Toxic City Music, by Evan Caminiti

Toxic City Music

by Evan Caminiti

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Dotflac Hot steam metronomically breathed in and out its inorganic respiratory system. Water constantly draining in its mineral blood vessels. Concrete buildings slowly shifting like brutalist giants in need of new horizons.

Toxic City Music pictures a sleepless city and its inhabitants, eaten up by this urban landscape bathing in a never-ending haze of mystery and torpor.

Remnants of melodies emulate faded glimpses of light, and deconstructed dubby echoes subsist as shams of a forgotten life. Favorite track: Joaquin.

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1.	Acid Shadow I 03:08	buy track
2.	Irradiation Halo 02:45	buy track
3.	Joaquin 04:28	buy track
4.	Possession 04:10	buy track
5.	NYC Ego 03:39	buy track
6.	Toxic Tape (Love Canal) 03:57	buy track
7.	Acid Shadow II 01:35	buy track
8.	Toxicity 02:15	buy track
9.	French Cocoon (Mutagen) 06:55	buy track
10.	Acid Shadow III 03:30	buy track

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NYC based artist Evan Caminiti breathes life into the Dust Editions imprint with the release of Toxic City Music. Caminiti has explored electro-acoustic music since the mid 2000's, the latest transmission being 2015's Meridian. While that album was Caminiti’s first to omit electric guitar, he has now returned to the instrument. Here it is buried it in an electronic mist and melted down, it's sonic fabric reshaped.

Toxic City Music was inspired by the psychic and physical toxicity of life in late capitalism. Conceived throughout 2015 and 2016, Caminiti captured the sounds of NYC’s machinery and voices before weaving them into his studio experiments. This collection of song mutations unravels in hazy plumes and serrated edges; concrète sounds mesh with disembodied strings and corrosive electronics on "Joaquin", drones ripple under stuttering rhythms and crude synth detritus throughout "NYC Ego". On "Toxic Tape (Love Canal)", layers of digital degradation smear guitar clusters, dissolving into a dubby devotional-ambient space.

Recorded and produced by Evan Caminiti. Featuring Jefre Cantu-Ledesma on "Joaquin". Additional production and mixdowns by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios.

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering.

Artwork by Evan Caminiti.

“With eerie timeliness Toxic City Music speaks eloquently of the remaindered, the hollow, the bereft, without once verbalising or signposting it’s intention...the album’s language is one of hisses, vapours and cityspaces turned spectral amid an ever present shroud of pollution.”

-The Wire

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released March 3, 2017

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Evan Caminiti Los Angeles, California

dusteditions@gmail.com

discography

Cat's Cradle

Nov 2022
The Cracked Mask

Jul 2021
Gleam

May 2021
Autoscopy OST

Feb 2021
Varispeed Hydra

Apr 2020
Refraction

Feb 2019
Toxic City Music

Mar 2017
Meridian

Jun 2015
Coiling

Oct 2014
Dreamless Sleep

Aug 2012
Night Dust

May 2012
Not Here Not There

Apr 2012

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