HSOB003Z: Host Skull's Black Mark, by Host Skull

HSOB003Z: Host Skull's Black Mark

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The LP package include a gatefold sleeve covered with beautiful illustrations from Joe Mruk depicting a constantly twisting world of trees, bridges, walkways, and flags. The package includes a 180-gram vinyl record with a lyric sheet.

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This limited edition CD comes packaged in a Host Skull-designed lasercut sleeve with heavy cardboard taken from the vinyl release. A lyric sheet and download code are included along with a bonus item!

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of HSOB079: Madison Stubblefield - alligator/beach, HSOB081: David Bernabo - That's What They Told Me in Georgia, HSOB078: Doctor Matt - The Watershed, HSOB080: Watererer - Muggy Swollen Pus, HSOB072: Darin Gray - The Reduction (music for dance), HSOB077: KMDB "Lunar", HSOB075: David Bernabo - That's What They Told Me In Montana, HSOB069: David Bernabo - That's What They Told Me, and 59 more. , and , .

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1.	Hypernarrative 04:19	buy track
2.	Bootleg 02:44	buy track
3.	Living In 04:12	buy track
4.	Drama 02:34	buy track
5.	Fit 01:39	buy track
6.	Motor-City 03:24	buy track
7.	Inter-America 02:07	buy track
8.	Jaguar on Jacket 03:22	buy track
9.	Born Back (American Recall) 03:42	buy track
10.	All in One 03:51	buy track
11.	A Man/Woman Is A Lovesome Thing 03:34	buy track

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After more than two years of recording, exhibiting art and sound installations, and making video work, Host Skull returns with their second album, Black Mark. Like their debut album, Totally Fatalist, the record plays with pop formats, song structures, and harmony, but this time around, the transcontinental band relies more on “feel”, allowing rhythms to sway and moments to linger. While the first record was recorded as “tape-trading” overdub sessions, core members David Bernabo and Will Dyar spent a week in Santa Fe, NM recording basic tracks. The result was a narrowing of eclecticism and a strengthening of the collaboration.

Through the warm crunch of Rhodes piano, harmonized guitars, and falsetto vocals, the band presents a series of songs that unfold without doubling back. “Hypernarrative” opens the record with a narrative about dislocation while the music filters through arrangements before crescendo-ing in a few blasts. “Living In” plots winding classical guitar against pitched bowls in a hybrid folk and jazz ballad. Elsewhere, “Bootleg” and lead single “A Man/Woman is a Lovesome Thing” pivot in the direction of soul and classicism, but include enough false footholds to keep things interesting.

The album also features Brandon Masterman on falsetto vocals and baritone and soprano saxophones, along with Shanti Randall (viola), Ben Montgomery (vocals, bass), Erik Cirelli (lap steel, guitar), and PJ Roduta (pitched bowls, percussion). The album was sort of released on Wild Kindness Records, but more accurately, Ongoing Box released this record as a limited edition of 300 180 gram, gatefold LPs, digitally, and a series of handmade CD packages.

The LP contains three large illustrated panels by artist Joe Mruk!!

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released September 3, 2013

Artwork and Design: Joe Mruk // Musicians: David Bernabo, Will Dyar, Brandon Masterman, Ben Montgomery, Shanti Randall, Erik Cirelli, PJ Roduta

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Ongoing Box is a Pittsburgh, PA imprint that grew out of the activities of the band Host Skull. The imprint has over 60 releases dealing with songcraft, free improvisation, composition, and sound sculpture. We also release films, books, and limited edition vinyl. ... more

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