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 RIVER003 Naw (Toronto, Canada) "Terrain Vague" (CD and Digital Album) 01. 4 by 6 02. glass bell bottom pipeline 03. birch bark ceiling wax 04. 90 degree decent 05. sprawl 06. seismic side walk activity 07. birch bark (tomas jirku remix) (Check out audio samples in the Beatport player to the right) Rivers of Recordings is proud to announce the release of the label's first album, an album rather appropriately from Neil Wiernik. Neil and Tomas Jirku first met in Toronto nearly seven years ago when they performed on the same bill at what was Jirku's debut performance. The two easily found affinity in their sounds and at the time they even boldly determined that techno music need not be faster than 120 beats per minute. Despite deviations from this through the course of those years we find ourselves with an album which indeed rarely exceeds this pre-determined mark. The pace of the music at this tempo aided by the music's structure seems to dissolve the listener's reference to time in an almost disorientating effect. As the music progresses one can hear the effects of the creator's hand fine-tuning the elements of the composition in search of balance. Created as an event to occur only at the time of it's performance, this album, thankfully recorded by Neil, gives us a look into the artist's process. The rawness of the result is a relief from the overproduced, sterile precision of computer music that is overabundant these days. The abstention from addition post-production beyond Neil's own self-determined processing allows us to hear the music as the creator intended, because there is no purpose in allowing the creators work to be altered in some misguided goal. The artwork for the album, a collaboration between Tomas Jirku and Greg Smith, brings together multiple printing techniques in a resourceful and unique package. Greg is an architect based between Toronto and Los Angeles who, along with Neil, co-curates the Vague Terrain online digital arts quarterly. 
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