The Underground City

by Masker

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1.	Perceive 03:36
2.	Recevoir Résistance 04:18
3.	Iron:Man 03:21
4.	Synth Party 04:30
5.	Rest I 01:18
6.	Center Deal 03:26
7.	Capoter 02:49
8.	Bootleg Path 01:28	buy track
9.	ReverSEQ 03:38
10.	Certainty:Madness 02:35
11.	Rest II 01:07
12.	Rubbernecker 01:49
13.	Paviljoen 02:51
14.	Deep.Map 09:35
15.	Viaduct 02:54

about

"People aren't present here. But the awareness on existence nearby of such constructions doesn't leave indifferent."(Romanova, 2016)
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This discourse may be better understood
as another message:
"As-tu feu?"
"Even in cities where more traditional companies dominate (such as manufacturing and foods, as in Chicago or Pittsburgh), most jobs in these companies in the city are filled with what Robert Reich (1991) calls ‘symbolic analysts’, highly educated and highly paid white collar workers."(Nijman, 2020)
This process of reevaluation in the face of persistent aporia about

I was so mad and
I told them I don't give an ess aetch eye tee and you know
I never swear but
I was just so angry with them

I have found shelter in no other form.

the music is beyond the reach of our comprehension.
(1) Most-connected networks of the world
Restore to us the years the locusts have taken
(2) higher anthropogenic heat release (AHR);
Ruins true refuge
(3) decreased surface evapotranspiration in urban areas;
For these are the words I've spoken
(4) changes in the near-surface flow attributed to the complicated geometry of streets and tall buildings.
Long last towards
"when the news came of the recent massacres [...] a great part of the population [...]took refuge in these underground chambers, and for some nights did not venture to sleep above ground" (Dawkins, 2116)
clickclackclickclack
"Several features of underground structures further lower individuals' perceived control (Carmody, 1997) One prominent architectural element of underground spaces is lack of windows. A windowless environment limits the actual control we have over the room, but it also creates an illusion that we have even less control than we have."(Lee, 2017)
his need not be read as an indication that certain essential or mystic qualities of Unreal City
Prochaine Station
had not thought death had
Square Victoria OAC
undone so many
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credits

released December 1, 2020

Personnel:

Husc - Drum programming, electric guitar, synthesizers, field recordings, engineering, mastering
Shark - Bass, drones, piano, tambourine, sampling, arrangement
Nicolas Miskey - Piano, mandolin, violin, arrangement
Simon Lemay - Drums and percussion
Frietboer - Arrangement and mixing on "Iron:Man"

Album art by Oliver Leach
Special thanks to Gart Darley and the everyday crowds that enliven the 32-kilometer underground network of Montreal's RÉSO.

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Masker Montreal, Québec

Masker is an Electroacoustic collective based in Montreal. With one foot in the academic worlds of 20th-century compositional approaches and the other in the iconoclastic forms of Punk Rock, Metal, and Jazz, they attempt to fold these disciplines into larger conceptual themes. ... more

discography

Rub

Apr 2022
The Triptych Remix

Apr 2021
The Underground City

Dec 2020
Vloed

Oct 2020
Wizards of Mars

Jul 2020

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