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01. Faith Coloccia & Daniel Menche - Land Form
02. Faith Coloccia & Daniel Menche - Codec
03. Faith Coloccia & Daniel Menche - Winter Enclosure
04. Faith Coloccia & Daniel Menche - Kettle
05. Faith Coloccia & Daniel Menche - Main Field
06. Faith Coloccia & Daniel Menche - Acequia
ARTIST
TITLE
Smelter
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RM 4255CD RM 4255CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/24/2025

"The field recordings on this album contain the common theme of water in different states: snow, ice, hail, streams, creeks, in the Puget Sound passing under a ferry boat, pouring from a leaking sea wall, in frozen ponds, as it turns a water wheel, rain in thunder storms, in a pool during winter swimming. These were recorded between 2017-2024. They were usually made quickly while out with my son, and later edited to preserve the sounds of our voices while obscuring the specific content of what was said. In contrast, when Daniel records, he has a predetermined place in mind, and sets off on whole day adventures to document through both photography and audio. Working together melds his high fidelity, pre-meditated recordings with my spur-of-the-moment low-fi recordings... When we decided to work together on Smelter, I gave him five recordings of my piano compositions which he treated and added his own elements to -- turning them into long drone formations. These were then combined with the various water-based field recordings we'd made individually. Making records this way creates an aural archive of place/time and environment -- in the same way a film photograph holds onto a vision in time: the single moment when light is suspended in microscopic halide crystals which can then be recreated and reinterpreted: a form of time travel, where the past is both fixed and also accessible in the present. With Smelter perhaps we have created a time capsule, an index in which to place our combined story telling for listeners to share." --Faith Coloccia