Illusion Of Safety – In 70 Countries [Cass] (1989, Complacency)

Since 1983, Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS' work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. The sonic character and affective substance of the music will often shift abruptly within each recording and live performance. Daniel Burke is currently working with conventional instruments, electronic synthesis, computer composition, samples, and highly amplified handled objects. He uses improvised and composed structures containing material that confounds memory and stimulates perception. The resulting music encompasses broken sound, disturbed ambience and unfiltered beauty that collectively evokes an awareness of the ineffable. The work activates modes of perception to facilitate direct access to the psyche, emotions, and the infinite in order to address the necessity of balance and the nature of dichotomy. 

 

 

Label: Complacency – CPC-14 

Format: Cassette, C40 

Country: US 

Released: 1989 

Style: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Field Recordings

 

Tracklist: 

A1 Theme From Belfast Street Riot 

A2 In 70 Countries 

A3 7-26-88 

A4 Devices To Be Used 

B1 Speed Brutality Honesty 

B2 Prisoner 819 Did A Bad Thing 

B3 Trumpet Field 

B4 You Stop It 

 

Notes: 

All sounds and recordings IOS main core: Mitch Enderle, Spark Lunch, Dan Burke, D. Klein. 

With: Jef Bek ("Theme"), Thymme Jones ("7-26-88"), Sarah Closser ("Stop It") 

 

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