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The Sparrow 12" EP

by Jute Gyte

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Michael Carter
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Michael Carter A phenomenal artist,who has released some of the most exciting and mind expanding records.I missed out on the physical version of this,the music itself,two long tracks,microtonal black psychedelic or whatever tag,it does not matter.Just listen,the rewards are well worth it!
camjr01
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camjr01 Nerve wracking, suspenseful, tense, thick, and dense, Jute Gyte sheds a bit of his experimental bulkiness to create one of the most accessible- yet also terrifying- releases of his career thus far. Favorite track: The Sparrow.
brantly
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brantly A maddening aural kidnapping, where I am forced to get dangerously drunk on mescal and special K while running in counterclockwise circles from a knife-wielding-gimp on a deranged black metal carousel on fire?
Christian Molenaar
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Christian Molenaar A labyrinth of densely-layered guitar clusters giving way to bleak, morose electronics. Favorite track: The Sparrow.
Ken Goodey
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Ken Goodey It was a wonderful surprise when I saw that not only had Jute Gyte just released new material, but that it was on vinyl (for the 1st time, I think)! A single-sided, 12” EP [etched on the B] with just two epic tracks. Both are in the deeply dark, harsh n’ disturbing black metal style of the other JG albums I own, which I already love. Neither track seems drawn out or over-long and you are held fast within the music from start to finish. More fascinating music from a creative & talented musician. Favorite track: The Sparrow.
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  • The Sparrow 12" + The Night Door Under Lock and Key/Laocoön C40 + Jute Gyte/Venowl split C55 + Jute Gyte/Ecferus split C40 + Jute Gyte - Thanatron CD-R + Patch
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    This bundle includes The Sparrow 12", the three cassette releases I've done with Black Horizons, a Jute Gyte patch, and Thanatron, an hour-long harsh noise single released on CD-R by Somnolent Shelter in 2008. Thanatron is intended to be a precursor to the album Andreyev's Lazarus. Someday I'll release a set with Thanatron, Andreyev's Lazarus, and the unreleased Mercitron.

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  • The Sparrow 12" + The Night Door Under Lock and Key/Laocoön C40 + Jute Gyte/Venowl split C55 + Jute Gyte/Ecferus split C40 + Patch
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This bundle includes The Sparrow 12", the three cassette releases I've done with Black Horizons, and a Jute Gyte patch.

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  • The Sparrow 12" + The Night Door Under Lock and Key/Laocoön C40
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    Deluxe ultra-clear 12" vinyl screenprinted with moth artwork. Released by Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records.
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The Sparrow 19:57
2.
Monadanom 17:30

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The Sparrow is an single-sided, screen-printed 12" vinyl EP released by Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records. The B-side "Monadanom" is digital only. The bundles contain Jute Gyte material released by other labels and are limited to the number of artist copies I have left.

IF YOU ARE ORDERING FROM EUROPE: You will probably get a lower shipping price on The Sparrow 12" when buying from Blue Tapes in the UK: bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/x-ray-five-the-sparrow-12

The cassettes are also available from Black Horizons at www.black-horizons.com

Notes:
“The Sparrow” is built around a nine-note quarter-tone cluster spanning C natural to E natural, with D natural, in the center, forming the drone at the heart of the track. With the exception of the sections from 2:30 to 6:40 (see below), those nine notes are the only pitches that appear in the song.

The track opens with a D natural drone, then the other pitches of the cluster enter one at a time. The sequence of note appearances is D (0:00), D half-sharp (0:25), D half-flat (0:38), D sharp (0:54), D flat (1:13), D sharp-and-a-half (1:36) and D flat-and-a-half (2:01). The guitars alternate D natural with their other pitch. The guitars with pitches higher than D are panned successively further left, the guitars with lower pitches are panned successively further right. Each guitar has a time signature one beat longer than that of the previous guitar, starting with the D half-sharp guitar's 4/4 (the D natural drone being effectively meterless). The guitars are spread out over four octaves, which prevents the cluster from sounding like mush. During this opening section, the bass and synthesizer fade in, playing sequences using the notes D natural, C natural and E natural, outlining the borders of the cluster. The bass and synth have their own independent time signatures.

In the second section, beginning at 2:30, the same material is presented in multiple simultaneous tempos. In the subsection beginning at 2:30 all the guitars are stretched to fill the same amount of time as the 9/4 D flat-and-a-half guitar, in the subsection beginning at 2:59 all the guitars are stretched or compressed to fill the same amount of time as the 8/4 D sharp-and-a-half guitar, at 3:24 all the guitars are stretched or compressed to fill the same amount of time as the 7/4 D flat guitar, etc. for a total of six subsections, each with a faster fundamental tempo but the same 4:5:6:7:8:9 ratio. This section has pitches outside the nine-note cluster established in the previous section because when, in the each new subsection, the guitars are stretched or compressed anew they are also pitched up or down a corresponding amount. This pitch-shifting (and stretching/compressing) is done in software, which makes available intervals not afforded by the quarter-tone guitar.

The clean third section beginning at 4:35 repeats the same process described in the second section, but in canon, with each guitar going through the tempo and pitch changes in a different rotation (one proceeding 9,8,7,6,5,4; another proceeding 8,7,6,5,4,9; a third proceeding 7,6,5,4,9,8; etc).

The fourth (6:40) and fifth (10:04) sections present, first in clean tones and then with distortion, all the different guitar parts playing in the 4:5:6:7:8:9 tempo ratio once more, but very slowly and without deviations from the original nine-note cluster of pitches.

The sixth section (13:29) is a clean restatement of the first section, without the bass guitar. The seventh, and final, section (16:00) presents all the guitars, this time playing only their unique pitch (instead of alternating with D natural). The guitars drop out one at a time in reverse order of their initial entrance. The bass and synth slowly fade out and the track ends on the D natural drone with which it began.

credits

released March 20, 2017

Lyrics from The Necessary Lie by John Williams
Thanks to Dave at Blue Tapes

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