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Album Notes

When Andrew Morse set out to create i.machine he didn't want to just make the next Bears of Winter album. He set out to create a musical world that would surround his audience, leaving them, at the conclusion of the record, to wonder, "What just happened?"

All of the basic elements that you would expect from a Bears of Winter album are there: distorted vocals, dark drones, noise-laden interludes, and drums that provide a constant groove. But due to the presence of the i.machine concept, the resulting sense of urgency and skepticism in the listener creates a whole new experience. The themes throughout i.machine work to pull together seemingly different songs into an album-long journey that chronicles how the relationships between humans and machines exist.

The goal of i.machine is to give witness to the rise of the machine as a slave and as a crutch in the world of men. Through apocalyptic warnings and the underlying sense that the line between man and machine is often blurred, Bears of Winter presents a world where there are two sides to every story. A world where man's machines are his savior and his enemy; a world that is not so different from our own.

Bears of Winter - i.machine
Track Listing and Album Notes:

1. Sca(r)red but Free
2. Machines
3. Metamorphosis I
4. Metamorphosis II
5. Sacred
6. Sp(l)it
7. By The River
8. to.dance
9. Waste(d)
10. Hey Hey Human

Andrew Morse created, performed, engineered, produced and mixed i.machine

Dave Hidek mixed and played drums on Hey Hey Human

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