A Lot Of Noise With One Guitar

by Mark Sullivan

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1.	November 05:03	buy track
2.	Super Bowl Shuffle 06:56	buy track
3.	Footprints 05:50	buy track
4.	Sound on Sound 10:14	buy track
5.	New Worlds II 04:45	buy track
6.	Street Scenes II – Revised Version 09:43	buy track
7.	Amazing Grace 05:14	buy track
8.	Longer Than Before 06:30	buy track
9.	Reprise: Scenes, No Street 02:16	buy track

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A collection of home recordings made between 1995 and 2001 (originally on cassette, if memory serves). Released on CD in 2002.

November was first conceived in that month, but I didn't get around to recording it until January: it's much more abstract and percussive than usual for me at the time. Super Bowl Shuffle was recorded on the day of Super Bowl XXXIII. Footprints is a mostly abstract version of the Wayne Shorter classic. Sound On Sound takes its name from the Digitech multieffect patch used. New Worlds II was part of a series of World Music compositions; drums programmed on my Roland Rhythm Composer TR-707.

Street Scenes II revisits my series of compositions based on street recordings. The source is from the Diag at the University of Michigan, featuring a street preacher and hecklers. I processed the source tape with echo in some parts. Amazing Grace revisits the traditional tune I played live on my first album Electronic Meditations. Longer Than Before is built on very long drones. The final Reprise is an earlier study for the instrumental parts in Street Scenes II: hence, Scenes, No Street.

Tracks 1-4: Recorded at home January 31, 1999
Tracks 5 & 7:Recorded at home June 12, 1995
Track 6: Recorded at home December 2, 2001
Track 8: Recorded at home Summer 1999
Track 9: Recorded at home November 2001

Cover design by Jeanine Dovell.

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released October 11, 2020

Mark Sullivan: electric guitar, synthesizer, location tape recordings, and drum machine.

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Mark Sullivan Charlotte, North Carolina

I play jazz and experimental music. Since coming to the Charlotte area in 1986 I've played in the free jazz/anything goes ensemble Cornerstone, the art rock band Ras Majuka, led my jazz trio the Mark Sullivan Trio, and given solo ambient loop performances. I studied composition with avant-gardist George Cacioppo (of the ONCE group).Full bio at ultravillage.com/mark-sullivan ... more

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