Tag: FiRES WERE SHOT

“Sleeping Land” by FiRES WERE SHOT begins with the faint sounds of children at play like an enigmatic reel-to-reel recording found on a machine acquired at a thrift store. No date, no identifying information, simple the raw audio and the question mark hanging there as to why someone would make such a recording with limited fidelity. But then the song drifts into a flowing drone of bright sound sitting in a fog bank of white noise. A faint pulse of the remains of a melody looped like another fragment tape of a recording from the dregs of a public emergency broadcast signal. The effect as the title suggests are like the dreams of a neglected phase of human occupied territory over which our current environs were built and the song is something like urban exploration through the ambient spirits of that place not so long ago rendered irrelevant by a superficial sense of progress and an unrelenting need to redevelop and transform every bit of earth into something of use to the current economic mode of operation where something not turning out a profit is considered a waste. The rest of the Siberia EP, which FiRES WERE SHOT released on June 23, 2023, has a similar vibe but different specific flavors of real time, sonic, urban archaeology. Listen to “Sleeping Land” and follow FiRES WERE SHOT at the links below.

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