Kanada 70 is the home-recording project of Toronto's Craig Dunsmuir, who started giving away CD-R micro-releases under this moniker in 2006. There have been over two dozen K70 titles issued since then – truly a treasure chest of 21st century études, where the repetitive and cyclical nature of mostly loop-based tracks is conditioned by the fact that Dunsmuir plays and punches everything by hand; returns of phrase contain odd stutters and variations, intention and accident collide, and there's an organic immediacy throughout. Vamp Ire spans a wide range of influences, from abstract techno, industrial and noise music to prog-rock, African funk, no wave and metal. The hardest part was selecting only 45 minutes worth! But we think Vamp Ire opens a window to Craig's subtle, introverted and brilliant sensibility.
Dunsmuir is known for his work as one half of Glissandro 70 (with Sandro Perri) and as an encyclopedic musicologist on staff at Toronto's Soundscapes record store. Under his Max Gross alter-ego, Dunsmuir recently remixed "Love & Light" from Sandro Perri's Impossible Spaces album, which will be part of a Perri remix album issued by DFA in summer 2012. Craig also DJs disco 12"s as part of Invisible City Sound System. Other Kanada 70 compilations have appeared as digital releases on Polyphasic, Medusa Editions and Inyrdisk. Vamp Ire marks the first appearance of K70 material on vinyl.
PACKAGING NOTES
THIS ALBUM IS PART OF MUSIQUE FRAGILE VOL. 02.
180gLP FORMAT ONLY AVAILABLE WHEN PURCHASED AS PART OF LIMITED EDITION BOX SET.
The Musique Fragile Volume 02 box set 3x180gLP vinyl edition is a silkscreen print extravaganza. Each album comes in its own 2-3 colour screenprinted jacket accompanied by a screenprinted poster, and the three albums are contained in a 2-colour screenprinted slipbox hand-made from thick 100% recycled chipboard.
Please see Musique Fragile Vol. 02 for packaging components when this album is purchased as part of the 3-album Musique Fragile set.
CREDITS
Craig Dunsmuir
Recorded on a TASCAM digital 8-track in Toronto between 2006-2011 by Craig Dunsmuir.
Compiled in Spring 2012 from the K70 CD-R series
Mastered by Sandro Perri