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Me My Imp

by Ian Drennan

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The Poor Old Lousy Old Earth 01:10
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2.
Frame 05:21
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3.
Fulmar 02:19
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E3 05:04
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Ixion 02:08
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Blue Bird 07:43
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Celtic Traditional 05:57
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Mg12 01:36
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At The Table 07:12
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O. 02:44
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G3 04:04
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12.
A 06:45
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13.
Erinyes 11:32
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about

Ian Drennan is a composer — and structural engineer — based in New York City. With Me My Imp, his fourth full-length release, Drennan guides the listener into a world poised between the concrete compromises of engineering and the ephemeral possibilities of digital sound. It asks us: are we really are in control? And do we need to bother?

Me My Imp blends field recordings and instrumentation into a haunting yet low-key sound collage. Blurring the distinction between musical and non-musical styles, the album’s thirteen tracks snake through bright strings, zither, and flute sound, with jarring doses of intrusive scrapes, radio transmissions, and air-raid synths. Me My Imp revels in the stretching and squeezing of opposites: digital and acoustic; composition and collage; soundtrack and dialog.

Drennan draws inspiration from Samuel Beckett’s radio plays, read by Irish actor Jack MacGowran, whose dry, excoriating diction is pepped by organs, flutes, and gongs. With Me My Imp, each sound takes on a life of its own, becoming actors in a drama for which Drennan has provided the stage. Drennan’s collection of sounds is, as Beckett’s work has been described, a theatre of the absurd — a stridulation of serenity and menace that somehow, absurdly, adds up to equilibrium.

And equilibrium is the business of engineers. Drennan shows us the hidden benevolence in the random nature of our world, which despite its multifariousness, actually works. Rather than build a new world, Drennan exposes the infinity in our own — whether we are a cricket or a tormented demon, we are all just caught up in the mix.

Me My Imp releases via Soap Library on Friday, March 6, 2020 in limited edition cassette and unlimited digital forms, paired with a military grade magnesium fire starter tool. Strike responsibly and rinse repeatedly.

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as a measure of gratitude
we invite you to download Passchendaele
a full-length foil to the aforementioned album
Download: bit.ly/passchendaele

credits

released March 6, 2020

Recorded in New York, NY 11222
Mastered by Al Carlson
Artwork by Ian Drennan
Design + Layout by Jonathan Campolo
CAT#: SL009
www.soaplibrary.net

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