IDENTITY
THEFT - "RECONNAISSANCE"
(tut038)
C58 professional Chrome Plus tape - silk-screened lilac on
black shell - 4-panel J-card - in norelco case - lim. ed. of
70 copies
Hailing
from Oakland, California, IDENTITY THEFT is the solo
electronic synth-wave project of Michael Buchanan (of
SEACRYPT, ABANDONED FOOTWEAR and NOMMO OGO fame and founding
member of the KATABATIK collective). Reconnaissance is a
masterpiece of instrumental hardware synthesizer music,
combining the love of ambience of VANGELIS and TANGERINE
DREAM, the highly emotional melodies of JAN HAMMER and the
spacey grandeur of JEAN-MICHEL JARRE. The tracks which form
the core of this album have been composed and recorded
during three days of complete isolation at an old fire
lookout in the middle of Plumas National Forest. Cold and
deeply poignant in the same breath, they manage to capture
both the magic of the Californian open landscapes and the
immensity of human solitude in the face of Nature’s
ineffability. Featuring additional synths by Mara Barenbaum
(GROUP RHODA) and a remix by ARKTAION (aka EXILE from
SACRIFICIAL TOTEM), this is synths as we love them best.
Side
A
Reconnaissance Peak mp3
Eagles Peak
mp3
Last Chance Creek mp3
My Sentence
Blood Moon
mp3
Misanthropocene mp3
Side
B
The Unreliable Narrator
mp3
Soft Alibi
Lost
Frontier
mp3
Leave No Trace
Prosopagnosia
mp3
Last Chance Creek (Arktaion Remix)
