Moss & Swanke, by Josh Moss & John Swanke

Moss & Swanke

by Josh Moss & John Swanke

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Dubbed in real time at home by John Swanke on a Nakamichi BX-2. Cover art and design by Austin Herrmann. Hand-written track titles in permanent marker on the tape. Only 50 copies were made.

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"The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest"

- William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell

"Moss & Swanke’s collaboration is a teetering balance between the organic and inorganic. It’s a bit like an old printer gathering rust and mold in the front yard, sinking gradually into the mud with each passing day. The sounds are glacial and expansive, vast but warm. It’s serene like thousand-mile highways through the flatlands and menacing like snow sloughing from the treetops. Skeletal forests in the aftermath of a fire, where wolfsbane and fireweed dance at the trunks of their blackened husks."

- Tim Mechling, Washingtones Records

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released October 6, 2023

Josh Moss: Dave Smith Prophet Rev2 Synthesizer
John Swanke: Field Recording, Guitar, Harmonica, Tape Recorder

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John Swanke Washington

Guitarist and home recorder living on Camano Island.

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