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Mutator
LP12 Vinil (Sacred Bones)
Available from 23/04/2021
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A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan
Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere.
The tapes were uncovered by Lamere and Jared Artaud (The Vacant Lots),
who mixed and produced them to create the record. Mutator is the first
release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones, collecting rare and
unreleased archival recordings.
RIYL: Suicide, The Fall, Wire, Nine Inch Nails. Alan Vega's name is
synonymous with unfettered, tireless creativity. Beginning in the late 1950s,
when he was a fine art student at Brooklyn College, through his years playing
in Suicide, and all the way up until his death in 2016, Vega was constantly
creating. That process naturally led to a wealth of material that didn't see the
light of day immediately when it was recorded, which came to be known as
the Vega Vault. Mutator is the first in a series of archival releases from the
Vault that will come out on Sacred Bones Records. Mutator was recorded
alongside Vega's longtime collaborator Liz Lamere at his NYC studio from
1995-1996, and it serves as a document of a particularly fertile time in his
creative life. He had 11 full-length solo albums come out during the '80s, '90s
and '00s - plus numerous collaborations, and Suicide records A Way of Life
and Why Be Blue. Mutator wasn't shelved intentionally, but Vega's back-tothe-grindstone M.O. meant that he had moved on to making his next record
before this one was finished.
Lamere and Vega's friend and confidante Jared Artaud (The Vacant Lots)
rediscovered the raw, unmixed recordings from the Mutator sessions in the
Vault in 2019. Soon after, they mixed and produced them into the visionary
album that was lurking within those tapes. "Our primary purpose for going
into the studio was to experiment with sound, not to `make records,'" Lamere
recalls. "I was playing the machines with Alan manipulating sounds. I played
riffs while Alan morphed the sounds being channeled through the machines."
At the time of the Mutator sessions, Vega was massively inspired by what was
happening in the streets of New York - not only the hip hop scenes that were
exploding throughout the outer boroughs, but also the literal sounds of the
streets, the traffic noise and industrial ambience of city living. That influence
trickled into the sounds he and Lamere captured in those sessions. That
sensibility, paired with Vega's unmistakable voice and force of personality, is
what made it the great album it is now. The final piece was the production
job, completed by Lamere and Artaud 25 years after the songs were first
captured.
TRACKLISTING: 01. TRINITY 02. FIST 03. MUSCLES 04. SAMURAI 05. FILTHY 06. NIKE
SOLDIER 07. PSALM 68 08. BREATHE
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