We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Pollutes

by Leslie Keffer

/
1.
Larkspur 02:12
2.
Pollutes 02:55
3.
Larrikin 12:31
4.
Lasing 10:46
5.
Belladonna 06:21
6.
Noble 06:59
7.

about

Although Leslie Keffer started making noise music with radios and voice in 2003, she hadn't worked outside of her proverbial rural isolationist vacuum, nor had she been truly influenced by noise music until after her first tour. Once she was performing with radios live steadily for a year or two, initially opening for touring acts in Athens, Ohio, a small town where she did booking at a local bar, she found that she didn't have time to seek through all of the radio static for more nuanced sounds in real time, so she learned to work more in the moment.

As such, Pollutes represents Keffer's first release that is maybe "self-aware" as noise music with a surrounding narrative history. It might be her most harsh work up to that point, but it's also unique in that it incorporates a vintage Echoplex tape machine for an added analog feel, as well as a toy piano on the final track. Rather than recording onto minidisc, this series of excursions was recorded direct to tape, initially self-released on home-dubbed cassettes with no digital editing (and no guitar pedals!) of any kind.

credits

released March 3, 2023

Leslie Keffer: Voice, Radios, Sounds. Winter 2005, Athens, Ohio.
Grief Council: Art.
Layout by Arvo Zylo.
Audio refurbished for 2023.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

NO PART OF IT

Private label formed in 2008.

No longer considering demos.


*The Trunculence character logo was created by collage artist Christopher Ilth, used with permission.

contact / help

Contact NO PART OF IT

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

NO PART OF IT recommends:

If you like Pollutes, you may also like: