in the Gobi Desert. This first edition of The World Awake/11 Stueck is presented in a high-quality screen printed sleeve with printed slipcases for each disc. It is limited to 444 copies."
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SOL 153CD
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2012 reissue of The War Against, housed in a slipcase no longer including postcards. Originally released in 2007. "It may be difficult for some to acknowledge, but the cold war is over. In its place: People. We have chosen to create new folk devils and to instill new, more insidious moral panics as a consequence. The War Against what or who? Reformed Faction is a new band featuring Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. The War Against... is their second CD, following Vota (KIanggalerie, 2006). This new album was cultivated from hours of improvisations made whilst watching Werner Herzog movies and drinking red wine. Spybey would record Storey and then manipulate the sounds, combining rough mixes of the pieces with sounds of his own. Although the most of the music was recorded over the course of a weekend, it took several months to assemble the album. Themes from the recording sessions were played in live concerts and then reworked for the final version of the album."
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