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AUDIOBOOK
Artist
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Sam Gendel & Marcella Cytrynowicz
ReleaseProduct
AUDIOBOOK
Label
Psychic Hotline
Catalogue Number
PSY031DIGITAL
Release Date
October 6, 2023

Press Release

The new project from prolific multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel and visual artist/filmmaker. Marcella Cytrynowicz, is comprised of 13 alphabetically-named tracks and corresponding illustrations that feel like dispatches from outer space, or unearthed ancient runes. At points melodic and cartoonish and at others glitching and somewhat unnerving, it’s a visual work and instrumental album rooted in a strange in-between, in a shadowy and vivid chasm between terrestrial and otherworldly. A puzzle that doesn’t ask to be completed, but invites you to play. Cytrynowicz and Gendel have been consistent collaborators since 2020, with Cytrynowicz providing photography as well as music videos and visuals, including for Gendel’s DRM and their AE-30 documentary, and with Gendel contributing snippet scores to her own short-form video work. AUDIOBOOK is the meeting of something distinctly analog weaving into a soundscape that could be at home in a 90s sci-fi soundtrack, the parallel play of a visual artist and prolific musician, abstract art and sound reaching out to touch. “It’s the sound of us just individually trusting ourselves, and then aligning the two together and letting them meet, and also trusting in that,” Gendel says. “I don’t think about it that directly, though – this isn't art inspired by art. I would say this is just a piece showing two people trusting in their subconscious and then trusting in that meeting point, wherever that is. And shepherding it along

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 AB 1:44 Buy

    AB

  2. 2 CD 3:06 Buy

    CD

  3. 3 EF 2:24 Buy

    EF

  4. 4 GH 3:04 Buy

    GH

  5. 5 IJ 2:31 Buy

    IJ

  6. 6 KL 4:17 Buy

    KL

  7. 7 MN 2:00 Buy

    MN

  8. 8 OP 2:31 Buy

    OP

  9. 9 QR 2:46 Buy

    QR

  10. 10 ST 2:29 Buy

    ST

  11. 11 UV 3:20 Buy

    UV

  12. 12 WX 1:25 Buy

    WX

  13. 13 YZ 3:02 Buy

    YZ

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