Altered Zones

Lee Noble says:
Frank Baugh has been working on his Sparkling Wide Pressure project since '07. I picked up his The No Self Journey tape a little while after it came out on Peasant Magik in '08. I had put the tape on a few times before, but I was doing something else as it was playing in the background, and "What Is Gone" came on. I had one of those strange, déjà vu-- "wait, what am I listening to?"-- moments. The little piece of tape running through my speakers stopped me in my tracks. I was living in Burbank at the time, and our house was always terribly hot. Sweating yet frozen listening to the track, probably for the third or fourth time, but only really hearing it for the first time. Frank says he was examining a very specific "sense of loss that was both melancholic and liberating" with this song. It has one of those melodies that you remember later out of nowhere.

Meanwhile, video artist Geoffrey Sexton was using "What Is Gone" for a collaborative sound picture with Frank, called "The Circuit". The video really captures the essence of the song, filtering nostalgic imagery of a horse race through a digital lens, and then, using flickering black and white 16mm footage, and finally reverting back into that nostalgia. The song and video collectively seems totally out of time.

MP3: Sparkling Wide Pressure: "What Is Gone"

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