In The Quarter Column, by TONGUE DEPRESSOR

In The Quarter Column

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	1.	Everyone Was There 15:18
	2.	A Singing 15:49

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Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving microtonal tunings and re-arranged/re-tuned fragments of American church music.

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“In another time, Tongue Depressor’s ethereal tunings set into motion an unstable peace. With their bows, the duo conjured spirits to settle serpents. In another time, it was enough.

"In the Quarter Column” showcases Tongue Depressor’s progression into an exploratory and singular craft, balancing technical ability with discipline, and magnetism with precision.

"Everyone Was There” features Tongue Depressor’s first use of magnetic tape loops, with Rowden manipulating recordings of Birdsey’s playing while Birdsey bows his lap steel in accompaniment. The hypnotic piece delicately reminds us that what has come before will come again, bringing decay and dislocation. Warbly echoes of what is past are present. The duo’s preferred territory exists outside of time.

On the B side, “A Singing,” Birdsey’s resolute playing of a microtonal organ merges with the moans and sighs of Rowden’s bass to illustrate a fresh lucidity that is patient and attentive. Demystification has disconnected the doors.

Grasping sound and experience from within, “In the Quarter Column” builds an apparitional world for the listener to inhabit. Once again, Tongue Depressor offers anyone with the ability and will to listen a very generous gift.”

- Jason Filer (Crazy Doberman, Doberman, Gateway)

This is an edition of 312 records pressed at Burlington Record Plant on Black Smog vinyl (appears black until held up to the light).

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released June 4, 2021

Zach Rowden - double bass, tape loops
Henry Birdsey - lap steel, microtonal organ

Mastered by Andrew Weathers

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TONGUE DEPRESSOR New Haven, Connecticut

HENRY BIRDSEY +
ZACH ROWDEN

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