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01. NORMAN WESTBERG - MRI
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02. NORMAN WESTBERG - 410 Stairs
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03. NORMAN WESTBERG - Lost Mine
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ARTIST
WESTBERG, NORMAN
TITLE
MRI
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ROOM40
CATALOG #
RM 474CD
RM 474CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
4/1/2016
Room40 continues the publication of a series of editions from American guitarist and composer
Norman Westberg
with a remastered and expanded edition of the previously self-released
MRI
. Best known for his work with the seminal outfit
Swans
, Westberg's output beyond that group is sprawling and restless. His name recurs and ripples through many interconnected micro-histories surrounding New York City's music and art scenes. From appearances in film works associated with the Cinema of Transgression to his participation in bands such as
The Heroine Sheiks
and
Five Dollar Priest
, Westberg's name is woven deeply into the fabric of New York from the early '80s on.
MRI
is the result of Westberg's encounters with the heavy medical scanning technology after recognizing his diminished hearing. "I started to notice a loss of hearing in my right ear," Westberg explains, "and decided that it was high time that I had it checked out by a professional. The audiologist confirmed the uneven hearing loss and recommended an MRI. The purpose of the MRI was to make sure that there was not something other than my own aural misadventures causing the uneven loss." This work is a coda to this experience. Recorded in 2012, it is a collection of reductive rolling guitar pieces that are embedded strongly in the American minimalism tradition. The newly mastered and post-produced edition also features a brand-new piece, "Lost Mine," recorded in 2015 as an echo of the processes that led to the original recordings. It follows Room40's reissue of Westberg's
13
in late 2015. From
Lawrence English
: "Norman Westberg's guitar playing with SWANS has influenced a generation of musicians across genres. I can personally attest to how his particular approaches to that instrument, in creating both harmony and brute force, have challenged and ultimately influenced my own sonic preoccupations. What Norman has created with his solo works is an echoing universe of deep texture and harmonic intensity. His solo compositions generate an affecting quality that drives the listener towards reductive transcendence."
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