Magicicada - Everyone is Everyone CD / Digital Download

Magicicada is the musical life of Atlanta musician/sound designer/photographer, Christopher White. “Everyone is Everyone” is an organic, experimental work that blends traditional, as well as folk and eastern, instruments with found objects, samplers and field recordings to create a work that varies from delicate, cinematic soundscapes to harsh electronic environments. The instrumentation includes (but is not limited to): pump organ, voice, contact mics on faulty electrical lines, melodica, toys, iron balls rolling on wooden floors, accordion, cellophane, air cans, tape decks for the blind, guitar, shruti box, MARTA (Atlanta's public transit), synths, oven door (percussion,) cellos, zurna, paper, frogs in the backyard, and the remains of Hurricane Denis shaking the roof.

The Arigato-Pak style covers are beautifully printed by Stumptown Printers on (peacepunk approved!) 100% recycled , Environment 120# cover. The first 500 discs contains one of four photographs by Christopher White.

"As many people as possible should experience his single-mindedly self-willed experimental-ambient sounds." - laut.de (Germany)

"Everyone is Everyone is variegated, brisk and well crafted, a teapot of deviated psychedelia, rancid electronica and sounds coming from forgotten offshoots of Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from outer space", all of the above floating in a broth of Biota and Zoviet France with exhausted batteries.White lets us share some of his fun - and the drones of "Cause" are blood-icing in their beauty." - Touching Extremes (Italy)

"The field recordings, otherworldy sounds and drones, and cinematic terrain take this into a kind of Sun City Girls meets Sunroof! territory. Quite dreamy and beautiful."  –-Crucialblast.net

"Strange, unsettling, but oddly optimistic, it's the musical equivalent of a Bruce Conner sculpture." -Pop Matters

"This is best described as 'outsider' music. It moves along lines of improvised music, eastern and western folk music, lo-fi singer songwriter stuff and minimalist patterns on the cello, but never going to be anything close to being accessible: there is a strong element of experimental music to it, but at the same time things remain highly listenable. Great stuff." -Vital Weekly

"With an organic approach to creation, these eastern and folk influenced experimental works rival some of the strangest electronic ambient out there - from drifting soundscapes to meditative trances." -Just Add Noise

1. Coso Joru
2. Secret History
3. Wellbelow
4. I Demand My Fucking Cloud
5. Turi'
6. Peach is Pink
7. Cause (MP3)
8. For the Father
9. Huri'

Christopher White
w/ Destructo Swarmbots(track 2)
Trulee Grace Hall(track 3)
Rob Clemens(track 4)
Steve Brand(track 6)

Release Date: February 28, 2006

Artwork: Julie West

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