ADAM PACIONE

Any Way, Shape, or Form

by Adam Pacione

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Special edition of 100 copies includes:
⋅ Full-color enamel pin reproducing the photograph used for the front cover
⋅ Additional full-color insert, signed and numbered by Pacione
⋅ Four compact discs, each in its own full-color sleeve with flooded black interiors
⋅ Full-color heavy duty box with spot UV printing and flooded black interior
⋅ 20-page full-color booklet featuring liner notes, recording history, and a wealth of Pacione's gorgeous photography
⋅ More than four hours of haunting ambient experiments

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edition of 100

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Box set includes:
⋅ Four compact discs, each in its own full-color sleeve with flooded black interiors
⋅ Full-color heavy duty box with spot UV printing and flooded black interior
⋅ 20-page full-color booklet featuring liner notes, recording history, and a wealth of Pacione's gorgeous photography
⋅ More than four hours of haunting ambient experiments

Includes unlimited streaming of Any Way, Shape, or Form via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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	1.	A Still Life 16:19
	2.	They Live by Night 22:16
	3.	Drzewo 18:35
	4.	Dyestuffs 10:05 video
	5.	Split at the Core 21:41
	6.	Evening Colours 15:26
	7.	Thinning Silver 19:10
	8.	Emulsions 14:39
	9.	Ferro Organ 20:32
	10.	Green Then Blue 13:48
	11.	Fairgrounds 17:14
	12.	Nodal Point 14:17
	13.	A Delicate Giant 17:12
	14.	The Harmony of Reflected Light 14:12
	15.	Lumen Organ 15:22
	16.	End Titles 18:28

about

Adam Pacione's finely crafted, deeply affecting drone work has found its place in the upper echelon of modern ambient artistry. Once heard, the gorgeous fluidity of his music is instantly recognizable.

Now, an absolutely crucial addition to Pacione's relatively slim oeuvre is here, offering more than four hours of aural color and visual sound from a master of the medium. "Any Way, Shape, or Form," a stunning 4CD box set, compiles all the material from Pacione’s "Still Life" series of 3" CDRs, originally offered via monthly subscription throughout 2009 and now long out of print. The late night ambient/drone sessions in this set were pulled from recordings made from 1999-2009, many of which originally served as soundtracks to Pacione’s photography exhibitions in galleries throughout Texas. These recordings have been meticulously remastered and two previously unreleased tracks from this period have been added, resulting in an absolute must-have for aficionados of haunting, textural, electronic music.

Pacione’s work largely centers around early Portastudio tape loop experiments, synthesizers, samples, and processed field recordings that gradually decompress to form a hypnotic serenade of becalmed tones. After years of experimentation, his first releases appeared in 2004, leading up to his proper debut album, "Sisyphus," a year later. By this time, Pacione's name was becoming synonymous with lush, atmospheric sonances of the highest caliber. His reputation strengthened even more with his next full-length, 2007's masterful "From Stills to Motion," which fully delivered on the promise of his earlier efforts. Since then, Pacione has stayed active with performances and recordings (see 2020's excellent digital-only "Mâché"). His physical output has been sparse over the last decade or so, however, and copies of the earlier releases are now quite scarce. "Any Way, Shape, or Form" then is particularly essential in making this vital section of Pacione's discography widely available for the first time.

The sixteen tracks included here are mostly long-form pieces: contemplative soundscapes evolving at a deliberate pace. There is an inherent spaciousness in these works; sounds are free to move and breathe as they shift between tension and tranquility. These extended audial ruminations allow Pacione to examine and subtly emphasize the details of each arrangement. And these details have been brought into sharp focus by the rigorous mastering job executed by renowned sound artist Alex Keller: a drifting haze sharply underscored by a biting frost.

In addition to the peerless audio in this set is a 20-page booklet reproducing all of Pacione's photography from the original CDRs as well as several previously unpublished images. These truly are the visual equivalents of his recordings: otherworldly snapshots of a stylized vision of nature, neither artificial nor entirely organic but a harmonious amalgamation. These rich photographs are somehow both crisply intricate and dreamily impressionistic: the ideal accompaniment for Pacione's evocative sound, perfectly rounding out his world-building.

This beautiful artefact is simply a rare pleasure for the senses. And a welcome reintroduction to Adam Pacione's singular aesthetic. A treasure not to be missed.

credits

released October 22, 2021

All tracks by Adam Pacione, 1999-2009
Recorded at Nightmare Castle, Fort Worth, Texas

Remastered by Alex Keller, 2021, Austin, Texas

35mm, 120, and Liquid Light photography by Adam M. Pacione, 1989-1999

Layout by Colin Sheffield

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ADAM PACIONE Texas

Adam Pacione is a composer and photographer based in Fort Worth, Texas.

His work appears on the Elevator Bath, Infraction, Primary, Bee Eater, Dallas Distortion Music, Aural Canyon Second Sun Recordings, 23five and Audretsch labels.

Other previous works include remixes for Simon Scott (Slowdive, Touch Records), Machinefabriek, and Milieu. ... more

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