The Honeymoon Workbook, by Good Willsmith

The Honeymoon Workbook

by Good Willsmith

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1.	I told you to get up and it just happened 05:37	buy track
2.	& my body to breath 08:05	buy track
3.	now ~ shower put on all black 06:06	buy track
4.	what you think is crazy isn't 05:12	buy track
5.	25 almost 26 & 27 28 29 30 03:07	buy track
6.	taking too long to text 06:04	buy track
7.	If anything happens to me, my password is Lady Lass 06:57	buy track
8.	documents that you don t understand (bonus track) 22:24
9.	No-one wants to end up with memory (bonus track) 20:27

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The Honeymoon Workbook is the first LP by Chicago-based trio Good Willsmith. Previous tape releases on the band’s own Hausu Mountain label showcased improvised sessions of maximal, multi-instrumental loops. The Honeymoon Workbook streamlines their explorations of the noise/drone underground into a densely packed song cycle, performed live in a single session and presented without overdubs.

Workshopped over the course of the band’s west coast tour in the summer of 2013, The Honeymoon Workbook evolved from a series of simple cues and graphical scores into a mammoth, continually fluctuating set of overlapped compositions. Seamless adjustments in instrumentation and texture occur between segments as looped incarnations of earlier motives accumulate into all-consuming drones. Natalie Chami weaves melodies and progressions from her analog synthesizers into a consonant foundation, while layering choral vocal leads and harmonies into the mix. Doug Kaplan processes electronic tabla and tambura into squelching rhythmic mantras, and blasts guitar, synth, and vinyl records deeper into effects-manipulated oblivion. Max Allison pours sustained low-end tones from synths, oscillators and bass guitar, as he interjects bursts of spoken-word cassette tapes and contact-mic feedback into the din. Taken all together, cresting through a series of contrasting atmospheres, Good Willsmith’s generative patchwork of looping live input has the potential to paralyze listeners into the state of sweat lodge dissociation that the trio enter while performing.

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BONUS ALBUM: "14 Years of Desperate Research"

All downloads will include the album "14 Years of Desperate Research". Which documents Good Willsmith's live performances from shortly after their formation in 2012. The album's two sessions showcase the band in a period of dense, metal- and noise-infused drone improvisation, predating their experiments with physical media sampling and extra-textual spoken word elements.

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released March 25, 2014

Recorded live in a single session by
Maxwell Allison, Natalie Chami & Doug Kaplan
Presented without overdubs
Mixed by Doug Kaplan
Mastered by Patrick Klem
Design & layout by Daniel Castrejón
Cover photo by Cody Cobb
Insert photo by Ryan Lafferty

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