Maryann Hussalonia
Russophile Hussalonia
Don Juan D' Hussalonia
Holden Hussalonia
Hissalonia
When an adolescent Jesse Mank first began recording original songs, he employed a dual cassette deck, adding new tracks as he bounced between decks. Anyone who has tried this very modest method of overdubbing can attest to the fact that it doesn't take long for the sound quality to decline. The oldest tracks lose their high end, sounding warbly and muffled, while even the most recent track competes with a formidable noise floor. Hiss and noise were the bane of Jesse's misspent youth. And he was not alone; everyone battled tape hiss and line noise in the pre-digital age: nuns, bowling alley attendants, doctors, lizards, and even ghosts. But now, just about anyone with a laptop and a decent microphone can make crisp, clean, noise-free recordings. Tape hiss and line noise, it seems, are a thing of the past.
Ah, but don't we love to romanticize the past, even when the past was not all that good? Like asbestos and The Black Death, now that hiss and noise are no longer a problem, we find ourselves charmed.
Enter Hissalonia - ten, intentionally lo-fi recordings wherein hiss and noise were in fact augmented, creating a fragile, brittle, vulnerable sound. Consider it a last hurrah for hiss, the formal goodbye you never had when you took your Dolby noise reduction system to the curb.
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You're One Day Closer to Death (Happy Birthday) | 0:54
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I'm Not Gonna Sink in These Shallow Waters | 2:10
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I Wish I Already Knew | 1:16
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You Can Take Over if You Want To | 4:22
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Undersharing | 2:10
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Oh, Automated Random Quiz | 1:24
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Home Is Anywhere You Ran and Hid | 1:10 |
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One Less Thing to Worry About Losing | 2:19 |
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If You're Not Wet, You're Part of the Problem | 0:59 |
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Do I Beong to You? | 3:06 |
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| DOWNLOAD ALL TRACKS IN A ZIP FILE | 19:47 |
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Release Date: May 30, 2010 All tracks © 2010. Published under a non-commercial Creative Commons license. |
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| I'm Not Gonna Sink in These Shallow Waters; I Wish I Already Knew; One Less Thing to Worry About Losing |
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