Your Skin, My Mask (HT008), by building castles out of matchsticks

Your Skin, My Mask (HT008)

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Adrien Capozzi What a coup for Histamine Tapes to get the always interesting experimental ambient guitarist Building Castles Made out of Matchsticks! And what a boon for us listeners to finally get a full-length from her after all the previous one track releases.

rikm Unsettling and uneasy listening, Your Skin, My Mask is a dark and haunted exploration of psychosis. At times it can be a challenging listen given the subject matter, but it remains an engaging and impressive work that stands out in the Building Castles catalog.

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1.	Pennywise drone 04:00	buy track
2.	Christine 01:44	buy track
3.	Overlook Hotel 04:10	buy track
4.	Nightmare on Elm Street Drone 01:24	buy track
5.	Love Song for Patrick Bateman 03:11	buy track
6.	Crystal Lake 06:40	buy track
7.	Samara 03:02	buy track
8.	Loomis 03:18	buy track
9.	Red Dragon Drone 03:51	buy track
10.	Lament Configuration 02:09	buy track
11.	Your Skin, My Mask 04:40	buy track
12.	Norman, I Think Your Mother is Calling 04:28	buy track

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A collection of slasher drones

The premise of these recordings are the traumatic histories involved with horror movie "slashers". In real life I work as a nurse on a forensic assessment unit and have seen how dissociation can lead to major psychosis, which then paves the way for violent offending. When a judge feels a psychiatric evaluation is required they are seen by the team that work on my unit. I have worked with many violent/sexual offenders who have incredibly horrific and painful past histories.

I often wonder if removing these histories would have resulted in a totally different person.

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released April 24, 2018

music by Anne Sulikowski

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Histamine Tapes East Montpelier, Vermont

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Breathing new life into unwanted ephemera

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