Hourloupe // Three Nights in the Wawayanda TAPE

A cassette released by the American electronic-sound poetry duo Hourloupe in May 2023 from Nebraska's experimental/dance label Tymbal Tapes.

Below are 19 tracks of deep house, IDM, ambient, and sound poetry inspired by newspaper headlines from the late 15th century. Comes with DL code. 

"At a house party on Saturday night, Miss Cole boasted that she had caught a rabbit. The trek continued, and she and Mr. Carter, still dressed up, spent three nights at Wawawanda."

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Includes DL code.

Tracklist:

1. The House Party 
2. Lone Pearl                                                          
3. pollinator                                                           
4. Thumper                                                            
5. Postcard Found in the Woods              
6. Chalk/The White Kite                
7. 1 Fragment                                                  
8. Green Navy/Rain 
9. Tortoise Boxing                                                           
10. The Dance of No History 
11. Code and Cinders 
12. The Dancefloor/Beat Crush 
13. 2 Fragment 
14. Blue Plymouth/Another State 
15. Coda: Mesozoicon 

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Tymbal Tapes:

"'At the house party on Saturday night Miss Cole boasted of catching rabbits. A trek ensued and she and Mister Carter, still in formal attire, set off spending three nights in the Wawayanda.'

From this late-nineteenth-century newspaper society column comes Three Nights in the Wawayanda, the final release in a triptych of Hourloupe records exploring time, reality, and the natural world. TNW isn't a narrative of hapless, hungover merrymakers wandering a 19th-century wilderness but a reflection on nature at the historical moment it is being given over to the forces that lead us to our current situation: industry and violence.

Like its predecessors, TNW tells its story through doublings and mirroring. Mister Carter and Miss Cole cross-dress as each other. A parallel couple — a man of charcoal and a man of chalk — appear, and an unnamed pair makes their escape at the end to a mysterious “other state.” A luminous entry from Henry David Thoreau's diary ("The Dance of No History") describes the daylight and moonlight in a beautiful, strange equilibrium. Male merges with female, female male; one carbonized being meets his chalk-dusted opposite.

Threading through the compositions are boxing tortoises ("Tortoise Boxing"), a postcard that grows to envelop the woods ("Postcard Found in the Woods"), a crew sailing the ship of a forest lost to a flood ("Green Navy/Rain"), and a frozen lake that becomes an outdoor club ("The Dancefloor/Beat Crush"). t, a lone pearl, a piece of flint — seem to guide everyone's action, even God's."

Artist: Hourloupe

Label : Tymbal Tapes