Grandeur & Weakness, by The North Sea

Grandeur & Weakness

by The North Sea

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1.	Disease Vector 06:37	buy track
2.	Peasants 05:49
3.	Empty Fragile Shell 08:23
4.	Vagrant 04:28
5.	Intimidation Tactics 05:12
6.	No Petty Delinquents 05:26
7.	Violence is a Cleansing Force 05:22
8.	Colonization 01:05

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The North Sea is dead, long live The North Sea.

Grandeur & Weakness is the final album from Brad Rose’s The North Sea, a project that has traversed a wide range of phenomenal sound territories, and it is an sublimely uncanny farewell from one of experimental music's most ambitious names.

Rose (best known as the polymath mastermind behind Digitalis and scores of projects) oversees an assemblage of sound sources evoking the history of electric music. From synthesizer soundscapes that seek to reconcile the limits of timbre to concrete sampling and collage, G&W plays a crash course in sonic evocation. Clearly in control of The North Sea sound, Rose notes that he has "never spent more time on any solo project than on this record," and this is apparent throughout the scale of sound and emotion of G&W. There's a sense of the uncanny, a mysterious unsettling, throughout the album and this is directly attributable to G&W's aesthetic basis in Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, African percussion, and progressive drone. The "psychology of colonization . . . and all the awfulness that entails" is viewed both literally and figuratively through an aura of uncanny unease, and this aura becomes a metaphor for both internal psychological states as well as external manifestations of oppression, despair, and release.

Grandeur & Weakness is a final album monumental to both the worldwide experimental music community (in which Rose is an essential player) as well as on a larger scale, addressing the overall human condition where heavy, ineffable emotions and essences swirl intangible and the most clairvoyant understanding comes from the act of listening.

Rubber City Noise is honored to present this limited edition vinyl release of Grandeur & Weakness with full color artwork by Tiny Little Hammers and mastering by John Twells (Type) and James Plotkin. Limited to 300 copies on high-quality black vinyl with pro-printed jacket and free digital download. Distributed exclusively by Experimedia.

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released December 31, 2012

Music by Brad Rose
Design by Tiny Little Hammers
Mastered by John Twells & James Plotkin

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