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Tome to the Weather Machine Podcast 073 features new work by:

00:00 - DEVIN SHAFFER - "KISSING IN THE PARK" IN MY DREAMS I'M THERE (AMERICAN DREAMS)

04:44 - JOCÉAN - "ULLASSA (MORNING SOUNDS)"

08:31 - TARA JANE O'NEIL - "A SUNDAY 2020" DISPATCHES FROM THE DRIFT (ORDINAL RECORDS)

12:43 - DAMIANA - "SUNKEN LUPINE" VINES (HAUSU MOUNTAIN)

19:10 - STIJN HUWELS +TOMOYOSHI DATE - "都市に変貌した白い廃墟（The White Ruins That Transformed Into A City)" 遠き火、遠き雲’ ​(​A Distant Fire​,​ A Distant Cloud) (LAAPS RECORDS)

27:23 - SAILCLOTH - "GREAT LAKES" WOODCUT (LOST TRIBE SOUND)

30:10 - MUGGLE - "WEEDS" DAMP (1724 RECORDS)

34:29 - HYUNHYE SEO - "STRANDS II" STRANDS (ROOM 40)

41:39 - MARK SHIPPY & ALEX CUNNINGHAM - "CLEAR WALKWAY" GHOST NOTE (PERSONAL ARCHIVES)

45:43 - JORDAN REYES - "LEAD ME TO THE CLIFF - AWAY WE LAUGH" (UNIFACTOR)

50:08 - FLANGER MAGAZINE - "OPEN STAR" FORGOTTEN FIELDS (UNIFACTOR)

53:07 - CAMERON KNOWLER - "PUERTO SUELO" PLACES OF CONSEQUENCE (AMERICAN DREAMS)

57:02 - WILTED WOMAN - "TWO CAN FISH" KEYCHAIN (UNIFACTOR)

01:00:37 - STEPHEN SPERA - "BROKEN ROAD: CODA" A.D. 2021 (DUST ARCHIVE)

01:03:22 - DOLPHIN MIDWIVES - "BREAK" BODY OF WATER (BEACON SOUND)

01:08:39 - OPRIS - "UNION"

Purchase Here: https://marktreckawsr.bandcamp.com/

Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue between the personal and political. “Acknowledgment” according to Trecka is presented here not as some kind of moral high ground, but rather an elusive action that runs “somehow deeper than recognition.” How do we acknowledge our deep interdependence upon one another when faced with the ever increasing atomization of modern life? It is through Acknowledgment’s existence as an intertextual and intermedial piece of art that Trecka explores this fascia connecting us all, despite the designed invisibility of certain communities – stateless persons, incarcerated persons, houseless individuals. This record is about heavy things, but it is certainly not about the burden of interdependence or the void left by nature’s dispassion. Rather, it is about the utter joy that may be found through the acknowledgement of these things. Compassion – a word that gets close to acknowledgement’s aims – allows us to share in the pain and joy of our common existence.

Although this album is sparse and some ways abstract, the intertextual elements provide excellent entry points into the work itself. Musically, Mark Trecka offers a few oblique references. Listen deeply to hear the clanging rhythm and idiosyncratic timing of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, the minimalist drama of Haley Fohr or Nico’s The Marble Index the floating and commanding vocals of Mark Hollis, or Robert Wyatt’s hopeful but utterly wild solo work. It should come as no surprise that Acknowledgment’s closing track, “Hood in Wind” builds off of Public Enemy’s “Revolutionary Generation '' while Trecka’s impressionistic liner notes quote from prison abolitionist and poet Jackie Wang. The album’s cover itself features a quote from Mexican author Yuri Herrera’s “A Silent Fury” which is about a mining disaster and the criminal response of the mine’s owners. This story echoes in Trecka’s own exploration of a remote desert cemetery which provides the cornerstone for the album’s inserted essay / reflection.

Songs on Acknowledgement often drift between the political and the personal. On “Wave Games” an anxious piano line provides the backbone for Trecka’s reflection on visiting the ocean with his child and, while watching him play in the waves, reflecting on the multivalence of bodies of water – as connectors, dividers of land masses and the struggles of those who cross them in search of better material conditions. Ships literally passing in the night as supertankers valet the refined natural goods of several countries reduced to a supply chain. “A Sea of Tents” reflects on statelessness and unreasonable responses to unreasonable situations over an impressionistic piano composition punctuated by brash bass notes and distressed tape loops that signal like a lighthouse fading from sight. The only instrumental track on the album, the album’s title track opens up caverns between piano notes that are wide enough to cast our worried thoughts into and never hear them hit the bottom. There is a lift, however, towards a cacophonous conclusion that finds joy in making very, very loud sounds over and over. Signal. Repeat. Forever.

Purchase Here: https://marktreckawsr.bandcamp.com/

Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue between the personal and political. “Acknowledgment” according to Trecka is presented here not as some kind of moral high ground, but rather an elusive action that runs “somehow deeper than recognition.” How do we acknowledge our deep interdependence upon one another when faced with the ever increasing atomization of modern life? It is through Acknowledgment’s existence as an intertextual and intermedial piece of art that Trecka explores this fascia connecting us all, despite the designed invisibility of certain communities – stateless persons, incarcerated persons, houseless individuals. This record is about heavy things, but it is certainly not about the burden of interdependence or the void left by nature’s dispassion. Rather, it is about the utter joy that may be found through the acknowledgement of these things. Compassion – a word that gets close to acknowledgement’s aims – allows us to share in the pain and joy of our common existence.

Although this album is sparse and some ways abstract, the intertextual elements provide excellent entry points into the work itself. Musically, Mark Trecka offers a few oblique references. Listen deeply to hear the clanging rhythm and idiosyncratic timing of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, the minimalist drama of Haley Fohr or Nico’s The Marble Index the floating and commanding vocals of Mark Hollis, or Robert Wyatt’s hopeful but utterly wild solo work. It should come as no surprise that Acknowledgment’s closing track, “Hood in Wind” builds off of Public Enemy’s “Revolutionary Generation '' while Trecka’s impressionistic liner notes quote from prison abolitionist and poet Jackie Wang. The album’s cover itself features a quote from Mexican author Yuri Herrera’s “A Silent Fury” which is about a mining disaster and the criminal response of the mine’s owners. This story echoes in Trecka’s own exploration of a remote desert cemetery which provides the cornerstone for the album’s inserted essay / reflection.

Songs on Acknowledgement often drift between the political and the personal. On “Wave Games” an anxious piano line provides the backbone for Trecka’s reflection on visiting the ocean with his child and, while watching him play in the waves, reflecting on the multivalence of bodies of water – as connectors, dividers of land masses and the struggles of those who cross them in search of better material conditions. Ships literally passing in the night as supertankers valet the refined natural goods of several countries reduced to a supply chain. “A Sea of Tents” reflects on statelessness and unreasonable responses to unreasonable situations over an impressionistic piano composition punctuated by brash bass notes and distressed tape loops that signal like a lighthouse fading from sight. The only instrumental track on the album, the album’s title track opens up caverns between piano notes that are wide enough to cast our worried thoughts into and never hear them hit the bottom. There is a lift, however, towards a cacophonous conclusion that finds joy in making very, very loud sounds over and over. Signal. Repeat. Forever.

00:00 - DITTOCRUSH - "SLOW BURN TO THE APOCOLYPSE" GROWTH AT A DEATH PACE

05:33 -DOMUS & DAG ROSENQVIST - "TRANSIT / SUNRISE"

12:27 - INNESTI - "REPEATING OUR MISTAKES" FILAMENT AND PLACE (DRONARIVM)

17:18 - MELINA BLANCO - "XU"

21:15 - MARC LEVAN - "SUNLESS SEA"

31:19 - CHARLIE SCHAFER - "FEATHER"

36:09 - PROLAPS - "5D SPLIT" ULTRA CYCLE PT. 1 (HAUSU MOUNTAIN)

41:38 - CRYSTAL - "ECCO FUNK" REFLECTION OVERDRIVE (FLAU)

45:06 - CROCODILO SLAM - "BACKYARD MANIA" NASCIDO EM SWAMPLAND (K7 MUNICPAL)

47:03 - EDYTH - "LATESHIFT"

51:02 - DEATH HAGS - "MOONRISE"

53:08 - CONSUMER REDUCER - "STARE THROUGH THIS MIRROR TO YOUR MIRROR AT HOME" (HISTAMINE TAPES)

58:31 - MOR AIR - "DRIP" EIGHT PIECES FOR MANDOLIN / THE APPEARANCE OF BEING (PEARSOLL PEAK)

01:01:25 - LAMNIFORMES - "DEEP DESPAIR IN COVINGTON, KY (NOUMENAH REMIX)" YOU CAN'T DO THIS ALONE

01:06:40 - ARTTU SILVAST - "SAND AND REED"

01:11:07 - MARK TRECKA - "GUIDES" ACKNOWLEDGMENT (WHITED SEPULCHRE)

01:15:06 - STEFAN CHRISTENSEN - "LOIMAA IX" LOIMAA (GARDEN PORTAL)

01:18:25 - PETER KRIS - "ABRAMOFF IN SAIPAN" NO LANGUAGE FOR THE FEELING (GARDEN PORTAL)

01:21:25 - SAVVAS METAXAS - "DESPAIRING, CONFUSED" NAF (COMPLEX HOLIDAY)

01:23:50 - WENDY EISENBERG - "A LINE" CELLINI'S HALO (GARDEN PORTAL)

01:26:55 - JEFFREY ALEXANDER - "SKY CAMP" REYES (GARDEN PORTAL)

00:00 - DITTOCRUSH - "SLOW BURN TO THE APOCOLYPSE" GROWTH AT A DEATH PACE

05:33 -DOMUS & DAG ROSENQVIST - "TRANSIT / SUNRISE"

12:27 - INNESTI - "REPEATING OUR MISTAKES" FILAMENT AND PLACE (DRONARIVM)

17:18 - MELINA BLANCO - "XU"

21:15 - MARC LEVAN - "SUNLESS SEA"

31:19 - CHARLIE SCHAFER - "FEATHER"

36:09 - PROLAPS - "5D SPLIT" ULTRA CYCLE PT. 1 (HAUSU MOUNTAIN)

41:38 - CRYSTAL - "ECCO FUNK" REFLECTION OVERDRIVE (FLAU)

45:06 - CROCODILO SLAM - "BACKYARD MANIA" NASCIDO EM SWAMPLAND (K7 MUNICPAL)

47:03 - EDYTH - "LATESHIFT"

51:02 - DEATH HAGS - "MOONRISE"

53:08 - CONSUMER REDUCER - "STARE THROUGH THIS MIRROR TO YOUR MIRROR AT HOME" (HISTAMINE TAPES)

58:31 - MOR AIR - "DRIP" EIGHT PIECES FOR MANDOLIN / THE APPEARANCE OF BEING (PEARSOLL PEAK)

01:01:25 - LAMNIFORMES - "DEEP DESPAIR IN COVINGTON, KY (NOUMENAH REMIX)" YOU CAN'T DO THIS ALONE

01:06:40 - ARTTU SILVAST - "SAND AND REED"

01:11:07 - MARK TRECKA - "GUIDES" ACKNOWLEDGMENT (WHITED SEPULCHRE)

01:15:06 - STEFAN CHRISTENSEN - "LOIMAA IX" LOIMAA (GARDEN PORTAL)

01:18:25 - PETER KRIS - "ABRAMOFF IN SAIPAN" NO LANGUAGE FOR THE FEELING (GARDEN PORTAL)

01:21:25 - SAVVAS METAXAS - "DESPAIRING, CONFUSED" NAF (COMPLEX HOLIDAY)

01:23:50 - WENDY EISENBERG - "A LINE" CELLINI'S HALO (GARDEN PORTAL)

01:26:55 - JEFFREY ALEXANDER - "SKY CAMP" REYES (GARDEN PORTAL)

0:00 - Tristan Welch - "I Live in Filth" Temporary Preservation

05:57 - MERCURY 82 - "FUJIN"

09:17 - STORYINSOIL - "555" PASSAGE (INGROWN RECORDS)

13:15 - CLAIRE ROUSAY & PATRICK SHIROISHI - "LAST OF MANY TIMES OVER" NOW AM FOUND (MENDED DREAMS)

20:55 - ANNIE HART - "THE EARTH LOVES YOU BACK" EVERYTHING PALE BLUE (ORDINAL RECORDS)

26:52 - FUTURE MUSEUMS - "SLEEPING PYTHON HYMN" PRE-FORM (HOLODECK RECORDS)

33:05 - OLHO - "1:1" 1:1

37:10 - INGE WEATHERHEAD BREISTEIN - "LUPE" FLYING HIGH COLLAGE

40:53 - ROHNE - "TWELVE"

45:15 - FIL SMIF - "SUNDAY" WHEN THE TIME COMES

47:30 - PAST PALMS - "CLOUDBLOOM" EMPYREAN

51:01 - INGE WEATHERHEAD BREISTEIN - "REFRACTION" REFRACTION

56:38 - ASE MANUAL - "WHEN FIRE RAINS"

01:02:00 - SAINT JUDE - "THE ARCHIOLOGIST" BODIES OF WATER (SLOW DANCE)

01:05:07 - PUBLIC SPEAKING - "DEAD CITY" SONGS NEED PEOPLE (FLOORDOOR RECORDS)

01:08:23 - SUSPIRIANS - "AIRPORT BLVD." WINDOW TO THE SPHERES

0:00 - Tristan Welch - "I Live in Filth" Temporary Preservation

05:57 - MERCURY 82 - "FUJIN"

09:17 - STORYINSOIL - "555" PASSAGE (INGROWN RECORDS)

13:15 - CLAIRE ROUSAY & PATRICK SHIROISHI - "LAST OF MANY TIMES OVER" NOW AM FOUND (MENDED DREAMS)

20:55 - ANNIE HART - "THE EARTH LOVES YOU BACK" EVERYTHING PALE BLUE (ORDINAL RECORDS)

26:52 - FUTURE MUSEUMS - "SLEEPING PYTHON HYMN" PRE-FORM (HOLODECK RECORDS)

33:05 - OLHO - "1:1" 1:1

37:10 - INGE WEATHERHEAD BREISTEIN - "LUPE" FLYING HIGH COLLAGE

40:53 - ROHNE - "TWELVE"

45:15 - FIL SMIF - "SUNDAY" WHEN THE TIME COMES

47:30 - PAST PALMS - "CLOUDBLOOM" EMPYREAN

51:01 - INGE WEATHERHEAD BREISTEIN - "REFRACTION" REFRACTION

56:38 - ASE MANUAL - "WHEN FIRE RAINS"

01:02:00 - SAINT JUDE - "THE ARCHIOLOGIST" BODIES OF WATER (SLOW DANCE)

01:05:07 - PUBLIC SPEAKING - "DEAD CITY" SONGS NEED PEOPLE (FLOORDOOR RECORDS)

01:08:23 - SUSPIRIANS - "AIRPORT BLVD." WINDOW TO THE SPHERES

This podcast features new music from:

00:00 - Rachika Nayar - "Losing Too is Still Ours" Our Hands Against the Dark (NNA)

07:02 - Brin, DNTEL, more eaze - "Lauren iii" futureangelics (Cached Media)

10:26 - Tyler Holmes - "Confuse Me" Nightmare in Paradise (Ratskin Records)

14:44 - Simon McCorry - "Full Circle" And Where Are You Really From? (Polar Seas Recordings)

19:11 - Birchy - "Tethers"

24:28 - AceMo - "Ancestral Planes" Unreleased Trax vol 1

32:01 - Aatom - "Patterns 1"

35:11 - Eve Maret - "2" The Zone (Curious Music)

41:37 - Yuko Araki - "Optical Landfall" End of Trilogy (Room 40)

44:07 - Neo Geodesia - "Fanta Rouge" 2562 Neon Flames (Chinabot)

47:03 - Gavsborg - "Domestic Music for Skeptical Dogs" Domestic Audio Workstation (EquinoxxMusic)

53:23 - Whettman Chelmets - "Summer 2 (The Promise of Better Days)"

58:09 - Marc Méan - "Inlay"

01:03:36 - Lake Mary & Oxherding - "Lifted Canopies" With the Windows Open (Distant Bloom)

01:10:01 - Solid Waste - "City of Cosmos City of Cosmos (Distant Bloom)

01:13:11 - David Slowing - "Quietly"

01:16:17 - Lisa and Kroffe - "Efterdyningar"

01:18:50 - Theo Alexander - "Bright Eyed Hunger"

01:25:26 - Rose Riebl - "Over Salt Sea"

01:28:50 - Austin Rockman - "Illuma"

01:35:50 - yourlocalwizard - "Tokaido"

01:40:49 - Josh Medina - "Harvester" Drifting Toward the Absolute

01:43:59 - Clara Engel & Bradley Sean Alexander - "Presence" Ghost Bird

01:46:43 - Proud Creature - "Franklin Parc"

This podcast features new music from:

00:00 - Rachika Nayar - "Losing Too is Still Ours" Our Hands Against the Dark (NNA)

07:02 - Brin, DNTEL, more eaze - "Lauren iii" futureangelics (Cached Media)

10:26 - Tyler Holmes - "Confuse Me" Nightmare in Paradise (Ratskin Records)

14:44 - Simon McCorry - "Full Circle" And Where Are You Really From? (Polar Seas Recordings)

19:11 - Birchy - "Tethers"

24:28 - AceMo - "Ancestral Planes" Unreleased Trax vol 1

32:01 - Aatom - "Patterns 1"

35:11 - Eve Maret - "2" The Zone (Curious Music)

41:37 - Yuko Araki - "Optical Landfall" End of Trilogy (Room 40)

44:07 - Neo Geodesia - "Fanta Rouge" 2562 Neon Flames (Chinabot)

47:03 - Gavsborg - "Domestic Music for Skeptical Dogs" Domestic Audio Workstation (EquinoxxMusic)

53:23 - Whettman Chelmets - "Summer 2 (The Promise of Better Days)"

58:09 - Marc Méan - "Inlay"

01:03:36 - Lake Mary & Oxherding - "Lifted Canopies" With the Windows Open (Distant Bloom)

01:10:01 - Solid Waste - "City of Cosmos City of Cosmos (Distant Bloom)

01:13:11 - David Slowing - "Quietly"

01:16:17 - Lisa and Kroffe - "Efterdyningar"

01:18:50 - Theo Alexander - "Bright Eyed Hunger"

01:25:26 - Rose Riebl - "Over Salt Sea"

01:28:50 - Austin Rockman - "Illuma"

01:35:50 - yourlocalwizard - "Tokaido"

01:40:49 - Josh Medina - "Harvester" Drifting Toward the Absolute

01:43:59 - Clara Engel & Bradley Sean Alexander - "Presence" Ghost Bird

01:46:43 - Proud Creature - "Franklin Parc"

00:00 - DAX PIERSON - "FOR THE ANGELS" NERVE BUMPS (A QUEER DIVINE DISSATISFACTION) (RATSKIN RECORDS)

04:53 - ZVRRA - "FLOW STATE" FLOW STATE

08:56 - [MONRHEA] - "OR MAYBE" STEER_CLEAR

15:06 - SOFIA BERTOMEAU - "PROBABILITY" SPICES

18:30 - DUBHARP - "LYRA'S ASCENT (FEAT. LARAAJI)" SPIRAL HEIGHTS (100% SILK)

22:36 - ANDREW TUTTLE & PADANG FOOD TIGERS - "A GAME OF MARGINAL GAINS" A CASSOWARY APART (BEDROOM SUCK)

26:30 - JUSELL, PRYMEK, SAGE, SHIROISHI - "LAVENDAR" SETSUBUN (節分) (CACHEDMEDIA)

32:26 - THANK YOU THANK YOU - "OUT OF NOWHERE" NEXT TO NOTHING (OOF RECORDS)

34:48 - ADELINE HOTEL - "I HAVE FOUND IT" GOOD TIMING (RUINATION RECORDS)

36:57 - TUCKER THEODORE - "HOLLOW (FEAT. MIDWIFE)" LEWISTON BY THE SEA (ANTIQUATED FUTURE)

40:59 - claire rousay - "DISCRETE (THE MARKET) A SOFTER FOCUS (AMERICAN DREAMS)

47:00 - CHRISTOPHER ROYAL KING & NICO ROSENBERG - "UN VIEJO AMIGO"

51:06 - OORA - "I TOURI OCCHI"

55:54 - SHEA BETTS - "PASSENGERS"

01:00:31 - PAGINATION - "YOUR OTHER LEFT" FOR WHY (CYCLICAL DREAMS)

01:08:02 - PRE POLAR - "CRYSTAL MONUMENTS"

01:11:47 - ZAKÈ & CITY OF DAWN - "AN ETERNAL MOMENT HIDDEN AWAY, VARIATION 1"

01:16:37 - MILAD BAGHERI - "GALOBA III" GALOBA (FLAG DAY)

01:24:34 - ADAM CUTHBERT & DANIEL RHODE - "THE SHOOTING STAR SHE SAW"

01:31:21 - DARKTWAINE - "CHAOTIC GOOD" THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF SELF REALIZATION

01:35:21 - MIKE NIGRO - "LOOSE TIME" IN COMMUNION (ALIEN GARAGE)

01:40:50 - NUNCA DAMO - "IT ALL HAPPENS QUITE QUICKLY" YEARS IN THE TYPING POOL

01:45:28 - CHLOE YU NONG LIN - "PI SOUND 琶聲" (MONASTRAL)

01:50:50 - ENDLINGS - "CITHER" HUMAN FORM (WHITED SEPULCHRE)

01:56:38 - SIMON PROVENCHER - "CHOIX MULTIPLES" MESURES (MICHEL RECORDS)

01:59:22 - JEN KUTLER - "FAIRNESS" SONIFIED PSYCHOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF EMPATHY (CACOPHONOUS REVIVAL)

02:04:06 - WHITE SUNS - "ANTHEMUSA" THE LOWER WAY (DECOHERENCE RECORDS)

02:09:19 - SUN PICTURE - "TENSION AT THE PARK 1990" SO MANY LITTLE ROOMS (A RED THREAD)