Imperial Valley, III

350gsm gatefold sleeve.
CDR with printed surface.
Typed information sheet.
Folded Time ephemera in manilla envelope.
Music download card.

 

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Soundcloud excerpts.

 

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Tracklisting:

 

1. Folded time/desert gospel, ‘departed from the faith’, 7pm, Sept 7, 1930/49
2. Barren mountains, before dawn, Jan 14, 1930
3. Fields north of Kane Springs, Oct 8, 1938
4. Desert station, Southern Pacific Line, Feb 4, 1939
5. Folded time/north shore homily, ‘Even tomorrow the Lord will show who are his’, Sept 7, 1929/49
6. Ogilby convergence psalm
7. Towards Mammoth Wash, dusk, Oct 29, 1929
8. Lights over Superstition Mountain, 12:04am, Apr 10, 1933
9. ‘The old rugged cross blues’

 

Cover image: ‘Untitled, possibly relating to one of the migratory families in FSA labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA’ by Dorothea Lange, 1939. Library of Congress Reference: LC-USF34-019231-C. 

Third in a series of recordings for Imperial Valley, an area of Southern California that adjoins Mexico. These soundworks were assembled from public domain period recordings, ranging from TV & radio broadcasts to documentary and oral history sources. This found material was then extensively reworked and manipulated before being blended with contemporary recordings of acoustic instrumentation to create a richly layered aggregate of ‘folded time’.

Credited to CF Moore, Imperial Valley III was the inaugural release on his Folded Time research imprint on August 27, 2022.

The publicity note continues as before: ‘Imaginal field recordings of Depression-era Imperial Valley, CA, USA. Dust-bowl tonalities. Retrograde tape hiss. Projective ethnography. Auditory nitrates after the work of Dorothea Lange.’