Imperial Valley, V

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. To safeguard a nation

 

Cover image: ‘A familiar sight in the Georgia rural landscape. “Nests for the martin, to keep the hawks away”’ by Dorothea Lange, 1936. Library of Congress Reference: LC-USF34-009420-E. 

Fifth 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 November 5, 2024.

The publicity note advises: ‘This fifth instalment of the Imperial Valley series is built around a 1946 public information broadcast about the dangers of despotism. The album is released on the fifth of November, 2024, to coincide with the 60th quadrennial presidential election of the United States of America.’