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gordon ashworth has crafted "misfortune" as the final album and conclusion under the concern project which was recorded throughout 2011 to early 2012 and is entirely based on the 15 string box-harp (an american folk instrument also known as the "lap harp"). every sound on the album was initially created by this box-harp and field recordings. The three compositions are ashworth's direct impressions of traditional melodies for the valiha marovany (a box-harp instrument from madagascar) and the kora (a west african gourd-harp instrument). the emotional essences of these melodic lines and tunings were severely abstracted and magnified into new realms of emotional and psychological reaction. these recordings of the box-harp were gradually combined with social field recordings and drastically manipulated by several methods of cassette-based looping & delay, speakers and microphones, and using massive underground hospital parking garages as crude, guerrilla echo chambers. the effect is intended to recreate the overwhelming emotional effects of the original melodies, as well as the feelings of anxiety attacks, atheism, agoraphobia, failing health, and observing misfortune in others. recorded by gordon ashworth, mastered by mark burden and gordon ashworth. art and design by brandon nickell. edition of 300 copies printed with teal-foil graph structure tessellations on black matte jackets. 

gonna be fun. Looking forward to the show in Amsterdam :-)

i'm pleased to announce that PAN will be releasing a CD version of the Concern "Misfortune" album in late 2012.

copies of the LP version are still available from Isounderscore and various distros.

also, two cassette EPs from the last tour are now available. raw musique concreterecorded live at home using acoustic instruments and cassette loop systems.

crude vignettes: upright piano & mbira  one-sided cassette. available from iatrogenesis. audio excerpt.

crude vignettes: box-harp & speakers  cs-20. available from dokumentarisk agenda. audio excerpt.

Nice one Gordon :-)

For those who don't have the album yet I can recommend it quite a lot. 

Any chane those cassettes will find their way to a distro stateside? Discriminate, possibly? Would love to get them in one go.

The "upright piano & mbira" tape was released on my own label (Iatrogenesis), I've just been selling the rest of my copies directly via email, but I might send some to a couple distros if they don't move.  I'm not sure if the "box-harp & speakers" tape will be in US distros, but Mikkel aka Dokumentarisk Agenda would be the guy to ask. 

...thanks Sietse!

touring Europe again (the last time as Concern), dates:

Hell yeah!!! 17th is going to be awesome (although I have no clue how much people will attend). 

Orphax - Intense Dick Destruction (Concern's Welcome to the Shit Remix)

Hope you play that one in the Moving Furniture Headquaters, I'll be there.

What is it with this orphax dick shit?  Is this some in-joke I don't get?

You should ask Orphax, he has a very, well let's say "interesting" private story to tell...or should I say "private parts" story?

hmm, I don't know about this story, but I guess John Zorn likes my music or my dick or both.

or it might be that he is jeaslous about my over-compensation with my record collection... :P