K.M.Krebs \ 833-45

Just released on Treetrunk Records: The Jade Fur­nace II.

This is the sec­ond in The Jade Fur­nace series of albums. Like the first, the name is derived from a Taoist alchem­i­cal metaphor that denotes the space in which the great work of alchem­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion takes place. I have always felt a very strong res­o­nance between the process of cre­at­ing music and the sym­bol­ism and metaphors of alchemy. This album con­tin­ues my own explo­ration of the sim­i­lar­i­ties and pos­si­bil­i­ties between the two.

This series of works is pecu­liar in that they are intended to occupy a space between ambi­ent albums and sam­ple CDs. I want to encour­age you to exper­i­ment with it in ways you may not con­sider with most musi­cal record­ings you encounter. Play it on ran­dom, play sev­eral copies on ran­dom simul­ta­ne­ously. Play it slowly, back­wards, through effects, or any com­bi­na­tion of those. Also, I strongly encour­age other musi­cians to sam­ple, de-construct, and re-use these record­ings in their own music. I only ask you credit me and would, of course, be inter­ested in hear­ing the results of your work.

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