Sick with Silence



Sick with Silence, a brand new Mikronesia album was released today (1/11/11). I’m very pleased with this album. It’s been about three years in the making. I started this album in early 2008, as a follow up to vxvii. The album is a mash-up of all my favorite types of music. It has elements of dub, glitch, hip-hop, gamelan and ambient electronic.   

In the closing days of 2010, the album took on a much more dub-centric feel when Philly / now int’l dub master, bilwa was staying with us. He helped me mixed two or three tracks with outboard fx, King Tubby style. After that session I was able to finish mixing the album and release it pretty quickly. 

Other collaborators on the record include, Erb Blazer (AKA Leon from Iron) who contributes vocals to most dubby of the track “Smuggler”. Also someone with which I’ve wanted to work for a long time, John Morrison, deals a very nibble vocal on the dark, yet upbeat “What What”. Ghost Darling (AKA Pandar from Gemini Wolf) also added some backing vocals to that track.

The cover art is an image I’ve admired for a long time from Derek Moench. It’s a classic surrealistic photo collage that I think works well with the music.

The whole album was mastered by James Dellatacoma at Orange Music Sound Studios outside of New York City at Bill Laswell’s studio.

You can get the album as a free download (for now) at mikronesia.bandcamp.com. After the 200th free download, I’m switching off the free download option and you’ll have to buy it if you want it!