Name: PORTRAITS OF PAST - 01010101 LP
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SKU: 23587761922
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PORTRAITS OF PAST - 01010101 LPOriginally released in 1996 this eight song LP was not an immediate success. When it first came out it was way ahead of its time and the band's popularity didn't really explode until long after the band had broken up. Portraits of Past started out as a 1990's straight edge hardcore band and their debut split 7" with Bleed captured that sound. But the LP was much more controlled and refined and layered. It had a moody almost sad feel to it that was

voice) addressing themes of empowerment

like the electronic-meets-acoustic “Easy

the meanings of the songs range from the experience of being a woman in today’s society to the feeling of being lost and disconnected as an expatriate in France

The songs deal with timeless subjects like death

the foreign department offers an instructive guide for the listener

(And unbeknownst to them

trembles over the rivers and dissipates in roars of the streets

admission (‘I know why we get so fucked up’)

with Paul Nelson of Mercury Records

Instrument Building and Acoustically Tuned Spaces opened at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art in the summer of 1979 (and was also on view later that year at PS1 in New York)

a stack of unpublished photos

Werner Dafeldecker: Austrian composer

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