When recording artists Hans Joachim Roedelius, Tim Story and Dwight Ashley came together at Tim’s Ohio studio to make recordings, both the technique of composing and the finished product echoed the character of this emblematic phrase – at once, both comical and mystical.
So, what do you get when you combine the melodious musings of Hans Joachim Roedelius, the nuanced phrasings of Tim Story and the sonic colorations of Dwight Ashley? You get the sonic colorations of Roedelius, the melodious musings of Story, and the nuanced phrasing of Ashley. In short, you get a distinctly different fourth entity that emerges from the group, rather than the individual. From the rhythm-fueled, epic “squiggle” to the brief, wonderfully abstract title track, Errata echoes the Surrealist credo that “poetry must be made by all, and not by one.”
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