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Mastered by Michael Southard, December 2021

Originally released as a C20 cassette on DNT Records, 2015 (DNT075). Cover art by Pearl Morgan & Tynan Krakoff, Purple Akronym

Although "Meadow Argus I" wasn't released until 2015, the Meadow Argus project was started in 2006. I was living in the Pacific Northwest at the time and it was dark and depressing all the time and I had a conception of blending super slow, saturated droney keyboard/organs with field recordings and tape manipulation workings I was messing around with.

My recording process is very slow. I'll make field recordings or short tapes of sound exploration on tape players, cheap keyboards, organs or other homemade instruments, and let the tapes sit and collect dust for years. Then revisit these tapes and build on them, or cut into tape loops, or depending on the saturation use as-is a background layer in a collage. What's nice is that most of the time I don't remember making the tapes, so in a way I consider the project a collaboration or conversation with my past selves.

The first Meadow Argus release is pretty minimalist, especially compared to the thick collages of later tapes. But hear where it all began! On this tape, on top of droney, warbly reed organ loops and light percussive elements sprinkled throughout, I use samples from microcassette field recordings I made while on a west coast freight trainhopping trip I had with my brother Max and friends in the summer of 2009. Many of these samples are from loose conversations with friends, just hanging out on hot summer days. The tape is intended for deep listening ideally lying down with headphones on.

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released December 25, 2015

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Meadow Argus Columbus, Ohio

Meadow Argus is Tynan Krakoff. Experimental tape music. Droney soundscapes for deep listening. Tape loops & other tape manipulation on junk tape players, field recordings, misc electroacoustic/concrete sounds and other secrets & mysteries. Recorded to 4 track at home in Ohio. Started 2006/2015 depending on how you look at it..really got things cooking 2021 onward

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