Imperial Valley, IV

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. ‘This machine and power age’

 

Cover image: ‘Son-in law of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California’ by Dorothea Lange, 1939. Library of Congress Reference: LC-USF34-019224-C. 

Fourth 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 and first released on his Folded Time research imprint on April 2, 2024.

The publicity note advises: ‘Imperial Valley, IV veers more towards live acoustic improvisation than its predecessors, but the album’s coda contains excerpts from an early 1940s speech about the importance of democracy in the face of totalitarianism by Congressman Jerry Voorhis. It’s a warning call that resonates across the decades — a warning that is uncomfortably relevant today, given the USA’s current political climate.’