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Persistence of Memory

by Hans Joachim Roedelius / Tim Story

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Original Signed Limited edition CD on the private label Seventh Chance Recordings, 2000. Very rare and out-of-print, this first and only edition was limited to 400 signed numbered copies, and a number of signed artist proofs. This is one of the artist proofs, signed by Roedelius and Story, and marked "O/S" ("Out-of-Sequence", an artist proof designation). Very limited quantities.

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about

"Persistence of Memory" was the first of many collaborations between Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Largely improvised from a large selection of sound sources that the artists prepared in advance, it consists of a single long track that plays out like a surreal journey, it is the most abstract, and the rarest of their artifacts. Released in 2000 in a limited edition of 400 signed and numbered CD's, and a small number of artist proofs (also signed), it has not been re-issued.

Digital Downloads remastered to hi-resolution audio by Tim Story in 2023 for this Bandcamp release.

".56 minutes of sonic mind mapping and meteorology from Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Ohio-based Tim Story: a part (and Arvo Part-y) studio meditation on the passage of music into memory, part blotchy Daguerrotype of their Philadelphia concert on the former's 1999 Indian Summer tour. The duo loop their way through and beyond a series of hung oscillations, goosing the synthesiser's circuitry and tossing software manuals into the ether... a slow motion replay of recurring motifs, waiting to cohere into music. Rising thermals carry blown leaves of chromatic burr and dissonance... it tunes into a psychic FM, chancing across Charles Ives, Todd Dockstader, morphed samples of Roedelius' back catalogue.

From start to end, a circular odyssey of longing and distance like the Arctic tern riding the Westerlies and Trades each year - the imprint of rotating constellations on its brain. Mostly inhabiting the warm side of autumn, sometimes a chill sets in - bursts of static, a twinge of regret, faded images in photograph album. It's evidence of some invisible narrative thread that you don't reach for the 'Stop' button on your CD player, which seems to deposit its richness into your head: like waves lapping sand onto a beach."

– Stephen Iliffe, Audion magazine, UK

credits

released January 1, 2000

Composed and performed by Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story

Produced, edited and mixed by Tim Story at Seventh Chance Studio

Recorded September 1999 at Seventh Chance Studio, Maumee, Ohio (Tim Story, engineer); and October 1999 at St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Art Cohen, engineer)

Cover painting by Rosa Roedelius

Booklet art by Cara Story and Anna Story

Cover design by Tim Story
with assistance by Dwight Ashley

© 2000 Roedelius / Story
Published by Seventh Chance Music (BMI)

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