Discourses of the Withered

3x black vinyl edition. Packaged in reverse board sleeve. Originally released on Infraction Records in 2008, Discourses Of the Withered was the first fully-realized album produced by the duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet for an independent record label. After 3 years of handmade self-releases of one-offs and itinerant experiments, we collected these early methods into a compound and unified set of recordings, consisting of multi-stage narratives. Results blended instrument recordings, found sounds, synthesis, and field recordings, all recorded direct to tape and mixed manually on diy multi-track reel-to-reels, collages of patchwork tapes glued together, or ultra-long unyielding static loops. 15 years later, Discourses Of the Withered is presented on 3 physical formats of 3LP vinyl, CD, and 2CS tape, and digitally, remastered from the original, complete tapes by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung