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'I'll Look For You In Others'
by Patricia Wolf
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I'll Look For You In Others
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Patricia Wolf
Limited Edition LP [transparent brown]
Limited Edition LP [160g black]
02/04/2022
About:
Patricia Wolf’s I’ll Look for You in Others is the bittersweet fruit of a painful time in the Portland, Oregon, electronic musician’s life. Patricia wrote and recorded the album in 2020, in the aftermath of losing her mother-in-law to cancer and then, months later, losing a close friend. Created using her habitual materials—synthesizer and voice—in unfamiliar ways, the album served as a means of processing her feelings of heartbreak. “This album represents my journey to process these losses,” Patricia says. “It’s my search to find peace and to carry these lost dear ones inside me each day, with joy and gratitude.”
Making the album did not come easily. In the depths of her bereavement, Patricia found it difficult to relate to other people; she had trouble deriving pleasure from activities that typically brought her happiness. The COVID-19 pandemic and its seemingly endless panorama of grief only served to further dull her senses. “I didn’t want to give up on music, but it was a struggle to feel good about anything,” she says.
Feeling disconnected from everything around her, including her usual approach to music, Patricia found new inspiration in spectral processors—digital FFT algorithms that pull apart and reconfigure audio. As she reshaped her synthesizers and voice into stark, silvery new forms, she realized that the process functioned as a metaphor for grief itself: a representation of the transformation that happens when our loved ones are no longer with us as a physical presence, but are still alive within us in a beautiful new way. I’ll Look for You in Others is not just a document of loss; it is a testament to the way the loss of loved ones changes our lives, and the way the presence of those we’ve lost changes shape after they are gone.
I’ll Look for You in Others is doubly significant in that it marks Wolf’s official debut album, following a long, extensive practice of live performance, sound-design projects, contributions to benefit compilations, and reworks of the music of her friends and peers; it also marks a period of increased creative activity for her, with numerous releases in store for 2022. For listeners familiar with Patricia’s output until now, there are few recognizable elements of her previous work in her debut. On her 2020 live EP Sotto Le Stelle, Patricia expressed herself through playful and hypnotic synthesizer melodies. The feeling was light, curious, and bright. On I’ll Look for You in Others, the mood is mournful, nostalgic, elegiac—and at times cold and dark. Turning her grief into minimalist songs of spare, crystalline beauty, Patricia Wolf has created music imbued with emotional intention and clarity.
The title, I’ll Look for You in Others, is inspired by the poem “Epitaph,” by Merrit Malloy, which begins, “When I die/Give what’s left of me away.” Malloy writes:
I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.
Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live on your eyes
And not on your mind.
Being an intimate work that the artist needed to hold close, the album was self recorded and mixed at Patricia Wolf’s home in Portland, Oregon and mastered by her husband, Max Wolf. Patricia Wolf is a musician, sound designer, educator, and curator residing in Portland, Oregon. She is the co-founder and co-curator of Variform, a gallery for modern composition and sound art.
LP Details:
160 gram LP on transparent brown (100 units) and black vinyl (200 units) housed in a semigloss jacket. PITP branded center labels. Record placed in black, anti-static inner sleeve with a .75 gauge archival polypropylene lining. Shrinkwrapped.
Credits:
Written, Mixed, and Produced by Patricia Wolf
Guitar samples on “Severed” by Carlos Ferreira
Mastered by Max Wolf
Photography by Patricia Wolf
Layout and design by zakè
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pitp.bandcamp.com
patriciawolf.bandcamp.com
by
Patricia Wolf
Limited Edition LP [transparent brown]
Limited Edition LP [160g black]
02/04/2022
About:
Patricia Wolf’s I’ll Look for You in Others is the bittersweet fruit of a painful time in the Portland, Oregon, electronic musician’s life. Patricia wrote and recorded the album in 2020, in the aftermath of losing her mother-in-law to cancer and then, months later, losing a close friend. Created using her habitual materials—synthesizer and voice—in unfamiliar ways, the album served as a means of processing her feelings of heartbreak. “This album represents my journey to process these losses,” Patricia says. “It’s my search to find peace and to carry these lost dear ones inside me each day, with joy and gratitude.”
Making the album did not come easily. In the depths of her bereavement, Patricia found it difficult to relate to other people; she had trouble deriving pleasure from activities that typically brought her happiness. The COVID-19 pandemic and its seemingly endless panorama of grief only served to further dull her senses. “I didn’t want to give up on music, but it was a struggle to feel good about anything,” she says.
Feeling disconnected from everything around her, including her usual approach to music, Patricia found new inspiration in spectral processors—digital FFT algorithms that pull apart and reconfigure audio. As she reshaped her synthesizers and voice into stark, silvery new forms, she realized that the process functioned as a metaphor for grief itself: a representation of the transformation that happens when our loved ones are no longer with us as a physical presence, but are still alive within us in a beautiful new way. I’ll Look for You in Others is not just a document of loss; it is a testament to the way the loss of loved ones changes our lives, and the way the presence of those we’ve lost changes shape after they are gone.
I’ll Look for You in Others is doubly significant in that it marks Wolf’s official debut album, following a long, extensive practice of live performance, sound-design projects, contributions to benefit compilations, and reworks of the music of her friends and peers; it also marks a period of increased creative activity for her, with numerous releases in store for 2022. For listeners familiar with Patricia’s output until now, there are few recognizable elements of her previous work in her debut. On her 2020 live EP Sotto Le Stelle, Patricia expressed herself through playful and hypnotic synthesizer melodies. The feeling was light, curious, and bright. On I’ll Look for You in Others, the mood is mournful, nostalgic, elegiac—and at times cold and dark. Turning her grief into minimalist songs of spare, crystalline beauty, Patricia Wolf has created music imbued with emotional intention and clarity.
The title, I’ll Look for You in Others, is inspired by the poem “Epitaph,” by Merrit Malloy, which begins, “When I die/Give what’s left of me away.” Malloy writes:
I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.
Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live on your eyes
And not on your mind.
Being an intimate work that the artist needed to hold close, the album was self recorded and mixed at Patricia Wolf’s home in Portland, Oregon and mastered by her husband, Max Wolf. Patricia Wolf is a musician, sound designer, educator, and curator residing in Portland, Oregon. She is the co-founder and co-curator of Variform, a gallery for modern composition and sound art.
LP Details:
160 gram LP on transparent brown (100 units) and black vinyl (200 units) housed in a semigloss jacket. PITP branded center labels. Record placed in black, anti-static inner sleeve with a .75 gauge archival polypropylene lining. Shrinkwrapped.
Credits:
Written, Mixed, and Produced by Patricia Wolf
Guitar samples on “Severed” by Carlos Ferreira
Mastered by Max Wolf
Photography by Patricia Wolf
Layout and design by zakè
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©℗ Past Inside the Present
This is PITP-V021 | MMXXI
pitp.bandcamp.com
patriciawolf.bandcamp.com
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'No Beauty In The World'
by Wøunds
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No Beauty In The World
by
wøunds
Limited Edition LP [opaque gray swirl]
Limited Edition LP [transparent clear]
01/07/2022
About:
'No Beauty In The World' is a reflection of how in a world so cruel we can find beauty, with its music bouncing between beautiful ambience and piano loops, modular synth melodies to darker textural and feedback driven drones.
Unlike other wøunds records where the fluidity of the entire album tells a story, 'No Beauty In The World' explore various sonic possibilities and territories. This is a culmination of over 2 years of writing and recording, constantly driven by the uncertainty and darkness in the world that we live in. Despite it all, the sonic arc of the album gives us something to hope for, maybe there is beauty in the end.
The record was engineered and mixed by Diogo Strausz (Far Out Recordings) in France and mastered (digital and vinyl) by Lawrence English (Room40). The record features collaborations from guitarist Carlos Ferreira and drummer / synthesist Phillip Stosberg.
LP Details:
160 gram LP on opaque gray swirl (100 units) and transparent clear (200 units) housed in a semigloss jacket. PITP branded center labels. Record placed in black, anti-static inner sleeve with a .75 gauge archival polypropylene lining. Shrinkwrapped.
Credits:
Written and produced by Igor Imbu (wøunds) in Houston, Texas and Chicago, Illinois
Guitar on 'Limniad' by Carlos Ferreira
Drums on 'Impossible Rooms' by Phillip Stosberg
Engineered and Mixed by Diogo Strausz and Igor Imbu
Mastered by Lawrence English
Photography by Andrew Dugas
Layout and design by zakè
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©℗ Past Inside the Present
This is PITP-V056 | MMXXI
pastinsidethepresent.com
pitp.shop
pitp.us
by
wøunds
Limited Edition LP [opaque gray swirl]
Limited Edition LP [transparent clear]
01/07/2022
About:
'No Beauty In The World' is a reflection of how in a world so cruel we can find beauty, with its music bouncing between beautiful ambience and piano loops, modular synth melodies to darker textural and feedback driven drones.
Unlike other wøunds records where the fluidity of the entire album tells a story, 'No Beauty In The World' explore various sonic possibilities and territories. This is a culmination of over 2 years of writing and recording, constantly driven by the uncertainty and darkness in the world that we live in. Despite it all, the sonic arc of the album gives us something to hope for, maybe there is beauty in the end.
The record was engineered and mixed by Diogo Strausz (Far Out Recordings) in France and mastered (digital and vinyl) by Lawrence English (Room40). The record features collaborations from guitarist Carlos Ferreira and drummer / synthesist Phillip Stosberg.
LP Details:
160 gram LP on opaque gray swirl (100 units) and transparent clear (200 units) housed in a semigloss jacket. PITP branded center labels. Record placed in black, anti-static inner sleeve with a .75 gauge archival polypropylene lining. Shrinkwrapped.
Credits:
Written and produced by Igor Imbu (wøunds) in Houston, Texas and Chicago, Illinois
Guitar on 'Limniad' by Carlos Ferreira
Drums on 'Impossible Rooms' by Phillip Stosberg
Engineered and Mixed by Diogo Strausz and Igor Imbu
Mastered by Lawrence English
Photography by Andrew Dugas
Layout and design by zakè
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©℗ Past Inside the Present
This is PITP-V056 | MMXXI
pastinsidethepresent.com
pitp.shop
pitp.us
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