I am putting the finishing touches on my latest album entitled The Dogherder Tapes Vol. 1, and am planning to release it September 1, 2008. I’m very proud of how it’s turning out, and I’m excited to share it with everyone. It’s an entirely different world than Eau or the Burma disc, and influenced much more by French artists such as Luc Ferrari, Denis Dufour and Bernard Parmegiani. Songs are crafted from a combination of these field recordings, found-sounds on old cassettes, short-wave radio interceptions and new studio recordings which accompany and play along-side the performances. It functions similar to collage albums, but feels entirely different, influenced more by the desire to find a personal and emotional context for the ‘field recording’ genre. My attempt has been to examine the process of pseudo-acculturation- a normalization of exotic and challenging stimuli from exposure to other cultures and lifestyles, while remaining at all times an ‘outsider’ with distinct, albeit challenged perceptual predispositions. In an effort to accomplish this, all field recordings and radio broadcasts are placed within shifting sonic contexts, particularly inspired by Luc Ferrari’s “Les Anecdotiques”. Showcasing an epic segment capturing the unforgettable child-healing evangelists of the Guatemalan highlands, I hope it makes for an exciting and unique listening experience.

Featuring field recordings, radio excerpts and found-sounds from Guatemala, Honduras, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, the album spans 68 minutes.

More information, including the track listing, is in the music section.