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Merry Christmas / Happy Winter Solstice and Very Best Wishes for 2015!

I wish to express my tremendous gratitude to all of you who helped and/OAR 
quietly bounce back this past year, whether it was through generously 
donating to the Akio Suzuki fundraising campaign or through purchasing 
label releases and other items in the Diffusion Shop.

While there aren't very many new releases planned for 2015 (yet), I do plan 
to launch a second fundraising campaign to finally re-issue some of the 
early CDR releases on CD for longer-term posterity. And what better way to 
do that than start with the most requested re-issue of the early CDR releases 
Another Kind Of Language (AKOL). For the sake of the campaign, I plan to 
offer an expanded version with a new cover design and a third CD featuring 
new tracks by newly involved artists. There will also be at least one new 
track by one of the artists involved with the first version of AKOL. The full 
roster of artists will be announced when the campaign is launched (hopefully 
sometime in January). Another fundraising campaign for a proposed 7 CD
boxed set for the field recording compilations for Phonography.org will be
launched later in 2015.

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Thanks for your time and again for your continued support. It has always 
been my wish that and/OAR publications provide lasting value for everyone 
who is inspired enough to purchase them.

Dale

and/OAR
www.and-oar.org

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Now Available:

Artist: Artificial Memory Trace
Title: Organfish - Electric Fish Songs From The Amazon
Catalog Number: and/43
Format: CD
Info & Samples: www.and-oar.org/pop_and_43.html

As many who've long tread the waters of and/OAR already know, Artificial 
Memory Trace is none other than Slavek Kwi, and what we have here is a 
much deserved CD re-issue of his seminal release of underwater 
environmental recordings first issued on CDR via his Tentacles Of 
Perception imprint in 2010. Re-edited and remastered for the occasion. 
Prominently featured are underwater recordings of unidentified 
gymnotiformes (a type of electric fish), plus other kinds of subaquatic fish, 
insects, crustaceans and moving vegetation. The recordings were made 
in Mamori, Amazonas, Brazil in November, 2009.

Gymnotiformes are mostly nocturnal fish that are capable of producing 
electric fields for navigation and communication. The name "organfish" is 
not a scientific term, but one invented by Slavek in reference to the sublime 
and mysterious organ-like musicality of the sounds of electric fish, plus the 
term is also in reference to the fish producing electrical fields from a 
specialized internal organ called an "electric organ".


Artist: Michael Prime
Title: One Hour As A Plant
Catalog Number: and/42 / OHA 1
Format: CD
Info & Samples: www.and-oar.org/pop_and_42.html

All of the sounds used in this composition were produced by recording the 
bioelectrical field of a specimen of the peyote cactus (Lophophora 
williamsii). A fascinating work that takes the listener into normally unheard 
realms.

One Hour As A Plant was composed in 2003 for Ben Green's Resonance 
FM program called "One Hour As...". In 2005, Michael released a slightly 
shorter version (57:57 versus 61:02) himself on CDR under the title "One 
Hour As Peyote". After closely listening to both "OHAPlant" and 
"OHAPeyote", it was decided that the 61:02 "OHAPlant" version would be 
released on CD.

This release will also be the first of a new sub-series called "One Hour As...". 
The plan is to mostly present new environmental sound work based on 
Ben Green's concept, plus a small number of works previously broadcast 
on the program (like this release and another one released by and/OAR in 
2006 called Bordeaux TNT  by Afflux).

So, sound artists and recordists take note: and/OAR is looking for future 
installments for the new "One Hour As..." sub-series. Please make contact 
if you have a compelling idea to propose. OHA... will not be limited to just 
environmental sound work for the main and/OAR series. Work that would 
be a good fit for the either/OAR series will also be considered.

and/OAR
www.and-oar.org
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