Album Notes

Molotov Arc is an ensemble of changing personnel dedicated to experimental music. Previous recordings employed bells, power tools, laptop computers, assorted surgical instruments, a lathe, and fire-damaged parlor instruments such as zithers and ukelins, using a variety of microtonal tuning schemes. Field recordings were known to wander in and out absentmindedly. On this new release, "hit that long lulu note," guitarist G. James is featured on four extended originals that alternate from quiet melodic patterns to ominous drones, executed primarily on a bowed metal-bodied baritone guitar. The effect upon the listener is akin to walking through an aviary during a monsoon. Or rather, what fractals sound like.

In addition, G. James is a longtime photographer who designs all cover art, and each copy of this record is signed and editioned: unique, where no image is used twice.

Full-length unreleased recordings by Molotov Arc can also be found at

http://alien.mur.at/radiotopia/input.php

The ensemble is also included in the SONUS Project at Concordia University, Montreal, and is regularly featured on Resonance 104fm in London, and WFMU in the New York Metropolitan area.