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Headboggle

by Head Boggle

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A1 Fluorescent Star 01:48
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A2 Analog Banjo 00:40
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A3 Harpsichord Rococo 03:48
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A4 Digital Disco 01:06
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A5 Moon Age 02:31
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A6 Ambiantemusique 04:04
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A7 Dream Diary 01:41
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A8 Basso Profundo 01:09
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A9 Big Box Of Evil 03:08
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B1 Wassermusic 07:38
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B2 Ni 01:18
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B3 Europa Astrobiology Lander 03:31
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B4 Moon Village Valances 03:43
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B5 Serge Demo And Synthisized 01:19
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B6 Rain Of Crystal Olivine 03:19
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Tracklist
A1 Fluorescent Star 1:48
A2 Analog Banjo 0:40
A3 Harpsichord Rococo 3:49
A4 Digital Disco 1:07
A5 Moon Age 2:31
A6 Ambiantemusique 4:04
A7 Dream Diary 1:42
A8 Basso Profundo 1:10
A9 Big Box Of Evil 3:09
B1 Wassermusic 7:38
B2 Ni 1:18
B3 Europa Astrobiology Lander 3:31
B4 Moon Village Valances 3:44
B5 Serge Demo And Synthisized 1:20
B6 Rain Of Crystal Olivine 3:19

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from The Wire magazine, March 2012:

"After several years of concentrated activity and several dozen cassettes and CD-Rs, Bay Area noise maker Derek Gedalecia's Headboggle project finally makes the leap to vinyl. And what better label for him to land on than Spectrum Spools. It's not exactly batting a thousand, but no other imprint is so assiduously documenting the more divergent and obscure strains of the post-Noise US underground. Gedalecia has certainly risen to the occasion. This is his most ambitious and complicated effort to date.


The album's 15 tracks are delirious stochastic vignettes, miniaturist melodic collages of synthesizer and electronics, flecked with scatterings of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings. As concise as they are vivid, they teem with activity and incident, flashing shards of dayglo colour, wildly spraying jittery rhythms, volatile synth pulses and gaseous emissions of gurgling electronics in all directions.


The album reflects the increasingly [sic] complexity of recent Headboggle releases - the speed at which Gedalecia works through ideas can be confounding. Yet all the tracks are obviously
edited and composed with great care, just as the album's structure and momentum are managed with delicacy, balancing and teetering repeatedly and precariously at the very edge of overload. ... "

- Nick Cain

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Spectrum Spools press announcement:

SP 012

We are beyond excited to present you with the highly anticipated vinyl debut of the Head Boggle project. The world has been waiting for this day to come, and finally a full-length long player has arrived.

Recorded at his apartment studio, "Headboggle" is the manifestation of Derek Gedalecia's acoustic/electronic research utilizing the "kitchen sink" in every sense of the idiom: Moogs, Harmonica, Banjo, Harpsichord, Irish Harp, EMS Synthi, Violin, Drums, Clavinet, Serge Modular, field recordings and more! What makes "Headboggle" so special is the careful arrangement of sound, with painstaking attention to composition and sound direction. Disorienting magic is a key trait of the Head Boggle sound, one which captivates and commands repeated inspection. Like any great focused album effort, there is a narrative arc - from the introductory "Flourescent Star" with it's dizzying, fractured crackle and bizarre piano float to the tension packed, information-overloaded squabble and squawks of the "Dream Diary" and "Europa Astrobiology Lander" tracks. "Head Boggle" is a dedicated and devotional effort - one with precision and prodigious vision.

Equal parts Francois Bayle and Tod Dockstader in the best possible way, it's still hard to pin such a multifaceted talent to any kind of descriptor. Derek has been honing his sound for years with loads of releases on almost every essential tape and CD-r label out there. Here we have his finest set of compositions yet in hi-fidelity, tight and tediously packed, forming his most concise release to date. The Head Boggle debut has raised the bar for classical electronic composition with the greats, a feat of rare occurrence.
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released March 20, 2012

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released March 12, 2012

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