A Return From Black Hole

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1.	Set 1 Part 1: OG 35:35	buy track
2.	Set 1 Part 2: Shape Of A Square 08:52	buy track
3.	Set 1 Part 3: Cool Engines Are All 04:44	buy track
4.	Set 1 Part 4: Replace Your Face 08:19	buy track
5.	Set 1 Part 5: Slipped Out Back 14:25	buy track
6.	Set 1 Part 6: Sunrise 07:03	buy track
7.	Set 1 Part 7: The Rover 17:19	buy track
8.	Set 1 Part 8: The Frogs 06:18	buy track
9.	Set 1 Part 9: Fathoms 07:08	buy track
10.	Intermission: The Anti-Noah 38:18	buy track
11.	Set 2 Part 1: OG2 21:01	buy track
12.	Set 2 Part 2: The Bow 15:44	buy track
13.	Set 2 Part 3: Bog Orbs 06:04	buy track
14.	Set 2 Part 4: Asphyxiated Imaginations 12:11	buy track
15.	Set 2 Part 5: Summer Time 14:47	buy track
16.	Set 2 Part 6: The Howling 10:14	buy track
17.	Set 2 Part 7: Out Of Gear 01:49	buy track
18.	Set 2 Part 8: Stay Off The Skies 03:54	buy track
19.	Set 2 Part 9: Leave Me Here 08:45	buy track
20.	Set 2 Part 10: Dog Star City 33:03	buy track
21.	Set 3 Part 1: My Sweet Satan 07:44	buy track
22.	Set 3 Part 2: AM Girl 25:51	buy track
23.	Set 3 Part 3: The Inversion Layer 13:51	buy track
24.	Set 3 Part 4: Frozen Extremities 08:05	buy track
25.	Set 3 Part 5: A Buoy Report 09:01	buy track
26.	Set 3 Part 6: Off The Pigs 18:51	buy track

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A Six-Hour Continuous Performance
Recorded Live to Stereo
At Monkey Town
On a Dog Day’s Night in Brooklyn

from
8:00PM EDT Saturday, July 14, 2007
to
2:00AM EDT Sunday, July 15, 2007
at
58 N 3rd St Williamsburg, NY 11211

On that night Excepter was:

John Fell Ryan
Dan Hougland
Nathan Corbin
Jon Nicholson
Lala Harrison Ryan
Clare Amory

All music previously released as a very limited run MP3 CDR sometime 2008-2009. Edited portions of “Set 1 Part 1” and “Intermission” previously released on 2010 Excepter album “Presidence.”

Monkey Town was an experimental cinema / restaurant / performance space run by visionaire Montgomery Knott and very much part of that late 00s artist-friendly circuit of Williamsburg venues that included Glass Lands, West Nile, Zebulon, Spectacle Theater, Secret Project Robot, Death By Audio. Everything was a block or two from each other if not next door. The new developments looming above halted construction for a few years and Brooklyn bohemia enjoyed a swell of a renaissance.

The performance space at Monkey Town was a classic black-box cube of a room with a projection screen on each wall. The audience sat on cushions next to low tables around the band who played in the center. The band was to play two two-hour sets for two different audiences, who each were served a multi-course meal and psychedelic tea during the band’s performance. Excepter took the opportunity to continue playing during the 30-minute intermission between seatings and to play an impromptu 90-minute third set for those too late or too hip to get a reservation — resulting in the six-hour unbroken stream of music heard on this collection.

Excepter had already played a marathon show at Monkey Town the previous winter, publishing the resulting recording free on the Internet as STREAM 40, which at five hours plus in duration, was the longest single MP3 file in existence at the time, and though that distinction would be eclipsed within a year by other act, Excepter remained distinguished by not using digital post-production techniques like time-stretching, pitch-shifting, or looping to achieve extreme track lengths, but by thr real-time recording of a real-time performance. Not to say Excepter didn’t use time-stretching and looping live. Check Set 3, Parts 2 and 6 for the band’s Electrix Repeater in action, sample loops dialed-down to 0.0 bpm for maximum warpage.

A six hour set, though not unheard of in the DJ Booth, at a rave, or a serious avant garde classical concert hall, in the underground rock circuit Excepter ran in — seriously rare. Seriously rare in overground rock too — even the Grateful Dead tap themselves out after three and a half. To play a six hour set requires special arrangements. To play even an hour set, in New York, you gotta go first or last. At Monkey Town it was easy because it fit into their regular weekend schedule. Two dinner theater shows, a break in between, and an after-party is just a solid shift at a working restaurant. Excepter played on through like it was no big deal, because it wasn’t. Just a way of navigating New York City night life.

The audience at a six hour show can come and go. They get what they want from it. Maybe the band is just part of night’s journey into the city of the mind. Excepter cycles through familiar beats, shuffling a couple sequences back and forth, letting the echo box rock on. No crescendos. Just the occasional white out. Or drop out. The trance effect not only on the audience but the band. Listen in as Set 2 slowly shifts into Set 3, you’ll see what we mean. Dipping in and dipping out encouraged as the show is separated into numbered and titled tracks for easy re-entry. Leave the harsh bouncer scene for likes of Leonard Street.

The next marathon show Excepter would play was the following October at the old Silent Barn, capping off a long bill of Noise heavy hitters and the whole Noise crew too. Excepter did their whole beatnik thing, with occasional equipment malfunction, acting like rock stars and generally being dicks for hours and hours until the sun rose, leaving the building completely devoid of human attendance. This electro poetry stuff can go either way, but when you start in the witching hour, instead of ending in the witching hour, could there really be more than one way it could have gone?

All the more reason to be thankful for the survival of this recording, but if your need still more, there’s the presence of Clare Amory, our dear departed Clare, sometimes on the alien microphone, but most definitely on the drums and pummellings, triggering pads and shards of electricity skating off starboard bow. She’s out there somewhere. It’s OK. You can make your Return From Black Hole on your own time.

We’ll be here.

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released October 6, 2023

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